500 attend Parkland students' town hall in Milwaukee on Road to Change tour[

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500 attend Parkland students' town hall in Milwaukee on Road to Change tour



https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2018/06/23/parkland-students-stop-milwaukee-road-change-tour/728696002/
Samantha West, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 11:06 p.m. CT June 23, 2018 | Updated 11:58 a.m. CT June 24, 2018





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Alfonso Calderon, 16, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HIgh School, castigated House Speaker Paul Ryan for not supporting gun control during a stop in Janesville Friday. Michael Sears / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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One day her friends would be outside playing with her near her home on North King Drive. The next day, they'd never show up. They'd been shot.

Gunshots were constantly in the background of growing up in Milwaukee.

In response to these stories from fellow Milwaukee students Saturday, Tatiana Washington, a student at Rufus King High School, nodded as they spoke, all too aware of these narratives.

"All of us here, we're speaking from our trauma," Washington said, staring out into the audience solemnly. "We're speaking from our own fear."

Just got home from #RoadToChange@AMarch4OurLives and I hear gunshots. My community has become numb to this. It is not okay.

This is why we fight. Milwaukee doesn’t have to be this way.
— Tatiana Washington (@TatiMonet) June 24, 2018

Washington and other Milwaukee high school and college students spoke along with other panelists and activists from Parkland, Fla., Waukesha and Chicago at the Road to Change Tour's stop at the Wisconsin Center................................