Sentences with phrase «school walkouts organized»

Her collaged screen prints chronicle the high school walkouts organized by Black and Latinx students in Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side between 1968 - 1973.

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Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

«I just think it's so important in this time because we really have such a big and important stage to have our voices heard,» said Aidan Murphy, a 16 - year - old junior who's organizing the walkout at Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts.

It's only just beginning, Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut who organized the April 20 walkout and is participating in an event on March 14, told Vox.

«Organize sit - ins, teach - ins, walkouts, marches — whatever you decide will show your school and community's determination to keep our students safe,» it said.

Murdock created her protest independent of the March 14 National School walkout, which the Women's March helped organize.

It's only the beginning, Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut who organized the April 20 walkout and participated in the event on March 14, told Vox.

Last week, students organized a nationwide school walkout.

One month later, young people organized a nationwide school walkout, lasting seventeen minutes to honor each of the dead.

Among the speakers were a contingent of seven Kingston High School students who helped organize a March 14 school walkout to protest gun vioSchool students who helped organize a March 14 school walkout to protest gun vioschool walkout to protest gun violence.

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Practically overnight, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have become the new face of gun control and school safety — challenging lawmakers, tweeting out their views, and organizing marches, boycotts, and walkouts for stricter gunSchool students have become the new face of gun control and school safety — challenging lawmakers, tweeting out their views, and organizing marches, boycotts, and walkouts for stricter gunschool safety — challenging lawmakers, tweeting out their views, and organizing marches, boycotts, and walkouts for stricter gun laws.

Mayfield High School junior Laura Cruz, 18, looks up at the sign she is holding during a student - organized walkout to protest the PARCC exams in Las Cruces, N.M., on Monday.

As a high school student, he volunteered with the farm workers movement, led student walkouts and organized an African - American student union.

Coinciding with a «national school walkout» organized by an arm of the group that led the January 2017 women's marches, high school students plan to leave their classrooms at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

PARKLAND, Fla. - Students at schools throughout Broward and Miami - Dade counties are organizing walkouts in support of the «Never Again» movement for more stringent gun control laws.

«Organize sit - ins, teach - ins, walkouts, marches — whatever you decide will show your school and community's determination to keep our students safe,» it said.

Since the shooting, Parkland survivors have met with Florida state legislators, challenged the NRA in a CNN town hall, organized protests in Tallahassee, and inspired thousands of students to participate in a National School Walkout on the shooting's one - month anniversary.

While students are taking measures to ensure the walkouts are organized and safe, Broward County Public Schools officials say they encourage, and «won't interfere with,» the student - led protests.

Emily Spradlin and Jillian Lemons, students at Sierra Pacific High School, speak to classmates Wednesday during a student - organized walkout commemorating students who were killed on Feb. 14 during a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Sierra Pacific High School student Cynthia Martinez speaks Wednesday during a student - organized walkout commemorating the students who were killed during a mass shooting on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Whereas the survivors of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were too young to mobilize, the survivors at Parkland are old enough to organize, tweet, stage walkouts and protest — which they did in droves — prompting even more media coverage.

While the movement has inspired students at schools around the nation to perform walkouts in support of gun control, the history of 21st century activism has shown that there are upsides and downsides to organizing over social media.

The event was one of many like it Wednesday, when thousands of students in Maryland and across the country walked out of their schools as part of the national «#Enough National School Walkout» organized by students who survived the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland.

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