{"id":17141,"date":"2018-03-24T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17141"},"modified":"2018-03-24T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T04:20:13","slug":"march-for-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/03\/24\/march-for-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"March for Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Some assorted notes about today\u2019s March for Our Lives rally in San Jos\u00e9:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Followup on my previous post: I was glad that the march started at 11:00 a.m. That gave me time to have a leisurely start to my day and still arrive before the march started.<\/li>\r\n  <li>When I first arrived, the crowd nearby was overwhelmingly white. At least 90% of the people I saw in that area, probably more, looked white to me. But that changed a lot as the march went on and I drifted into other parts of the crowd. I\u2019m not sure why so many white people were hanging out in that one area when I arrived.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ran into a couple of high school friends who I hadn\u2019t seen in years; good to see you, Craig and Becky!<\/li>\r\n  <li>I think the crowd was substantially bigger than the last protest march I attended in San Jos\u00e9, an anti-war rally in 2003 or so. I have no sense of how many people were there, but we filled the street for a stretch of at least several blocks, and filled most of the park space available for the rally at the end. Not huge by major-protest-city standards, but felt nicely big to me. I think I saw a prediction beforehand that about 10,000 people would be there, extrapolating from 3,000 who had signed up ahead of time.<\/li>\r\n  <li>There was light rain for much of the march and rally. (Dunno if that reduced turnout.) Most people had hoods and\/or umbrellas.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The speakers were all good, but the two that impressed me most were a teacher, who gave a great energetic powerful emotional well-written speech, and the student who spoke at the very end of the rally. I didn\u2019t catch either of their names.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Unfortunately, the rally was under the flight path for the San Jos\u00e9 airport; planes flew low overhead and drowned out the speakers every few minutes. (Which was also a little tense-making because on the way to the march, I had been listening to an NPR news story that prominently featured people in Yemen hearing a plane fly by overhead and then getting bombed.)<\/li>\r\n  <li>After the rally, I saw two students with a professional-looking video camera on a tripod. I asked if they had recorded the speakers; they said yes. I asked if the recordings would be available online; they said that they\u2019re from the Homestead High School student news organization, and that they would post recordings on their YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGcutQGPUN6SA5mLU5HFHAg\">The Epitaph<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Some things that various speakers said (I didn\u2019t record any of their names):<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>\u201cIt should not be easier to obtain military weapons than to obtain a driver\u2019s license.\u201d \u201412-year-old speaker<\/li>\r\n  <li>After mentioning one of the Parkland students, maybe Emma Gonz\u00e1lez: \u201cI will say what that classy young woman would not: I call bullshit.\u201d \u2014older white male speaker (to be clear, he was calling bullshit on the NRA and such, not on Gonzalez)<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cYou are not just the leaders of tomorrow, you are the leaders of today.\u201d \u2014adult speaker<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Some signs I saw:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>\u201c...the \u2018Marco Rubio,\u2019 because it\u2019s so easy to buy. \u2014@sarahchad\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cLike right to life, but outside my vagina.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cQ: How many NRA spokespeople does it take to change a lightbulb? A: More guns.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cFire Trump, not guns.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cActually, guns <em>do<\/em> kill people.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cI married a teacher, not a bodyguard.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201c#armmewith a glue gun.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cAnd they would\u2019ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren\u2019t for you meddling kids!\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cWhere are the \u2018all lives matter\u2019 people now?\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cNo Responsibility Accepted.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201c#sayhisname #StephonClark\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cAt school, an A+ should be a grade, not a blood type.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cBooks, not (high capacity) magazines.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cMental illness is global. Mass shootings are American.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cThe only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun lobby is 20 million 1st-time voters. <a href=\"http:\/\/registertovote.ca.gov\">registertovote.ca.gov<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improving-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17141"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17158,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}