{"id":173,"date":"2020-10-19T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:53:35","slug":"organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"March For Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;March for our Lives&#8221; is an organization created by the students who survived the fatal shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Their mission is &#8220;To harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives.&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students say, &#8220;We cannot allow one more person to die by senseless gun violence. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or text that never comes. We cannot allow the normalization of gun violence to continue. We must create a safe and compassionate nation for all of us.&#8221; They organized the most massive single day of protests against gun violence in history. YES, students did this! The &#8220;March for our Lives&#8221; protest was on March 24th, 2018, and millions came together and protested for the lack of leaders&#8217; actions. Another area of organizing the students engaged in this grassroots movement was a cross country tour to encourage voter registration. They successfully got 50,000 people to register to vote on their trip, which is impactful to politicians&#8217; future in the United States and what legislation gets passed. In the 2018 midterm election, there was a 47% increase in youth voter turnout! These youth caused 46 NRA-backed candidates to lose that election, proving that young people have the power to reshape this nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;March for our Lives&#8221; leaders plan for a safer America:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>C<\/strong>hange the standards of gun ownership<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>H<\/strong>alve the rate of gun deaths in 10 years<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>A<\/strong>ccountability for the gun lobby and industry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>N<\/strong>ame a Director of Gun Violence and Prevention\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>G<\/strong>enerate community-based solutions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>E<\/strong>mpower the next generation\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/marchforourlives.com\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;March for our Lives&#8221; is an organization created by the students who survived the fatal shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Their mission is &#8220;To harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives.&#8221; The students say, &#8220;We cannot allow one more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-jrobbins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}