Youth activists, inspired by the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, owned the month of March, organizing protests for student safety from gun violence internationally, in Washington, D.C. and even locally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yet as the hundreds and thousands around the country – and hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C. – […]
Katie Eder, an 18-year-old senior from Shorewood High School outside Milwaukee, did more than just speak out against gun violence. She walked 50 miles for the cause, and she wasn’t alone. “Kids may be only 25 percent of the population, but they’re 100 percent of the future,” Eder said. One day after the March for […]
People spoke their minds in many ways, including through the use of markers and paper. Tiera Trammell has a music video slideshow from Milwaukee.
Thousands of people flooded the streets of Milwaukee to remember those lost due to gun violence and to advocate for change.
A Milwaukee woman travelled alone almost 800 miles to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Our Lives last weekend. Patricia Herzog-Mesrobian strolled up and down the Amtrak train from Chicago to Washington, D.C. with a smile on her face, one of the more social passengers on the train. Herzog-Mesrobian spent 16 years working as […]
Wisconsinites marched in Milwaukee and talked about the change they hoped it would bring.
UW-Milwaukee Police Officer Craig Rafferty is hosting Active Shooter Training programs in response to the Parkland school shooting, in efforts to better prepare students for an active shooter situation on campus. “We don’t teach this to scare you, but to prepare you. Just in case,” said Rafferty told the crowd in room 191 in the […]
Ruth Resendiz is an American Civil Liberties Union legal observer; her job was to make sure no one would interfere with the “March for Our Lives” attendees’ right to protest. At 18, the Escuela Verde student decided to get involved with the ACLU to contribute to the movement and make her voice heard. “It’s important […]
Cathy Myers is a Wisconsinite running for Congress in hopes of eventually removing Paul Ryan from office. She arrived in Washington, D.C. late Friday evening on March 23 and made a stop in DuPont, an affluent sector of the city to meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas Alumna who currently attends the University of Alabama and organized […]
Thousands of protestors descended upon downtown Milwaukee, starting at the Milwaukee Courthouse and ending at City Hall on Water Street. They were demanding change to gun laws.