Students walk out to protest gun violence
Joe Cannon, a senior at Woodland Hills High School, holds a sign listing the names of classmates killed in gun violence before a walkout held at the school on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Churchill, Pa. The students joined a national student effort to bring attention to gun violence and gun control reform.
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More than 3,000 walkouts were planned across the U.S. and around the world, organizers said. Students were urged to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Keaura King leads her classmates in a moment of silence during the Woodland Hills Students Against Gun Violence Walkout on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Churchill, Pa. Tens of thousands of students have walked out of their classrooms to demand action on gun violence and school safety. The demonstrations were some of the biggest by students in decades and extended from Maine to Hawaii as students joined the youth-led surge of activism set off by the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School students Ian Aiken, left, 14, of West End and Aiden Magley, 15, of Point Breeze stand for a photo with #NeverAgain written in marker on their arms at Market Square, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Students from the school walked out of class on the one month anniversary of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting to call for gun control.
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Students at Huntington High School participate in an organized walk-out protest joining students across the nation to raise awareness about gun violence in schools on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Huntington, W. Va. The national walk out was also in honor of the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that occurred on Feb. 14.
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Students from Ortiz Middle School march around their football field to commemorate the student and faculty victims of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting and to stand against gun violence in schools Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Santa Fe, N.M.
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Students from St. Michael’s High School walk in a 17 minute silent procession to the football field to stand together against gun violence in schools Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Santa Fe, N.M. The students joined the nationwide protest against gun violence to commemorate the 17 students and adults killed recently in the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
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High school students in Astoria, Ore., hold up signs during a walkout Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Students across Oregon left class Wednesday to join a call by young activists for stricter gun laws.
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Students at Roosevelt High School take part in a protest against gun violence Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Seattle. Politicians in Washington state are joining students who walked out of class to protest against gun violence. It was part of a nationwide school walkout that calls for stricter gun laws following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school.
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Evans High School student Abby Brooks, 16, left, and other students lie in the grass outside Congressman Rick Allen’s office to protest gun violence Wednesday afternoon, March 14, 2018 in Augusta, Ga. As students across the nation and in Georgia staged school walkouts to protest gun violence, House and Senate Democrats held a press conference at the Capitol in solidarity. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP) (Michael Holahan / AP)
Students gather at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan to mark one month since the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., on March 14 in New York City.
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Students take part in a national school walkout over gun violence outside the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Students gather March 14 at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan to demand an end to gun violence.
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Students at Philadelphia High School of Creative And Performing Arts participate in a walkout to address school safety and gun violence on March 14 in Philadelphia, Penn.
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Freshman Kennedi Lawson, 14, carries a sign March 14 as student walk out at Cherry Hill West High School in New jersey n remembrance of those killed in the Parkland, Fla., shooting.
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Students from Douglas Freeman High School walk out of school to protest gun violence in Richmond, Va. on March 14.
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