In less than a week, Parkland, Florida, has transformed into the grounds for a new movement helmed by teenagers who have made it their mission to shift the conversation around gun control and put an end to mass shootings.
These students, survivors of a school shooting that claimed 17 victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, have been organizing on social media and in real life. A rally, March for Our Lives, will take place on March 24— and it just got a major donation boost from George and Amal Clooney.
“Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School,” reads the note, tweeted by Stoneman Douglas student and survivor Sarah Chadwick. Read more…
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