This week my group and I watched a documentary called After Parkland. It was about the lives of people who were somehow intertwined with the parkland shooting and how their lives changed after. The documentary records this experience in a moving and memorable way. Once you’ve seen it, you have a deeper understanding of the significance of this type of tragedy than you did before, and that’s important. My group and I now have a stronger grasp on what are topic is and I feel as though this was very impactful to us.

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This week my group and I went lobbying. This week my group and I went lobbying. We met a woman named Angila Webber and she invited us to lobby with her and her organization. We joined a zoom and were greeted by many others who had also signed up with us. My group and I were given a list of names of senators and their phone numbers. Gunner, Kai, and Elizer decided to split up and call the senators on half the list while Beni and I called the other half. We mostly spoke to people through voicemails or assistants who picked up the phone. I think I learned a lot about how to talk and convince people and also more about gun laws that are being passed in the senate. We did it with an organization called the Newtown Action Alliance. I think it was overall a very fun and informative experience.

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Last week we interviewed Donna Dees. Donna is an activist agents gun violence. She also organized the Millon Moms March which was a march on Washington in protest of gun violence. She talked to us about gun carry laws and how many children and teachers are losing their lives because of looser gun carry laws. She explained to us about families she has known that lost their children and how that affected them. She also gave us a good field work that we volunteered for next week.

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