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Tomorrow is #WearOrange day, to honor the millions we’ve lost to gun violence, and to demand action to #EndGunViolenceNow. Share your photos wearing orange with these hashtags to show lawmakers: It’s time to act. (1/3) Image
This weekend, AFT is hosting events across the country to demand an end to gun violence in our schools and communities.

Find an event near you: aft.org/take-action-st… #EndGunViolenceNow (2/3)
No events near you? Unable to attend an event? Write to your lawmaker here and tell them to take meaningful action to #EndGunViolenceNow: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-gu…

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Jun 2
HAPPENING NOW: @rweingarten talks to @ABCNewsLive about gun violence, educator stress, and more. Follow along in the thread below.
.@rweingarten: There are some great aspects of technology, like me joining you from Buffalo after visiting an amazing elementary school. We’re headed to a unity rally next. We must lift up the victims of this senseless tragedy and not forget #Buffalo.
.@rweingarten: We know as educators that there are ways to #EndGunViolenceNow. When other countries have had mass shootings, they made common sense changed to prevent them from happening - in the name of the students and teachers in a Uvalde, shoppers in Buffalo, and more.
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Good afternoon from Buffalo, NY, where we’re visiting with students and educators at Stanley M. Makowski Early Childhood Center. We’ll be joining the community later this evening in a unity rally demanding that lawmakers #EndGunViolenceNow. @nysut @BfloTeachersFed ImageImage
The Makowski school (School 99) teaches kids from K-4 and recently became a community school with resources and academy available on the weekends. @nysut ImageImage
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May 31
Investing in electric school buses will help our students breathe easier. Building buses union will enable communities to thrive. We must do both.

Together with @UAW, we’re calling for a #cleantransition that includes electric school buses made with union labor.

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May 3
Today is #TeacherAppreciationDay!

We'd like to thank the 214 parent groups, civil rights groups, student groups, religious groups & fellow unions representing more than 10 million people nationwide to say “thank you” to America’s teachers. #TeacherAppreciationDay #ThankATeacher
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May 2
Tune in to @ABCNewsLive to watch @rweingarten talk about #TeacherAppreciationWeek now: abcnews.go.com/Live
@ABCNewsLive @rweingarten .@rweingarten: I wrote the op-ed for @TIME with @JonahEdelman to say "this has been our observations and that we need people of conscious to stand up and here's why."

Read the op-ed here: time.com/6172216/public…
"Teachers want to teach and we need to meet the needs of our students." - @rweingarten
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