Paul McCartney is marching in NYC – talked about John Lennon’s death.
?"One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it's important to me," says Paul McCartney, remembering his Beatles bandmate John Lennon at the #MarchForOurLives in #nycpic.twitter.com/o8MUVfaGzt
A Maryland pro-gun-rights group called Patriot Picket has showed up in the middle of the gun control march to counter-protest. People are shouting at them. pic.twitter.com/COtXSkOYjt— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) 24 March 2018
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PST
Huge crowd here in Chicago. I expected thousands not tens of thousands. The speakers are young but the crowd is all ages. Big emphasis on voting.
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Duane
I’m at a march in Springfield MO. About a thousand people. Good turnout for this wingnut infected state.
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CaseyL
The 11 year old girl’s eloquence is blowing me away.
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donnah
We just got back from the local rally in Dayton, Ohio. It was really cold, but the turnout was great and we were happy to be a part of this amazing movement by youth. We had student speakers from local schools, teachers, doctors and nurses, and some wonderfully passionate leaders who will help move us all forward in a fight against guns.
I have hope that this day of rallies and marches will inspire and invigorate the country to take real action. I am renewed and ready to speak up and speak out.
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David Anderson
Raleigh was great. Good size crowd with very creative signs.
First the women, now the kids. Love it.
I’m in Austria and too far away from Vienna to participate in the march there, but if I were home I would be out there!
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Corner Stone
Any time I see Arne Duncan on TV and with the sound off, before I recognize him I always think, “What is this Republican asshole lying about?”
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Corner Stone
And all apologies to Gin & Tonic. But…
Eugene Gu, MD
Verified account @eugenegu
Mar 23
WWI started when some dude with a mustache assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia.
WWII started when some dude with a mustache invaded Poland.
WWIII will start when some dude with a mustache preemptively strikes North Korea.
I saw someone quoting Bob Dylan: “Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.”
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Chip Daniels
The energy here in Los Angeles is amazing. Someone forgot to tell these young people that gun control is impossible, or that the 2nd Amendment is sacred.
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): “And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations; they’re quite aware what they’re going through.” -Bowie
Wow that last male speaker was really good! He was straight to the point. I liked that he pointed out that the NRA tries to make the problem about anything else about guns. He even encouraged people to register to vote.
@Duane: I didn’t know there was another Springfield,MO person posting here!! Hi! Can’t wait to see the pics from the Square. I’m sure I’ve got some friends there.
These kids are incredible! So articulate! So mature! So determined!
Listening to the speakers in DC and watching the marches in all the other cities. NRA – they are coming for you and all the Congresscritters you have purchased through the years.
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HumboldtBlue
Our speeches begin in an our with a short march scheduled after the speakers are done.
Those who criticize and threaten these young heroes are sick creatures and the last people who should be able to have guns.
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Tom
So what was the school that reserved the Mall in DC for today?
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lamh36
Wow. Paul McCartney joined #MarchForOurLives in NYC, telling @CNN, “One of my best friends was killed from gun violence not too far from here. So it’s important to me.” [photo by @spencerplatt1]
I can’t see much of it from my volunteer station, but the DC March is massive. They keep closing the access near me to Pennsylvania Avenue because there’s no room for more people.
Heavy emphasis on voting, which is great. Some of my favorite signs and shirts are kids’ saying “voter in 2020,” “voter in 2026,” etc.
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Marcopolo
Just back from the St Louis March. Amazing energy, best signed March I’ve ever been at, very diverse crowd that skewed significantly younger than the other four marches I’ve done since the first Women’s March. I’d estimate the crowd at around 5-6,000. The organizers shortened the route since we were supposed to get steady rain but the rain held off & I think everyone had a great time. Also great to see so many folks doing voter registration on site.
Gonna check out the DC action now. Have a lovely weekend & do something positive & political this weekend everyone!
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lamh36
WATCH: The granddaughter of Martin Luther King speaks in D.C.: “I have a dream that enough is enough. And that this should be a gun-free world, period.” #MarchForOurLives
If I have to be flying today, I’m really happy to be flying on a plane with live TV, because I’m able to watch the March. I’m incredibly moved that these teens cared enough to make this real. It’s really inspiring. I’m deciding whether or not I should allow myself to actually feel hopeful!
And 9 year old Yolanda King is now being interviewed and she’s adorable. That’s the thing — these really are kids. And they’re really standing up.
On this day in 1965, young people marched from Selma to Montgomery for the right of all citizens to vote. They marched and they triumphed. Today’s young people march for safety against guns in our streets and our classrooms. We must make sure they win again. #MarchForOurLives https://twitter.com/ava/status/977585263407869952?s=21
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Mary G
I didn’t go, overslept. Feeling very bad about it, but loving what I’m seeing. I donated some more money to make myself feel better. Somebody better watch out:
Feeling hopeful as hell. Only 7 months 2 weeks to the election.
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Mary G
Not gonna do it:
If you’d like to get really angry, watch FOX’s coverage and commentary on the #MarchForOurLive. It’s like going to Mars.— Christine Jacobs (@CJacobs313) March 24, 2018
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lamh36
Newtown, CT students unfurl banner in support of Parkland students.
“Newtown wants change. Parkland wants change. The world wants change. Give it to us now!” abcn.ws/2IOEiuz #MarchForOurLives
Where can we start to contribute to Emma Gonzalez’s 2036 Campaign?
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ET
Popville is a local DC blog has a post up with some pictures if you want to see what is going on in DC.
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Chat Noir
@Marcopolo: We were there in St. Louis, too. I was surprised to see such a large crowd considering the weather was damp and cold and gross. People are so creative with their signs!
We have these strong, beautiful, brilliant women like Naomi Wadler and Emma Gonzalez. And Trump sits in power. It’s a tragedy.
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Mandalay
Marco Rubio’s slimy tweet this morning shows why the students at Parkland despise him:
Today many are peacefully exercising their #1A right to march for gun ban. Many support gun ban. But many others see it as infringement of #2A that won’t prevent shootings. Protest is good way of making a point,but making a change will require both sides finding common ground
That is what I got from my college students when DJT won. They can barely remember anything before Obama. What a horrible shock.
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Mary G
It’s a black kid from Chicago leading people in an African clap.GOP must be really uncomfortable now.Lol— Witty Comment about Mueller Probe (@CoastalElite28) March 24, 2018
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MomSense
Emma is the face of the movement.
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Rob
Emma’s speech and 6:20 was very powerful and made me a quivering blob.
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Another Scott
@Rob: Yup. It’s a shame that too few people seem to have understood what she was doing with the silence.
Cheers,
Scott.
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scottinnj
@Rob: Her four minutes or so of silence is up there with MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speach in terms of great moments at a protest. That will be in the history books.
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Cacti
Hats off to Generation Z.
You kids give me hope that America the ideal isn’t dead and buried.
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lamh36
I have absolutely no words… Thank you not only for your service but for standing with us as we #MarchForOurLives tomorrow all over the world #VeteransForGunReform #GunControlNow #NeverAgain wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/veterans…
@Chat Noir: I was there with four friends—three of us had signs. Mine said “the kids are all right on one side” and “I’m with the kids” on the other. Seemed appropriate for a 55 year old white guy.
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donnah
We were watching coverage at MSNBC and switched out to FOX coverage. We were astonished to see that they are covering the rally. Of course they are spinning the gun safety issue as not the most important element, but somehow the anger about guns is what is tearing the country apart.
Still, I was glad to see them showing it.
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CaseyL
Lost it when Emma stood in silence for the 6:20 it took to kill her classmates and teachers.
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JaneSays
Watching that 6:20 of dead air was extremely uncomfortable.
And necessary.
And beautiful.
Thank you, Emma Gonzalez.
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Yutsano
@HumboldtBlue: My God she was courageous. And you can tell she is definitely NOT being coached. But she made her voice heard. And may great change flow from this.
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Anthony Cooper
Big crowd in Louisville, especially considering the rainy, cold weather.
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Mary G
One guy is dressed up like Abe Lincoln with a sign that says: “Victim of Gun Violence.”
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Another Scott
@Yutsano: Glad she’s up there, front and center, with Emma at the closing.
Women (and girls) will save us all, if we let them…
Cheers,
Scott.
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Mike in DC
1st Amendment really kicking the crap out of the 2nd today.
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Mary G
A sign for fans of a certain musical:
I imagine death so much it feels like a memory
In my seat
Several desks ahead of me?
These kids are awe inspiring with their creativity and passion.
I bet Trump is pissed. All that top level talent when he couldn’t get anybody for his inauguration! Anf these kids are -each and every one- better speakers than he is.
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randy khan
The NYC March is still going strong, 2-1/2 hours after the start.
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Kineslaw
Went to the march in Fort Worth, Texas. Police estimate the crowd at between 7,000-8,000. It was a great mix of people with awesome signs and wonderful speeches by high school students. It was quite the sight to see people filling the street from 1st Street to 9th Street.
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cain
Emma Gonzalez made her mark on the world today. 6 minutes of absolutely devestating silence after reading the names of her classmates. We have a new leader for our times and she isn’t passed high school. We are going to remember this moment. When there is chaos, insanity, and despair, our country can still create the best MOTHERFUCKING leaders this world can ever produce.
@donnah: I’ve clocked over to FOX intermittently and what I’ve seen is coverage of the march but not any of the speeches. Then they go off on tangents. It’s possible I am tuning in when they’re not covering the speeches buy I don’t believe so.
I live in a retirement community in Maryland. We had a rally on the main road fronting the community. There were probably 400 OFs out there, many with canes, walkers, or scooters. Great turnout and many cars honking in support. Just wanted everyone to realize it’s not just the kids who are saying #enough!
@cain: Not to pick on you, but it wasn’t 6:20 of silence.
Since the time that I came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before arrest. Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.
It looks like she talked for about 2:10 before she started the silence.
Great speech, but it’s kinda disturbing that the reporting about it is already incorrect, especially when she said herself what the time was…
Republican politicians obsess about the government’s waste of “other people’s money”. What about other people’s lives?
I have no doubt that if shootings of members of Congress were as common an occurrence as shootings of school children, the needed gun regulations would have been enacted long ago.
@JR: They were very, very good. I liked that they all had their own stories to tell and told them their own ways.
I worry a little (just a little) that David Hogg has caught the Wilmer virus though, with his worries about “everyone being susceptible to corruption“, etc., etc. But that’s a minor thing.
He’s much more “woke” than I was at his age.
They all did an excellent job. They won’t win every battle, but they’re going to be extremely strong advocates for sensible policies.
Cheers,
Scott.
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lamh36
@Another Scott: I see many orgs online are getting it right…
@ABC
45m45 minutes ago
More
Emma Gonzalez stayed on stage at the D.C. #MarchForOurLives rally for 6 minutes and 20 seconds – the duration of the Parkland shooting. http://abcn.ws/2DRTAL7
Oh and not for nothing, but I saw a tweet that said even Fox News carried Emma’s speech for the entirety including the minutes of silence
@JR: the way they keep hammering on voter registration gives me hope
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Mary G
Walking around #March4OurLives, I’ve learned a few things: Today’s kids are amazing; it’s easier to walk miles when ur 16, than when ur 46; moleskin works well on blisters; ppl can be very creative w/signs: these kids disdain Trump, but they hate Marco Rubio like I hate frogs.— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) March 24, 2018
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Greg in PDX
I am reading the right wing sites….the gun nuts are losing it….The most common comment is “it’s awful how these kids are being exploited” . Right. Like the NRA doesn’t exploit them.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: that’s nuts. Frogs are awesome. And so are amphibious toads.
Trumphibious toadies, on the other, do suck.
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Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Mary G: “…like I hate frogs” — huh? I guess Ms. Navarro hates frogs? ?
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Turner Hedenkoff
Here in the apocalyptic hellhole that is John Lewis’s district, police estimate the crowd at 30,000. About half the turnout of the women’s march, but more than a typical Braves game the last couple of seasons. https://mobile.twitter.com/ajc/status/977588527356661760
Great speech, but it’s kinda disturbing that the reporting about it is already incorrect, especially when she said herself what the time was…
No worries. Thanks for the correction. When I tweeted, I didn’t add the time. But the silence and her tears was devestating. I felt emotional, and I felt that I was sharing the experience of that shooting with her, because I know she was re-living it.
She told a story with just her silence. It was brilliant.
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eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Wow, just watched. She is 11, I couldn’t do that.
* There was a six-minute silence led by Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Mary G
Read this thread if you have time, it’s genius. J.K. Rowling has influenced a generation:
Harry Potter has almost become their playbook: the Ones Who Lived fighting an “evil” force that has infiltrated the government and brainwashed adults using only the powers they’ve learned in school: illumination, protection, disarmament. cc @jk_rowling— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 24, 2018
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Kay
Cleveland attendance was good. More of a rally than a march. Busy voter registration table :)
George Will was on Chuck Todd’s show and the old prune thought it was unseemly that schools allowed the students to be political.
Same old conservatives, trying to talking about all dignified and shit while his party is putting up nazis and white supremacists as candidates, change laws when it doesn’t suit them, worship at the alter of the NRA for money while guns kill our kids. It’s not the 1980s any more, you old fool.
@Another Scott: can’t say that I’m quite that pedantic.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
Marco Rubio @ marcorubio
Today many are peacefully exercising their #1A right to march for gun ban. Many support gun ban. But many others see it as infringement of #2A that won’t prevent shootings. Protest is good way of making a point, but making a change will require both sides finding common ground
and a good place to start on the road to “common ground” is demagoguing about a “gun ban”, and distorting the message of, arguably, your most visible constituents who are reacting to a life-altering trauma. You vile little creature.
They are magnificent, wonderful and heroic. I want to adopt them all. Emma, all the Parkland kids, the two young men from Chicago (who will grow up to be politicians or preachers), MLK’s granddaughter….
Colleges should be lining up to offer scholarships.
For kids that age to put themselves out in front of a crowd, never mind 500k+++, takes incredible courage, fortitude… and anger.
“Register and vote” repeated over and over. The only way to win.
I hope the Republican party and conservatives in general are scared shitless when they see that voter table being busy. No republican seat should be safe. None.
Oh yeah. Will has always had that rightwing, haughty, aristocratic attitude that drives me up a wall. Obviously he hasn’t gotten over himself even now when we are deep into sordid, corrupt, and deeply stupid trumpism.
@bemused: I forget which pundit, and in which context, once wrote about George Will turning up his icy blue nose at something, but the phrase struck me as dead-on, and it’s stayed with me for a couple of decades
ETA, and for all the quotes from Adams and Madison his well-worn copy of Bartlett’s provides him, you just know if our system allowed titles he’d’ve stepped on his grandmother’s fresh corpse to have been knighted or lord-ed by King Ronnie The Forgetful
George Will was on Chuck Todd’s show and the old prune thought it was unseemly that schools allowed the students to be political.
Yeah.. I think though (and not to put boomers and greatest generation down of course) Gen Xs and late Boomers have much more focused on parenting and having a deeper connection with their kids. My boomer parents hardly spent that much time with me or my brother. We were pretty independent. But I noticed that my colleagues and friends who have kids spend a lot of time with their kids I probably would have done the same.
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bemused
Interesting. I’m technically a boomer, at the later end of boomers, but our age group parents were very involved with our kid’s activities, sports, etc. It was our parents generation that didn’t go to their kids’ games, etc although they sure did a turn around when grandkids came along and attended every one of their activities when they could.
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Gelfling 545
@bemused: Now it’s our duty to give them candidates worthy of their vote.
I first saw that on a T-shirt worn by my friend’s daughter who worked for Hillary in PA.
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HumboldtBlue
“We are the reformation generation” was the slogan the young speaker sent the crowd off marching to the Plaza with. Rain, cold, windy, terrible Humboldt weather day and yet at least 2k showed up to hear the kids speak, hear the kids play (three teenagers had a few hundred old activists singing Dylan) and hear the adults beg forgiveness. Pretty standard fare for a rather active activist community but there were a lot of people and there are lot of fed up people.
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Sheila in NC
Great signs and awesome crowd at the DC March. One of my favorite signs:
@Steeplejack: I might have to steal it. Its great.
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Doug G
@donnah: I live in Springboro, and I feel bad that I didn’t make it to the Dayton rally. On behalf of all rational people, thank you and those who attended for making your voices heard.
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TaMara (HFG)
Wow, posted just in time for Lin Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt.
Immanentize
Here is a little soundtrack to add some historic protest context about how guns have ruined the dreams of this nation:
Tom Clay’s What the World Needs Now/Abraham Martin and John
PS I still have this 45….
MomSense
These kids have turned me into a puddle of tears.
TaMara (HFG)
Paul McCartney is marching in NYC – talked about John Lennon’s death.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I’m looking at a pic of a girl holding up a sign saying “Dumbledore’s Army.” Love it!
debbie
I’ve seen a couple photos of the Columbus OH March. It looks like a great turnout.
smintheus
Looks like a larger crowd than the one at Trump’s inauguration.
debbie
Any reports of gun rights rallies yet?
Eural Joiner
Just back from our local rally here in Columbia, SC – great turnout and a refreshing mix of all ages, colors and genders ?
chris
@debbie:
PST
Huge crowd here in Chicago. I expected thousands not tens of thousands. The speakers are young but the crowd is all ages. Big emphasis on voting.
Duane
I’m at a march in Springfield MO. About a thousand people. Good turnout for this wingnut infected state.
CaseyL
The 11 year old girl’s eloquence is blowing me away.
donnah
We just got back from the local rally in Dayton, Ohio. It was really cold, but the turnout was great and we were happy to be a part of this amazing movement by youth. We had student speakers from local schools, teachers, doctors and nurses, and some wonderfully passionate leaders who will help move us all forward in a fight against guns.
I have hope that this day of rallies and marches will inspire and invigorate the country to take real action. I am renewed and ready to speak up and speak out.
David Anderson
Raleigh was great. Good size crowd with very creative signs.
https://twitter.com/bjdickmayhew/status/977550936750153733?s=20
pat
First the women, now the kids. Love it.
I’m in Austria and too far away from Vienna to participate in the march there, but if I were home I would be out there!
Corner Stone
Any time I see Arne Duncan on TV and with the sound off, before I recognize him I always think, “What is this Republican asshole lying about?”
Corner Stone
And all apologies to Gin & Tonic. But…
debbie
@chris:
Thanks. Love the photos in the comments!
debbie
@Corner Stone:
Sometimes the truth hurts.//
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I saw someone quoting Bob Dylan: “Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.”
Chip Daniels
The energy here in Los Angeles is amazing. Someone forgot to tell these young people that gun control is impossible, or that the 2nd Amendment is sacred.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): “And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations; they’re quite aware what they’re going through.” -Bowie
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: …Not all mustaches…
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
Wow that last male speaker was really good! He was straight to the point. I liked that he pointed out that the NRA tries to make the problem about anything else about guns. He even encouraged people to register to vote.
J R in WV
@Chip Daniels:
Don’t you mean the “2nd amendment is scared”?
;-)
lamh36
@CaseyL:
WOW!!! Eleven years old!!! The kids, as they say, are alright!!’
VIDEO: 11-year-old Naomi speaks on behalf of all the forgotten African American girls killed
by guns too
https://twitter.com/kevin_powell/status/977599276414132224?s=21
Summer
@David Anderson: I was there too! Beautiful morning together.
Brachiator
I like that these kids were strong enough to show the pro-gun message in a video, and then proceed to refute the shit out of it.
Another Scott
@CaseyL: List of speakers:
Naomi Wilder, an 11-year-old from Alexandria, VA
She was great.
Cheers,
Scott.
Soprano2
@Duane: I didn’t know there was another Springfield,MO person posting here!! Hi! Can’t wait to see the pics from the Square. I’m sure I’ve got some friends there.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Moderation? Really?
Naomi Wilder, an 11 year old, was one of the speakers. She was great.
Cheers,
Scott.
bemused
I was planning to run errands but the hell with that. I can’t pry myself from watching the March. These kids are the best!
realbtl
It just occurred to me that these kids have only known what it is like to have a (beyond) decent President. It is no wonder they are pissed.
Desmo
This is simply astounding. These kids are amazing and the fact that they pulled off organizing this event gives me hope.
bemused
Spread the word, we will be heard.
I need a tshirt with that message.
polyorchnid octopunch
Justin Trudeau trolls US and CDN RWNJ on gun laws in the leadup to MFOL:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4093875/government-gun-bill-would-tighten-control-of-sales-licensing/
That was on Tuesday.
1stgengirl
These kids are incredible! So articulate! So mature! So determined!
Listening to the speakers in DC and watching the marches in all the other cities. NRA – they are coming for you and all the Congresscritters you have purchased through the years.
HumboldtBlue
Our speeches begin in an our with a short march scheduled after the speakers are done.
bemused
@1stgengirl:
Those who criticize and threaten these young heroes are sick creatures and the last people who should be able to have guns.
Tom
So what was the school that reserved the Mall in DC for today?
lamh36
Redshift
I can’t see much of it from my volunteer station, but the DC March is massive. They keep closing the access near me to Pennsylvania Avenue because there’s no room for more people.
Heavy emphasis on voting, which is great. Some of my favorite signs and shirts are kids’ saying “voter in 2020,” “voter in 2026,” etc.
Marcopolo
Just back from the St Louis March. Amazing energy, best signed March I’ve ever been at, very diverse crowd that skewed significantly younger than the other four marches I’ve done since the first Women’s March. I’d estimate the crowd at around 5-6,000. The organizers shortened the route since we were supposed to get steady rain but the rain held off & I think everyone had a great time. Also great to see so many folks doing voter registration on site.
Gonna check out the DC action now. Have a lovely weekend & do something positive & political this weekend everyone!
lamh36
HumboldtBlue
Here is the full Naomi Wadler speech. If you’re not moved, deeply moved you’re a fucking Trump supporter.
Ivan X
If I have to be flying today, I’m really happy to be flying on a plane with live TV, because I’m able to watch the March. I’m incredibly moved that these teens cared enough to make this real. It’s really inspiring. I’m deciding whether or not I should allow myself to actually feel hopeful!
And 9 year old Yolanda King is now being interviewed and she’s adorable. That’s the thing — these really are kids. And they’re really standing up.
MomSense
@HumboldtBlue:
Her speech was incredible.
lamh36
lamh36
Mary G
I didn’t go, overslept. Feeling very bad about it, but loving what I’m seeing. I donated some more money to make myself feel better. Somebody better watch out:
Feeling hopeful as hell. Only 7 months 2 weeks to the election.
Mary G
Not gonna do it:
lamh36
Another Scott
Emma’s speaking now.
Cheers,
Scott.
scottinnj
Where can we start to contribute to Emma Gonzalez’s 2036 Campaign?
ET
Popville is a local DC blog has a post up with some pictures if you want to see what is going on in DC.
Chat Noir
@Marcopolo: We were there in St. Louis, too. I was surprised to see such a large crowd considering the weather was damp and cold and gross. People are so creative with their signs!
Gelfling 545
@TaMara (HFG): ?
Mandalay
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zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Incredible.
We have these strong, beautiful, brilliant women like Naomi Wadler and Emma Gonzalez. And Trump sits in power. It’s a tragedy.
Mandalay
Marco Rubio’s slimy tweet this morning shows why the students at Parkland despise him:
zhena gogolia
@realbtl:
That is what I got from my college students when DJT won. They can barely remember anything before Obama. What a horrible shock.
Mary G
MomSense
Emma is the face of the movement.
Rob
Emma’s speech and 6:20 was very powerful and made me a quivering blob.
Another Scott
@Rob: Yup. It’s a shame that too few people seem to have understood what she was doing with the silence.
Cheers,
Scott.
scottinnj
@Rob: Her four minutes or so of silence is up there with MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speach in terms of great moments at a protest. That will be in the history books.
Cacti
Hats off to Generation Z.
You kids give me hope that America the ideal isn’t dead and buried.
lamh36
Marcopolo
@Chat Noir: I was there with four friends—three of us had signs. Mine said “the kids are all right on one side” and “I’m with the kids” on the other. Seemed appropriate for a 55 year old white guy.
donnah
We were watching coverage at MSNBC and switched out to FOX coverage. We were astonished to see that they are covering the rally. Of course they are spinning the gun safety issue as not the most important element, but somehow the anger about guns is what is tearing the country apart.
Still, I was glad to see them showing it.
CaseyL
Lost it when Emma stood in silence for the 6:20 it took to kill her classmates and teachers.
JaneSays
Watching that 6:20 of dead air was extremely uncomfortable.
And necessary.
And beautiful.
Thank you, Emma Gonzalez.
Yutsano
@HumboldtBlue: My God she was courageous. And you can tell she is definitely NOT being coached. But she made her voice heard. And may great change flow from this.
Anthony Cooper
Big crowd in Louisville, especially considering the rainy, cold weather.
Mary G
One guy is dressed up like Abe Lincoln with a sign that says: “Victim of Gun Violence.”
Another Scott
@Yutsano: Glad she’s up there, front and center, with Emma at the closing.
Women (and girls) will save us all, if we let them…
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike in DC
1st Amendment really kicking the crap out of the 2nd today.
Mary G
A sign for fans of a certain musical:
I imagine death so much it feels like a memory
In my seat
Several desks ahead of me?
These kids are awe inspiring with their creativity and passion.
raven
Decent crowd for lil ole Athens!
Gelfling 545
I bet Trump is pissed. All that top level talent when he couldn’t get anybody for his inauguration! Anf these kids are -each and every one- better speakers than he is.
randy khan
The NYC March is still going strong, 2-1/2 hours after the start.
Kineslaw
Went to the march in Fort Worth, Texas. Police estimate the crowd at between 7,000-8,000. It was a great mix of people with awesome signs and wonderful speeches by high school students. It was quite the sight to see people filling the street from 1st Street to 9th Street.
cain
Emma Gonzalez made her mark on the world today. 6 minutes of absolutely devestating silence after reading the names of her classmates. We have a new leader for our times and she isn’t passed high school. We are going to remember this moment. When there is chaos, insanity, and despair, our country can still create the best MOTHERFUCKING leaders this world can ever produce.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@JaneSays: My god, that girl is brilliant.
Brooklyn Dodger
This is Obama’s generation. May they have a long time on this earth.
arrieve
@(((CassandraLeo))): I saw this on a couple of signs here in NYC. Brought tears to my eyes.
Mary G
“When I said I’d rather die than go to math class, that was HYPERBOLE, assholes,”
MomSense
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
The intensity in her face.
mai naem mobile
@donnah: I’ve clocked over to FOX intermittently and what I’ve seen is coverage of the march but not any of the speeches. Then they go off on tangents. It’s possible I am tuning in when they’re not covering the speeches buy I don’t believe so.
raven
Kids holding up pictures of dead kids.
Yellowdog
I live in a retirement community in Maryland. We had a rally on the main road fronting the community. There were probably 400 OFs out there, many with canes, walkers, or scooters. Great turnout and many cars honking in support. Just wanted everyone to realize it’s not just the kids who are saying #enough!
MomSense
@scottinnj:
It was 6:26 the exact amount of time it took to kill 17 of her classmates.
lamh36
Some may not know, many may not recall, but Jennifer Hudson lost her mother and her brother to gun violence…
zhena gogolia
@Yellowdog:
Good for you!
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Yellowdog: I love you and your neighbors too!
cain
@raven:
Is that Portland?
cain
@mai naem mobile:
They won’t cover it.. it’ll be very uncomfortable for their viewers.
raven
@cain: Athens, GA.
Another Scott
@cain: Not to pick on you, but it wasn’t 6:20 of silence.
It looks like she talked for about 2:10 before she started the silence.
Great speech, but it’s kinda disturbing that the reporting about it is already incorrect, especially when she said herself what the time was…
Cheers,
Scott.
PaulWartenberg
Was at Lakeland March any place to uphold the pics and vids
JR
Can I just say that these kids are like a billion times better than those Occupy numbnuts from (nearly) a decade back?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
smintheus
Republican politicians obsess about the government’s waste of “other people’s money”. What about other people’s lives?
I have no doubt that if shootings of members of Congress were as common an occurrence as shootings of school children, the needed gun regulations would have been enacted long ago.
raven
@Another Scott: disturbing to who?
Another Scott
@JR: They were very, very good. I liked that they all had their own stories to tell and told them their own ways.
I worry a little (just a little) that David Hogg has caught the Wilmer virus though, with his worries about “everyone being susceptible to corruption“, etc., etc. But that’s a minor thing.
He’s much more “woke” than I was at his age.
They all did an excellent job. They won’t win every battle, but they’re going to be extremely strong advocates for sensible policies.
Cheers,
Scott.
lamh36
@Another Scott: I see many orgs online are getting it right…
Oh and not for nothing, but I saw a tweet that said even Fox News carried Emma’s speech for the entirety including the minutes of silence
Another Scott
@raven: The Royal We.
We are disturbed.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JR: the way they keep hammering on voter registration gives me hope
Mary G
Greg in PDX
I am reading the right wing sites….the gun nuts are losing it….The most common comment is “it’s awful how these kids are being exploited” . Right. Like the NRA doesn’t exploit them.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: that’s nuts. Frogs are awesome. And so are amphibious toads.
Trumphibious toadies, on the other, do suck.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Mary G: “…like I hate frogs” — huh? I guess Ms. Navarro hates frogs? ?
Turner Hedenkoff
Here in the apocalyptic hellhole that is John Lewis’s district, police estimate the crowd at 30,000. About half the turnout of the women’s march, but more than a typical Braves game the last couple of seasons. https://mobile.twitter.com/ajc/status/977588527356661760
Chyron HR
@Greg in PDX:
I assume #2 is “But the Constitution says I get to shoot them!”
Gelfling 545
Picture of a group representing Sandy Hook Elementary. I sobbed. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/24/1751731/-The-March-For-Lives-in-photos
bemused
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Peer pressure can be positive. Kids that don’t bother to vote when they legally can will hear disapproval from the voting young.
bemused
@Greg in PDX:
George Will was on Chuck Todd’s show and the old prune thought it was unseemly that schools allowed the students to be political.
Mike J
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: The French have never been anything but kind and generous to me.
cain
@Another Scott:
No worries. Thanks for the correction. When I tweeted, I didn’t add the time. But the silence and her tears was devestating. I felt emotional, and I felt that I was sharing the experience of that shooting with her, because I know she was re-living it.
She told a story with just her silence. It was brilliant.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Wow, just watched. She is 11, I couldn’t do that.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
That was sort of a ribbiting statement.
Another Scott
@lamh36: BBC News:
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
Read this thread if you have time, it’s genius. J.K. Rowling has influenced a generation:
Kay
Cleveland attendance was good. More of a rally than a march. Busy voter registration table :)
raven
@Kay: Same in Athens.
cain
@bemused:
Same old conservatives, trying to talking about all dignified and shit while his party is putting up nazis and white supremacists as candidates, change laws when it doesn’t suit them, worship at the alter of the NRA for money while guns kill our kids. It’s not the 1980s any more, you old fool.
mapaghimagsik
@Another Scott: can’t say that I’m quite that pedantic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and a good place to start on the road to “common ground” is demagoguing about a “gun ban”, and distorting the message of, arguably, your most visible constituents who are reacting to a life-altering trauma. You vile little creature.
efgoldman
@MomSense:
They are magnificent, wonderful and heroic. I want to adopt them all. Emma, all the Parkland kids, the two young men from Chicago (who will grow up to be politicians or preachers), MLK’s granddaughter….
Colleges should be lining up to offer scholarships.
For kids that age to put themselves out in front of a crowd, never mind 500k+++, takes incredible courage, fortitude… and anger.
“Register and vote” repeated over and over. The only way to win.
Another Scott
@mapaghimagsik: Join us!!!1
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
I hope the Republican party and conservatives in general are scared shitless when they see that voter table being busy. No republican seat should be safe. None.
Mike J
Trump’s motorcade changes routes amid Florida protests
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@bemused: Emma Gonzalez will outlive George Will. His time has passed.
Gelfling 545
@Yellowdog: This is such a good thing. Unlike the 60’s, the older generation is standing up in support of the kids.
bemused
@cain:
Oh yeah. Will has always had that rightwing, haughty, aristocratic attitude that drives me up a wall. Obviously he hasn’t gotten over himself even now when we are deep into sordid, corrupt, and deeply stupid trumpism.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
That’s a cheery thought!
bemused
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
He doesn’t seem to have noticed, lol.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@bemused: I forget which pundit, and in which context, once wrote about George Will turning up his icy blue nose at something, but the phrase struck me as dead-on, and it’s stayed with me for a couple of decades
ETA, and for all the quotes from Adams and Madison his well-worn copy of Bartlett’s provides him, you just know if our system allowed titles he’d’ve stepped on his grandmother’s fresh corpse to have been knighted or lord-ed by King Ronnie The Forgetful
bemused
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Similar minds! I was thinking he personifies the phrase “looking down his nose” at lessers.
cain
@Gelfling 545:
Yeah.. I think though (and not to put boomers and greatest generation down of course) Gen Xs and late Boomers have much more focused on parenting and having a deeper connection with their kids. My boomer parents hardly spent that much time with me or my brother. We were pretty independent. But I noticed that my colleagues and friends who have kids spend a lot of time with their kids I probably would have done the same.
bemused
Interesting. I’m technically a boomer, at the later end of boomers, but our age group parents were very involved with our kid’s activities, sports, etc. It was our parents generation that didn’t go to their kids’ games, etc although they sure did a turn around when grandkids came along and attended every one of their activities when they could.
Gelfling 545
@bemused: Now it’s our duty to give them candidates worthy of their vote.
bemused
@Gelfling 545:
Amen.
Steeplejack
@Gelfling 545:
Loved the sign:
bemused
@Steeplejack:
Love it.
Gelfling 545
@bemused: I ( mid level boomer) grew up in a veritable nest of extended family. Somebody was always there – wanted or not!
??? Martin
@cain: Conservatism is about only the ‘right’ people having a voice, always has been.
bemused
@Gelfling 545:
Ah, that’s sweet and funny.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
I first saw that on a T-shirt worn by my friend’s daughter who worked for Hillary in PA.
HumboldtBlue
“We are the reformation generation” was the slogan the young speaker sent the crowd off marching to the Plaza with. Rain, cold, windy, terrible Humboldt weather day and yet at least 2k showed up to hear the kids speak, hear the kids play (three teenagers had a few hundred old activists singing Dylan) and hear the adults beg forgiveness. Pretty standard fare for a rather active activist community but there were a lot of people and there are lot of fed up people.
Sheila in NC
Great signs and awesome crowd at the DC March. One of my favorite signs:
“A Good Guy with a Gun Will Get Rid of It”
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: I might have to steal it. Its great.
Doug G
@donnah: I live in Springboro, and I feel bad that I didn’t make it to the Dayton rally. On behalf of all rational people, thank you and those who attended for making your voices heard.