March For Our Lives - Parkland Students Demanding Action

brianwp
brianwp Posts: 139
edited February 2018 in A Moving Train
My daughter is a Senior at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and one of the lucky survivors.
After surviving such a horrific attack, her brave friends and classmates are trying to change the gun laws in this country so something like this never happens again.
They are powerful voices and they are extremely motivated.
Please, if you can, donate to their cause and march with them on March 24.
The Band is already on board through social media. Please help if you can. https://www.marchforourlives.com
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thank you
-brian
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    Done.

    I’m so glad that your daughter is safe. So sorry that she had to experience such a horrific act. I am so proud of how she and her classmates are responding.
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  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    Thank you so much!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Just saw this on our news this morning.  Wonderful to put what I can only imagine to be devastation into a positive move.

    How is your daughter doing in the aftermath?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Donation made.  Thanks for doing it, Brian, and best wishes for your daughter and her classmates.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    I am also proud of your daughter and her classmates. These kids are an inspiration and a positive light in some dark times.

    Sending my support here from Canada.
  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    hedonist said:
    Just saw this on our news this morning.  Wonderful to put what I can only imagine to be devastation into a positive move.

    How is your daughter doing in the aftermath?
    She is doing good, thank you. Most of these kids are handling this surprisingly well. I’m very proud of them. 
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,589
    I'll def be donating to this great cause will these marches happen throught out the country ? 
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  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    josevolution said:
    I'll def be donating to this great cause will these marches happen throught out the country ? 
    That’s their goal. Their website has a place where you can sign up to be notified. https://www.marchforourlives.com
  • tweedyfanjen
    tweedyfanjen Posts: 881
    What amazing kids! I'm just so sorry they have to deal with this.
    I'm through with screaming
  • steved
    steved Posts: 657
    Brian I am so glad your daughter is safe, I live in Parkland, about a 1/2 mile from where the Douglas High School shooting occurred.

    My next door neighbor is the head football coach, who lost two of his assistant coaches and another was wounded. Another student who lived on my next block was killed. My wife has three close friends who are teachers there, one who's classroom was the first fired upon who lost several children. It has been a rough, rough week for our community.

    Very proud of all of the kids and parents on their resilience and ability to come together.
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  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    Rise up young people get these old, racist, bigoted, gun nut jobs out of office. 

    It starts with you and ends with them on Fox News as a contributor continuing to spew their hate and archaic ways.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Smellyman said:
    Rise up young people get these old, racist, bigoted, gun nut jobs out of office. 

    It starts with you and ends with them on Fox News as a contributor continuing to spew their hate and archaic ways.

    Yes. Win by attrition.
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  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    steved said:
    Brian I am so glad your daughter is safe, I live in Parkland, about a 1/2 mile from where the Douglas High School shooting occurred.

    My next door neighbor is the head football coach, who lost two of his assistant coaches and another was wounded. Another student who lived on my next block was killed. My wife has three close friends who are teachers there, one who's classroom was the first fired upon who lost several children. It has been a rough, rough week for our community.

    Very proud of all of the kids and parents on their resilience and ability to come together.
    Thank you! We are very fortunate. 

    Some of the kids behind MarchForOurLives will be on CNN at 9ET for a Town Hall, along with several Florida Congressmen and a spokesperson for the NRA. it will be worth a watch. 
  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    The March For Our Lives movement is already moving the needle (see below). It’s a long road ahead though. The Nationwide marches are one month away, most likely in city near you. Please sign up for one and/or donate to their cause. Thank you.

    https://www.npr.org/2018/02/22/588069939/sen-marco-rubio-backs-down-on-some-gun-ownership-restrictions-at-cnn-town-hall

    http://time.com/money/5172471/nra-enterprise-first-national-bank-of-omaha-boycott-protests/

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/florida-governor-reforms/index.html

    https://www.marchforourlives.com/

  • justBE23
    justBE23 Posts: 45
    Peace to you and your family!  This tragedy has saddened, inspired, and enraged me like no other.  The efforts the students are making from your daughter’s school are making a HUGE difference nationwide.  I’m on the planning committee for a sister march for our lives in PA, and on Friday decided to quit my job to devote more time and energy to the critical effort of getting a ban of military-style assault rifles.  No life lost is worth this stupid and inaccurate perception  that second amendment rights stretch this far.  If you aren’t active military, there is NO reason to have these killing weapons.   DEMAND THE BAN! 
  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    Thank you. I couldn’t agree more. 
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I hope anyone that walks out is given Saturday Detention.
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    unsung said:
    I hope anyone that walks out is given Saturday Detention.
    Looking to stir shit up again I see. What's with the hate towards these kids? You've demonized them and ridiculed them since they first spoke out yet you start a thread defending Alex Jones' free speech. Can't you see your hypocrisy?
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Let them protest on their own time.  My taxes fund their education.  Stay in school.
  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 139
    Please don’t respond to trolls. Let’s keep this thread positive and encouraging. 

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