On July 17, 2019, The Listening will join over 180 Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools ® sites in 87 cities and 28 states across the country for a National Day of Social Action to “Protect Children, Not Guns.” Children and community members will march along Rivermont Avenue and leave images of school buses to reflect the thousands of children and teens who lose their lives to gun violence every year in America.

This action will be supplemented by a national moment of silence and later in the afternoon, a Q&A panel which will field questions from the Freedom School scholars. Children and CDF Freedom Schools site leaders will rally community members to support youth safety, and protect children, not guns.