Aug 4, 2024
Happy heavenly birthday to Joaquin Oliver, he would've been twenty four. Your family refuses to let your murder be for nothing Joaquin, I hope you're in a better place
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Happy heavenly birthday to Joaquin Oliver, he would've been twenty four. Your family refuses to let your murder be for nothing Joaquin, I hope you're in a better place
Carmen Schentrup looking absolutely stunning on her homecoming in 2017. Carmen was a week away from her 17th birthday when she was tragically killed at MSD high school on February 14th, 2018. Carmen wanted to find a cure for ALS when she left school. The day after her tragic death, a letter arrived saying she was a finalist for a merit.
A year ago at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida the narrative of Valentines Day was changed forever. The 17 gorgeous souls you see above, many of them on the cusp of big beautiful lives were killed due to a senseless but not altogether shocking act of gun violence. We send love and strength to the survivors, the families of those killed and first responders whose realities have forever been altered by this tragedy ❤️
Due to strict background checks and possession law reform, gun violence is not an easily fathomable threat here in Australia (at least within white society). I can’t imagine learning from preschool the steps built for your best chance of survival in regular active shooter drills and having it seem a matter of not ‘if’ but ‘when’. To give fellow non-Americans an idea, the March for Our Lives Twitter account plans to go dark for the next four days, in which they expect according to current rates, 400 more people to lose their lives as a result of gun violence.
In the year since, with the launch of the March for Our Lives campaign, we have seen our generation of fierce fiesty socially aware humans campaign tirelessly for their right to be safe and know that they’ll come home from school alive. Their right to be focused on the things important in a teenage world, not the arena of law and politics where they are seen as obviously worthless when compared to the power of the NRA and its funding of political power and aspiration. We stand with these students, forever committed to making the world we’ve inherited a better place. Never forget.
i’m not celebrating valentine’s day it’s MSD memorial day
Sunday marks the final high school milestone 4 Parkland seniors will miss: graduation.
Nicholas Dworet, a swimmer with aspirations of Olympic gold and an infectious smile, was one of the seniors killed when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.
In his bedroom, an acceptance letter to the University of Indianapolis sits on a desk, along with a whiteboard with a note from his girlfriend and an uncompleted task list.
His swim goggles lay on top of a school paper he had written for class, next to a sheet of paper listing his swimming times.
Nick’s parents are now preparing for the graduation ceremony, where their son and the other seniors killed in the shooting, along with two others in the class who died before this year, will be memorialized.
“It’s easy to talk about the good memories with Nick,” Annika Dworet, his mother, said, “but it’s very difficult to talk about the things he’s not going to get to do.”
Read more.
Inadvertently rolled up on these student protestors in Boca Raton, FL today. At first, I thought it was one of the MSD funeral processions with a massive police escort. Instead, the police are escorting these students eastbound along Glades Road to keep them safe while they take a stand. I honked. They cheered. I bawled my eyes out. We hear you kids!!!!!
[Image: the March for Our Lives logo (text that reads “March for Our Lives” in caps, followed by four stick figure people) faded in the background, behind cursive black script that reads, “It’s not a moment. It’s a movement.” Below that, in blue text: “#MarchForOurLivesLA March 24″]
Marching has been, throughout US history, a powerful tool for social change, but it isn’t our only one:
#BoycottNRA: pressure companies like FedEx to end positive business relationships with the NRA by boycotting those companies and letting them know why.
Make your voice heard. Not everyone can march with us on March 24th, but that doesn’t mean you can’t join the movement. Call or write to your Representative, your Senator, or even the White House.
Register to vote. Depending on where you live, you may be eligible to pre-register as early as sixteen. Find out more here.
Vote on November 6, 2018, and in your state's primary elections - June in California. All 435 Representatives and 34 Senators are up for re-election this year, and right now we have more momentum than ever to vote out (or prevent the election of) politicians who prioritize guns over lives. Find out how the NRA grades your elected officials here - a higher grade means friendlier policy to gun lobbyists.