March for our Lives co-founder Cameron Kasky
The Interview
BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Sackur is in Florida to speak to Cameron Kasky, who survived the Parkland School shooting in February 2018 and went on to co-found the March for our Lives movement. This organisation was committed to taking on America’s gun lobby and organised a demonstration in Washington D.C. that was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. But one year after the attack, has anything changed?
Image: Cameron Kasky (Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for March For Our Lives)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.9 | This is Hard Talk with me, Stephen Sacker. |
| 0:06.8 | Thanks for downloading this edition of the program. |
| 0:09.5 | I do hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm in Florida to meet a young man whose life was dramatically changed one year ago by an act of senseless, |
| 0:23.3 | terrible violence. Cameron Caskey was preparing to leave Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School |
| 0:29.4 | when a former student entered the campus and started indiscriminately shooting at students and |
| 0:36.2 | teachers with a semi-automatic rifle. |
| 0:39.3 | By the time he ended his assault, 14 students and three staff members were dead, many more |
| 0:45.3 | wounded. It was the latest in a long line of mass shootings in schools, which began in Columbine, |
| 0:52.3 | Colorado, two decades ago. |
| 0:55.1 | But something different happened after the horror of Parkland. |
| 0:59.5 | Within days, a group of students at the school decided to confront America's gun lobby head-on. |
| 1:06.3 | Cameron Caskey was one of their leaders. |
| 1:08.9 | He was seen on nationwide TV demanding that Florida Senator Marco |
| 1:12.8 | Rubio stopped taking funds from the National Rifle Association. He was a key organizer of a youth-led |
| 1:19.9 | mass march in Washington, D.C., demanding action on gun control. Suddenly, at 17, Cameron Caskey was a national figure. But a year on, |
| 1:30.8 | how does he now feel about the movement he helped to create? And what, if anything, has really |
| 1:37.2 | changed? Well, Cameron Caskey joins me now. Welcome to Hard Talk. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:43.9 | It's pretty much one year since you were part of |
| 1:49.2 | the traumatic events at the high school in Parkland. How are you today? Today, it's a mixed bag. I'm an |
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