At Saturday’s March for Our Lives in Audubon/Haddon Heights, after several hours of walking and listening to remarks, a good number of the 1,000 attendees had left for warmer environs when the event organizer, AJ Arnold delivered his closing remarks….
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In the penultimate video of this series, we hear from Tracey Taylor, a Junior at Haddonfield Memorial High School. She delivers a powerful call to action for gun safety legislation. On a personal note: I was blown away by the passion…
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Continuing our series of videos of presenters at the March for Our Lives from Saturday in Haddon Heights, here is Joely Wilson. This young man is the Teen Vice President of Jack & Jill of America’s South Jersey Chapter, According…
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Melani Stokes is a senior at Cherry Hill High School West, and like her peers, she spoke eloquently at Saturday’s March for Our Lives in Haddon Heights. She talked about the generational change that will bring about common-sense gun safety…
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Collingswood High School Junior Lilly DeFrank is an advocate for mental health care. She spoke at Saturday’s rally about the confluence of mental health issues and the gun safety debate. It’s not as simple as the NRA makes it to…
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One of the things we have observed during the ascension of the Trump/GOP/NRA Axis of Evil is the pushback from, and involvement of, ordinary citizens. People who had normally been passive observers have become active movers and shakers in the…
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Photo: Remains of the penal colony in Port Arthur, Tasmania – site of the first and last mass shooting in Australia. Ben James was one of the few adults who spoke at Saturday’s March for our Lives in Haddon Heights….
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The rallies today are all about the young people. The kids who put their lives on the line every day when they enter a classroom – whether it’s kindergarten or college. (Re-read that last sentence and reflect on it for…
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It was fitting that the presentations after today’s South Jersey march was held in a park named after two victims of gun violence. Although it’s attendance of almost 1000 people paled in comparison to the bigger marches in Philly, New…
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It seems like every day is now a significant day when it comes to gun violence. Today, the students in Parkland returned to school two weeks after a white supremacist killed 17 students and teachers. The legislature met in Trenton…
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