Emma Gonzalez’s incredible moment of silence at March for Our Lives
We are the ones attempting to change our future instead of asking our parents for help.
Gun advocates have said the students are pawns in use by people who want stricter gun laws.
Hogg denounced the “shackles of corruption” and said: “Winter is over”. Amazingly, she pulled herself together and finished the speech.
In one of Montreal’s two marches, hundreds of protesters swayed together singing Glory, Hallelujah before setting off towards the city’s US consulate.
In the same video, Noir, who is African-American, made some weird claims about race and gun rights. Previous demonstrations, the Women’s March especially, were criticized for their lack of diversity, excluding people of color from the conversation.
She then stood silently for several minutes before a teary-eyed crowd, a painful hush marking the little over six minutes it took for the gunman to snuff out 17 lives.
Naomi Wadler, 11, is from Virginia, Alexander. That we are going to all step up and make a difference.
Yolanda Renee King, 9, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., made an appearance with her own dream at the rally.
González opened her speech by addressing the Parkland shooting before making her most impactful statement of the speech by remaining silent.
“And that this should be a gun-free world – period”.
‘Spread the word! Let it be heard, all across the nation! “We must make it our top priority to save these lives.” .
“Guns have long scared our children”, she said. “I feel it’s important to support them”. Then I was like, “oh it’s not that bad”.
They were ‘trying to focus on what would get the most people behind us, ‘ Tarr added.
Hogg’s speech was less cheery.
“Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA, telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this – we call B.S.!”
‘If you listen real close you can hear the people in power shaking.
‘Inaction is no longer safe.
“Well, It was more like a nightmare when we first found out, but seeing the support and everything was definitely really awesome”, said Philip, who had been on the swim team with a victim from the shooting, Nicholas Dworet. MTV used the opportunity to celebrate 17 young people leading the fight against gun violence across the country and is now creating a documentary special about the crusade.
Today, and every day, we will continue to fight for those things that are right.
‘Today is the beginning of Spring and tomorrow is the beginning of democracy.
Jaime Spanik holds up her hands along with crowds of people as they participate in the “March for Our Lives” rally. Let’s put the United States of America over the NRA.
She strode on stage at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington over the weekend, and listed the names of the 17 students and staff gunned down at her high school in Parkland, Florida.
González, who now has more followers on Twitter than the NRA at 1.3 million, on Saturday, again had a powerful moment at the national March for Our Lives rally in D.C. Saturday.