One Million Moms (+ Kids!!!!)

 We had a great time today making posters for the Rally for Gun Control at City Hall on Martin Luther King Day, organized by the wonderful Brooklyn Chapter of One Million Moms for Gun Control and other New York City chapters. The event will begin at 9:15 at Cadman Plaza Park, followed by a march over the Brooklyn Bridge and the rally in front of City Hall Park at 10:30.

A collection of adults and children gathered in Clinton Hill to make posters, see each other face-to-face after tons of emails back and forth, and begin to talk a bit about what comes next.  Mostly, though, it was about the posters, and it was a good opportunity for the kids to work side by side with the adults.  Rally posters are about the big ideas, not the policy details, and as such they are a reasonably decent way to engage kids, to begin to talk about issues that matter to their parents and affect their community.  This is particularly true with an issue like gun control, where it's important to walk the line between engaging younger kids honestly on an important issue without scaring them.  The posters keep the message simple and true, and we can't ask much more of our communication with kids.