The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last week left 17 students and staff dead — and replaced the 1999 Columbine High School massacre as the deadliest high school shooting in America. Many of the survivors, thousand of teenagers who used social media to document to horror, …

On Monday, 17 high-school students staged a protest in front of the White House, lying on the wet ground along Pennsylvania Avenue to symbolize those killed in Parkland. The demonstration was the brainchild of Eleanor Nuechterlein and Whitney Bowen, juniors at a suburban Washington, D.C., high school. The prone …

Alvarez could not be reached Monday to elaborate on how schools would handle such protests. Lori O’Toole Buselt, spokeswoman for the Maize school district, said administrators “will be having conversations” about planned walkouts, and Superintendent Chad Higgins “plans to discuss this with the student body.”.

Ethiopia’s state of emergency (SOE) imposed late last week includes a ban on protests and publications that incite violence, Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa said on Saturday. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. The SOE measure was made a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his surprise …

Police data is a better source, since we can assume the police know about most protests. But we don’t know how many protests are not noticed by police. Police data reports incidents – it doesn’t distinguish between parades, sports events and protests. Some researchers are drilling down deeper, but there is a limit to how …

Teachers, students and community members unhappy with the school district’s decision on recent changes to the school schedule took to the streets Monday to protest. The Apache Junction School District last week adopted a new, “modified year-round,” schedule. The school board also increased the number of school …

Protests broke out across the country in January, with many angry at being worse off than before a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The subsequent … Once one of the world’s largest phosphate producers, Tunisian production has halved since 2010 due to repeated protests and a fall in foreign buyers.

Members of various farmers and service organisations staged protests in the city on Monday condemning the reduction in Tamil Nadu’s share of Cauvery water and demanding the immediate constitution of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB). A group of farmers led by Ayilai Sivasuriyan, district secretary, Tamil Nadu …

Some Springfield residents plan to join a nationwide protest against mass school shootings planned for March 24. March For Our Lives was started in recent days by student survivors of a Feb. 14 incident in which a gunman wielding an AR-15 rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …

… the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable. That’s exactly what the current protestsare doing, with student survivors from Florida in particular actively participating.

It’s being planned in part by the Women’s March organizers to protest inaction from lawmakers on gun-control legislation. It calls for students and teachers to walk out of their schools at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes, to honor the 17 lives lost in Florida. Another walkout is planned on April 20, which will mark the 19th year …

The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the community of Parkland, Florida are doing their best to make sure that the mass shooting that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 14 is not another statistic. The students have become especially galvanized by this …

Other protests are planned in coming weeks, including one to mark the 19th year since Colorado’s Columbine High School massacre. “We are the students, we are the victims, we are change, fight gun violence now!” student organizers wrote for one event. “High School students across the U.S.A, the way to fight back is here …

Police were able to quell the protests to allow the free flow of traffic, however, residents have threatened to simply move their protests later on in the day to lower streets such as Duke Street. While officers were on duty, they reported hearing several loud explosions which sounded like gunshots, however, no injuries were …

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… whose formal title is coordinator of government activities in the territories, or COGAT, encouraged Gazans to instead demonstrate against the Strip’s rulers: the Hamas terrorist organization. He noted that in recent months, “15 Palestinians have been killed and 400 people have been injured” by Israeli troops during protests …

9, 2015, resignation of UM System President Tim Wolfe during protests over racial issues, some feared a violent white backlash. It was fueled in part by a real post on the anonymous social app Yik-Yak from Hunter Park, then a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, that he would “shoot every …

Students who survived the shooting in Florida are also planning to protest in Washington, D.C. on March 24 at an event organized by March For Our Lives. “Here’s a time to talk about gun control: March 24. My message for the people in office is: You’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are …