Demonstrators outside of the Capitol rally to support people protesting inside the Cannon House Office Building at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. High school students in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are being recruited to join a "School Strike for Gaza" Friday, according to documents shared with a parents' rights group.. A "recruitment" toolkit drafted by the group says a march will begin at 11 a.m.
We refuse to stand by idly while a genocide is committed by our governments, and especially as students in the belly of the beast, Washington D.C.," the toolkit reads. "We have an obligation to stop business as usual and stand up as our age-peers are being slaughtered on our tax dollars." "Though this is a school strike focused on mobilizing high school students, all members of the community are welcome and encouraged to join us," the toolkit reads. "There is power in numbers, and we’d love anybody and everybody to support our student movement."for students looking to provide school officials with "meaningful context" to their "planned absence" Friday.
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