Welcome the Warrior Generation
Popular Culture: Generation Shift Hits the Fan – #marchforourlives
The March for Our Lives is a mission millennials have been training for their whole lives. Just look at the last 20 years of young adult fiction, says movie critic Katherine Monk. Whether it’s Harry Potter fighting the Ministry of Magic or Katniss Everdeen overthrowing President Snow, the next generation grew up with deeply moral role models who courageously confronted power.
“If desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish.”
– Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
By Katherine Monk
They were expecting under half a million, but by the time the last bus emptied onto the mall in D.C. last Saturday morning, “The March for Our Lives” to end gun violence racked up more numbers than the Million Man March in 1995, and the 1963 protest led by Martin Luther King Jr -- making it the largest march in the capital’s history.
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