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Lois Beckett

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Lois Beckett

@loisbeckett

@guardian @guardianUS Journalist. No longer active on this platform, so do not attempt to contact me here. Not checking DMs or mentions. Loisbeckett on Bluesky.

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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Apr 12, 2023
“It’s like an earthquake. It ripples.” Austin Eubanks argued that the toll of mass shootings was much larger than a simple count of the injured or the dead. Nearly four years after his death, at age 37, his warnings have only become more urgent:
A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma,...
From theguardian.com
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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Mar 14, 2018
Covering a walkout this morning at an elementary school in Virginia, and the 11-year-old organizers had a press packet ready for me.
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Jan 20, 2020
What is so striking about the scene at the gun rights rally in Richmond is what you don’t see: almost no cops. Just that little cluster of state police there. No lines of riot cops. No law enforcement in riot gear.
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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Mar 14, 2018
Elementary school walkout in Alexandria, Virginia. More than 65 kids, and they are totally silent. Look at those faces.
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Apr 24, 2023
headline writers having the most fun this morning
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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Jan 7, 2021
Just got off the phone with Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, who was murdered in Charlottesville: “This path has always been predictable,” she said. “And for people to now go, ‘I never knew this would happen,’ why not? How would you not see this happen?”
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Aug 28, 2020
Neighborhood graffiti, Oakland, California
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Jun 29, 2018
No notoriety: @CNN's front is intensely, intimately focused on the victims of the shooting. Their names. Their faces. Not an image of the perpetrator in sight, and his name is nowhere on home page. cnn.com
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Apr 19, 2021
High school students walking out and protesting in downtown Minneapolis chant “National Guard, go home!” It’s snowing
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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Mar 14, 2018
It is freezing cold and these 60+ elementary school protesters are lying completely still, and no one is making a sound, just the posters flapping a little over their bodies. Alexandria, Virginia.
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Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Apr 19, 2021
Hundreds of high school students staged a walkout and gathered in downtown Minneapolis to protest the deaths of Daunte Wright and George Floyd and chant “National Guard go home.” At least 600 young people in the the crowd by 2:45. Speakers and participants were 16, 17 years old.
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Mar 30, 2020
Whole Foods employees want: - hazard pay of double the current hourly wage -paid leave for all workers who stay home or self-quarantine -free coronavirus testing for all employees "It’s very plausible that some of us will die for this job.”
Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide 'Sick-Out'
From vice.com
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Nov 7, 2018
It looks like the students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting this February, and the parents of their classmates who were killed, will be living in a state with an NRA-endorsed governor and two NRA-endorsed senators. A lot of grief and anger in Parkland tonight.
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
Mar 28, 2022
Los Angeles Police Department statement: "LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report." (1/2)