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blake2012

(1,294 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:00 PM Mar 2018

This is where we ask college students to take up the mantle

And communities to attend their town halls and other high schoolers to speak out.

I am sure the Parkland HS students have gotten to today on adrenaline and having such a near term goal in their view.

Expect some or many of them to need a bit of a breather from this extended way they’ve engineered to cope with such pain and loss in their lives.

Let’s keep this going with and for them.

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This is where we ask college students to take up the mantle (Original Post) blake2012 Mar 2018 OP
Absolutely agree! chuckstevens Mar 2018 #1
They jump started America's spirit. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2018 #2
Step it up. Lifelong Protester Mar 2018 #3
I heard they were registering voters in DC. Hope so at all the other rallies too. brush Mar 2018 #4
Exactly. They know all of the noise means nothing without cotes blake2012 Mar 2018 #5

OAITW r.2.0

(24,455 posts)
2. They jump started America's spirit.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:05 PM
Mar 2018

What I saw today renews my faith that we are coming together in a very forceful way to say....change is gonna come".

brush

(53,767 posts)
4. I heard they were registering voters in DC. Hope so at all the other rallies too.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:37 PM
Mar 2018

I also hope email addresses were collected for contacting supporters once the next step in this new movement is decided—state, regional, local chapters maybe to hold events to put pressure on not just NRA-backed pols but on Democratic office holders to get them to push for gun control as well.

Don't want this momentum to be lost.

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