Is it who you'd like to be? Or the way she makes you feel?

[sovay]

I completely forgot it was Pi Day. I accidentally reviewed an appropriately STEM movie and only noticed when nineweaving sent me a photograph of an eldritch fruit pie. Then when it came around to dinnertime I forgot again. We should at least have gotten empanadas from Pikliz International Kitchen. Instead spatch got curry chicken and I got fried goat and we have enough leftovers to last another meal at least, so all things considered it's all right. Also, there is Haitian goat almost literally around the corner from us. I found out over the weekend. I need financial stability for a whole bunch of reasons, but I want surplus income so that I can spend it on delicious goat.

Otherwise I spent the day working, with a migraine. Whenever I looked at the news, I saw the national school walkouts. Thousands of students in protest of gun violence, in honor of their dead. Phone-clip pans across crowded schoolyards, signs, whole classes out of doors, stories of students who were prevented from walking out and knelt instead. Student protests have been a feature of the political landscape for decades if not centuries, but you think of college students, high-schoolers: not middle school, elementary school. Ten-year-olds asking for the right not to be shot. Saturday, March 24th is the date of the March for Our Lives in D.C.; I am planning with my family on the Boston satellite march, because I don't want to write about child sacrifice unless it's Carthage. May these children live to vote out of office the politicians who chose gun money over the next generation's lives. May Tanit be waiting for them after, knowing they offered to her out of insult, not faith.

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[cmcmck]

It has to be the kids that change all this and having spent a career working with kids, I know well enough to value what kids can bring to the table!

It does my heart good to see this.

[sovay]

It does my heart good to see this.

I wish it were not necessary, and I wish the adults in power desired to protect children more, but I am glad to see that the children will not stand not to be protected. They know they deserve better, like life.

[moon_custafer]

Things I saw yesterday –

An interview with two impressively mature and intelligent fifth-graders, who’d organized the walkout for their school, and added an extra minute to the seventeen, in order to remember Courtlin Arrington (killed last week in Birmingham) as well.

A school in California that tried to stop a walkout by locking the front gates (the students broke them).

Another school that barricaded the doors with tables. I don’t know whether the students got through those, but as commenters noticed, that’s a fire hazard, and also amazingly petty.

Several schools where one student walked out alone.

[sovay]

Things I saw yesterday –

Thank you. I had seen posts about the fire hazard school, but not about the locks the students broke. Good.

Several schools where one student walked out alone.

Apparently I can't think about this without thinking of Le Guin.

[kore]

Well, shit. //cries

[nineweaving]

May these children live to vote out of office the politicians who chose gun money over the next generation's lives. May Tanit be waiting for them after, knowing they offered to her out of insult, not faith.

Amen.

Nine

[sovay]

Amen.

From your mouth to her ears.

[asakiyume]

I endorse and echo your prayer.

[sovay]

I endorse and echo your prayer.

Thank you.

In the meantime, we call and vote and march.

[selkie]

Child (lower elementary) did not get to do anything, but upper elementary (grades 4, 5 in a different segment of their building) were supported and accompanied by their teachers.

Child is not a good commie despite being a good socialist. Child does, however, hew to the moms' taking the word 'God' out of the pledge of allegiance in a public school. JUST ASK Child about the separation of church and state.

[sovay]

Child (lower elementary) did not get to do anything, but upper elementary (grades 4, 5 in a different segment of their building) were supported and accompanied by their teachers.

I am glad their school was so supportive. I hope they don't have to plan for next year.

Child is not a good commie despite being a good socialist.

Of the two, I think they made the right choice.

Child does, however, hew to the moms' taking the word 'God' out of the pledge of allegiance in a public school. JUST ASK Child about the separation of church and state.

Your child is an excellent child.

(My mother taught me and my brother the Pledge of Allegiance without "under God". She has never said it; she was eight when it was slid in. "Indivisible" is more important.)

[kore]

HAH, my parents said it without "under God" too! and I would brattily "correct" them.

Also, I totally didn't know card-carrying Socialist and freethinker Francis Bellamy, cousin of Edward, wrote and popularized it, shame on me. I always just thought it was some lame-ass conservative thing.

[kore]

It blows my fucking mind little children -- grade schoolers -- are walking out of their places of education, where they spend all day, to protest to send a message to politicians, "Please put some laws in place so we won't be shot in our classrooms." Blows. My. Mind.

Then again, I thought surely something would happen after Sandy Hook -- twenty dead kids....Maybe the living children can speak for them.

[sovay]

Then again, I thought surely something would happen after Sandy Hook -- twenty dead kids....Maybe the living children can speak for them.

I think they are.