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March for Our Lives
March for Our Lives was a student-led demonstration that took place on March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C., with over 800 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world. Student organizers planned the march in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety. The event followed the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which was described by many media outlets as a possible tipping point for gun control legislation.
Protesters urged for universal background checks on all gun sales, raising the federal age of gun ownership and possession to the age of 21, closing of the gun show loophole, a restoration of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines in the United States.
With two million marching across the United States, it was the second largest protest and the largest student protest in U.S. history.
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Boston.com
March 28, 2018
Thousands of students and their supporters marched through the streets of Boston on Saturday, with shouts of “time for change” and “never again” filling the air as they called for stricter gun control and rallied against mass shootings. The March for Our Lives in Boston was one of hundreds of protests heldÃâà...
ABC News
March 28, 2018
Arriving almost six hours early, 31 girls, mostly juniors and seniors, clad in neon orange scarves shivered as they walked toward a stage with a blue banner reading “March for our Lives” lining its frame. Just a week ago, these students had walked out of their school in the middle of the day to protest gunÃâà...
Boston Herald
March 28, 2018
State police are investigating a Texas couple with a hoard of high-powered weapons — including an AR-15 with a grenade launcher and bump stock — after Tewksbury police raised suspicions they were staking out the March For Our Lives last weekend. Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40,Ãâà...
Deadline
March 28, 2018
Jim Jefferies attended March For Our Lives in San Diego over the weekend, and broadcast the results on his Comedy Central late-night show, reminding viewers that, back in the day, his gun-control routine had gone viral. Related Ãâ÷ Tens Of Thousands March Through L.A. To Protest Gun Violence; AmyÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
March 28, 2018
Thousands attended Indiana's March for Our Lives at the Statehouse, part of the national student-led movement against gun violence. Students have spoken up about school safety and gun control since the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Jenna Watson/IndyStar.
wgbh.org
March 28, 2018
Tens of thousands of people in Massachusetts participated in the March for Our Lives on Saturday, rallying on the Boston Common against gun violence and for stronger gun control laws. The protesters were energized and determined, but we've also been here before. The 2012 mass shooting at SandyÃâà...
ABC News
March 28, 2018
People from many different ages attended Portland's March For Our Lives, and many agreed that there needs to be a solid solution so that America can build up from this horrendous incident. “More restrictions need to be put in place so the people who shouldn't have guns don't get them or don't have easyÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 28, 2018
Will the aftermath of this weekend's March for Our Lives be any different? It's hard to know the difference between the cynical argument and the realist one. The White House, both houses of Congress, and most state legislatures and governor's mansions are under the control of the Republican Party, which remains firmly inÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 27, 2018
It would be easy to mock organizers of the March for Our Lives for scheduling their rally one day after Congress had finished legislating for the year. Whether it was intentional or not, though, the timing did affect what made it into the bill. The omnibus included the Fix NICS Act, a piece of modest legislationÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 27, 2018
The March for Our Lives in Washington was a major political event, of course, and many people came expressly to make a statement. But there was a hopeful energy among the teenagers there that they weren't used to seeing. For many young protesters, this was their first political action. They knew whichÃâà...
CNN
March 27, 2018
According to HeadCount, a nonpartisan organization that promotes participation in democracy, thousands of people may have already heeded that call. HeadCount says their volunteers registered more than 4,800 new voters at 30 March for Our Lives events nationwide on Saturday. And that number mayÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 27, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out across the United States on 24 March 2018 to participate in March for Our Lives, a grassroots protest against gun violence organized primarily by students moved to action as a result of recent mass school shootings that left dozens of innocent victims dead andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com (blog)
March 27, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC, calling for strict gun control law. Anar Virji by Anar Virji. 8 hours ago. March for Our Lives: 'Nearly everyone had a story about gun violence'. The rally was organised by students from Florida's Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High SchoolÃâà...
NPR
March 27, 2018
Organizers of the "March For Our Lives" rally in Washington put the early cost estimate for the event at $5 million, and said they have "several million dollars" left to continue to push for stricter gun laws and fight gun violence. Deena Katz, a Hollywood producer who became involved in the early stages ofÃâà...
NBC 6 South Florida
March 26, 2018
“It felt surreal to see everybody standing together as one; the same belief for the same cause,” said Taylor Green, a participant in Saturday's rally. “No matter where they came from, what they looked like, they had all been touched by gun violence.” Organizers with “March for Our Lives” estimate that aboutÃâà...
WTOP
March 26, 2018
Protesters file out of the Gallery Place Metro station for the March for Our Lives rally. (WTOP/John Domen). WASHINGTON — More than 500,000 people rode Metro on March 24, the day D.C. hosted the March for Our Lives. It was not a record, but the ridership was about 2 1/2 times greater than a typicalÃâà...
Racked
March 26, 2018
March for Our Lives was organized by survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and they and other students gave impassioned speeches at the main protest in Washington, DC. The last few days have seen a flood of tweets and Instagram posts from adultsÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 26, 2018
In San Antonio, Texas, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller also weighed in on the March for Our Lives events, writing on Twitter: “What is a common factor in all those horrible killings in our country? Guns, bombs, arms. Let's listen to the wisdom of our young people in Washington, Florida, throughout the US.
NBCNews.com
March 26, 2018
Voter registration is the first option offered by the website of the March for Our Lives movement — powered by Rock the Vote, a progressive organization that encourages young people to vote — and visitors are given the ability to download “voter registration toolkits,” which are state specific. Rock the VoteÃâà...
HuffPost
March 26, 2018
Millie Bobby Brown Honors Parkland Victims, March For Our Lives At Kids' Choice Awards. The words "NEVER AGAIN" were written on the "Stranger Things" star's Calvin Klein button-down. By Carly LedbetterÃâà...
WTOP
March 26, 2018
Florida Congressman Ted Deutch said the student organizers behind March for Our Lives are directly responsible for gun control measures included in the federal spending bill President Donald Trump signed yesterday. “Congress did more than they've done in recent memory because of these students,”Ãâà...
CNN
March 26, 2018
(CNN) Just five weeks ago, a gunman killed 17 of their friends and teachers at school and changed the course of their lives. This weekend, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led a historic march for gun control, what they called a March for Our Lives. Here's how the Parkland, Florida,Ãâà...
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