Words Matter Library: We Say #NeverAgain

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This week we put We Say #NeverAgain into the Words Matter Audible Library. This is a moving journalistic account of shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and the fight for gun control - as told by the student reporters themselves. Read by Melissa Falkowski, Eric Garner, and the Parkland Student Journalists, this important book showcases how the teens told their own story. Listen as students share specific insight into what it has been like being approached by the press and how that has informed the way they interview their own subjects. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.0	Welcome to the Words Matter Library. I'm Katie Barlow.
0:26.0	A lot of remarkable things happened on February 14, 2018 in the town of Parkland, Florida.
0:35.0	It was remarkable that a teenager took an AR-15 to school and killed 17 of his fellow students.
0:43.0	It was remarkable that a football coach named Aaron Feiss was killed protecting the children he taught.
0:51.0	It was remarkable that 15-year-old Anthony Borges was shot five times while getting over 20 students to safety.
0:59.0	It was remarkable that students who survived, literally living through and experiencing trauma, started to stand up to a world, a country, really, that told them to sit down,
1:11.0	that started advocating for some solution to prevent children from getting gunned down in their own schools.
1:20.0	But there's another remarkable story that started that day that we haven't heard as much about.
1:25.0	Journalism teacher Melissa Falkowski helped her students tell the world about what happened to them as journalists.
1:33.0	And then they wrote a book about it.
1:36.0	The book is called, We Say, Hashtag, Never Again.
1:41.0	And that's today's library episode.
1:44.0	The book is available on Audible and narrated by Miss Falkowski and the student journalists of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.
1:52.0	Last week, we talked about journalist Pioneer Charlene Hunter-Gault and the legacy she left for storytellers of future generations.
2:00.0	These kids with the help of Miss Falkowski are a part of her legacy and they are paving the way for future storytellers.
2:08.0	The book starts with Miss Falkowski's experience that Valentine's Day 2018, how she did not know if it was a fire drill at first or a real active shooter,
2:20.0	how she rushed her kids back into her classroom and huddled with 19 of them locked in a closet waiting for the police to get there.
2:29.0	And then how she helped her students begin to tell their story.
2:35.0	Here's Miss Falkowski.
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