'Glimmer Of Hope' Provides A Blueprint For Launching Social Change
Mass movements are rarely set into motion by the work of just one or two individuals.
Instead, they generally rely on the skills and efforts of many. While one or two faces often serve as the group's mouthpiece — faces at which both admiration and condemnation are directed — behind them are many more who are equally responsible for inciting and sustaining the cause.
In the case of March For Our Lives — a gun violence prevention movement born out of a mass shooting in Feb. 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. — arguably the most easily recognizable faces and names are those of David Hogg and Emma González.
But behind, 25 individuals, identified by name as well as collectively as the "founders of March For Our Lives," share a detailed account of the effort required to launch a mass movement.
