Feeling Rebloggy
Exactly one month after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School here in Parkland, survivors of the massacre joined tens of thousands of students across the U.S. in a national walkout Wednesday morning....
Organized by the Women's March, an estimated 185,000 people in 50 states joined the walkout. Approximately 3,100 schools said they were going to participate, an organizer told NBC News ahead of the walkout.
In Washington, D.C., a crowd in the thousands gathered, holding signs toward the White House with slogans such as "Books Not Bullets" and "Fire Politicians, Not Guns" on them.
At the stroke of 10 a.m., the crowd sat down en masse, their backs to the White House, and started a 17-minute-long moment of silence. Afterwards, some marched to Capitol Hill, with plans to meet with legislators.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/national-school-walkout-marks-month-parkland-mass-shooting-n856386
Walking out for Chicago: “I witness the cycle of lives taken by gun violence and I will not back down”
Camryn Salter is a senior at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago, IL.
Salter said,
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, I witness the incessant cycle of lives taken by gun violence. It is so deeply embedded into our streets and homes that it is almost expected for many of my peers not to make it past the age of 18. The amount of brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, friends, and cousins lost to gun violence is so overwhelming that people become desensitized to the psychological burden that people not only in Chicago, but all over the nation are experiencing due to gun violence. The impact of gun homicide is bigger than a love one lost. There is an emotional, social, and financial toll, as the mere exposure to countless stories of lives taken can affect someone just as much as being a direct victim.
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