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Enough is enough. I. Am. Tired of this BULLSHIT! I shouldn’t be afraid to enter my school, I shouldn’t be afraid that I might not go home one day, I should not have to worry about leaving my home and ending up dead and yet it happens often. America needs Reformation and we need it NOW.
@action #NeverAgain
[Image: a person sitting in a chair in front of a very light blue wall, looking into the camera with his chin tilted up and a hopeful expression. He wears glasses and a black button-up with white dots. Orange text at the bottom of the image says “Meet The Student Organizers!”]
Introduce yourself!
“My name is Sage Moloney, I'm a student organizer and demonstration leader for March For Our Lives and a student at Los Angeles Valley College.”
What brought you to organize for March For Our Lives?
“I decided to get involved because I want to end the normalization of gun violence in this country. I march for every person that is afraid to go to school. I march for ever person and their family members that have been affected by gun violence. The politicians have failed to fix the problem, they have chosen NRA money over the lives of children. They have failed us, so now we must speak for ourselves, and we will have our voices heard.”
We are the generation that will end mass shootings. March with us on March 24th, at 9AM, in Pershing Square, and connect with us at Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook to get involved. It’s not a moment, it’s a movement.
Shine, written by MSD students Available now on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube [http://smarturl.it/ShineMSD]
[Image: a student speaking at a microphone, mid-word, looking out to an offscreen crowd. She wears a yellow tee shirt, blue lanyard, denim jacket with pins and patches, and green vest. Orange text at the top of the image reads “Meet The Student Organizers!]
Introduce yourself!
My name is Justice Ross. I’m a music major at Los Angeles Valley College, a part-time early childhood educator, and, for the past three weeks, a member of the press and social media teams for March For Our Lives LA.
What brought you to organize for March For Our Lives LA?
I came to March For Our Lives because students have been fearing for their lives for too long and we've normalized it too easily. As early as kindergarten, I remember being taught how to hide away from windows, knowing very matter-of-factly how to make a classroom seem empty and which wall to hide against with the lights turned off in hopes that a shooter would keep walking. Already students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and neurodivergent and disabled students are fighting for their lives and right to walk into school without being afraid, being targeted, or being punished unfairly, and too many of the half-solutions being offered to gun violence now by opponents of gun control are plans that will only increase the profiling and scrutinizing of those same at-risk students when in reality we need gun control. Now, honoring the work already being done by hundreds of students before us, we have more momentum than ever to finally end mass shootings, stop arming hatred, and end violence in our schools.
I’m here because people are dying, and because I should have joined this fight sooner, but I refuse to let it die now.
We are the generation that will end mass shootings - and the march is over, but the movement is not. Students like you are the ones leading the charge. Connect with us at Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook to get involved.
Kim A. Snyder's US KIDS Move Mountains at Mountainfilm
Pertinent and poignant! Kim A. Snyder's US KIDS, a critical and seminal socio-political artifact on school shootings, political activism and student-led PACs with @emma4change @davidhogg111 #NeverAgainMSD #Mountainfilm
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One of the most exceptional films I viewed during Mountainfilm was Us Kids, directed by Kim A Snyder, a filmmaker known for taking on emotionally-wrought films. Snyder also directed the Peabody award-winning, and most-watched documentary film of the last decade, Newtown,that provided a look into the lives of those most affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Parkland survivor, mocked by Fox host over college rejections, is going to Harvard
Doug Stanglin at USA Today, via KSDK:
David Hogg, the gun control activist and Parkland high school massacre survivor who was razzed by Fox News host Laura Ingraham after being rejected by several colleges, has found the perfect comeback: He's going to Harvard.
Hogg, a founding member of Never Again MSD, a gun control advocacy group, announced his plans Saturday on Twitter, where he has more than 900,000 followers:
“Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science,” Hogg tweeted.
Another survivor, Jaclyn Corin, a co-founder of the March For Our Lives movement, said on Twitter last week that she was also accepted at Harvard.
Hogg, 18, rose to prominence with his steely account of the horrific ordeal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a former student killed 17 people on Valentine's Day. A TV production major and son of a former FBI agent, Hogg coolly taped a real-time video of the incident on his cellphone from inside a classroom as the killer stalked the halls.In numerous appearances in the media, Hogg took on the National Rifle Association and lashed out at politicians he charged were in the pocket of the gun lobby. He was also one of the main speakers at a huge March for Our Lives rally by young people in Washington in March.
Hogg's academic travails started one day after the Feb. 14 killings when he got his first college rejection letter, from California State University at Long Beach. He was also turned down by UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego.
At the end of the day, bullets do not discriminate, so why should we?
-Alex Wind, Parkland shooting survivor
