Wed 2/12 @ 7:30PM
The Valentine’s Day shooting in 2018 at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and teachers, turned out to be the long-awaited turning point in the battle against the NRA and its extremist “any gun anywhere wielded by anyone” policies with which it seemed to hold legislators everywhere in an iron grip. Many people who opposed the proliferation of guns, especially assault-style weapons, had given up hope when nothing happened following the mass shooting of 20 first graders and six adults in a Connecticut elementary school five years earlier.
But the tide finally turned. Much of that had to do with the students themselves, articulate kids from mostly affluent homes who were well schooled in advocacy and had the compassion and decency to use their privilege for the greater good.
The newly released film, After Parkland, which will have a special one-time screening at Gordon Square’s Capitol Theatre to commemorate the second anniversary of the shootings, covers how the students turned that tragedy into an effective mass movement that caught fire and at last put the NRA on the defensive. It features interviews with students and their personal videos, exploring the impact the tragedy had on the students and how it spurred them into action.
The film will be followed by an audience discussion led by Kim Chapple and Steve Ritchey of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence which will also receive 25% of the concession sales from the evening.
Tickets are $9.75 for adults, $8.75 for students and military, $7 for seniors and $6.75 for children.
Cleveland, OH 44102