After his reinstatement, Jones marched from the Historic Metro Courthouse to the Tennessee State Capitol; MFOL student activists are similarly holding a rally in support of Pearson tomorrow.
tyler and brit jones thank you for being here i ll let you all talk. ezrie, i will start with you it is embarrassing, i think, for every generation older than yours, that this fight belongs to you two young college students talk about that burden and why you re in this fight absolutely. it absolutely is embarrassing to them i joined this movement when i was 13 years old when i organized my own middle school walkout five years ago in response to the parkland shooting i felt responsible the peers and the people around me and my community was impacted every single day it felt like it was something i had to do and could engage in that fight but here i am this week organizing this walkouts and protests and meeting people as young as 6 years old coming out. people protesting for their very first times because they do feel responsible and do feel like they re the only people who can take up this fight because the adults are ignoring them. brynn, how did it impact you
and that s really what we need to do. and it s not just about this last two weeks because we had people showing up every single day these last two weeks we need to have this momentum continue into 2024, which is one of the reasons why people should text act to 954, 954 and find out about future actions we re doing, about long-term planning because it s not just that s how you know somebody that s how you know somebody is a good activist because they re like here is where you text here is how you act. listen, tell a friend. if you re in a gerrymandered red district in every gerrymandered red district, the people who are voting red have children and grandchildren who the minute you turn 18, you can vote the people out who your parents are voting in you all have complete freedom in that voting booth. tell a friend and a gerry gerrymandered district you can get rid of your useless republican representative if they wasn t do anything when republicans start to lose, they will moderate.
weapons ban again? yeah. we ve been calling for assault weapons bans for years now and we ve been calling for other measures that we know are proven and work and especially in states like tennessee that has some of the loosest gun control legislation in the entire nation, but also the highest level of gun related deaths, we ve been calling for these common sense measures that just like you said have been proven to work countless times but just like brynn said, the thing standing in the way is plain and simple, it s lawmakers who are self serving their own interests and who are backed by nra-funded money and who are more interested in engaging in culture wars and claiming that things that are actually vital to our communities, such as banning drag or gender-affirming care for children or books, what we need to protect children instead of the thing that kills every single day engaging in these culture wars, rather than the war that is on our communities everyday is a blatant disgrace t
really hard to make sure tha people who are in the suburban areas suburban women - are seeing that our parties ar not working together for a reason because race plays apart because gun violence is playin a part i want to mention that there was a turning point on yesterday, i think, for a lo of people, when they wer watching us live on television from their homes when representative pierson wa being minimized to a boy, wh you would have thought was a slave, by the sponsor of his expulsion. and all of a sudden he pause and for a moment he had to ask the body, that a way you would like to be talked to and people are watching that - no matter what color you are no matter what race or background you are, but the wa they were spoken to. the way they were spoken to is being seen by everybody. and so representation really matters and everybody is going to see a change in that. i want to bring int students who helped organize these protests, brynn jones an ezri tyler, our march for ou