Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Houston City Hall, March for Our Lives
Student activists brought the “March for Our Lives — Road to Change” to Texas on Sunday, July 8, 2018. They joined with other organizations including Orange Generation, Mi Familia Vota, Students Demand Action, Moms Demand Action, Pantsuit Republic Houston, Texas Gun Sense, Black Lives Matter Houston, Fiel Houston, and Indivisible Houston. Several hundred supporters joined in the Houston rally.
“It can no longer be acceptable for a kid to get shot on the street, or in school, or in a movie theater, or a place of worship, or anywhere!” said activist Emma Gonzalez, on the steps of Houston City Hall. Survivors and family members of the May school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, also joined protesters pushing for change.
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“There’s a lot (in the country) that we disagree on, but at the end of the day, that’s what voting is for,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg said. He also met with gun rights supporters who were across the street from the rally, behind a barricade.
The bus tour is also meant to be an opportunity to register and activate young voters — even if they don’t have the same views on gun control.
Details from Texas Public Media team, University of Houston; and from Deborah Wrigley, ABC television station KTRK-TV in Houston.
