by Max Mapes | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Boston’s March for Our Lives The year is 2018. The day: March 24. 50,000-100,000 people are lined up in front of Madison Park High School, Boston, MA. “Youth” are asked to walk in the front, families (and “others”) are asked to walk in...
by Anne Pfeifenberger | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Students have taken to the streets in the largest showing of a student led movement since the Anti-War Movement protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On March 24, students, teachers, and supporters of further gun restrictions took to the streets in over 800 marches...
by Yanebi Blanco Bayona | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Last Saturday, March 24, 2018, I experienced first hand what I am convinced will be a defining event in United States history: the ‘March for our lives’ rally in Washington DC. As I was standing among the crowd (around 800,000 people, according to...
by Izzi Bertolozzi | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On Saturday, March 24th I attended the March for Our Lives in Albany, NY. Since the election in 2016 there seem to be more marches than usual, whether they be for science, women or equality. There was one big difference between those marches and the March for Our...
by Wyeth Taylor | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
The most central and important part of a healthy democracy is the engagement of its citizens, especially when those in power make decisions contrary to what citizen’s believe is in their best interest. When citizens lose the ability or motivation to make their...
