
In 2018, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, watched a gunman murder 17 of their classmates. The teenagers mobilized.
“Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving,” Emma Gonzales, then 18, said at a rally after the shooting. “But instead we are up here standing together, because if all our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it’s time for victims to be the change that we need to see.”