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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District students Josephina Bonura, left, Anna Kirby, Kara Vecchione, and Justin Dynia joined radio host Lou Telano, center, on April 14 to discuss the student-led anti-gun violence movement.
Kennedy, Calhoun students talk gun violence on WGBB
Four Bellmore-Merrick high school students were highlighted Saturday on WGBB Radio, as they shared their thoughts on the post-Parkland, Florida, shooting movement against gun violence. more
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Tracy Bacher, a leader of Moms Demand Action in Nassau County, and Robert Gaafar, a Rockville Centre resident who escaped the mass shooting in Las Vegas last October, spoke at a forum about gun violence at the Rockville Centre Public Library on Saturday.
Rockville Centre survivor, students seek solutions to gun violence at forum
“I am a survivor of the worst mass shooting in the history of our country,” said Robert Gaafar, standing before a packed room at the Rockville Centre Public Library last Saturday to share his story. more
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State Sen. John Brooks, of Seaford, says that both mental illness and access to certain firearms played a role in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. He spoke at a March 3 news conference that focused on gun violence in schools.
Long Island officials, schools focus on mental illness
The Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., spurred a national dialogue about the connection between gun violence and mental illness. more
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For 17 minutes, the field was silent as the names of the 14 students and three teachers killed were recited over the loudspeaker.
Oceanside students mull path forward after walkout
On March 14, the Ocean-side High School football field was crowded with between 300 and 400 students. Usually a gathering of teenagers on that scale would be reserved for jubilant occasions — a … more
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Student activists rallied for stricter gun-control legislation on Saturday outside City Hall in Long Beach.
Long Beach rallies against gun violence
“We should be able to go to school to learn and not worry about school shooters,” said Long Beach High School junior class President Fiona Eramo told the crowd on Saturday. About 500 people … more
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Junior, Leah Hochman, left and senior, Michelle Luongo, right, held hand-made signs to spread awareness.
Approximately 200 students walk out
Students huddled in circles, holding signs with messages like “Enough is enough” and “One student is worth more than all the guns on earth.” Freeport High School students wore orange and … more
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A vigil was held at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the shooting on Feb. 14 in which 17 people died.
Thousands expected to march against gun violence in Farmingdale, Long Beach, Washington
Long Island activists and elected leaders — including U.S. Representatives Peter King and Tom Suozzi — are expected to flood the campus of SUNY Farmingdale on March 24 to march in solidarity with … more
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Hofstra University is one of more than 200 higher-education institutions nationwide that have pledged to disregard any discipline students may face for walking out of school to protest gun violence on March 14.
33 New York colleges pledge prospective students will not be penalized for anti-gun violence walkout
With high school students on Long Island and nationwide preparing to walk out of school on Wednesday in protest of gun violence, more than 200 colleges and universities have pledged students’ admission prospects will not be affected by any discipline they face at their schools for participating. more
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OBHS students plan to join school walkout this week
Oyster Bay High School sophomore Alessandra Martorella will be late for her fourth-period class on March 14. She will be joining other students, and perhaps some faculty, too, outside the high school … more
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Long Beach High School junior Madison Gusler spoke to school board trustees at the March 8 Board of Education meeting about next week’s walkout she’s organizing to protest gun violence.
LBHS students to participate in national walkout
Long Beach High School students will be among the thousands of teenagers expected to walk out of their schools on March 14 as part of a national movement to honor the victims killed in the school … more
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