Tag: student activism

  In July of 1999, students affected by the Columbine shooting and students from inner-city Denver who faced gun violence not associated with school shootings went to Washington D.C. to lobby for stricter gun laws as a part of Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE). While SAFE managed to get the “gun show loophole”

As the month of May draws to a close, I think it fitting to consider the reverberations of the movement led by students, which occupied university and public space and, in tandem with a mass workers’ strike, brought the state of France to a halt. Fifty years on, and elsewhere from Paris May 1968[1], I