Sentences with phrase «organizing against gun»

How can activists - including young people who are organizing against gun violence - sustain themselves for the long haul?

How can activists - including young people who are organizing against gun violence - sustain themselves for the long haul?

There is 21 - year - old Howard University student Clifton Kinnie, who, in 2014, mobilized teenagers to organize against gun violence and register to vote after 18 - year - old Mike Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

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Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

Oprah Winfrey says she will match George and Amal Clooney's $ 500,000 donation to students organizing marches against gun violence after a mass shooting in Florida.

After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016, local artist and GSD member Kim Sillen organized the Senator Portrait Project — images of the US Senators who take NRA money and vote against gun safety laws.

It's true that African American young people — even students in Florida — have organized protests against gun violence for years, with little (if any) political consequences or media attention.

March for Our Lives is a student - organized rally against gun violence that will take place Saturday, March 24 in Washington, DC, just blocks from the Capitol building.

She organized a protest against guns in Boca Raton eight days after the shootings.

One possible explanation is that American gun owners are intense, passionate, highly motivated and well organized and willing to vote for or against a candidate purely on the basis of their stance on gun control.

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