March For Our Lives

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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.
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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.

SYRACUSE

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.

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Off Campus

Local high school students organize downtown march

Published: March 24, 2018

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.