The Parkland movement’s real origin was an in-person house meeting.

Evidence

Writing that the students were “obsessive from day one” and often slept over at Kasky’s house, Hogg describes a scene that evokes the emergent tactics of political activisms past: “[I]f [we] thought of something that seemed like it could work, [we] just did it. Some people did a lot of interviews; some people were really good at Twitter; other people focused on organizing and coordinating.” Like the meetings that the Montgomery bus boycott organizers held behind various closed doors, it was here that the students worked together to outline their demands and make decisions about how to speak to the public at large. While they pulled strings on Twitter and in the media, it was the house—and the group dynamic that it brought into being—that provided the space of appearance. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 602

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• SHARE: A concrete, citable detail: the gun-control movement most famous for its digital fluency actually hatched in a living room — useful in any discussion of organizing.