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Showing Original Post only (View all)What should put FEAR in the hearts of gunners was today's DIVERSITY [View all]
Suburban kids from South Florida joined with Latina/o kids from South LA, black kids from Chicago, privileged white kids from everywhere and they all agreed to pass the megaphone one to the other.
I have never seen such diversity of actors in a mission of common cause. The young people protesting the Viet Nam war may have come close, but that was a protest storm long in gathering. This one went from 6 murderous minutes in a South Florida high school to a nationwide coalition in a very few short weeks.
Their generation is larger than the Boomers. They WILL be heard.
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Stinky The Clown
Mar 2018
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It's what they did after the Viet Nam war that is inexcusable, disgraceful and disgusting.
democratisphere
Mar 2018
#6
Decimation of all environments-resources-species, criminal enterprise healthcare and
democratisphere
Mar 2018
#29
Oh my. Civil rights. Women's rights. Gay rights. Ending the war in Viet Nam. Protesting the invasion
Hekate
Mar 2018
#20
hey, a lot of us boomers are democrats from way back. we voted against all of those
demigoddess
Mar 2018
#24
We worked for peace candidates who lost or were murdered: Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy
Hekate
Mar 2018
#42
The young men of our generation were packed off to Vietnam, and came home wounded in body & soul
Hekate
Mar 2018
#48
And supported racial equality that lead to the first Black President.. womans rights were big
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#10
At least one third of our voting population needs to catch up on civil rights too.
democratisphere
Mar 2018
#17
There was this one blonde haired girl with blue eyes that I thought was going to lose the crowd
Baitball Blogger
Mar 2018
#8
I'll bet a lot of the folks who participated today also participated in the women's march...
Kirk Lover
Mar 2018
#18