In Solidarity with the students of Parkland, Florida
Young
Communist League and New Elm City Dream of New Haven, Connecticut
https://www.facebook.com/yclnhct/
March 1, 2018
We the Young Communist League and New
Elm City Dream of New Haven, Connecticut stand in solidarity with the
students of Parkland, Florida. We offer our condolences for the loss
of your friends and teachers, and for the loss of peace in your
community. This could have happened to any of us. We are with you
in the nation-wide movement to unite youth against violence.
We have been marching in New Haven for
many years to end violence in our city. The majority of high school
students in New Haven have lost a friend to gun violence. This fact
is a mass killing in itself. Our marches are not only to end
shootings, but also to fight for jobs for youth and jobs for all.
Our most recent march on Sunday, February 25th was part of
our annual Black History Month celebration. We highlighted the crisis
of murders of black and brown youth in our community, and the crisis
of joblessness that leads to violence. Low regulation and
availability of guns benefits the National Rifle Association and is
part of the systematic killing of black and brown youth.
We are drawing
inspiration from the Parkland youth and their national mobilization.
We stand in solidarity with every Parkland student who has called on
all people to register to vote. We too call on all elected officials
and candidates to cut their ties with the NRA, and urge voters to
unseat any politician that fails to do so. Militarizing schools by
giving teachers guns is a further attack on students and public
education. This proposal only comes from leaders interested in
increasing the NRA’s profits.
Please join the national student
walkout on March 14th. Please join the national March
for our Lives on March 24th. Links to these actions are
listed below.
Our struggle is your struggle. We
mourn with you. We will fight alongside you. Let’s make gun
violence permanent history in every community across our country.
In solidarity,
Young Communist League
New Elm City Dream
New Haven, Connecticut
https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout
March 24 March for Our Lives
https://www.marchforourlives.com/
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