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On an overcast Friday at noon, students spilled onto the blacktop outside of Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public middle and high school in east Oakland. Instead of heading to lunch, they carried oversized posterboards with a simple block-letter message: “WE DESERVE TO LIVE.”
The high schoolers joined a nationwide walkout with Students Demand Action, a grassroots organization focused on ending gun violence.
The protest was organized in response to the fatal shooting of two children at a Minneapolis Catholic school in late August…