'I wish there was a way to really organize them in a way that their walkout is not a day, but it's the Montgomery bus protests, that we refuse to return to school until there is some significant legislation that bans assault weapons.'
due to reports that a student had a gun. The student body had participated in a walkout in solidarity with Nashville children earlier in the day.urged
a permanent school strike until the demands of the 63% of Americans who support an assault weapons ban are met. "I'm left with one conclusion: The children and parents of our country need to take the summer to organize locally, build a set of national demands, and then refuse to go back to school in the fall until Congress does something," Beckerman wrote, explaining how the strike could force action:
One thing we've learned from the pandemic is that when children aren't in school, society strains. This would make a strike an extremely powerful form of leverage. A walkout with enough students involved and taking place over days, not minutes, puts concrete pressure on officials, from the municipal level all the way up to Washington. When students aren't in school, parents have difficulty getting to work. Suddenly understaffed services—hospitals, subways—suffer the consequences.
Republican policymakers this week have shown little tolerance for direct action by rights advocates. The Tennessee GOP
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