Parkland Teens Are Throwing Everything at the Midterms

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🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Six months ago, a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, changed the way America talks about guns. Before Parkland, it was relatively safe for many Democrats to oppose gun reform, but now they—and even some Republicans—are coming under intense scrutiny ahead of the midterm elections. To mark the anniversary, Mother Jones was given rare access to top student leaders, including David Hogg and Jaclyn Corin, at a critical moment in their movement—to discuss what they've learned, and what's next. In this episode, we travel to Newtown, Connecticut, as activists stage their final rally in a nationwide voter-recruitment drive. And we host an exclusive, intimate roundtable about the pressures of being held up as "superheroes" or "saviors."

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0:00.0	This is the Mother Jones Podcast.
0:02.0	I'm Jamila King in San Francisco.
0:05.0	Six months after Parkland.
0:12.0	It feels more like 60 years. Six months after Parkland.
0:12.5	It feels more like 60 years.
0:14.3	The student activists who changed the way we talk about guns in America
0:18.5	have been working their butts off.
0:20.3	We've seen and learned so much on this tour. Every single place we go, someone has a story of gun violence, of losing a loved one.
0:27.0	After an epic national tour this summer, they're now throwing everything at the midterms.
0:32.0	We are fighting the people in power that personally... throwing everything at the midterms.
0:32.6	We are fighting the people in power that personally benefit
0:35.7	from the perpetuation of violence,
0:37.6	and we're going to make that money toxic.
0:39.6	Voting on November 6th, that is the most important thing
0:42.2	to take away from this.
0:43.0	To mark this anniversary, Mother Jones was given rare access
0:46.7	to top Parkland student leaders
0:48.9	at a critical moment in their movement.
0:51.4	If you actually sit and have a conversation with us, you agree with us, you believe in everything
0:55.4	that we believe at.
0:56.6	What they've learned about the fight for their lives, how to heal divisions in America.
1:02.1	We know what America is thinking right now,
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