Hundreds of thousands turned out Saturday in Washington, D.C. for ‘March for Our Lives’. Though estimated at more than half a million voices strong, the throng’s call fell beyond Donald Trump’s earshot; the president being out of town at the time.
But the message was heard in cities across the United States and in towns around the World, where a growing chorus against gun violence inspired mass demos.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an author, lecturer, educator and human rights activist. She’s currently on tour promoting her latest book, ‘Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment’.
Some of her other titles include: ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States’, ‘The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America’, and the books of her Memoir Trilogy, ‘Red Dirt’ ‘Blood on the Border’, and ‘Outlaw Woman’.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in the first segment.
And; in breaking news, Germany acted on a Spanish warrant for the arrest of Carles Puigdemont, fugitive leader of Catalonia’s ruling separatist coalition Sunday. It’s the latest development in the six months-long political battle for the heart of Catalonia. Dr. Pablo Ouziel is a Post-Doctoral fellow at UVic whose project in progress is, ‘Towards Democratic Responses to the Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Forms of Participatory and Representative Civic Engagement.’
Pablo Ouziel and the Spanish president’s latest Catalonia brain fit in the second segment.
And; Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Events bulletin to bring us up to speed with some of what’s good to do in and around our town in the coming week. But first, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and ‘Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment’.
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