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Cully neighbor
Rising to
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Classmates at
Roosevelt High
School walked out of
school at 9:40 a.m.
last Wednesday and
gathered outside for a
rally to talk about gun
laws in the U.S. and
provide a moment of
silence to memorialize
the 17 who were shot
down in Parkland,
Fla. last month. They
returned to class an
hour later.
Students Declare ‘Enough’
A unifying message on
reducing gun violence
by d anny P eterson
t he P ortLand o bserver
Students from at least 45 Portland area schools joined
hundreds more across the nation to declare “enough” with
gun violence and walked out of classes in solidarity with
students and victims of the mass school shooting in Park-
land, Fla., one month ago.
The coordinated March 14 demonstrations, both at
home and across the county, included a 17-minute moment
of silence for the 17 students and teachers killed at Flori-
da’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The central
message from the student speeches and pickets was that
Congress needs to approve gun control legislation.
Among the peaceful demonstrations held locally was
from a group of students at St. Andrew Nativity School, a
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Photo by L eonard L atin /t he P ortLand o bserver
Students from St. Andrew Nativity School in northeast Portland chant and hold signs in solidarity with nation-
wide student-led protests pleading for gun reforms. The march came on the one month anniversary of the
mass shooting in Florida that killed 17.