[disclaimer: this isn’t about guns or no guns, school or no school, government or no government, this is about the human spirit, it’s about love. and we can’t keep waiting. what the world needs most: the energy of 7bn alive people]
why this is so urgent.. we can’t keep waiting.. the lag time (for good – take care of people, or bad – spend 8 hrs a day in our jobs) still kills us..
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via greg: if in luxury… creativity/pleasantry/kindness/et-al flourishes/regenerates/exponentiates.. but if in an oppressive situation.. not so much.. ie: from mom to those fleeing syria.. waiting for us to lend a hand… a turtle shell… on our off hours.. when they are waiting alone 24/7
add to hannah arendt’s (p of p) – the need for spontaneity in politics (more than one in a gathering/community)… w/o this freedom for spontaneity.. can’t hear self/others 24/7.. so we miss much (can only hear after hours..).. and.. we become accomplices to oppression because of our busy ness (work hours et al).. we go back to our lives.. while they are still sitting alone.. or swimming/traveling/struggling for survival..
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feb 2018
“I don’t know how Columbine wasn’t enough.
I don’t know how Sandy Hook was not enough.
I don’t know how Las Vegas shooting was not enough.
I don’t know why the Pulse nightclub was not enough … But now it is.”
Watching @cameron_kasky, @Emma4Change and @davidhogg111 handle trolls like @BillOReilly is a thing of beauty. As a teacher, I am so proud of the work they are doing. Keep strong y’all #neveragain The world is following your lead.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior Ryan Deitsch asked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio why he and other students “have to march on Washington just to save innocent lives” https://t.co/7KTi6vFjn0 #StudentsStandUp https://t.co/pbxaIr7AXP
and so we have inspectors of inspectors et al.. too much.. aka: B and b
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National School Walkout (@schoolwalkoutUS) tweeted at 8:05 PM – 16 Feb 2018 :
On Friday, April 20th we want students to attend school and then promptly WALK-OUT at 10:00 am. Sit outside your schools and peacefully protest. Make some noise. Voice your thoughts. “We are students, we are victims, we are change.” (http://twitter.com/schoolwalkoutUS/status/964697373074231298?s=17)
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Astead (@AsteadWesley) tweeted at 9:25 PM – 21 Feb 2018 :
We wouldn’t be so shocked at the Parkland teenagers if we didn’t spend so much time depicting young people as these uniquely one-dimensional, selfish, and vapid caricatures they never were (http://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/966529414845616129?s=17)
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David Weinberger (@dweinberger) tweeted at 7:16 AM – 22 Feb 2018 :
CNN’s Blitzer to Student: “Cameron, what do you say to conspiracy theorists who say you’re paid actors?” Cameron: “Had they seen me in our production of Fiddler on the Roof, they’d know no one would ever pay me to act.”
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Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) tweeted at 9:03 AM – 22 Feb 2018 :
Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) tweeted at 10:10 PM – 22 Feb 2018 :
After Columbine over 10,000 school police officers were hired just in case a school shooting happened. Two decades later, they haven’t stopped a *single* school shooting. Instead they’ve arrested over 1 million kids, mostly students of color, for routine behavior violations. https://t.co/DKoJE9LL3e(http://twitter.com/samswey/status/966902961984061440?s=17)
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Deanna Mascle, PhD (@deannamascle) tweeted at 6:50 AM – 24 Feb 2018 :
Why was it so easy to support the Parkland youths while the youths in the Movement for Black Lives were repudiated and disregarded?
In just a little over a week, Emma González has gone from Beatles-loving teen worried about AP Gov to leader of a national movement of mass shooting survivors. #MarchForOurLives
Faith Consultant (@jndevereux) tweeted at 3:14 PM – 24 Feb 2018 :
If owning a gun was an effective means of self-defense, your insurance rates would go down when you bought one. But they go up, because actuaries have proven that you’re far, far more likely to shoot yourself or a family member than someone attacking you. (http://twitter.com/jndevereux/status/967523062123057158?s=17)
kids have always been amazing.. they’ve been asking/telling us to wake up for some time.. let’s not wait.. in listening to all the voices
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Emma González (@Emma4Change) tweeted at 9:33 AM on Tue, Mar 06, 2018:
Friendly reminder that the argument to Protect Schools completely ignores Churches, Malls, Concerts, etc. that have also been host to mass shootings – we can’t build our world out of Kevlar, just remove the guns that cause the most carnage it’s so Simple
(https://twitter.com/Emma4Change/status/971061324426997760?s=03)
David Graeber (@davidgraeber) tweeted at 5:47 AM – 30 Jun 2018 :
police tasers were sold to the public again & again as a non-lethal alternative to guns (“you’d rather the cop shoot him?”) This was a lie. Tasers are weaponised torture devices used in almost every case where the cop would never have considered using a firearm. https://t.co/a0hx1OmO7X (http://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1013026282173554689?s=17)
‘there is no normality.. until we come together and try to change this.. i know you want us to be kids.. but we have more important things to do’ @MattxRed
Solcita. Cualquier cosa in your mind.
Whatever led you to undermine
humanity,
yours included…
I’m so sorry.
Lo siento que no pudimos ayudarte.
That we did not know how to love you,
that we didn’t see your pain, that we assigned you names
names reserved for our “enemies”
– those we
refuse to see,
as our brother, sister…
branches of our human family tree
Severed.
Some people don’t deserve dignity?
It seems that this is something on which we unconsciously agree.
Solcita, I look at your face.
18 years young and deemed “dangerous.”
I don’t blame us… entirely.
We are fear-driven,
protectors, investigators…
and we love our children.
But do we love you, child?
I admit, it would be harder to write this had you carried out your plans.
I admit, it would be harder to love you had you been a white man.
My biases precede me.
I too am guilty.
I admit, I have not been a direct victim of school-violence…
So I hold silence. I hold you as sacred, daughter of the earth, child of the sea.
Solcita, preciosa.
You are the imago dei. Innocent, guilty, beautiful, sufferer.
Aren’t we all?
And aren’t we all victims of our own internal landscape?
Depressed, angry, heart-broken, misinformed, unseen, outcast, blamed, shamed.
be you. 