Today at 10AM local time, students across America walked out of their
classes for 17 minutes, in memoriam of the 17 students murdered in the
Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida, exactly one month ago.
The walkout was led by student activists in a movement that started within hours of the Parkland shootings,
as survivors of the shooting decided that they would not allow
“thoughts and prayers” be all that their friends’ blood would buy from
lawmakers.
Students at some 3,000 schools across the USA walked out. The ACLU provided legal advice
to students at public schools who feared administration reprisals;
school administrators largely cooperated, though some tried to reframe
the protests as “public safety events.”
Here are the names of the dead: Alyssa Alhadeff, 14. Scott Beigel, 35.
Martin Duque, 14. Nicholas Dworet, 17. Aaron Feis, 37. Jaime Guttenberg,
14. Chris Hixon, 49. Luke Hoyer, 15. Cara Loughran, 14. Gina Montalto,
14. Joaquin Oliver, 17. Alaina Petty, 14. Meadow Pollack, 18. Helena
Ramsay, 17. Alex Schachter, 14. Carmen Schentrup, 16. Peter Wang, 15.
