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Covering a walkout this morning at an elementary school in Virginia, and the 11-year-old organizers had a press packet ready for me.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)MissB
(15,810 posts)Well done.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Pretty please, with sugar on top?
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)At least those that don't turn to the dark side in college and become young republicans. I concept that still escapes me, having once been a young college kid.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)"a child shall lead them"? is that biblical? i'm an atheist but every damn time i see something like this i start to cry! they are the hope.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)But so much of Biblical principle is based on simple common human decency. That's why it is all-emcompassing; for people of every faith or no faith.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)a lot more than a whole lot of people who swear they're christians.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)These kids are the future! I LOVE it!
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)and they control the gun debate.
Seriously, WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY????
They need to be crushed like a pesky mosquito near a baby.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)these kids don't donate to campaigns so they don't get heard by rich republican assholes who only care about money
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)These kids give me so much hope.
salin
(48,955 posts)It isn't that she is amazing - but she is retweeting images of other protests from around the country. It is awesome!
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)today for these young Americans. They are rocking our world!
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)dlk
(11,569 posts)This is how change happens. We can all take a lesson from the children.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)The future is looking bright.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Youth have gone from uninterested in politics to their lives do really depend upon it.
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)These kids werent raised by Boomers.
Cha
(297,314 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)Way to go organizers!