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Title: March for Our Lives: Crowds begin to gather for rally against gun violence in nation’s capital
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca ... ry.html?utm_term=.c97080ab2721
Published: Mar 24, 2018
Author: Propaganda staff
Post Date: 2018-03-24 11:48:01 by buckeroo
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Views: 767
Comments: 11
Callie Stone, 18, was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue wearing a denim jacket with “Nasty Woman” emblazoned on it, a term President Trump used against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election that progressive women adopted as a moniker. With Stone was her mother, whom she had told the previous day that she wasn’t sure she wanted to raise children in a world where students fear going to school. “But I said, ‘Look at you, at your generation — you all are bringing us hope,’” Kelly Stone, 54, said. Kelly Stone was a middle-school student in Canada in 1975 when a gunman killed two people and himself at Brampton Centennial Secondary School, which she went on to attend. She said that incident has cast a long shadow over her life and that of her daughter. Nearly 200 people have died in school shootings since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, which left 13 dead and inaugurated a relentless, two-decade stretch of campus gun violence. During that period, more than 187,000 students attending at least 193 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus during school hours, according to a Washington Post analysis. “We’ve grown up knowing this could happen to us,” Callie Stone said. Just five days ago, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey was fatally shot at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland by a 17-year-old former boyfriend, who died as well. One other boy was injured in the gunfire. Willey was taken off life support two days ago. For the roughly 100 students, alumni and parents from Great Mills High emerged from the escalator at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station on Saturday, the march had a raw immediacy. “We are!” Emerson Schaeffer, 20, shouted into a megaphone. “Great Mills!” cheered the crowd, decked out in their school colors, forest green and gold. Schaeffer said he and friends had been thinking about attending the march even before the shooting. “Then this happened,” he said, “and we said ‘Yep, we’re going.’” Authorities in the nation’s capital said they were taking extra security precautions, in part because many of the protesters are expected to be teenagers. The Department of Homeland Security, working with D.C. police and the mayor’s office, has set up a system to notify demonstrators of warnings or detours. (Text “March 24” to 888-777 to sign up.) Those entering the main march area have to pass through security check points. Medical tents staffed by volunteers line the march route, doubling as gathering points where people can find each other if accidentally separated. Water is being made available to protesters and food trucks would be nearby, organizers said. “As the young men and women from Parkland, Florida, have been preparing for Saturday’s event, the District has been preparing to keep them safe here in Washington,” Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said this week. Bowser and other city officials held a pre-march “Rally for D.C. Lives” at Folger Park Saturday morning. Among the hundreds pouring into the park ahead of time were three students at National Collegiate Prep High School — a charter school in Southeast Washington — who lamented that gun violence in the poorest neighborhoods of the nation’s capital don’t command the same national publicity as that in Florida. “As soon as stuff happened in Florida, everyone wanted to do something, but every week someone gets shot in D.C.,” said Nevaeh Williams, 16-year-old sophomore who lives in Anacostia. Her cousin was shot four years ago, and she stopped taking the train to school in eight grade. [Demonstration expected to pack streets in D.C. Here’s how to get around.] “My father has to pick me up and take me to school,” she said, “because he doesn’t think it’s safe for me.” Their classmate Zoruan Harris, the quarterback for the football team, was fatally shot in 2016. “When it happens in a school in a nice neighborhood, it’s shown nationwide but we don’t get that attention,” said Danielle Perkins, a 16-year-old junior whose stepbrother and friend’s older brother were shot in recent months. Lamont Odoms, a 17-year-old junior, said he was tired of fearing for his live during his 30-minute walk to school. “We are the ones most affected. We are tired of having silent voices,” he said. Survivors of other mass shootings are also expected to attend. Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, said he will attend the march as a representative of the Pulse victims, including his friend Christopher “Drew” Leinonen and Leinonen’s boyfriend, Juan Guerrero. “I don’t think this conversation is just about schools,” Wolf said. “It’s about: The current generation is fed up with lawmakers who have done nothing on this issue regardless of which community has been affected. Students, LGBT people, people of color. This issue is intersectional.” Marches and rallies that force survivors to relive those horrible moments can trigger strong emotional reactions, Wolf said. Several organizations will be available to assist survivors of violent crimes and rally participants who need support. “It’s so important to remember that while these teenagers are giving us hope and inspiring us and we want to rest everything we have on their shoulders, they’re also kids who have been through something horrific,” Wolf said. “Something they will never forget.”Students, teachers, parents and survivors of mass shootings streamed into Washington Saturday for the March for Our Lives, a demonstration against gun violence that could draw hundreds of thousands of protesters to the nation’s capital. The march is part of a surge of political activism that has transformed the nation’s entrenched debate over gun violence. It was organized by students who survived the mass shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who hope to succeed where many adults have failed: In forcing Congress to pass a comprehensive gun-control bill that will improve school safety. Hundreds of sister protests are taking place in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The main demonstration in Washington is scheduled to run from noon to 3 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue. Many were crowding into downtown early Saturday morning to stake out places at what promises to be less a march than a standing-room-only rally, with 20 speakers — all of them under 18 years old — and performances by celebrities including Ariana Grande, Common, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Vic Mensa, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt.
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#1. To: buckeroo (#0)
We will be saved, Fred.
By Jesus??
I think they should all head out for the homie neighborhoods tonight to show their solidarity wid dey chocolate bruthas. Maybe show them they have some cash,and are willing to buy them some drugs. ESPECIALLY the white females with "Pussy Posse" hats and "Nasty Woman" jackets. De bruthas will REALLY like you. Honest! AND......,it's a Sattidy Night late in the month and all the welfare money has already been spend in de hood,making you doubly welcome! I say "GO FOR IT!" In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
It's for the Children, Pete.
Exactly. Shot by her ex-boyfriend with a handgun that belonged to his father. We already have laws to prevent that. Did we miss one?
Hmmmmm. If this really was a "rally against gun violence" I'd be part of it -- as would almost everyone. But let's be honest. It's not. It's a rally for gun control. What kind of gun control? They don't know. What's their solution? They don't know.
This "March for Our Lives" was sponsored by some asshole, probably Soros. The venue must have cost many millions of dollars.
Subsidized activists from all over the country are being shipped in to create and fan an atmosphere of group hysteria.
You misspelled "Chil-rins". In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Are they marching for their lives to re-introduce prayer into the schools in order to reduce violence? Are they marching for their lives to allow teachers to carry concealed in order to reduce violence? Or are they marching for their lives to confiscate all semiautomatic weapons? Makes a difference.
#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
#3. To: buckeroo (#2)
We will be saved, Fred.
#4. To: buckeroo (#0)
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#5. To: sneakypete (#4)
#6. To: buckeroo (#0)
"Just five days ago, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey was fatally shot at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland by a 17-year-old former boyfriend ..."
#7. To: buckeroo (#0)
Crowds begin to gather for rally against gun violence in nation’s capital
#8. To: misterwhite (#7)
#9. To: buckeroo (#0)
March for Our Lives: Crowds begin to gather for rally against gun violence in nation’s capital
#10. To: buckeroo (#5)
(Edited)
It's for the Children, Pete.
#11. To: buckeroo (#8)
This "March for Our Lives" was sponsored by some asshole, probably Soros. The venue must have cost many millions of dollars.
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