{"id":9631,"date":"2018-03-26T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:46:25","slug":"large-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=9631","title":{"rendered":"Large Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ll devote this week to large numbers: let’s start with\u00a0Saturday’s #MarchforOurLives in Portland.<\/p>\n

Some estimated 12.000 Portlanders came out to protest US gun culture, the influence of the NRA, the cowardice of our congress, all of which perpetuate the danger of being killed by guns in everyday life.<\/p>\n

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The march was of course a sister march to the main event in Washington, D.C., where the incredible young survivors of the Parkland shooting had organized some 850.000 people in solidarity for the cause.<\/p>\n

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I cannot watch a clip of the astounding speech and silence of one of the leaders of Parkland, Emma Gozales, without starting to cry. But I will watch again – and hope you will too – this clip of the 9 year-old firecracker grandchild of Marin Luther King, who has her own dream.Young children spoke in large numbers – in addition to Yolanda there was 11 year-old Naomi speaking up for all the stories of slain black girls that are never told outside of statistics. There was the boy from Chicago who saw his own brother get murdered when leaving church; there were numerous survivors of the school shooting all demonstrating poise, thoughtfulness and a determination to be agents of change.<\/p>\n