Title: 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism - The New York Times
Headings: 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism
7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism
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What Makes #NeverAgain Different?
The protests calling for stricter gun control measures come on the heels of other youth movements, but the momentum they have gained makes them stand out.
Greensboro sit-ins, 1960
University uprisings, 1968
Apartheid divestment, 1970s-80s
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Velvet Revolution, 1989
Iran, 1999
Black Lives Matter, 2013-present

Content: We call B.S.” These students survived a shooting at their school. Now they’re leading a national movement for stricter gun control. Just days after the shooting, they called for school walkouts around the country, traveled to the Florida State Capitol — “You failed us” — and planned a nationwide march. Some of them can’t even vote yet. It’s clear these students are doing things differently. Here’s how. # NeverAgain is leveraging social networks to mobilize faster than most movements before it, according to experts who study the rise of social and political movements. One week after the shooting, the #NeverAgain Twitter handle is verified and has more than 81,000 followers. In just a few days, student leaders have crowdsourced more than $3 million through online campaigns and celebrity donations. They’re also handling their own crisis control by directly responding to critics. “