Emma González at Home, and a Crown Prince Abroad

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Emma González is a survivor of the Parkland attack, and a leader of the #NeverAgain movement. She talks with David Remnick about the ways her life has changed since the shooting, and why activism comes naturally to the teens spearheading the new push for gun control. And Dexter Filkins talks with David Remnick about the dynamic Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia—a young, energetic reformer who is forging close ties with the Trump White House.

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0:00.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:13.0	They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS!
0:24.4	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:26.3	I'm David Remnick.
0:28.2	In the week since the shooting in Parkland, Florida,
0:31.0	the push for gun control in this country has gained momentum at an astonishing pace.
0:36.1	Students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School
0:38.5	pressured Florida lawmakers into passing the first significant gun regulation bill
0:43.6	that that state has seen in decades. And seemingly overnight, they threw together a national
0:49.4	movement known as Never Again, which recently gathered hundreds of thousands of protesters across the
0:55.4	country in the event billed as March for Our Lives.
1:01.1	Six minutes and about 20 seconds. In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken
1:07.9	from us, 15 were injured, and everyone, absolutely everyone in the
1:13.3	Douglas community was forever altered. Everyone who was there understands. Emma Gonzalez,
1:19.2	a survivor of the Parkland attack, very quickly became one of the most visible leaders of the new
1:24.6	movement. She's instantly recognizable. When we see her in public, she's got her
1:28.7	army green jacket covered in patches, her head is shaved, her voice is stalwart, and she is absolutely
1:35.9	fierce. In the last two months, Gonzalez has debated an NRA spokesman on live TV and faced
1:43.3	down a wave of trolling attacks from extremists.
1:46.6	One video that went viral compared her activism to the Hitler youth,
1:51.9	all of which is a lot to bear for a high school senior who wasn't old enough to vote in the last election.
1:58.6	Emma, I barely know where to begin, but what I'd like to know is what your life was like
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