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Emma González's Stunning Silence for Parkland: The Latest on March for…
Emma González's Stunning Silence for Parkland: The Latest on March for Our Lives
March for our lives
purpose = calling for action on gun control + school safety reform
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School —> 17 people killed
—> walk to protest gun violence, lobbied lawmakers to pass gun reform legislation
More than 800 rallies in cities around the world
A lot of performer + speeches from the Parkland students + from Chicago + from Washington D.C.
=> speak about how gun violence’s impact on their lives
11-year-old Naomi Wadler’s message
representing young African-American girls
At the beginning = rally for young people BUT = cross-section of the country
=> Massive crowd
In NYC : lots of students but also adults + their children to the rally
White House statement = support the student protesters
« Keeping ou children safe = priority », « Stop school violence acts and signed them into LAW »
« Prisent commitment to ban devices that legal weapons into illegal machine guns »
President Trump
silent during the march
But : the young people : called on elected officials
=> to do more to stop gun violence
+little speech from Yolanda Renee King (Martin Luther King Jr’s granddaughter)
lockdown drills in schools
Parkland survivors speak in Washington D.C. :
D. Hogg (one of the leaders of the #NeverAgain movement)
focus on upcoming midterms elections + urging people to vote + railing against lawmakers who accept donations from the NRA
=> determined to make things change
C. Kasky
create a better world, « we are the change », « voices are powerful and votes matter », « fix the broken system »
E. González (whose emotional speech went viral)
stood silent on stage for more than five minute (time of shooting) before speaking
Many emotional tributes
+Many celebrities joined the students at the march