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March for Our Lives – PGH to DC
March 24, 2018 @ 4:30 am - 11:30 pm
Youth organizers and students from across the Pittsburgh region will take buses on March 24th to join the national March for Our Lives day of action to end gun violence. We stand in solidarity with survivors of the Parkland Florida shooting and demand that our lawmakers make gun reform a top priority to end this cycle of gun violence in our schools and our communities at large.
The time to lift your voice and change our laws has come.
Hope Academy has chartered a tour bus to leave from East Liberty Presbyterian Church around 4:30 am and return around midnight. We can take 40-45 high school students and 10-15 chaperones (college students or parents/guardians). High school students need to have parent/guardian permission documents signed before their spot will be reserved for the trip. Chaperones need to have clearances – Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History and Child Abuse History Clearance – these are free for volunteers.
We are partnering with One Pennsylvania and will caravan with at least two other buses of young people from Pittsburgh. There will be a kickoff meeting on Monday, March 19 to pick up tickets, make signs and get to know the other students attending the march. There will also be a training session for chaperones/bus captains. One Pennsylvania is organizing all of this, along with a t-shirt making event later that week at AIR studio on the North Side. Lots of plans are being made and updates will be emailed to those who apply.
Priority will be given to students from East Liberty, Hope Academy, ELPC’s youth group and Woodland Hills High School. When our bus is filled, applications will be forwarded to One Pennsylvania. Their buses will be leaving from Schenley Plaza in Oakland, with additional stops east of Pittsburgh.
This trip is generously supported by The Sherman Evans Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation.
We have filled all of the buses for the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC on SAT March 24
Please consider supporting the work of our partner, One Pennsylvania, by clicking here to make a donation. Thank you!