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What's next for the March for Our Lives movement - ABC News

posted onMarch 28, 2018
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Article snippet: Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in force all across the country this weekend to demand action on gun violence in the wake of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Now, the burgeoning March for Our Lives movement is focusing on turning the student activists' talking points into reality. March for Our Lives organizers are calling on supporters to register to vote, educate themselves on issues and cast a ballot in upcoming elections. "That's what it will take to create real change," March for Our Lives wrote in a tweet Monday morning. Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg, one of the movement's key organizers, urged Americans to vote for politicians who support gun control measures. "We are going to make this the voting issue. We are going to take this to every election, to every state, in every city. We are going to make sure the best people get in our elections to run, not as politicians, but as Americans. Because this — this is not cutting it," Hogg said on Saturday at the March for Our Lives rally. "To those politicians supported by the NRA, that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say: Get your résumés ready," he said. Aaron Ghitelman, communications director at HeadCount, a non-profit voter registration group, said the number of people who registered to vote at these rallies was "unprecedented." Ghitelman said that HeadCount's previous record for most voters... Link to the full article to read more

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