David Hogg

Lauren Hogg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with seventeen classmates and faculty dead, they had joined the leadership of a movement to save their own lives, and the lives of all other young people in America. It's a leadership position they did not seek, and did not want--but events gave them no choice. The morning after the massacre, David Hogg told CNN: "We're children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Get over your politics and get something done." This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America--with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed. With moral force and clarity, a new generation has made it clear that problems previously deemed unsolvable due to powerful lobbies and political cowardice will be theirs to solve. Born just after Columbine and raised amid seemingly endless war and routine active shooter drills, this generation now says, Enough. This book is their statement of purpose, and the story of their lives. It is the essential guide to the #NeverAgain movement.

A New Generation Draws the Line

#NeverAgain

Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she, along with other Parkland students, found her voice and created meaning from the horrors of that day. On February 14, 2018, Valentine’s Day, Lauren Elizabeth Hogg lost her two best friends in the now notorious school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In all, seventeen people were gunned down by the shooter, a student at the school. Survivors of that tragic day vowed to rise up and fight for their right—and the right of kids everywhere—to safety in their schools. Lauren and her brother David were brought up together in a tight-knit family, where lessons about compassion, responsibility, and civic duty were always a part of their lives. Their mother, Rebecca Boldrick Hogg, has long pursued a life of activism, working to help the less fortunate in her community. Their father, Kevin Hogg, a retired FBI agent, dedicated his life to keeping citizens safe and secure. But neither parent could do much to answer Lauren’s tearful questions after that horrific day: “Why not me? Why am I still here?” All they could do was urge her to put her lessons to work. She has done that here, by telling her own story in this powerful graphic novel about that fateful day—and beyond. Through her grief, Lauren found her calling, joining in the protests of #NeverAgain and the “March for Our Lives.” She and her brother, and so many other Parkland students refuse to allow the memory of their fallen classmates to be forgotten. Empowered with a unique voice, Lauren Elizabeth Hogg is truly an activist for our times.

A Story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting

Activist

Zwei Schüler der Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School schreiben ein Manifest für unsere Zeit und geben tiefe Einblicke in die Anfänge der Bewegung #NeverAgain, entstanden nach dem Amoklauf in Parkland, Florida. Am 14. Februar 2018 gingen der 17-jährige David Hogg und seine 14-jährige Schwester Lauren wie an einem ganz normalen Mittwoch zur Schule, in die Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Doch dieser Tag sollte alles ändern. Angesichts von 17 erschossenen Mitschülern und Lehrkräften standen sie schon am nächsten Morgen an der Spitze einer Bewegung, deren Ziel es ist, einen tiefgreifenden Wandel in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft herbeizuführen. Am Morgen nach dem Schulmassaker appellierte David Hogg über CNN: „Bitte, ihr seid doch die Erwachsenen! Ihr müsst Haltung zeigen. Arbeitet zusammen und bewirkt endlich etwas.“ Dieses Buch ist ein Manifest der Bewegung, die an jenem Tag entstand. Einer Bewegung, die Amerika schon jetzt verändert hat – die Stimme einer neuen Generation, die entschlossen ist, den Wandel herbeizuführen für eine bessere Welt. Es ist eine Generation, die sagt: Es reicht.

Lauren Hogg

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