Scenes from #NationalWalkoutDay in Detroit
Students throughout Detroit Public Schools Community District join the national call for gun control.
Local students in Detroit and metro Detroit joined the national protest against gun-violence today on the one-month anniversary of the shootings at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Dubbed “National Walkout Day,” the morning and early afternoon featured rallies at dozens of schools around the area, and WDET reporters were on-site at Renaissance High School, Western International High School, Cass Technical High School, Osborn High School and others to speak with students about what the protests mean to them.
Click the playhead at the top for WDET’s radio coverage.
At Osborn High School in Detroit for #NationalWalkoutDay when a teacher approached me with this. Says he found it at the football field where the students were gathering. @wdet pic.twitter.com/NCJKI1WoVO
— Eli Newman (@other_eli) March 14, 2018
Western High School in Southwest Detroit held their #NationalSchoolWalkout Day in 3 languages: English, Arabic and Spanish pic.twitter.com/qKiwGZGKXe
— WDET 101.9FM (@wdet) March 14, 2018
Watch Western International High School senior Alondra Alvarez speak about organizing her school’s walkout and what her plans are now that the protest day is over:
Follow WDET on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see more of the day’s coverage, and click here to hear Alondra and other student organizers interviewed on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson.
