Parkland shooting survivors lead hundreds of thousands of youngsters, and celebrities including including Oprah and George Clooney, in DC as historic March For Our Lives protests take place around the world
The official march in Washington DC will begin at noon on Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue
Officials have predicted that as many as 500,000 people may attend the historic protest
It was organized by the teenage survivors of the February 14 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida
Some 700 ‘sibling’ marches and protests will take place around the country and overseas
George and Amal Clooney, Oprah, Cher, Steven Spielberg and Chrissy Teigen are among their supporters
President Trump has promised to ban bump stocks but protesters want assault rifles to be outlawed
By JENNIFER SMITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 March 2018
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in Washington DC for the historic March for Our Lives protest against gun violence which has heralded by the Parkland shooting survivors who organized it as a ‘revolution’.
The event is being led by the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 when 17 were slaughtered by a teenage gunman carrying a legally-purchased AR-15.
Some 800 other events are being held around the world in solidarity, but it is the DC march students hope will finally force congress to change gun laws.
The DC march will officially start at noon on Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd street and 12th street NW. By 8.30am, large groups began to form in anticipation of the event. Other protests are forming in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and, notably, Parkland in Florida where 35,000 are expected to come together.
Among celebrity attendees is George Clooney who posed for a photograph with Dennis Rodman before the event kicked off. Oprah is also expected to attend as is Steven Spielberg and Jimmy Kimmel.
David Hogg, one of the Stoneman Douglas survivors who has been at the forefront of the issue ever since, spoke confidently about the event on Saturday morning in an early interview with GMA.
‘Today we are going to start a revolution. This is the beginning of a lifelong marathon not only for me but for my generation.
‘We are sick and tired of the inaction here in Washington and around the country at different state capitals and different cities, of politicians that are owned by the NRA and not listening to the constituents of America.
‘We are the children. We are making our voices heard and we will change America with or without these politicians and today is the beginning of that revolution,’ he declared.
Hogg, who complained on Friday that his parents ‘don’t know how to use a f****** democracy so we have to’ and said he was ‘tired’ from his advocacy work, said he was saddened by another shooting in Maryland this week which he said forced him to ‘relive’ his own experience.
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