Saturday 24 March 2018

March for Our Lives: hundreds of thousands demand end to gun violence – live

  • Huge crowds in Washington and beyond as calls ring out to end gun violence
  • Parkland students guest-edit Guardian US
  • Students in DC as special correspondents for Guardian covering march
  • There’s a lot of support for Black Lives Matter in Oakland, a city that helped give rise to the national movement against police brutality, writes Sam Levin.
    Some protesters here have argued that the discussion about gun policy must include conversations about police violence.
    Earlier this week, police in nearby Sacramento , an unarmed black father of two who was standing in his grandmother’s backyard. The killing had sparked protests across the California capital, and many mentioned Clark’s name at the Oakland rally.
  • Jamie Thrower, 30, who wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to the rally, said, “How do we make sure we’re protecting children of color from police violence? ... If you’re not talking about that, you’re missing a huge narrative.”
    She said she was frustrated some were criticizing Black Lives Matter protesters for shutting down freeways earlier in the week to raise awareness about Clark’s killing.
    Jonathan, a 39-year-old protester, wore a shirt that said, “Stephon Clark got shot too. End police violence.”
    He declined to give his last name, but said: “Police shoot people at a far greater rate than mass shootings. ... Police disproportionately target people of color.”
  • The cuts back and forth, between the high school activists who just survived a school shooting, and Loesch, a longtime conservative radio host and Fox News commenter, could not be sharper, and the high school students seem to relish juxtaposing their passionate, goofy activism agains the apocalyptic rhetoric the National Rifle Association has used for decades.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting is that we almost hear nothing about the opposing Marxist views..Media is well contained...

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