The new cover of Time magazine features a dramatic photo of the students who have been leading the push for stricter gun control laws in the aftermath of last month’s mass shooting at their school in Parkland, Florida.
The April 2 issue cover photo, titled “ENOUGH,” features Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and #NeverAgain movement organizers Jaclyn Corin, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind.
The accompanying article features the students meeting at a local pizza joint and organizing Saturday’s “March For Our Lives” rally in D.C. at their office headquarters in Coral Springs.
“Most of these kids cannot vote, order a beer, make a hotel reservation or afford a pizza without pooling some of their allowance,” Time magazine’s Charlotte Alter wrote. “On the surface, they’re not so different from previous generations of idealistic teenagers who set out to change the world, only to find it is not so easy. Yet over the past month, these students have become the central organizers of what may turn out to be the most powerful grassroots gun-reform movement in nearly two decades.
“For much of the rest of the country, numbed and depressed by repeated mass shootings, the question has become, Can these kids actually do it?” she wrote.
While Saturday’s “March For Our Lives” protest in D.C. and cities nationwide has been billed as a movement “for kids and by kids,” a coalition of liberal advocacy groups have signed on to help with the planning, including Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence, BuzzFeed reported.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday that the march recently registered the March for Our Lives Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit organization that is not required to disclose its donors.
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