March for Our Lives

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

by Joan Smith  · 5 Apr 2019

minimum age for buying firearms in the state from eighteen to twenty-one – a small but significant step towards restricting gun ownership – and organised a ‘march for our lives’ in Washington which was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Emma González, an eighteen-year-old survivor, read out the names of her murdered

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

the threat they had confronted and those we face today. David France smiles, thinking about American school shootings and the high school students running the March for Our Lives against the National Rifle Association. ‘Those Parkland kids, their die-in at a grocery store chain where the executive had a role in the NRA

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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

so easy to buy . . . STUDENTS LEAD HUGE RALLIES FOR GUN CONTROL ACROSS THE U.S.: For many of the young people, the Washington rally, called March for Our Lives, was their first act of protest and the beginning of a political awakening. . . . AFTER PARKLAND, STATES PASS 50 NEW GUN LAWS: States across the country

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and elementary school kids brought homemade signs to the Women’s March, looking around a sea of terrified and furious adults. Teenage activists led the March for Our Lives protests against gun violence in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Students poured into the streets for the Global Climate

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SURVIVORS RELEASE: Adeel Hassan, “Parkland Shooting Survivors Release Ambitious Gun Control Plan,” The New York Times, August, 21, 2019, nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/march-for-our-lives-gun-control.html, @davidhogg111: Tweet, August 21, 2019, twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1164114156364161025. CHAPTER 17: DEFEND, DISTANCE, DEFECT, OR DEFEAT the rest were in the

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Health and Safety: A Breakdown

by Emily Witt  · 16 Sep 2024  · 242pp  · 85,783 words

helicopters overhead, since it reactivated memories of the response to the shooting. In a matter of days, the student leaders who started what became the March for Our Lives movement were household names: David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, each of them preternaturally telegenic, having skipped over the awkward phase of adolescence. The students

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Children,” where a photograph of David Hogg, the gun control activist from Parkland, was captioned, “Government schools are indoctrinating children such as David Hogg of March for Our Lives against God, guns, and freedom, and then using them to transform America.” Yes, it was the government schools that had turned Hogg against guns, not

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

to violence than desire for it. Civil rights and anti-war movements have produced many of the largest marches of the postwar era. The 2018 March For Our Lives rallies, held to protest against weak gun laws following the attack at a high school in Parkland, Florida, drew hundreds of thousands of people into

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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge  · 25 Apr 2023  · 541pp  · 173,676 words

things in a bit of a different way.” Frost came to the campaign with a background in protesting, having served as a director of the March for Our Lives movement of young people advocating for gun control. Although conservativism is usually associated with keeping the status quo, even some conservative Gen Z candidates advocate

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee  · 1 Jan 2019  · 382pp  · 105,819 words

. It enables communication of ideas, as well as the organization of events. We have seen Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, Indivisible, and the March for Our Lives all leverage Facebook to bring people together. The same thing happened in Tunisia and Egypt at the start of the Arab Spring. Unfortunately, the things

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that. Somehow we have to change our culture to make civic engagement a priority. If Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, Indivisible, and the March for Our Lives are any indication, the process has already begun. Unfortunately, these important efforts in activism address only a portion of the political spectrum, and their success

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voices heard. We live at a time when citizens are coming together to bring about change. The effective collective action by Black Lives Matter, the March for Our Lives, the Women’s March, and Indivisible should inspire us. All of them use Facebook to organize events, which would be poetic justice in this case

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The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

support and inspiration. Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders were both vocal supporters of the Standing Rock protests. Young members of Sunrise cite Occupy, BLM, March for Our Lives, and United We Dream, a youth-led immigration justice organization, as sources of inspiration.41 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was inspired to

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American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson  · 25 Sep 2023  · 525pp  · 166,724 words

left classrooms to stand outside for seventeen minutes, one minute for each person killed at Parkland. Parkland students and supporters created a new organization called March for Our Lives. It held protests in Washington and across the United States and even overseas. The marches and rallies drew about 1.2 million people, making it

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programs for NRA members. Hotels, car rental companies, insurance companies, banks, cybersecurity companies, and even a hearing-aid company severed relationships with the group. The March for Our Lives organization released a comprehensive blueprint to reduce gun violence and mass shooting, which included a permanent federal assault-weapons ban. Groups of Parkland students traveled

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

galvanized young people and gun violence survivors to demonstrate in more than eight hundred cities around the world on March 24, 2018, under the banner “March for Our Lives.”[6] Nearly two hundred thousand marched at the main event in Washington, demanding Congress act to end the gun violence killing scores of them each

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year. March for Our Lives grew into a durable national movement. Not since Sandy Hook had a mass shooting created such a groundswell against gun violence. But unlike after Sandy

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.[4] Mann was sent to a mental health facility for evaluation.[5] The same film depicted Alex Jones targeting David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and March for Our Lives organizer. Jones aired a news clip of Hogg relaying his account of the shooting in a TV interview. “I know scripted PR when I hear

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-videos/. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5 Troy Griggs, Jasmine C. Lee, Morrigan McCarthy, Brent Murray, Alicia Parlapiano, Joe Ward, and Josh Williams, “Photos from the ‘March for Our Lives’ Protests Around the World,” New York Times, March 24, 2018, U.S., https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/24/us/photos-march-for-lives

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani  · 20 Feb 2024  · 262pp  · 69,328 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang  · 15 Nov 2021

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang  · 12 Jul 2021  · 372pp  · 100,947 words

Parkland: Birth of a Movement

by Dave Cullen  · 12 Feb 2019  · 368pp  · 108,222 words

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie  · 6 May 2019  · 328pp  · 84,682 words