GUN CONTROL NATIONAL WALK-OUT - MARCH 14, 2018, 10:00am (GEN Y)

GUN CONTROL NATIONAL WALK-OUT - MARCH 14, 2018 - 10:00am:

GENERATION Y vs THE NRA - CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR FEDERAL & NATIONWIDE GUN CONTROL LAWS.

I AM SO PROUD OF OUR BRAVE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PUTTING PRESSURE ON CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION.

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT?

SAVING HUMAN LIVES OR CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM NRA LOBBYISTS??


Sources: ABC News, LA Times, Yahoo News, Youtube


***** Everything to know about the National School Walkout on March 14


Students, teachers, parents and administrators across the country are invited to take part in a National School Walkout in a call on Congress to pass tighter gun control laws.

The ENOUGH National School Walkout on March 14 is exactly one month after the mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

The event will be at 10 a.m. across every time zone and last 17 minutes -- one minute for each of the victims gunned down in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The walkout is organized by young people working with Women’s March Youth Empower.

Women’s March Youth Coordinator Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs, one of the few adults helping with the youth-led movement, told ABC News that while the walkout was sparked by the Florida school shooting, the event is about calling out gun violence.

St. Bernard Jacobs said it is a way to shed light on the type of gun violence that exists not just in schools, but everyday gun violence, like shootings that impact minority communities or devastate cities like Chicago, Illinois.

Students across the country have said they will join, as well as groups from schools as far as Ireland, Switzerland and Israel.

How participants spend the 17 minutes of the walkout is up to them. Some people are doing a lie-in, while others are holding rallies, St. Bernard Jacobs said.

This isn't a protest against schools, but a way to encourage school administrators to help students "amplify their voices," she said.

She went on to add, "Some schools are looking to this as an opportunity to really educate their young people about what it means in this moment to be engaged."

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The March 14 event is one of many student walkouts erupting throughout the U.S. as a new generation of youth advocates lead a fierce push for gun reform. While many school districts are supportive of the protests, some schools have reportedly threatened to punish students participating in walkouts.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said schools can punish students for missing class for walkouts, but the punishment should only be because students are missing school -- it cannot be a harsher punishment because the students participated in a protest.

Dozens of colleges and universities have said they won't penalize applicants who are peaceful student protesters. Brown University, for example, posted on Twitter, "Applicants to Brown: Expect a socially conscious, intellectually independent campus where freedom of expression is fundamentally important. You can be assured that peaceful, responsible protests against gun violence will not negatively impact decisions on admission to Brown."

"That's very encouraging," St. Bernard Jacobs said of the schools supporting students' decisions to protest gun violence. "This is a moment for youth to find their voice."