Can Teens in Florida Upend Politics? It Happened in Chile.
Can Teens in Florida Upend Politics? It Happened in Chile.
High school protesters in Chile did what adults couldn't. Their story offers lessons for U.S. teens today.
Fed-up high schoolers walk out of class and take to the streets. Their frustration puts a single issue at the top of the political agenda, and laws change, accomplishing what years of public debate couldn’t. The students get older and take their activism to universities. Young, charismatic leaders become the face of a national student movement, and soon, of national politics.
That was Chile starting in 2006, but the survivors of the United States’ most recent mass shooting could be writing a similar story. A week after a 19-...
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