A capella, free food and candy — signs you’re on a college campus🎓 #ca45#VoteForOurLives rally
.@davidhogg111 tells the crowd: “There is no generation B, it has to be this generation.” He urged the young people to vote for those who no longer can.
Jackson Hinkle, a 19-year-old candidate for San Clemente city council, took the stage with two other students running for local office and said: “We’re fighting for the existence of our generation” — because of issues like gun violence and the environment.
18-year-old high schooler Carly Shaffer came up from San Diego with her mom and sister, after canvassing this morning. She led her school’s walkout, interned for political campaigns and for her first-ever vote for the primary elections, was first in line at her precinct.
She told me: “I realized my voice wasn’t going to be heard unless I made it heard.” Her sister, 7th-grader Hayley, told me I should take down Carly’s name because she was going to be president some day! 👭
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The flow of migrant labor largely halted by coronavirus-related travel restrictions has led to shortages and desperation across South Korea's agricultural areas, as crops ripened and rains loomed.
In their stories you'll find tales of opportunity and reinvention.
Let @yamphoto take you into the fields alongside farmer Park Jong-bum (who quit but got back into smoking from the stresses of running his tobacco farm) and five migrant workers, known in Thai as "little ghosts," for the day.
Attorney for Park's accuser says the former secretary told police she received sexually explicit Telegram messages, including photos of him clad only in underwear, and was subject unwanted physical contact over four years of working for the mayor.
Women's rights activists read a letter from the accuser. "I should have screamed, cried out, reported that first time," she wrote. "I suffered alone, during the long period of being silent."
Representatives for the woman say she sought help within Seoul city hall but received none. The abuse took place in the mayor's office and a bedroom inside his office, her attorney alleged.
Seoul mayor Park Won-soon has been found dead after an hours-long search, in an apparent suicide. He was reportedly facing sexual harassment allegations recently reported to police.
Like President Roh Moo-hyun, who took his own life in 2009, Park was a liberal stalwart who fought authoritarian rule in South Korea as a young man. He was in his third term as mayor, first elected in 2011. He was 65.
He was a longtime social justice activist who founded the influential civic group People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and an oft-discussed presidential hopeful.
South Korea's high school seniors went back to school Wednesday, so I did too. Thrilled to report one teacher mistook me for a student. (It was probably the masks.)
This was the scene at Gyungbuk Girls' High in Daegu, the hardest-hit city in the country.
The girls walked past two thermal imaging cameras at the start of the school day, moving through the hallways along pathways teachers had spent days rehearsing and blocking with tape on the floor. It was a learning experience for all, but largely went off without a hitch.