Parkland shooting survivors have been busy. March for Our Lives Activists Urge the young to Vote
When David Hogg and other survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
went to congress looking to get some help and sensible gun laws they were all but laughed at and now they are coming
for their jobs in massive #s.
'It's Going to Require Every Young Person.' March for Our Lives Activists Urge Young Americans to Vote
A month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, David Hogg stood in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered at the U.S. Capitol to demand an end to gun violence. “Who here is going to vote in the 2018 election?” asked Hogg, then a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and co-founder of student-led group March for Our Lives (MFOL). “If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking.”
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Now Hogg believes young voters will be the ones to decide this race’s outcome. In Florida, a critical state for President Donald Trump’s re-election, young voters are already turning out in big numbers. Recent data from polling firm TargetSmart shows more than 419,000 voters between the ages of 18 to 29 have cast their ballots in Florida so far — a 34% surge over the same group in 2018. “These elections really do matter,” Hogg says. “They’re not about voting for Democrats or Republicans. For young people, frankly, it’s about our survival.”
Hogg and other survivors of the Parkland shooting, in which 17 people died, have long been outspoken critics of Trump. On Oct. 22, Hogg tweeted video of Biden comforting the son of a Parkland school shooting victim, writing, “Trump never even came to Parkland. He spent 35 minutes taking photos at a nearby hospital, which he used in a fundraising email, then left for a disco party at Mar-a-Lago and golfed during the victims’ funerals.”
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On Oct. 24, Hogg and other youth activists joined a coalition of advocacy groups to host ‘VOTE WITH US,’ a virtual rally that encouraged young people across the country to vote. The event kicked off an 11-day on-the-ground effort to mobilize youth voters before Nov. 3. It showed never-before-seen clips of the film ‘Us Kids’, a documentary by Kim Snyder that follows the development of the MFOL movement.
https://time.com/5904030/march-for-our-lives-youth-vote-2020-election/
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I belong to March For Our Lives... though quite a bit older than most. These kids are phenomenal.
The work they have done to get out the Youth vote in this election cannot be overstated.
Yes, M, they give me hope for the future.
One of my grand nieces and all her friends have already voted - their first vote was against Killa Con because he fucked up their last semester in school, their graduation ceremony and all the plans they had for summer. They are not thrilled about computer college either. They hate him and know he's a complete racist ignoramus.
... dropped the hammer. No doubt they have people in all 50 states and they are very social
media and tech savvy.
Good for them. AND us.
