know your rights

Know your rights.

If you're planning to be part of the coordinated student walkouts March 14th and April 20th, know your rights.

If you are a student, a parent, a teacher, school staff, or an ally it's important that everyone learn about their rights.
This Thursday, March 1st at 8pm ET, the ACLU will host a Know Your Rights Training call. Because of the disciplinary threats from certain schools and districts, everyone should learn about students' rights.

Download your own Know Your Rights card.

In addition, know your history: the history of teens organizing for justice.

Here is what I have so far from Larry Ferlazzo:

Children have changed America before, braving fire hoses and police dogs for civil rights is from The Washington Post.

High School Students Demanding Gun Reform Join Rich History of Teen Resistance is from YES Magazine.

The Parkland Teens Are Part Of A Long Line Of Kids Who Led Social Change is from Fast Company.

Students Calling for Gun Control Can’t Vote Yet. But Age Hasn’t Stopped Young Activists in the Past is from TIME.

The Other Student Activists is by Melinda Anderson.

How Four Teenage Girls Organized This Week’s Huge Silent Protest is from Chicago Magazine.

Finally, know what 18 years of gun violence in U.S. schools looks like (from the Washington Post).

Called "Generation Columbine", students currently in high school have never known the U.S. to be a place free from school shootings. The 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, took place before today's high school students were born. Today's students have grown up with active shooter drills, locker searches, locked school doors and gates, bulletproof backpacks, and armed officers in their schools. 

It's no wonder students are organizing for change.