Student organizers of the protest told ABC News» «This Week» Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that they are determined to use protests and political action to make the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, a turning point in the national debate over gun control.
Not exact matches
Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said Iran would boycott the next Academy Awards «to
protest against the making
of a film insulting the Prophet and because
of the
organizers» failure to take an official position (against the film),» the Iranian
Students» News Agency reported.
The Women's March Youth Empower, the
organizer of the event, is asking
students to stage the
protest at 10 a.m. in each time zone — on the one - month anniversary
of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which killed 17
students and educators.
Moving west a few days later in Winnipeg, local residents, fossil fuel divestment
students, members
of the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, Indigenous
organizers, and other allies joined that intensifying wave
of protest to ask for real climate leadership at the NDP rally help on August 20.
Women's March
organizers have lent their voices to the call, encouraging
students, teachers and their allies to walk out
of schools on March 14 to
protest gun violence.
(CNN)- Women's March
organizers are encouraging
students, teachers and their allies to walk out
of schools on March 14 to
protest gun violence.
Former Rep. Jack Kingston, R - Ga., on Sunday tweeted a USA Today story about the
student organizers helping lead a nationwide
student walkout in
protest of America's gun laws, adding the message: «O really?
The
protest began as a gathering
of students who had gotten permission from the principal to pay tribute to the shooting victims, said one
of the
organizers, Jack Schuster, a 17 - year - old senior.