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malaise

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Wed Mar 14, 2018, 05:20 PM Mar 2018

ENOUGH! Nice report from the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/14/walkout-students-gun-violence-parkland-florida
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Thousands of students poured out of classrooms in the US on Wednesday in an unprecedented expression of mourning and a demand for action to stem the country’s epidemic of gun violence.

In a stunning visual riposte to the public inertia that has followed mass shootings in the US, crowds of students at an estimated 3,000 schools across the country marched on running tracks, through parking lots and around building perimeters, carrying signs that read “Enough” and chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, gun violence has got to go”.
Wednesday walkout: students step out of class to spur action on gun control – live

The walkout fell one month after a student gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, in the deadliest high school shooting in the country’s history. Survivors of that massacre joined other student activists to organize Wednesday’s demonstration, which was promoted by the Women’s March movement that sprang up after the election of Donald Trump.
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ENOUGH! Nice report from the Guardian (Original Post) malaise Mar 2018 OP
Thanks Kids! Achilleaze Mar 2018 #1
The Guardian is one of my few must reads. dameatball Mar 2018 #2
me too... unfortunate that more don't read it... hlthe2b Mar 2018 #3
Absolutely malaise Mar 2018 #4
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