SCHNEPS COMMUNICATIONS/file photos
Students across the country stood with those from Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, March
14 – a month to the day since the mass shooting at the
Parkland, Florida high school in which 17 people killed
and at least another dozen were injured.
The nationwide #Enough National School Walkout was
organized by the youth branch of the Women’s March and led largely
by students of the high school to demand congressional action on
school shootings. The national organization expected more than
3,136 walkouts from schools across the country.
Both colleges and high schools citywide participated. Campuses
across the country also stood in solidarity with Parkland students, as
well as the more than 187,000 students who have been exposed to
gun violence since the tragedy at Columbine.
Just days later, on Saturday, March 24, students and other
concerned residents in cities from New York to New Jersey to San
Francisco marched in solidarity with those heading the “March for
Our Lives” in Washington, D.C. There, and at more than 800 sisterevents
across the country, more than a million protesters banded
together in support of tighter gun control laws. Like the walkout, the
“March for Our Lives,” was student-led, marking another watershed
moment in the march toward change.
SCHNEPS COMMUNICATIONS/file photos
SCHNEPS COMMUNICATIONS/file photo
Photos courtesy of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office
Photos courtesy of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office
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