oh man!
CNN anchor babies!
19 Feb: New Yorker: Emily Witt: How the Survivors of Parkland Began the Never Again Movement
The activists are grieving, too, but its not a coincidence that a disproportionate number of the Never Again leaders are dedicated members of the drama club...
Cameron Kasky is a theatre kid. Before he went on Anderson Cooper, he was best known as a class clown. Im a talker, he told me...
The social-media posts led to an invitation from CNN to write an op-ed, which led to televised interviews in the course of the day...
Jaclyn Corin is the seventeen-year-old junior-class president at Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
It was after she went to grief counselling, and after the candlelight vigil that evening, that Corin first talked to Democratic Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Conversations with state representatives followed, and preliminary arrangements were made to bus a hundred Douglas students and fifteen chaperones to Tallahassee to address the state legislature...
Corin was also prepared to advocate for gun-law reform, having worked on a fifty-page project about gun control for her A.P. composition-and-rhetoric class a couple of months before...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-survivors-of-parkland-began-the-never-again-movement
18 Feb: NaplesDailyNews: Patrick Riley: #NeverAgain: ‘This generation ... The next generation will never have to worry about this.’
PARKLAND A contingent of 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history Wednesday, will travel to the state capital to speak with lawmakers about enacting stricter gun laws...
The action has been so quick, said (Jaclyn) Corin, 17...
Corin, who was hiding in a classroom during the shooting, said a family friend connected her with U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose aide helped her start organizing the trip.
A handful of other Democratic politicians, including state Sens. Lauren Book and Kevin Rader and state Reps. Carlos Guillermo Smith and Jared Moskowitz, also helped, she said...
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/18/florida-shooting-marjory-stoneman-douglas-students-work-ban-ar-15-and-change-gun-laws/349727002/