ON MARCH 14th, one month after terrified teenagers streamed out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during a massacre in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, thousands of students across America walked out of their schools to stage a peaceful protest against gun violence.
Youthful energy turned quickly to sombre remembrance outside a high school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, as 17 students took turns standing on a chair to announce the name and age of a victim. As a cold wind swept the sports field where the teens huddled—holding hands and linking arms—the first volunteer called out, “Jamie Guttenberg, 14 years old, ENOUGH”. The crowd repeated the words and stood for one minute of silence. Seventeen minutes later, after each victim had been recognised and mourned, a student spoke of text messages he had received on February 14th from his friend caught in the Florida shooting, who survived but had watched classmates die. Another noted that though the morning was dedicated to remembering the dead, “to mourn alone is to...Continue reading
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