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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Emma González at the Head of #NeverAgain

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Barack, Washington, Wickenden, News, Obama, Politics, Wnyc, Lizza, President

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Emma González is a survivor of the Parkland attack and, in its aftermath, she has quickly become one of the most visible leaders of the new push for gun control in this country. In the last two months she has debated an N.R.A. spokesman on live television and faced a wave of extremist trolls.  And, seemingly overnight, she and her classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas forged a national movement, #NeverAgain, which gathered hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country in an event billed as the “March for Our Lives.”

González spoke to David Remnick on the phone from her home in Florida. In their conversation, she explains how her life has changed since the shooting, and why activism comes surprisingly naturally to high-school students: “We know how to keep people's attention on us because we're teenagers, and we have the phones.”

 

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I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remneck talks to Emma Gonzalez,

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a survivor of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Gonzalez has become a leader of the never-again protest movement.

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They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS!

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In the week since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, the push for gun control in this country has gained momentum at an astonishing pace.

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Students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School pressured Florida lawmakers into passing the first significant gun regulation bill that that state has seen in decades.

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And seemingly overnight, they threw together a national movement known

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as Never Again, which recently gathered hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country

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in the event billed as March for Our Lives.

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