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Within the weeks following the lethal Uvalde, Texas, mass college taking pictures, the March For Our Lives takes on new urgency. The group is marching June 11 in DC, and there are purportedly as many as 450 local marches worldwide, all with the identical purpose: to demand gun security in an period of accelerating gun violence in church buildings, colleges, grocery shops, and myriad different public locations.
Main cities internet hosting marches embrace New York Metropolis, which is able to begin Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at Cadman Park Plaza in Brooklyn. The DC march will start on the Washington Monument at midday, whereas the Los Angeles march will start at Grand Park in downtown L.A — although there are additionally marches in outlying Culver Metropolis, Burbank, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Ventura County, Lengthy Seaside, and extra. Marches have additionally been organized as far-off as Geneva, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. In different phrases, if the difficulty is necessary to you, you’re doubtless to have the ability to discover a march close to you; you’ll be able to find one by doing a easy search here.
“Proper now we’re offended,” stated March For Our Lives board member Mariah Cooley, per NBC New York. “This shall be an indication to point out that us as Individuals, we’re not stopping anytime quickly till Congress does their jobs. And if not, we’ll be voting them out.”
The marches, and the highly effective assertion that comes together with them, come on the heels of the Could 24 college taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 younger college students and two lecturers useless, shot by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos in a horrifying killing spree at Robb Elementary. Since then, celebrities have spoken out en masse, visiting Uvalde to pay their respects, and even, within the case of Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey, spoken on the White Home in an effort to push significant change.
“As Individuals, Texans, moms and dads, it’s time we re-evaluate and renegotiate our needs and our wants,” Matthew wrote partly by way of Instagram on Could We’ve to rearrange our values and discover a frequent floor above this devastating American actuality that has tragically change into our kids’s subject. That is an epidemic we will management, and whichever facet of the aisle we might stand on, everyone knows we will do higher. We should do higher. Motion have to be taken in order that no dad or mum has to expertise what the dad and mom in Uvalde and the others earlier than them have endured.”