Chanting We Want Change thousands of students walk out of school and tell us what they want and isnt it time to listen!
ALL people who have experienced gun violence, including systemic forms of gun violence that disproportionately impact teens in Black and Brown communities. It is important that when we refer to gun violence, we do not overlook the impact of police brutality and militarized policing, or see police in schools as a solution. We also recognize the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations. The students of Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn Friends, Saint Anns, Brooklyn Tech, and other Brooklyn Schools
Tens of thousands of students across the country walked out of their classrooms as part of a massive national protest on gun violence spurred by the Florida high school shooting a month ago that left 17 dead. The protests unfolded in major cities across the country " New York, Washington, Chicago, Seattle and hundreds of smaller towns and communities as well. The walkouts, before a march on Washington - hundreds of thousands of students to the nations capital, a turnout not seen in size or scope since student protests of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Building Bridges presents, more than a sound bite, but the actual speeches, the hue and cry of the young protesters with comprehensive interviews where they tell it like it is for them. The students are saying that their walkouts and demonstrations represent a realization of power and influence by young people raised on social media who have come of age in an era of never- ending wars, highly publicized mass shootings and virulent national politics.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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