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Keshon Newman, a student at Perspectives charter schools, said his step brother, 16-year-old Randle Young, was shot and killed two years ago near their home in West Englewood....
“He was being a normal teenager. On that day he was walking his girlfriend to the bus stop, and he was caught in a random gun shootout,” Newman said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “He was a loving brother and friend to all. He was our protector, and now his life has ended due to this senseless gun violence.”
Flanked by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of last month’s deadly school shooting; former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was wounded in a shooting in Arizona in 2011; and Florida Congressman Ted Deutch and Senator Bill Nelson, Newman said gun violence in Chicago “has become a tragic way of life which shouldn’t be the normal.”
“We don’t have random mass shootings, we have daily shootings; which we pray every day for our safety to and from school, and for our neighborhood. I want everyone here to know the reality of Chicago. Just since January 1, 466 people have been shot, and 88 of that 466 were killed,” he said. “We must stop letting this become the normal in Chicago. In this moment, the youth voice is rising across the country, and especially in Chicago. Our voices are loud, our voices are clear, and our voices are about to change history.”
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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/03/23/gun-control-march-for-our-lives-chicago-teen/IN THE MEANTIME, NATIONWIDE...
More than 150,000 students in the U.S. have experienced a shooting on campus since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Lebrun and a few other students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, helped coordinate lodging for teens who are coming to D.C. for the march but might have trouble finding or affording a hotel room.
Teens are expected to travel to Washington from all over the country, and some area restaurants are offering free or discounted meals to student activists. More than 100 GoFundMe campaigns have sprung up to organize bus trips to marches in major cities, according to a spokesperson for the crowdfunding platform.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/march-for-our-lives_us_5ab50789e4b008c9e5f69921
I've heard reports that students are marching in the U.K. and Australia too
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