March For Our Lives
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March for Our Lives
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands from across the country converged along Pennsylvania Avenue for the March for Our Lives, a unified call for action promoting gun legislation inspired by survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. The Feb. 14 mass shooting took the lives of 17 teens and adults.While the parents, students, teachers and friends had their specific reasons for attending the march, they all appeared to have a shared purpose: provoking changes in gun laws and encouraging new voters to get politically engaged.
More than 100 students ride to Washington to speak out against gun violence.
The protest drew 1,200 people who started outside the Everson Museum of Art on Harrison Street and marched through downtown Syracuse about a mile to the Federal Building on Clinton Square.The March 24 event was in support of the larger March for Our Lives in the nation’s capital and of 845 cities that hosted sister marches around the world, spanning from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
Many of the students behind the Syracuse March for Our Lives aren’t old enough to vote, but that didn’t stop them from speaking up about mass shootings.
