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‘Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job’

Photos from Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Iowa, and Morristown, New Jersey capture the energy at yesterday's marches

At the Los Angeles March for Our Lives

In Washington, 800,000 witnessed as Emma Gonzalez, the Parkland, FL student, stood silently onstage to mark the amount of time it took a teenager with an assault rifle to kill 17 students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14. Tears streamed down her face during these powerful 6 minutes 20 seconds. “Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job,” she concluded. It was the largest group ever gathered in Washington for a day of protest. The 2017 Women’s March, for comparison, drew 500,000. The public has spoken, Congress: are you listening?

In New York, hundreds of thousands peacefully demonstrated for change, and Paul McCartney, wearing a  t-shirt that proclaimed “We Can End Gun Violence,” remembered how his fellow Beatle died: murdered by a man with a gun. Thousands gathered in downtown Los Angeles on a gray day, while in Iowa, thousands marched in a snowstorm.

The sun shone brightly in Morristown, N.J., where 13,000 peaceful sorts marched down the well-kept Main Street and listened to stirring speeches from 7 0r 8 area teenagers. One speaker made the point that more children have been killed by gun violence since Sandy Hook than U.S. soldiers. The student-led event was capped by an a cappella rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah by a group from Montclair, N.J.

Click through below to see striking images from marches around the country, and tell us about your own experience in the comments.

 

Dalton Ross
Calling B.S. in D.C.
Dalton Ross
Plea for peace in D.C.
Kelly Ferguson
New York child's sandwiches are more tightly regulated than guns
Kelly Ferguson
A sign in New York makes a salient point
Kelly Ferguson
Gun regulation pales in comparison to these items, listed IN NYC
Kelly Ferguson
#Enough in New York
Allison Ross Hanna
In Los Angeles: America is done with gun violence in schools
Christina Kelly
The teens school us in Morristown, N.J.
Allison Ross Hanna
Los Angeles Youthquake
Christina Kelly
#Never Again in Morristown, N.J.
Natalie Koch
March for Our Lives in Iowa

View of the Old Capital Building in Iowa City where the crowd gathered to listen to impassioned speeches from local high school students.

Allison Ross Hanna
The new generation is called in Los Angeles
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