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- [Rebecca] The initial feeling that I had

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when I was in that closet was helplessness

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that like I couldn\'t do
anything, I was just stuck there.

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- [Newscaster] A
heartbreaking day in Florida,

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and sadly, an all too familiar one.

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This is the fourth shooting
at a middle or high school

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just this year in 2018.

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You see chaos, terrified students,

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their hands on their
heads, running to safety,

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frightened parents rushing to the school,

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waiting for word on their children.

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Heavily-armed SWAT teams,
armored vehicles surrounding

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland.

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- I went home that night and
I just sat in front of the TV

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and I didn\'t know what else to do

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because I felt so helpless.

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That feeling manifested
itself into like anger,

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and I wanted to just do
something \'cause I was just angry

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about feeling helpless and
angry about what had happened.

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And so, the result was using my voice

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and all of us using our voices.

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- [Melissa] Journalists present
this information to you,

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here is this problem, here is
this thing that\'s happening

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and then you\'re hoping that the
public is gonna look at that

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and say, oh, that\'s horrible,

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let\'s not let that happen ever again.

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- To have so many casualties,

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it\'s very, at least for
me, it\'s very emotional

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because I feel today like our government,

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our country has failed
us and failed our kids

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and didn\'t keep us safe.

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- When someone feels empowered

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and they feel like they
can do something positive,

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they can make change

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and then they\'re more
apt to become involved

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in local politics or state
politics or national politics,

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and I think that that\'s really important

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because that\'s what drives society forward

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and drives change.

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- [Rebecca] That night, I was
thinking about Mrs. Falkowski

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and I wanted to like thank
you for all that she did.

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So, that night, I texted
her and I thanked her

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for saving me pretty
much and keeping me calm

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and all of us caught in the closet.

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I told her that we were
gonna use the newspaper

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to fight the people that we lost

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to change the world if we could.

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♪ It\'s no easier to swallow
the thousandth time ♪

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♪ The front page becomes a graveyard ♪

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♪ And some don\'t bat an eye ♪

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♪ It happens enough to
call it commonplace ♪

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♪ And there are many
who don\'t seem to mind ♪

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♪ So, raise your voice ♪

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♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

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♪ There\'s something here to fight for ♪

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♪ Raise your voice ♪

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♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

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- [Announcer] Welcome to the museum\'s

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Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater.

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We are honored to be joined
by student journalists

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for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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in Parkland, Florida.

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Tomorrow, these student
journalists will be on the ground,

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reporting from the March for
Our Lives rally in Washington.

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An estimated 500,000 people

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are expected to take part in the rally,

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exercising their First Amendment freedoms.

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As the demonstrators walk by the Newseum,

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they will see the 45 words
of the First Amendment

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etched in marble, that grace
the front of the building.

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Reminding all who see it that every day,

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we as Americans enjoy the
freedoms of religion, speech,

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press, petition and assembly.

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Please join me in welcoming
the student journalists

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of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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(audience applauds)

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- [Moderator] It\'s a very
difficult thing to tell

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any kind of tragedy and explain it,

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it\'s even more complicated
when you are part of the story.

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How have you handled that
in your choices as editors?

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- [Rebecca] We\'re journalists
but we\'re also survivors.

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There\'s no handbook on
how to deal with this.

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There\'s no guideline
on how to properly deal

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with the kind of spotlight
that we have on us.

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Writing is something to me like a power,

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writing through things helps a lot

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with understanding not only my emotions,

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but what exactly happened?

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Writing about the victims

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and being a journalist was my outlet.

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- [Lata Nott] The Parkland
student journalists,

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they wanted to write profiles
and honor of the students

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who had lost their lives,

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and that\'s something that in a way,

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only they could have done.

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An outsider journalistic organization

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would not have been
able to get as in depth

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about those profiles.

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- The memorial issue was
really important for me.

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It was like really hard to do,

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really hard to read those stories

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and I read them multiple times

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because in the editing process,

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they come to me and then
when they\'re on the page

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and we\'re checking for errors

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and it\'s hard to read those stories over

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and over and over again.

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It kinda takes a toll,
but then at the end,

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to like have this issue that
sort of commemorates everyone.

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That was really, I mean,
that was really important.

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- [Dara] I think the hardest part for me

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was asking for pictures.

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That was difficult but I
knew it had to be done.

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It was kind of how I grieved.

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And I\'m friends with
Martin\'s older brother Alex

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and I\'ve known Martin since
he was in fourth grade,

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and no one else on staff knew the family

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or knew anyone that he knew,

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so it was really important
to me that like someone

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who knew him was gonna write it.

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- [Leni] So I was given the honor

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to write the memorial
piece on Alyssa Alhadeff.

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She was a freshman, she
was one of the 17 victims.

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I really wanted to write it,

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and it was definitely challenging.

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I interviewed her mom, and you know,

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when you interview a parent,
not their child, you know,

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I\'ll ask her like, oh, what\'s
your child\'s favorite song?

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And they\'d say like their
favorite song is this,

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their favorite sport is this.

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Now it\'s her favorite sport was this,

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or her favorite song was that.

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You know, it\'s all past tense

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and that\'s so difficult
to have to write that down

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\'cause it is the past for them.

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I hope that because she
couldn\'t go forward in her life

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that these words can.

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- [Justice] John F. Tinker
and Mary Beth Tinker, minors,

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versus Des Moines Independent
Community School District

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and Mr. Johnston.

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- [Lawyer] Mr. Chief Justice,
and may it please the court.

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Conduct of the students
essentially was this:

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At Christmastime in 1965,

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they decided that they would
wear small black armbands

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to express certain views

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which they had in regard
to the war in Vietnam.

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- [Justice] The question
which must now be determined

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is whether the action of the officials

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of the defendant school district,

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forbidding the wearing of
armbands on school facilities,

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deprived the plaintiffs
of constitutional rights,

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secured by the freedom of speech clause

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of the First Amendment.

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- Small actions by ordinary people

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are really what makes history.

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I was really nervous and scared,

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I was a very shy 13-year-old

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and one of the youngest
who was in on the plan

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to wear the black armbands.

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I didn\'t know at the time

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that I was using my
First Amendment rights.

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I think I had that natural inclination

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that children and teenagers have

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which I\'ve learned since being
a nurse, to express yourself.

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And it was kind of natural to me

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to wanna express my feelings about the war

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and how sad I was feeling about the war.

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I don\'t think I was ever
really confident about it,

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but I had these examples of kids

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who are strong and brave
like the kids in Birmingham.

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Boy I had seen on the news
and I was raised at that time

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when people were speaking up
and standing up about things,

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the Civil Rights Movement was so important

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in our family life.

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I figured out later that you can do things

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that make a difference
even while you\'re scared,

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even while you\'re nervous

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and you probably will
be nervous and scared

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when you\'re doing something
that you feel strongly about.

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- And so, this is very overwhelming.

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- Spread the word!
- Spread the word!

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- Have you heard?
- Have you heard?

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- All across the nation!
- All across the nation!

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- We!

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- We!
- Are going to be!

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- Are going to be!
- A great generation!

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- A great generation!

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(crowd cheering)

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- The importance of Tinker
is that it\'s the first time

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the Supreme Court said students
have free speech rights too.

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The First Amendment is
not just for adults,

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it also applies to students.

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- We\'re celebrating today

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but we\'re also sad as
people who care about youth

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because there are so many challenges

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that young people are
dealing with, the trauma,

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the grief of the Parkland
students who are here today.

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Young people should have a voice

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and I\'m so glad to see them using

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their First Amendment Rights,
free speech, free press,

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freedom to assemble,
petition, freedom of religion

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to make a difference in their
lives and in all of our lives.

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- [Melissa] As a teenager,

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she stood up with her
brother and her friends,

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and said, it was wrong
for them to be punished

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for expressing their beliefs

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and it\'s kind of what paves
the way for what we do

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on the Eagle Eye and
what our school has done

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in the wake of the shooting.

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- And I don\'t think we\'ve met, have we?

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- I\'m Rebecca Schneid.
- Rebecca!

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Oh my!

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- So you\'ve been really showing
the world how journalism

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can make a difference and
thank you for doing that.

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- Thank you.
- So great.

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- [Mary Beth] Thank you
all for being here with us

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to help celebrate.

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(crowd applauds)

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If you could change one
thing, what would you change?

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- I\'d like to petition about
gun violence and gun laws.

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- Thank you for that!

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(crowd applauds)

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- When we were at the
State Historical Society,

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I like got teary

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because here are these kids
that are gonna vote, they care,

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and this is an issue
that\'s important to them

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and they\'re gonna do something about it.

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- And now we\'re going to
hear from Rebecca Schneid

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from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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in Parkland, Florida.

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(crowd applauds)

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- Last year on February 14th

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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was the site of a shooting
which killed 17 people.

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We\'re not known as a school of victims,

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we\'re known as a school of fighters.

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Fighters who understood
our First Amendment Rights

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to speak up for what we believe in.

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And not only that, but we were
determined and perseverant

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to advocate for the rights that
we believe that we deserved,

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our right to live.

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We were 14, 15, 16, 17.

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If you are old enough to be
affected by the ills of society,

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you\'re old enough to have a say in it

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and you\'re old enough to speak up for it.

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(crowd applauds)

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- [Lata] What happened at
Parkland was a real world event

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and you saw the Parkland
students treated as such.

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That kind of caused the
world around them to sit up

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and take notice.

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It sort of belies this idea that

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what happens at a high
school is not important,

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that student ideas and
voices are not important,

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that student journalism
and student activism

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are just practice for the real world.

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These aren\'t just kids practicing

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their First Amendment
rights, they\'re living them.

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- [Leni] I think I got a C
on my Civics test about her.

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There you go, to my
social studies teacher,

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like I\'m meeting Mary Beth Tinker.

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She is such a role model in so many ways,

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especially when it comes to free speech

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because I think there\'s
such a power to words

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and that\'s really shown
with her court case

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and what she\'s advocating for.

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Why do you feel the freedom of press,

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especially in today\'s world,
is important and relevant?

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- Because without the
freedom of the press,

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we can\'t communicate with each other

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and we can\'t learn the truth
of what\'s going on in the world

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so that we can make changes.

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- The interesting thing
about how the Supreme Court

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has dealt with young people
and their speech is that

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you do kind of see the court
going back and forth about it.

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You start back with Tinker,

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where they said that thing
that\'s quoted all the time,

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that your rights do not stop
at the schoolhouse gate,

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but then you see the
cases that come afterwards

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that carve out exceptions
that, I\'m gonna be honest,

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don\'t always make a ton of sense.

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- They\'re were three other
cases at the Supreme Court

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after the cutback on
the rights of students

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and the students lost the cases.

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Hazelwood, Bethel versus Fraser

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and the infamous Morse v.
Frederick, Bong Hits 4 Jesus case.

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[Lata] But ultimately, the
Tinker standard has held.

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- The whole truth and
nothing but the truth?

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- You can\'t handle the truth!
- I do.

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- This looks real too!

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- One of the big reasons
why kids love our case

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is that we won.

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Even if we had lost, there
would be a message there,

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and as I tell students, most
of the things I speak up about

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and stand up about, I lose.

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But it still tell kids once in a while,

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you are gonna win and you
can know that you tried,

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you tried to change something

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that you didn\'t feel was right.

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I saw your great article in
the Eagle Eye about guns.

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That spread about the things
that you\'re calling for

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to change in the laws.

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Could you talk about why
you think that is important

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to be able to talk about things like that?

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- It always confused me why
they were always like shocked

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that we\'re so vocal

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and it\'s \'cause we\'re taught
it in school constantly.

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- When you turn 18,
nothing magically changes.

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So if we\'re not going to
train our kids in elementary,

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middle school and high
school to use their voices,

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how are they going to out into the world

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and have a say and participate

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if we haven\'t taught them how to do that?

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- I learned a lot from Mary
Beth Tinker like in school,

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like we studied those cases and stuff.

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Meeting her was really,
really, really amazing

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\'cause it\'s like this is a
girl like in the history books,

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literally, she\'s like the
reason that we can wear

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our a little pins that
say Stop Gun Violence.

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Like she\'s the reason that we\'re able

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to like voice our opinions and
have those rights in school.

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- Under the Tinker ruling,

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there\'s quite a large leeway
for censoring student speech.

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So it\'s really up to the administrators,

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teachers and students of
that particular school,

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to say no, this is the
climate we want in our school.

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Oh, there\'s that article I wrote.

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I was a junior in high school that year.

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I can\'t believe I got it
together to write that.

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I like this, what I said,

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I do not believe that anyone
could put an age limit

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on thinking or sensitivity.

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As a matter of fact,

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children are often more
sensitive to the basics of life

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than older, more calloused people.

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That would be adults, I guess.

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Tinker Christmas letters.

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Maybe from that one with the photo.

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Oh, here\'s \'66.

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On December 16th, Mary Beth
and John wore black armbands.

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My mom, she used to collect
articles that would come up

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about the case, threats, nasty letters.

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That\'s where she would keep our hate mail.

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- Freedom of speech and freedom of press,

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they go hand in hand.

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When you\'re speaking about your opinions,

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when you\'re taking a stand
for things you believe in,

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when you\'re criticizing
the people with power,

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you have to know about
what\'s going on first.

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- Journalism played such
a huge role in our story.

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Just learning about what was
going on around the world

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and in Vietnam.

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It was in the news every night

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and Walter Cronkite would
give the body count,

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as they called it,

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which we thought was
just horrifying to see

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what adults were doing,
especially during Christmas time.

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A time that was supposed
to be about peace and love.

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But then on the news, we saw the opposite,

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we saw war, war, war and some
of those brave journalists

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that were there reporting on it.

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You really have to thank them

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because otherwise we wouldn\'t
have known what was going on.

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I have the tremendous
respect for the free press

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and the journalists who
risk their lives so often

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to bring us the truth of what\'s
going on around the world

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and the Free Press should be respected,

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it\'s one of the major tenets
of the First Amendment.

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Without the free press,

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I mean, it\'s been defended
all through our history

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and we need to defend it again today.

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- [Trump] It\'s frankly
disgusting the way the press

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is able to write whatever
they wanna write.

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A few days ago, I called the fake news,

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\"the enemy of the people\", and they are,

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they are the enemy of the people.

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(crowd cheering)

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- The Parkland students
grabbed people by the throat

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and said look at this,

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we are not going to do
this anymore, never again.

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We\'re not going to put up
with this as a way of life.

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- They say guns are just tools like knives

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and are as dangerous as cars.

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We call BS!

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- I loved when Emma
Gonzales said we call BS.

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- That us kids don\'t know
what we\'re talking about,

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that we\'re too young to understand
how the government works.

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We call BS!

00:20:54.743 --> 00:20:57.410
(ominous music)

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- It\'s sad \'cause we weren\'t
the first mass shooting

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in the last decade.

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And I think it\'s sad that
we haven\'t been the last.

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But I think we were just fed
up, we are fed up students,

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and I think that, you know,

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I think it\'d be neat to see in
history books that it shows,

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you know, we were mad.

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We were angry that it happened to us.

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- What should we draw?

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Should we draw a heart?

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Going to school and being
safe and coming home,

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that\'s important.

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It\'s important when I send
my own kids to school.

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They want to be safe and they
don\'t want to live in fear,

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and I can understand that.

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Yay!
- Yay!

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- High five!
- High five!

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One, two, three!

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- Gun control!
- When do we want it?

00:22:04.256 --> 00:22:05.599
- Now!
- What do we want?

00:22:05.600 --> 00:22:07.432
- Gun control!
- When do we want it?

00:22:07.433 --> 00:22:09.096
- Now!
- What do we want?

00:22:09.097 --> 00:22:10.950
- Gun control!
- When do we want it?

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- [Students] Now!

00:22:11.785 --> 00:22:13.939
- It\'s a creative process taking activism

00:22:13.940 --> 00:22:15.799
to change what\'s not right.

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There\'s a saying, \"You
make the road by walking.\"

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- [Reporter] Enough is enough.

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- This is what democracy looks like!

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- [Reporter] That was the message

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from waves of high school
students across the country today

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as they poured out of schools,
across football fields,

00:22:28.770 --> 00:22:32.399
and into the streets to
demand action on gun violence.

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- It was the power of young people

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speaking for themselves
about their own interests.

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Sure, adults can be advocates
for children and teenagers

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and we can be their allies,

00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.599
but when young people
speak for themselves,

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that is so powerful.

00:22:48.523 --> 00:22:51.399
(upbeat music)

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- I believe that school
is a place for education

00:22:55.070 --> 00:22:56.109
and not violence.

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- I walked out because I
wanna give a voice to those

00:22:58.840 --> 00:23:00.109
who could not speak up.

00:23:00.110 --> 00:23:02.596
- I feel like the walkout is
a good way to show my opinions

00:23:02.597 --> 00:23:04.269
can actually make a difference.

00:23:04.270 --> 00:23:08.659
- We need regulation changes,
not just thoughts and prayers.

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- Wanna start a movement,
you gotta start moving.

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- Until we\'d really spoken out,

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I didn\'t even know the
power of my own voice,

00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:17.969
I didn\'t even know the power
of students voices in general.

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I\'d seen things like March for
Our Lives and all that stuff,

00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:23.779
but it wasn\'t, nothing
had ever effected me

00:23:23.780 --> 00:23:26.223
or staff personally until the censorship.

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(ominous music)

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- They\'ll have the committee\'s
sublangugage in from of them

00:24:01.190 --> 00:24:02.879
and they\'ll go to out as-is.

00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:04.719
Not today, but at a later date.

00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.720
- Okay, awesome.

00:24:07.570 --> 00:24:08.570
I am a kid.

00:24:09.620 --> 00:24:12.096
Because we wanna be actual
people who are testifying to each

00:24:12.097 --> 00:24:13.309
but from a different place.

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I have prom on Saturday, I\'m
gonna sleep for 12 hours.

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I\'m done.

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- [Lawmaker] I\'m just kinda confused here.

00:24:22.550 --> 00:24:23.829
Why do you need this?

00:24:23.830 --> 00:24:25.939
We have the First
Amendment in this country.

00:24:25.940 --> 00:24:30.059
Why do you think you need
to have a bill that says

00:24:30.060 --> 00:24:31.789
what we\'re already allowed to do?

00:24:31.790 --> 00:24:34.359
- Because last year,
my staff was censored,

00:24:34.360 --> 00:24:35.409
editorials were banned,

00:24:35.410 --> 00:24:37.689
and my former journalist
advisor was fired.

00:24:37.690 --> 00:24:41.259
After each story was removed,
something was taken from us.

00:24:41.260 --> 00:24:42.629
You\'re gonna make out school look bad

00:24:42.630 --> 00:24:45.259
or we want that pristine, perfect image,

00:24:45.260 --> 00:24:47.209
and that goes against every single thing

00:24:47.210 --> 00:24:48.939
that we as journalists
are supposed to be doing.

00:24:48.940 --> 00:24:50.559
We\'re supposed to be seeking the truth,

00:24:50.560 --> 00:24:51.949
we\'re supposed to be reporting it.

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You know, every story we write
is to inform the student body

00:24:54.580 --> 00:24:57.909
of our high school, and
so, if we can\'t report news

00:24:57.910 --> 00:24:59.929
whether it\'s good or bad
that\'s happening at our school

00:24:59.930 --> 00:25:01.659
and voice our opinions on things

00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:03.069
that need to be talked about,

00:25:03.070 --> 00:25:05.039
then the student body is
gonna be left in the dark

00:25:05.040 --> 00:25:06.539
and so will community members.

00:25:06.540 --> 00:25:07.769
- Your rights are not always

00:25:07.770 --> 00:25:09.299
exactly what people say they are,

00:25:09.300 --> 00:25:11.919
there are many people who have
an interest in telling you

00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.599
that you have fewer rights
than you actually do.

00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:16.629
The answer is to do your homework,

00:25:16.630 --> 00:25:18.499
and that sometimes you need to push back,

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.529
whether that\'s pushing back
against the administration

00:25:20.530 --> 00:25:24.379
or in Neha\'s case, pushing
back on a much larger scale,

00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:26.899
like pushing it back
against the wall in general.

00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:28.879
- I know our staff can
no longer be silenced,

00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.259
but the protections New
Voices provides for us

00:25:31.260 --> 00:25:33.839
would ensure that things
like this never happen again.

00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:36.949
This legislation is also not
students versus administrators,

00:25:36.950 --> 00:25:38.609
it actually protects administrators

00:25:38.610 --> 00:25:39.719
from the pressure they face

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:41.479
from community members to censor.

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:43.949
After all, education is
all about teaching students

00:25:43.950 --> 00:25:45.409
how to use critical thinking skills

00:25:45.410 --> 00:25:48.429
and journalism is about putting
these skills into practice.

00:25:48.430 --> 00:25:50.519
When student media
publications have New Voices

00:25:50.520 --> 00:25:53.209
to support them in seeking
and reporting the truth,

00:25:53.210 --> 00:25:54.329
they use the very skills

00:25:54.330 --> 00:25:56.519
that our education system is built on.

00:25:56.520 --> 00:25:59.309
Thank you, I\'m happy
to take any questions.

00:25:59.310 --> 00:26:01.589
- Student journalists are
doing incredibly important

00:26:01.590 --> 00:26:03.166
and meaningful work.

00:26:03.167 --> 00:26:04.579
- And the young colleague in the back.

00:26:04.580 --> 00:26:08.049
- At my school, we recently
had a lockdown drill.

00:26:08.050 --> 00:26:11.479
One thing that affects my and
other students\' mental health

00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.899
is the worry about the fact
that we, or our friends,

00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:15.969
could get shot at school.

00:26:15.970 --> 00:26:17.629
Specifically, can you tell me

00:26:17.630 --> 00:26:19.722
what the administration
has done, and will do,

00:26:19.723 --> 00:26:22.223
to prevent these senseless tragedies?

00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:26.959
- So many newspapers have
had to close their doors

00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.569
because of lack of funding
like that advertising revenue.

00:26:30.570 --> 00:26:33.399
And you see student
journalists filling that gap

00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:35.589
and actually reporting on communities

00:26:35.590 --> 00:26:38.489
that would not be reported on otherwise.

00:26:38.490 --> 00:26:39.799
- Jaden Jefferson joining you here

00:26:39.800 --> 00:26:42.129
at Mercy Health - St. Vincent Hospital

00:26:42.130 --> 00:26:44.839
where many nurses and
employees are striking

00:26:44.840 --> 00:26:47.529
for fair pay and for
better health benefits.

00:26:47.530 --> 00:26:49.009
Now-
- it\'s not always glamorous,

00:26:49.010 --> 00:26:51.199
it\'s not always breaking a huge scandal.

00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:54.669
Studies have shown that when
there\'s someone watching,

00:26:54.670 --> 00:26:57.649
when there is local
journalism in the community,

00:26:57.650 --> 00:26:59.099
when there\'s somebody paying attention

00:26:59.100 --> 00:27:02.339
to what your local officials are doing,

00:27:02.340 --> 00:27:04.009
there\'s less corruption.

00:27:04.010 --> 00:27:06.879
And that\'s true, even if
nobody wants to read your story

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:07.810
about the budget meeting

00:27:07.811 --> 00:27:10.129
that your city council had last Thursday.

00:27:10.130 --> 00:27:12.119
The fact that a journalist was in the room

00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:13.293
makes a difference.

00:27:21.530 --> 00:27:22.689
- We\'ve won a lot of awards

00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:24.029
and we\'ve had a lot of opportunities

00:27:24.030 --> 00:27:27.139
and I like to feel like
it\'s not just because

00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:28.629
that we were victims of a tragedy

00:27:28.630 --> 00:27:30.609
but actually because the work is good.

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- [Announcer] In no
particular order, here we go.

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- The award we won in
Chicago was a Pacemaker Award

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and it\'s the top 1% of school
newspapers in the country

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and it was actually the
second time that we had won it

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but the first time they had
ever been present to accept it.

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- [Announcer] The state
of Florida, at Eagle Eye,

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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(crowd cheering)

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- [Announcer] Congratulations!

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- If you look at the student journalists

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that have like won awards,
like in the last year,

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most of the covers and the stories

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and the things that we\'re
seeing are about the issues

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that my kids were talking
about about gun violence.

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And so, I think there
were inspired others.

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Right after the shooting, we
were like in survival mode

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and I don\'t think that
we\'re still in that mode,

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but we\'re also definitely not returned

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to whatever normal is.

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(somber music)

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- Reporting on the anniversary
was really important to me.

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You can ask what an event
like this means to them

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as like members of the community,
as students, as parents,

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why they decided to come here today

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instead of going somewhere else?

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This is like the spot to me

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\'cause like this is where we came out here

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and this is just like
where we met up after.

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We took pictures

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and reported at one of
the service projects.

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I think it\'s amazing that
we have the opportunity

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to share our stories and
appreciating everything

00:29:07.620 --> 00:29:08.870
the community did for us.

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- I\'ve learned that my
students are both resilient

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and fragile at the same time,
and so are the teachers.

00:29:18.410 --> 00:29:22.009
- I just wanted to take
pictures and participate

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for like my own healing.

00:29:28.090 --> 00:29:29.346
It was definitely a balancing act

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but not just with what I was doing

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with a balancing act with motions.

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Like it\'s tough.

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I don\'t wanna push.

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Let\'s just get photos and go from there.

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We need pictures of all the panels

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for the Parkland Hearts story for print.

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So you wanna do that and we\'ll take, okay.

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So we\'re just gonna take candids.

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(bright music)

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- [Dara] We were normal students

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before all of this happened,

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like we went to our classes

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and we hung out with our
friends on the weekends.

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Like we weren\'t protesting in the streets,

00:30:19.110 --> 00:30:23.493
we weren\'t walking out like at
campus, like we were normal.

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I think a lot of people
forget what we went through.

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We went through something traumatic

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and like this is us trying
to make change because of it.

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(upbeat music)

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- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,

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please welcome Pulitzer Prize
administrator, Dana Canedy.

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- [Dana Canedy] We\'re
delighted that you\'re here.

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There is so much to be proud of

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in the work being honored here today.

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I wanna break the traditional

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and offer my sincere admiration

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for an entry that did not win,

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but to give us all hope for
the future of journalism

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in this great democracy.

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The entry is from the staff

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of the Eagle Eye student newspaper

00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:41.159
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.899
in Parkland, Florida.

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Which submitted the obituaries
of 17 coaches and classmates

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who were killed during a
tragic shooting in their school

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in February 2018.

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The Eagle Eye submission stated

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:58.016
that the student reporters
and editors had to, quote,

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\"Put aside our grief
and recognize our role

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as both survivors,
journalists and loved ones

00:32:04.260 --> 00:32:06.203
of the deceased,\" end quote.

00:32:07.610 --> 00:32:09.510
These budding journalists remind us

00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:13.019
of the media\'s unwavering
commitment to bearing witness,

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even in the most
wrenching of circumstances

00:32:15.620 --> 00:32:18.529
and service to a nation
who\'s very existence

00:32:18.530 --> 00:32:21.389
depends on a free and dedicated press.

00:32:21.390 --> 00:32:23.269
There was hope in their example,

00:32:23.270 --> 00:32:25.139
even as security threats to journalists

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:26.609
are greater than ever.

00:32:26.610 --> 00:32:30.029
And there is hope, even if
some wrongly degrade the media

00:32:30.030 --> 00:32:33.099
as the enemy of the very
democracy it serves.

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Of course the press will endure.

00:32:34.970 --> 00:32:37.329
Because as the founding fathers knew well,

00:32:37.330 --> 00:32:39.183
there can be no democracy without it.

00:32:40.060 --> 00:32:43.014
I\'m honored to have them
here today as our guests.

00:32:43.015 --> 00:32:44.809
Would the journalists from
the Eagle Eye please stand

00:32:44.810 --> 00:32:45.856
and be recognized?

00:32:45.857 --> 00:32:48.857
(audience applauds)

00:32:58.097 --> 00:33:01.014
(crowd chattering)

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- [Mary Beth Tinker]
A lot of the challenge

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is figuring what to do with the fears,

00:33:07.520 --> 00:33:11.369
the trauma that you\'ve had in your life.

00:33:11.370 --> 00:33:13.189
What do you do with all that?

00:33:13.190 --> 00:33:15.740
To make a difference, to
try to make things better?

00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:22.479
- [Dr. King] I wanna ask
you a question, which is

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what is in your life\'s blueprint?

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This is the most important

00:33:34.790 --> 00:33:37.752
and crucial period of your lives.

00:33:37.753 --> 00:33:42.753
For what you do now and what
you decide now at this age

00:33:44.630 --> 00:33:49.630
may well determine which
way your life shall go.

00:33:53.300 --> 00:33:58.300
Now each of you is in the
process of building the structure

00:34:01.597 --> 00:34:02.764
of your lives,

00:34:05.837 --> 00:34:10.837
and the question is whether
you have a proper, a solid,

00:34:12.470 --> 00:34:14.143
and a sound blueprint.

00:34:17.290 --> 00:34:21.663
Number one in your life\'s
blueprint should be,

00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:27.560
a deep belief in your own dignity,

00:34:27.883 --> 00:34:32.457
your own worth and your own somebodiness.

00:34:34.600 --> 00:34:39.180
Don\'t allow anybody to make
you feel that you are nobody.

00:34:44.130 --> 00:34:46.373
Always feel that you count.

00:34:47.950 --> 00:34:50.887
Always feel that you have worth,

00:34:53.277 --> 00:34:58.027
and always feel that your life
has ultimate significance.

00:35:02.660 --> 00:35:06.799
You\'re gonna be deciding as
the days and the years unfold,

00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.903
what you will do in life,
what your life\'s work will be.

00:35:14.370 --> 00:35:15.577
However young you are,

00:35:16.688 --> 00:35:20.233
you have a responsibility
to seek to make your nation

00:35:22.090 --> 00:35:23.943
a better nation in which to live.

00:35:24.820 --> 00:35:26.446
You have a responsibility to seek

00:35:26.447 --> 00:35:29.833
to make life better for everybody.

00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.809
If you can\'t fly, run.

00:35:34.810 --> 00:35:37.259
If you can\'t run, walk.

00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:38.827
If you can\'t walk, crawl,

00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:42.937
but by all means, keep moving!

00:35:48.506 --> 00:35:51.089
(somber music)

00:38:53.490 --> 00:38:56.879
- Small things can have a
big effect on your life.

00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:00.159
I didn\'t realize at the
time that our small action

00:39:00.160 --> 00:39:02.549
of wearing the armbands had a huge effect,

00:39:02.550 --> 00:39:05.779
not only on the country
and on the legal precedent,

00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:07.803
but also on my life.

00:39:11.366 --> 00:39:14.569
This is the speech of the children

00:39:14.570 --> 00:39:15.629
to the United Nations.

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I always keep this handy because it says,

00:39:17.687 --> 00:39:20.059
\"We are not the sources of problems,

00:39:20.060 --> 00:39:22.419
we are the resources
to solve the problems.

00:39:22.420 --> 00:39:24.819
We are not expenses, we are investments.

00:39:24.820 --> 00:39:25.750
We are not just people,

00:39:25.751 --> 00:39:28.329
we are people and citizens of the world.

00:39:28.330 --> 00:39:30.857
You call us the future, but
we are also the present.\"

00:39:40.442 --> 00:39:42.859
(calm music)

00:39:45.972 --> 00:39:50.972
♪ It\'s no easier to swallow
the thousandth time ♪

00:39:52.126 --> 00:39:55.540
♪ The front page becomes a graveyard ♪

00:39:55.541 --> 00:39:58.324
♪ And some don\'t bat an eye ♪

00:39:58.325 --> 00:40:03.325
♪ It happens enough to
call it commonplace ♪

00:40:04.335 --> 00:40:09.335
♪ And there are many
who don\'t seem to mind ♪

00:40:10.042 --> 00:40:13.047
♪ So, raise your voice ♪

00:40:13.048 --> 00:40:18.048
♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

00:40:19.676 --> 00:40:22.946
♪ There\'s something here to fight for ♪

00:40:22.947 --> 00:40:25.159
♪ Raise your voice ♪

00:40:25.160 --> 00:40:30.160
♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:38.120
♪ No, we can\'t keep standing still ♪

00:40:39.434 --> 00:40:44.434
♪ \'Cause look what good that\'s done ♪

00:40:45.342 --> 00:40:47.332
♪ No, we can\'t keep waiting ♪

00:40:47.333 --> 00:40:51.662
♪ I\'ve been praying for
something different ♪

00:40:51.663 --> 00:40:55.384
♪ If now is not the
time to make a change ♪

00:40:55.385 --> 00:40:57.800
♪ Then when is it ♪

00:40:57.801 --> 00:41:02.801
♪ Ooh ♪

00:41:06.120 --> 00:41:11.120
♪ The news plays on the TV
and in the back of your mind ♪

00:41:11.975 --> 00:41:16.975
♪ As you sip your morning
coffee and begin to realize ♪

00:41:18.095 --> 00:41:23.095
♪ If nobody\'s willing to make a change ♪

00:41:24.505 --> 00:41:29.505
♪ People are just gonna
keep on losing their lives ♪

00:41:29.945 --> 00:41:32.936
♪ So, raise your voice ♪

00:41:32.937 --> 00:41:37.937
♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

00:41:39.389 --> 00:41:42.683
♪ There is something here to fight for ♪

00:41:42.684 --> 00:41:44.972
♪ Raise your voice ♪

00:41:44.973 --> 00:41:49.973
♪ For the ones who can\'t anymore ♪

00:41:52.898 --> 00:41:57.898
♪ No, we can\'t keep standing still ♪

00:41:59.284 --> 00:42:04.284
♪ \'Cause look what good that\'s done ♪

00:42:05.322 --> 00:42:07.305
♪ No, we can\'t keep waiting ♪

00:42:07.306 --> 00:42:11.537
♪ I\'ve been praying for
something different ♪

00:42:11.538 --> 00:42:15.284
♪ If now is not the
time to make a change ♪

00:42:15.285 --> 00:42:17.460
♪ Then when is it ♪

00:42:17.461 --> 00:42:19.348
♪ No, we can\'t keep waiting ♪

00:42:19.349 --> 00:42:23.412
♪ I\'ve been praying for
something different ♪

00:42:23.413 --> 00:42:27.314
♪ If now is not the
time to make a change ♪

00:42:27.315 --> 00:42:29.586
♪ Then when is it ♪

00:42:29.587 --> 00:42:31.486
♪ Ooh ♪

00:42:31.487 --> 00:42:33.673
♪ Raise your voice ♪

00:42:33.674 --> 00:42:36.777
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:42:36.778 --> 00:42:39.827
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:42:39.828 --> 00:42:42.846
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:42:42.847 --> 00:42:45.831
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:42:45.832 --> 00:42:48.829
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:42:48.830 --> 00:42:53.758
♪ Now raise your voice for the ones ♪

00:42:53.759 --> 00:42:57.783
♪ No, we can\'t keep standing still ♪

00:42:57.784 --> 00:42:59.694
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:42:59.695 --> 00:43:04.695
♪ \'Cause look what good that\'s done ♪

00:43:05.491 --> 00:43:07.388
♪ No, we can\'t keep waiting ♪

00:43:07.389 --> 00:43:11.474
♪ I\'ve been praying for
something different ♪

00:43:11.475 --> 00:43:15.250
♪ If now is not the
time to make a change ♪

00:43:15.251 --> 00:43:17.394
♪ Then when is it ♪

00:43:17.395 --> 00:43:19.239
♪ No, we can\'t keep waiting ♪

00:43:19.240 --> 00:43:23.356
♪ I\'ve been praying for
something different ♪

00:43:23.357 --> 00:43:27.098
♪ If now is not the
time to make a change ♪

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:29.468
♪ Then when is it ♪

00:43:29.469 --> 00:43:30.743
♪ Ooh ♪

00:43:30.744 --> 00:43:33.623
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:43:33.624 --> 00:43:36.727
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:43:36.728 --> 00:43:39.780
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:43:39.781 --> 00:43:42.799
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.850
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:43:45.851 --> 00:43:48.794
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:43:48.795 --> 00:43:51.826
♪ Now raise your voice ♪

00:43:51.827 --> 00:43:55.197
♪ For the ones who can\'t ♪

00:43:55.198 --> 00:43:56.948
♪ Ah ♪