#parklandstudents

[iamjessemartinz]

These lyrics are from "Shine," a song written by survivors of the #Parkland #Florida, school shooting. Watch the students perform it. Click the link: http://cnn.it/2HD2jnU) cnn.it/2HD2jnU #StudentsStandUp #ShineTheLight #ParklandStudents #NeverAgain

[teafortwo29]

Kaila Philo

The Parkland generation is registering to vote in serious numbers in swing states.

Ever since February 14, when 17 students and staff members were killed by a gunman at Stoneman Douglas High School in Southern Florida, “registration rates for voters aged 18-29 have significantly increased in key battleground states,” according to a new study from the Democratic data firm TargetSmart. Young people comprised 61 percent of new registrants in Pennsylvania, a 16-point increase. Virginia and Indiana saw 10-point increases, and Arizona and Florida saw 8.

TargetSmart

Much of this may have to do with the efforts Parkland student activists have undertaken to help students register to vote. Back in May, David Hogg partnered with the New York-based organization HeadCount to organize registration drives in about 1,000 high schools across 46 states.

A group of Parkland student activists, including Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Emma Gonzàlez, also announced a summer-long bus tour devoted to encouraging students to “get young people educated, registered and motivated to vote,” Kasky said in June. “At the end of the day, real change is brought from voting and too often voting off as nothing in our country.”

[toriwestonwriterartist]

Every time I see #emmagonzalez the theme song to the #legendofbilliejean is playing in my head. Is it me or is she and the other #parklandstudents like the real life version of this movie? #fairisfair #neveragain #wewillbeinvincible

[derfoto]

#Repost @driverminnie (@get_repost) ・・・ #Repost @girlpowersupply ・・・ Those of us who have been alive through lots of these shootings are desensitized. That’s not to say we don’t weep, or don’t feel devastated with news of each one — it’s to say that by the sheer definition of “shock,” we can’t keep experiencing it over and over. • It means we sometimes find ourselves weighing these tragedies against one another; asking “How many more?” instead of just “How?!” • So thank you, #ParklandStudents, for your shock. Thank you for your pure, authentic outrage, which reminds us: This is NOT normal. • There is pain in anger, but you show us there is power, too. When you say this is the last shooting you’ll ever see, we believe you. And we’ll fight every damn day to make sure that comes true. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿 (tweet via @househogan)

[shawnypants]

Parkland Power

This school needs protection and love and direction.

It’s hard to imagine such disconnection.

We’ve been here before, before, and before.

They’ve tried to ignore, ignore, ignore.

Parkland Power, this is your hour.

To conjure your courage and silence gun powder.

Who carries the burden of the rights we protect?

It’s the sophomore student with her whole life ahead.

Parkland Power, this is your hour.

To bury your friends and your sons and your daughters.

To fight for the dead, to carry their honor.

To speak the truth that POTUS must ponder.

Cuz you're gaining the ground we lost in Sandy Hook.

Your naming the names, all the lives that they took.

Those kids were so young, could barely read books.

Ya Parkland Power, this is your hour.

Your blood-stained sneakers can storm the white towers.

Kick down some doors and chase down the man,

Who hides from the stats with his head in the sand.

He’s bending over backwards for re-election,

trading your futures for his own protection.

Weighing the balance of your peace and solace,

with a name in gold letters on a wood-paneled office.

I said Parkland Power, this is your hour.

Cuz I’m so freaking angry, I could talk for hours.

I’m so sick and sad, heartbroken and mad,

this crap ain’t over, it just keeps coming back.

Their excuses and posturing, lobbyists lobbying,

Dirty dollar bills and congressional policy.

But our founding fathers are shaking their heads.

While Florida fathers are burying their dead.

Yes, Parkland Power, this is your hour.

Ya your voice is growing, louder and louder.

The concrete is wet and this story ain’t over.

All day coverage from Anderson Cooper.

The moment is now, CNN is hooked.

The country is watching, the goose is cooked.

Parkland power, this is your hour.

To fight for your freedom from bullets of cowards.

[travisfludd]

i remember when the children were the future, not target practice...but here i go showing my age  follow @travisfludd  #ThursdayThoughts #newsbreak #JackKingston #ParklandStudents 

[scoobyd8282]

#nomoreschoolshootings #neveragain #guncontrol #parklandstudents #parklandshooting

[furryalligator]

#Repost @slyngstad_cartoons: Teenagers in Florida are speaking loud and clear about gun reform. Maybe if they knelt while they did it, Republicans would listen. • #ihearyou #armmewith #gunreform #gunreformnow #assaultweapons #parklandstudents #takeaknee #knowyourrights #tnycartoons #newyorkercartoons #emmagonzalez #neveragain