{"id":8191,"date":"2018-03-24T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2018-03-24T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:37:15","slug":"ahead-of-march-for-our-lives-student-manifesto-outlines-steps-to-eradicate-plague-of-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/24\/ahead-of-march-for-our-lives-student-manifesto-outlines-steps-to-eradicate-plague-of-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of &#8216;March for Our Lives,&#8217; Student Manifesto Outlines Steps to Eradicate &#8216;Plague of Gun Violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">March 23, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>&#8220;We will be marching this Saturday for those that we loved and lost, and we write this in the hope that no other community or publication will ever have to do the same.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app-id-name=\"headline_above_content\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"Ahead of 'March for Our Lives,' Student Manifesto Outlines Steps to Eradicate 'Plague of Gun Violence'\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/03\/23\/ahead-march-our-lives-student-manifesto-outlines-steps-eradicate-plague-gun-violence\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui no-print flat block horizontal mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading custom\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"discourse-comments-link\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/mfol_ig_1080x1080_preview.png?itok=-Up4WHVx\" alt=\"March for Our Lives\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are firsthand witnesses to the kind of devastation that gross incompetence and political inaction can produce,&#8221; Parkland student journalists wrote in\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>. (Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marchforourlives.com\/\">March for Our Lives<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p>Ahead of the historic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/event.marchforourlives.com\/event\/march-our-lives-events\/search\/\">March for Our Lives<\/a>&#8221; demonstrations taking place nationwide on Saturday, student journalists from Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida\u2014the site of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/14\/17-dead-florida-school-shooting-we-should-never-accept-these-horrific-acts-violence\">shooting<\/a>\u00a0last month that left 17 dead\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/23\/parkland-students-manifesto-americas-gun-laws\">published<\/a>\u00a0a manifesto in\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0on Friday declaring that they can no longer &#8220;stand idly by as the country continues to be infected by a plague of gun violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;We believe federal and state governments must put these in place to ensure that mass shootings and gun violence cease to be a staple of American culture.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Majory Stoneman Douglas students<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a unique platform not only as student journalists, but also as survivors of a mass shooting. We are firsthand witnesses to the kind of devastation that gross incompetence and political inaction can produce,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eagleeye.news\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0the students, who work for the Stoneman Douglas school newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eagleeye.news\/\"><em>The Eagle Eye<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;We will be marching this Saturday for those that we loved and lost, and we write this in the hope that no other community or publication will ever have to do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proposals outlined by the Parkland student journalists in advance of Saturday&#8217;s events\u2014which are expected to draw hundreds of thousands to the streets in all 50 U.S. states and in major cities across the globe\u2014include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A complete ban on &#8220;semi-automatic weapons that fire high-velocity rounds&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Universal background checks and &#8220;a database recording which guns are sold in the United States, to whom, and of what caliber and capacity they are&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Raising the gun purchasing age to 21; and<\/li>\n<li>Closing the gun show and secondhand purchase loopholes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We believe federal and state governments must put these in place to ensure that mass shootings and gun violence cease to be a staple of American culture,&#8221; the students conclude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;This trip is showing the politicians the true meaning of democracy.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Demitri Hoth, Stoneman Douglas student<\/p>\n<p>According to recent survey data, many of the policy changes proposed by the Parkland students are broadly popular. An AP-NORC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/6bff3d106aa245d3b774868503e81289\/AP-NORC-Poll:-Support-soars-for-stricter-gun-control-laws\">poll<\/a>\u00a0published on Friday found that &#8220;nearly 7 in 10 adults now favor stricter gun control measures,&#8221; which is &#8220;the strongest level of support since the\u00a0<em>Associated Press<\/em>first asked the question five years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s marches are expected to further demonstrate the widespread support throughout the U.S. for stricter gun control legislation. According to the March for Our Lives website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/event.marchforourlives.com\/event\/march-our-lives-events\/search\/\">840 events<\/a>\u00a0have been planned in all 50 states and in major cities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/21\/us\/march-for-our-lives-explainer\/index.html\">across the globe<\/a>, including Paris, Madrid, London, Tokyo, and Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This trip is showing the politicians the true meaning of democracy,&#8221; Stoneman Douglas student Demitri Hoth, who is traveling from Florida to Washinton, D.C. for the event,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/23\/us\/parkland-students-washington-march-for-our-lives\/index.html\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>\u00a0in an interview. &#8220;They are not there to serve groups; they are there to serve people. It&#8217;s time for us to take control and be heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below is a map that shows events taking place in the U.S. and Canada.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/event.marchforourlives.com\/event\/march-our-lives-events\/search\/\">Click here to find an event near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user20544\/screen_shot_2018-03-23_at_1.07.05_pm.png\" alt=\"screen_shot_2018-03-23_at_1.07.05_pm.png\" width=\"812\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-cta-change\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-prompt clearfix\">\n<div class=\"slim-header-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-cta-slim-header=\"&lt;i class='fa fa-info-circle'&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Did you find this article useful? &lt;\/strong&gt; Support our journalism.&lt;a href='https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/free-and-independent?refcode=winter18_cta2' target='_blank' class='btn text-center'&gt;Donate Today&lt;\/a&gt;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8220;We will be marching this Saturday for those that we loved and lost, and we write this in the hope that no other community or publication will ever have to do the same.&#8221; by\u00a0Jake Johnson, staff writer &nbsp; &#8220;We are firsthand witnesses to the kind&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/24\/ahead-of-march-for-our-lives-student-manifesto-outlines-steps-to-eradicate-plague-of-gun-violence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8192,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}