As the first anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, approaches, young people around the world are reflecting on the staggering amount of gun violence that’s taken place since.
To make a p…
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March For Our Lives activists go dark on social media to mark Parkland anniversary
To mark the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, March For Our Lives and its organizers will go dark on social media between February 14th through the 17th.
They say their silence, which includes declining requests for interviews during that period, is out of respect for the friends, classmates, and school staff killed in the shooting. (In order to interview a student organizer about the blackout, Mashable agreed to publish this story no later than February 13.)
“We’re taking this route because it’s a chance for us to look back at our community and for us to give ourselves time and really allow the victims’ voices to take the microphone,” says Adam Alhanti, the director of special projects of March For Our Lives, who will graduate from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this year. Read more…
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View More March For Our Lives activists go dark on social media to mark Parkland anniversaryThese nuns buy stock in gun companies to fight for gun safety
These nuns are fighting guns with guns. Sort of.
The Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, a collective of about a dozen nun associations, invests in companies so they can then use their shareholder status to sway the companies into s…
Watch Parkland students’ emotional Tonys performance and cry
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of a brutal February shooting, performed “Seasons of Love” from Rent at Sunday’s Tony Awards.
Their theatre teacher Melody Herzfeld was named the recipient of the 2018 Excellence …
The Parkland students stopped a huge corporation from donating to the NRA
The Parkland students are continuing to advocate for gun control, one issue at a time, and their efforts are creating real change. The latest proof of that is Publix, a supermarket chain found based in the southeastern United States.
After boycotts a…
School shooting documentary about the Parkland students is coming to Freeform
Freeform will look back at the effects of the brutal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl. with the documentary For Our Lives: Parkland.
The hour-long documentary will catch up with the heroic students who have been ca…
Watch Laura Ingraham’s guest mock her for losing advertisers on live TV
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Laura Ingraham is having quite the no good, very bad 2018.
After the Fox News host felt compelled to complain about Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg for “whining” about receiving college rejection letters via Twitter in March, things got ugly.
David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018
Ingraham received massive amounts of backlash for bullying a teenage survivor of a school shooting, and in addition to refusing her apology, Hogg asked his Twitter followers to contact Ingraham’s top advertisers to boycott. Read more…
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Parkland activist has best response to transparent backpack rule
When the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to campus after the March for Our Lives and their week-long spring break, they were less than thrilled with having to wear transparent backpacks.
After the mass shooting that killed 1…
Parkland students react to mandatory clear backpack rule: ‘Almost as transparent as the NRA’s agenda’
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students are returning to campus after the March For Our Lives and a week-long Spring Break, but they have yet to adjust to the new security measures put in place.
After a mass shooting on Feb. 14 killed 17 people…
March for Our Lives, Tide Pods, and the overdue evolution of how we talk about teens
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If there’s one demographic that pop culture is obsessed with, it’s the seemingly monolithic entity that we’ve come to know as Teen™.
Whether it’s Gossip Girl (rich teens in the city), Pretty Little Liars (devious teens in a murder mystery), Glee (teens who sing), Saved By The Bell (wholesome teens going to school), we as a culture just can’t stop asking: What are these kids up to?! Follow along closely, and you’re likely to get whiplash from the severe ways each caricature careens back and forth.
But there’s no period that has contradicted itself more when it comes to the portrayal of teens than 2018. From viral internet stunts to student protests, this year has shown us that the way we talk about teens has finally started its long-overdue evolution. Read more…
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View More March for Our Lives, Tide Pods, and the overdue evolution of how we talk about teensThese celebs brought their star power to March for Our Lives
Various celebrities took to the streets to support March for Our Lives, a protest asking for sensible gun policy reform.
The rally in Washington D.C. was led by student activists from Parkland, Florida, whose classmates were horrifically gunned down …
Everything you need to know about the National School Walkout
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On Wednesday, March 14, students all over the United States are leaving their classrooms for a National School Walkout to protest gun violence.
The National School Walkout is the latest protest in a string of demonstrations — along with March 24th’s March for Our Lives and April 20th’s National School Walkout — designed to highlight the prevalence of gun violence and its effects.
“Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms,” the National School Walkout explains. “Parents have the right to send their kids to school in the mornings and see them home alive at the end of the day.” Read more…
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