Parkland students target midterms with summer gun control road trip
Source: The Guardian
Student survivors of the Parkland school shooting were announcing on Monday plans to take their March for Our Lives movement on a summer road trip of the United States.
The 60-day, 20-state bus tour will take in stops to meet victims and survivors of other school shootings, including Sante Fe, Texas, where 10 people were killed by a student gunman last month.
The Parkland students trip, effectively a drive for our lives intended to build on the momentum gained by the March for Our Lives movement and nationwide rallies held in the aftermath of the February shooting that claimed 17 lives at Floridas Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, will make 75 stops.
It will begin on Friday 15 June at a peace march in Chicago led by students from St Sabina Academy, several of whom teamed up with Parkland survivors in south Florida in March to discuss the drive for gun law refor
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/parkland-students-bus-tour-gun-control-midterms
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)It's going to take a lot of face-to-face contact to get people to hear their side.
Also, expect the NRA to pull all kinds of nasty tricks, including, but not limited to, slashing the bus tires.
alfie
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It wouldn't be much, but I would like to show them a token of my support for the wonderful work they are doing.
marchforourlives.com and you can donate.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)very well spent. RESIST! REMOVE! Peace.