Everything You Need to Know About the March for Our Lives

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Less than a calendar week after a gunman killed 14 students and 3 staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse in Parkland, Florida, survivors of the shooting have mobilized to launch the #NeverAgain movement, and the March for Our Lives, a nationwide protestation on March 24 to protestation gun violence.

"Not ane more," the March'south Mission Statement reads. "Nosotros cannot allow one more than child to be shot at school. We cannot allow ane more than teacher to make a selection to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to salve the lives of students. We cannot allow one more than family unit to wait for a call or text that never comes. Our schools are dangerous. Our children and teachers are dying. We must make it our top priority to salvage these lives."

Here's everything you need to know about the march and related events.

When and where is it happening?

The main march will take place in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 24 at noon, only blocks away from the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue (meet the map of the march route here.) Supporters are also planning sister marches in New York City; Boston; Los Angeles; Chicago; Miami; San Francisco; Dallas; Boise; West Palm Beach; Liverpool, England; and hundreds of other cities across the world. Currently, there are over 800 March for Our Lives events planned effectually the world.

To discover a march near you, search "March for Our Lives" on Facebook, or check out the map here.

Who's organizing it?

The event is beingness put together past #NeverAgain, a group of survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting, like senior Emma González, and inferior Cameron Kasky, who have been working tirelessly to make certain the national outrage in the wake of last calendar month'south shooting translates to real action. But they are non mobilizing alone. According to their website, "March For Our Lives is created past, inspired by, and led by students across the country who volition no longer adventure their lives waiting for someone else to take activeness to end the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar." Gun command advancement group Everytown for Gun Condom is likewise helping the students programme and coordinate the event.

Who are they partnering with?

March for Our Lives organizers take received significant funding from a number of celebrities like George and Amal Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom pledged $500,000 for the rally. (See a full listing of celebrities attention the rally here.)

Numerous other celebrities, including Kim Kardashian West, Justin Bieber, Bette Midler, and Debra Messing have also expressed their support on Twitter, calling on their followers to sign the march's petition, and find a demonstration nearly them.

Businesses accept also offered their assist. The ride-sharing company Lyft is offering Stoneman students free rides to the march, and dating app Bumble banned imaged of guns on its platform, and donated $100,000.

And at that place are grassroots supporters too. According to the Washington Postal service, teens from high schools effectually Washington, D.C., are opening their homes and organizing "a network of host families that live along the D.C. metro system that can host out-of-town students for the march."

What do they promise to accomplish?

In improver to showing their back up for victims of gun violence, march organizers hope the rally will inspire concrete legislative outcomes. In their Mission Statement, march organizers write:

School safe is not a political issue. In that location cannot exist two sides to doing everything in our power to ensure the lives and futures of children who are at take a chance of dying when they should be learning, playing, and growing. The mission and focus of March For Our Lives is to demand that a comprehensive and effective pecker be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues.

Participants are also coming together to register voters at diverse marches, to ensure that outrage today will translate to loftier turnout during November's midterm elections.

Is this related to the National School Walkout?

Yes and no. The National School Walkout was put together past Women'southward March organizers, who are called for students, teachers, administrators, and allies across the country to walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March fourteen — one minute for every victim of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. Although the two events are existence organized past two dissimilar groups, their goals are the same. Per the National Schoolhouse Walkout'due south website:

"Students and allies are organizing the national schoolhouse walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship," organizers wrote.

Students have also chosen for a National School Walkout on April xx, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. No time has been set, but a Change.org petition has been signed over fourscore,000 times.

What is Stay Amped?

On March 23, the night earlier the march, artists like Bebe Rexha, Lizzo, Fall Out Boy, and Thou-Like shooting fish in a barrel will perform for Stay Amped, a concert to benefit Everytown for Gun Safety, and Gabby Giffords's Backbone to Fight Gun Violence. Tickets are between $100 and $175 and, according to the event'due south website, "For every Super Excellent Seat purchased, a ticket will exist donated to a student activist attending the March for Our Lives rally from Parkland and elsewhere in the country."

You can buy tickets here.

How tin I become involved?

If for whatever reason you can't nourish a rally on March 24, there are other ways to assist. You lot tin donate to the GoFundMe folio Stoneman Douglas students put together for the outcome (any money they receive beyond their $2 million goal will go to victims' funds) or sponsor a educatee to travel to the march by contacting info@marchforourlives.com.

You can also sign the organizers' petition, calling on Congress to pass legislation to accost gun violence. Read it here.

And if yous can go to a rally, go out and march with students and families across the country to tell lawmakers #NeverAgain.

Everything You Demand to Know Nigh the March for Our Lives