With National School Walkout, Students Demand Gun Control

Students at schools across the country are walking out of class today at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes in solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a shooting killed 17 students and staff exactly one month ago. In the month since the massacre, young people have taken over the reigns of the gun control debate, with a core group of Parkland students emerging as voices of the movement using hashtags like #enough and #neveragain. Today's walkout is the latest in a series of dramatic actions -- from marches to protests at government buildings -- and Youth Radio has reporters across the country embedded with the students, all of them students themselves. Follow the walkouts live on @youthradio Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and come back here for highlights. This page will be updated throughout the day.

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The moment of the movement

https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973969613078913024

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Walkouts swept from coast to coast

https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973976043714326528 https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973975720157425672 https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973969490407964672 https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973967858869747712

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Student protests push the envelope

CLARIFICATION: Grady High School administrators had supported the walkout, but threatened disciplinary action against students who refused to return after the scheduled protest. https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/974078134910889989   https://twitter.com/youthradio/status/973961956716457984

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Teens are taking the lead and people are grateful

“Since Congress won’t change the laws, the teenagers will” #NationalSchoolWalkout Grady HS, Atlanta, GA pic.twitter.com/ZSr5722xJ1

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

Adults in Georgia gather to thank teens from Grady HS for taking the lead on calling for stricter gun laws #NationalSchoolWalkout #ENOUGH pic.twitter.com/yDdB8VaGXy

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

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The walkout is happening at all grade levels: from middle school to college

Students at @BroadRippleMHSBroad in #Indianapolis #NationalWalkoutDay #NationalSchoolWalkout #NeverAgain #Enough pic.twitter.com/UsBgaI1i4j

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

Student-run stores and coffee shops on @Georgetown campus are closed for 17 minutes in support of #walkoutwednesday. This is at Midnight Mug. (Reporting by @JeanineSantucci) pic.twitter.com/qzpvFbO9F8

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

The Stuyvesant HS walkout (photo by Sophie Watwood): #NationalSchoolWalkout pic.twitter.com/V6avM7YNct

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

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Today's teens have had to deal with some form of gun violence all their lives

Stuyvesant junior Julia Arancia shares why she walked out: pic.twitter.com/S8eI4nCgRA

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

"There's shootings it seems every other month and we have mad gun violence in the city all the time. At this point I'm basically desensitized because I've lived in Philly my whole life and it's something I got used to. But it shouldn't be that way." Phillip Muller, 18 #walkout pic.twitter.com/viIBJjlPgZ

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 14, 2018

We asked students from around the country to tell us why they are participating in tomorrow's national walkout. #enough #Parkland #guncontrol #studentsstandup #nationalstudentwalkout #enoughisenough #NeverAgain #MarchforourLives #walkoutwednesday pic.twitter.com/u0a7doasOK

— youthradio (@youthradio) March 13, 2018