Students Walked Out. Here Are Their Videos. - Video - NYTimes.com
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Recueil de vidéos prises par les élèves lors des manifestations anti-armes du 14 mars 2018.
Deux éléments significatifs :
– le très jeune âge des activistes. Une tradition américaine (remember le mouvement pour les droits cviviques, ou lisez le passionnant livre de Claire Richard sur les Young Lords).
– l’usage du mobile pour noter les discours, vraisemblablement écrits collectivements.
Voir aussi l’article :
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/school-walkout.html
The first major coordinated action of the student-led movement for gun control marshaled the same elements that had defined it ever since the Parkland shooting: eloquent young voices, equipped with symbolism and social media savvy, riding a resolve as yet untouched by cynicism.
“We have grown up watching more tragedies occur and continuously asking: Why?” said Kaylee Tyner, a 16-year-old junior at Columbine High School outside Denver, where 13 people were killed in 1999, inaugurating, in the public consciousness, the era of school shootings. “Why does this keep happening?”
Even after a year of near continuous protesting — for women, for the environment, for immigrants and more — the emergence of people not even old enough to drive as a political force has been particularly arresting, unsettling a gun control debate that had seemed impervious to other factors.