The Parkland Shooting Student Survivors Are Teaching the Country a New Lesson in the Historical Power of Youth Activists @alternet

The Parkland Shooting Student Survivors Are Teaching the Country a New Lesson in the Historical Power of Youth Activists @alternet: The civil rights movement was propelled by youth activists, too. The National Rifle Association didn’t see it coming. It could have predicted yet another school shooting, like so many that have happened before in the United States. But what the NRA couldn’t predict was the immediate and unrelenting response of the student survivors. They channeled their rage and sorrow over the killing of 17 of their classmates and teachers against the gun lobby and the politicians in their pocket. Pushed by this new momentum for change, President Donald Trump held a bipartisan meeting of congressional lawmakers Wednesday afternoon.