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“don’t be ashamed of your biological features. don’t be ashamed of your color. don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. always feel that you count. always feel that you have worth & always feel that you must be involved in the struggle for freedom and justice“
JOHANNESBURG | Tutu awards prize to US school shooting survivors
JOHANNESBURG | Tutu awards prize to US school shooting survivors
JOHANNESBURG — A group of young Americans who campaigned against gun violence after surviving a deadly shooting at their Florida school have received a prize from former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Tutu said in a statement Tuesday that the students showed that “children can move the world” and he compared the U.S. movement for gun control that they started to other big peace movements.
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These kids are way super cool. Give this a watch if you haven’t already.
March For Our Lives activists Emma Gonzalez and Matt Deitsch discuss their efforts to establish comprehensive gun safety policies and get young people to vote.
The poise and passion of these young adults is inspiring.
The shooting survivors' summer-long road tour to urge young people to vote.
Kay Wicker at ThinkProgress:
To put it simply, young people do not turn out to the polls. The US Census Bureau found that less than 16 percent of registered voters between ages 18 and 24 cast ballots in the 2014 midterm elections.
If anyone can help change that, it’s the teenaged Parkland survivors-turned-activists, who again and again have turned tragedy into inspiration and moral persuasion following the deadly February mass shooting at their Florida high school.
Late Friday, they kicked off their Road to Change tour in Chicago. The students have partnered with HeadCount to travel across the country to register young voters in time for the various midterm elections this fall.
“We’re calling this the road to change and what better place to bring change than Chicago, it’s not the people, it’s the way people see Chicago,” Parkland senior Alfonso Calderon told CNN.
While their goal is to see people of their generation become motivated, informed voters, they say they don’t plan to try to influence how the newly registered voters will cast their ballots. The tour will not endorse any candidates.
The tour began at Chicago’s annual peace march, organized by St. Sabina Catholic Church. During the march, the Parkland students gave rousing speeches and joined a huge crowd that had gathered for the event.
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— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) June 15, 2018
Guns will be banned from the premises when Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday. Before and during the speech, attendees are prohibited from bringing “firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind,” the NRA wrote as it announced Pence’s presence at the conference. The NRA is blaming the Secret Service for the prohibition but that didn’t stop survivors of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who were quick to criticize the organization’s apparent hypocrisy in giving in to demands for a gun-free area. “Wait wait wait wait wait wait you’re telling me to make the VP safe there aren’t any weapons around but when it comes to children they want guns everywhere?” asked Matt Deitsch, a Parkland student who helped organize the March for Our Lives rally. “Can someone explain this to me?” He was hardly alone. Cameron Kasky, another Parkland survivor noted on Twitter that the “NRA has evolved into such a hilarious parody of itself.” Fred Guttenberg, the father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg, who was killed in the attack, also highlighted the ban, noting that “on so many levels, this is enlightening.” The NRA says “we should want everyone to have weapons … but when they put on a convention, the weapons are a concern?”
Slate, “Parkland Survivors Mock NRA for Banning Guns During Pence Speech at Convention”
