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    A Generation Under Siege

    On a cold spring day, hundreds of thousands of adults stood and listened to children—under attack, and unwilling to wait any longer for solutions.
    by Robinson Meyer Mar 25, 2018 6 minutes
    Source: Reuters / Getty / The Atlantic / Thanh Do

    Forty days ago, Emma Gonzalez was a promising 18-year-old American high-school student. She was well-spoken, and curious, and funny, and rebellious, but in the restrained way that self-aware kids dabble in rebelliousness. Late last summer, when she decided to shave her head, she delivered a PowerPoint to her parents to persuade them to go along with it. “People asked me, ‘Are you taking a feminist stand?’ No, I wasn’t,” she told a local paper. “It’s Florida. Hair is just an extra sweater I’m forced to wear.”

    She was a teenaged girl—anonymous, and blessed in that anonymity.

    On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Americans assembled to hear Emma and her classmates speak. So many people came that they shut down the most famous road in the capital city of the most powerful nation on Earth. Several pop stars performed for the crowd, but its members seemed to be on a first-name basis with only Emma.

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