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Tanuki

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21. 10 to 12 thousand marched in Nashville
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 09:16 PM
Mar 2018

The local march was organized by Vanderbilt freshman Abby Brafman, who was a 2017 graduate of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School and was friends with some of the victims. Speakers included Mayor Briley and Naomi Tutu, a daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/03/24/march-our-lives-nashville-memphis-tennessee-knoxville/454718002/

..."Fran Skinner, 84, came in a wheelchair and grasping a sign that read she was marching for her grandkids. 

“Nineteen grandchildren and I want to keep them,” she said.

.....

..."Catherine Eagle and her daughter Chloe, 17, who drove from Knoxville at 4 a.m. to be a part of the demonstration in Nashville.
The march was a somewhat unlikely activity for a family that takes guns to the shooting range and for a woman who is a member of the National Rifle Association, though Catherine Eagle said she has "always been for gun control."

"I'm all for people having guns within regulations, but we had to be here," she said. "Something has got to be done."

The group was met with nearly zero opposition, bringing out only a couple counterprotesters who regularly show up with religious signs at events around Nashville."


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