The Florida legislature, pushed by Parkland students and their parents, passed a gun bill which was signed into law on March 9th by Governor Rick Scott.  Marion Hammer, the NRA’s Florida lobbyist, said it passed in “a display of bullying and coercion.” Please meet one of the bullies that makes the NRA tremble.  Her name […]

“We’re going to be the last mass shooting… [We] The victims are the change we need to see.”  ~Emma Gonzales, student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida In response to the urgency of Emma Gonzales’ passionate commitment, this blog will spotlight both the variety of actions that kids are taking and can take in […]

“We’re kids.  You’re the adults.  You’re supposed to protect us.” ~ Youth, Parkland, Florida And so another.  This one, Parkland, after Columbine, after Newtown.  Weeping, gnashing of teeth and prayers.  Paul Ryan saying to CNN, we must stop and “count our blessings, not take sides.”  Stop in the face of slaughtered kids?  Here we are […]

This voice of lament from a hotel clerk in Richmond, Virginia, this cry from the heart, if amplified, might provide the moral weight required to defeat a horrible bill pending in the Virginia state legislature. HB1180, which passed the Senate and is now under consideration by the House of Delegates, would repeal the current prohibition […]