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To honor the 17 slain students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, Pueblo\u2019s \u201cMarch For Our Lives\u201d encourages all students and faculty members to participate on Wednesday, March 14\u2014exactly a month after the tragedy. Hundreds of schools across the nation will be participating in their own marches on this date.<\/p>\n Senior Jorge Becerril was one of the architects of this movement.<\/p>\n \u201cThis country desperately needs common sense gun control,\u201d Becerril said. \u201cWe students\u2014and the teachers, too\u2014shouldn\u2019t have to worry about our safety at school. We are here to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n Students and teachers\u2014as well as everybody in the Pueblo community\u2014are encouraged to participate in the solidarity movement after the radio broadcast in 6th period.<\/p>\n Participants are encouraged to wear orange, the color that has come to represent the anti-gun violence movement.<\/p>\n There will be an announcement over the intercom instructing Pueblo to begin their 17-minute march (one minute for every lost life in Florida) to the football field\u2014much like a fire drill procedure. Once on the football field, students will continue walking around the track until the 17 minutes has lapsed. Then, everybody will sit in the bleachers and observe a minute of silence.<\/p>\n The two masters of ceremony, seniors Kanani Salazar (student council president) and Cynthia Amarillas (student council representative) will introduce student speakers. These speeches will last from one to three minutes. TUSD School Board member Ms. Adelita Grijalva is expected to be a speaker.<\/p>\n Becerril added, \u201cThere have been plenty of school shootings since I was a freshman, but for some reason, this shooting really affected me\u2014maybe because there was so much press of this event in the aftermath of the tragedy. I\u2019ve been inspired by many of the survivors of the Florida shooting who are adamant about getting their legislators to pass laws to make high school campuses safer.\u201d<\/p>\n Becerril explained that this event is not about eradicating the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms), but rather making our society and our schools safer with common sense legislation that may ensure a safer country. by\u00a0Elizabeth Noriega To honor the 17 slain students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, Pueblo\u2019s \u201cMarch For Our Lives\u201d encourages all students and faculty members to participate on Wednesday, March 14\u2014exactly a month after the tragedy. Hundreds of schools across the nation will be participating in … Continue reading Students, Faculty Encouraged To Join \u2018March For Our Lives\u2019 (Wear Orange)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[256,167,6,302,22,250],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-Mx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kanani-Salazar-Jorge-Becerril-Cynthia-Amarillas.jpg\")
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\n\u201cThis march is not an excuse for students to ditch or to skip their sixth period classes,\u201d Becerril said. \u201cWe want our school to portray a mature message about this topic. This is also a great opportunity for students to voice their opinions. This topic is also a great opportunity for teachers to have meaningful dialogues and discussions in their classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"