Manuel Oliver has dedicated his life to activism, largely through art, after losing his son one year ago in the Parkland shooting. Here’s what his year of fighting for gun reform has looked like.
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Parkland father Manuel Oliver has dedicated every moment to activism since losing his son Joaquin Oliver in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Here is everything he did since the Parkland shooting on February 14, 2018

February 28, 2018 | Parkland, Florida
This was Manuel Oliver’s message at a candlelit vigil. 2 weeks after the school shooting that killed 17 people, including Oliver’s own teenage son Joaquin, ‘We were lucky enough to have Joaquin share his beautiful life for the past 17 years. Last week, somehow Joaquin stopped being with us… We are going to be Joaquin ‘Guac’ Oliver’s parents forever. And we are going to fight this battle until our last day. Me, Patricia, and any parent here – we, the parents.’

In March 2018, he launched a nonprofit Change the Ref to honor Joaquin and empower young people to create change

March 12, 2018 | Miami, FL
A few weeks later, he painted his first mural of many in an effort to start a conversation to end gun violence in America.

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