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Oct 1, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Oct 1st in Las Vegas, a year ago today, there was a massacre that we cannot afford to forget.

20,000+ at the Route 91 concert ran for their lives during Jason Aldean’s performance.

It’s been one year and NOTHING has changed at the federal level. It could happen again TODAY.
58 people shot and killed.

Another 480+ injured.

Mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sisters, sons, nephews, daughters, nieces, lovers.. the victims ages ranged from 20 to 67.

Some of those injured are still going through surgeries to remove shrapnel.
A neighbor I grew up next to in Parkland was at the Vegas concert and told me much later how he has PTSD... the experience of running for your life while bullets rain down. Seeing bodies drop.

He’s in his early 20’s and has a hard time speaking up about what happened.
When we were in Vegas on the #RoadToChange we met with survivors who told us how they hid under bleachers while they heard hundreds of shots coming down on the crowd.

Some sustained injuries from being trampled.

Others still need to remove shrapnel from their injuries.
I woke up the morning after the shooting comforting a friend who had lost someone they grew up with.

He was 20 and was shot protecting someone.

He had survived the initial attack and made it to the ER but they were unable to care for him in time.

Too many people needed help.
My friend @al3xw1nd asked @Pryan how can we stop something like the Vegas shooting from happening.

Speaker Ryan shrugged, smiled and said “I don’t know.”

I’ll never forget that cowardly reaction to the American problem of gun violence.

I’ll never forget the lack of leadership.
The Vegas shooting should’ve woken up the sellouts that run our country.

Instead we got thoughts and prayers then business as usual.

Then my brother and sister’s school got shot up 4 months later.

We’ve seen enough.

We can be better as a people and nation.
We saw promises after Vegas.

We saw promises after Parkland.

We need to demand action. We need to demand better leadership. We need to demand a higher value for human life.

Vote November 6th for our lives... we don’t want another massacre.

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Aug 28, 2018
August 28th is an incredibly important day to remember - not just for the elections happening today in Florida, Arizona and Oklahoma - but the history of this day that steers us in the direction of unity.

8/28 carries an incredibly important torch towards justice and equality.
August 28th 1833:

The United Kingdom officially abolishes Slavery causing a domino effect. This eventually led to American abolition.
August 28th 1955:

A young boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered while visiting family down south. His mother wanted him to have an open casket so America would know what their hate had caused.

The death of Emmett Till activated so many to join the fight for equality.
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Jul 31, 2018
Last night, my brother and I went to visit the sleepaway camp we would’ve been working at this summer if we were not working to prevent gun violence.

We wanted to surprise our lil sis because it was her last week of camp as a camper and we were supposed to all be there together.
As I sat in the prayer service listening to all these kids — Kids I watched grow up as their counselor — I couldn’t stop thinking about the loss of one of our own on Valentine’s Day.

I remembered the reason we’re working everyday is for these kids and kids everywhere to live.
Around America, communities are suffering every day from gun violence — even our camp community was hit right in the heart — until we are all safe to come together in unity and peace, no one is safe in America.

That is what we are fighting for, the value of life and community.
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Jul 8, 2018
STORY TIME:

Incase you didn’t know I am one of the organizers for #RoadToChange and we are currently traveling through TX organizing youth meetings, rallies and town halls.

These counter protests at our events are incredibly invited because they allow us to clarify our message.
In Dallas the Facebook event for the protest of us had a few hundred people RSVP’d — there were around 20 people standing outside open carrying in protest... When I first walked up I was being harassed by a few protestors.. but one man in a red hat approached me peacefully...
The protester asked about David, reiterating NRA talking points and conservative slander of him, but only a few sentences into how he felt about David. @davidhogg111 walks up and joins the conversation... The protester is smiling so big and shakes David’s hand.. convo continues..
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