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Hither's our written report from Oliver Laughland and Lois Beckett in Washington:

eight.00pm GMT 20:00

Summary

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Washington to call for tighter gun laws post-obit the massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, last month.
The rally was led by immature activists from Parkland and across the country, in an array of powerful and equanimous speeches from young people from diverse backgrounds.
The White Firm praised the demonstrators for exercising their right to free speech, but Donald Trump himself was silent at the time of writing, seeming to spend much of the day at his golf club in Florida.
Barack Obama tweeted: "Michelle and I are so inspired by all the immature people who made today's marches happen. Go on at it. You're leading united states of america forward."
Protesters in Washington formed a sea of people along Pennsylvania Avenue, while demonstrators also gathered in Parkland, New York City, San Francisco, and in cities around the world.
Students from the schoolhouse newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, where the February massacre took place, attended the march equally special correspondents for the Guardian and have been invitee-editing the Guardian U.s. website since yesterday.
The rallies are aiming to persuade Congress to tighten the U.s.'s notoriously lax firearm laws, which accept made gun massacres a regular part of American life.
Emma Gonzalez, one of the best-known Parkland student activists, led the crowd in 6min 20secs of silence to symbolise the amount of time it took the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, to commit the 17 murders.

Emma Gonzalez'due south powerful March for Our Lives speech in full - video

"We are washed hiding," said her young man student Ryan Deitsch. "We are done beingness full of fear. This is the kickoff of the stop. From here, we fight."
Some other student, David Hogg, brought up a major theme of the rally when he urged protesters to annals to vote. "When politicians send thoughts and prayers we say no more!" he said. "I say to politicians : get your resumes set up!" Chants of "vote them out" punctuated the outcome.
Seventeen-year-erstwhile Edna Chavez, from Manual Arts High in Los Angeles entered the phase with a raised fist and spoke powerfully about losing her brother to gun violence when she was a young child. "I have learned to duck from bullets earlier I learned to read," she told the crowd.
11-year-erstwhile Christopher Underwood, who lost his brother age v to a shooting, said: "I would similar to not worry nearly dying. Just worry about math and play basketball with my friends."
Martin Luther King Jr's granddaughter, Yolanda Renee Male monarch, said: "I accept a dream that enough is plenty. And that this should be a gun free world, menstruum."

Martin Luther King Jr's granddaughter, 9, leads chants at anti-gun rally - video

"This is a moment of history that I want to be role of," pop star Miley Cyrus, who sang onstage before, told one of our Parkland special correspondents.
In New York Metropolis, Paul McCartney joined the marchers. "One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it'due south important to me," he said.
In Parkland, tens of thousands of marchers passed Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in respectful silence. "Enough really is plenty," Rebecca Price-Taylor told the Guardian. "No more of these weapons of war."
Organizers desire the US Congress to ban the sale of assault weapons similar the one used in the Florida rampage and to tighten groundwork checks for gun buyers.
On Fri, Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that includes small improvements to background checks for gun sales and grants to help schools prevent gun violence, and the Justice Department proposed rule changes that would effectively ban "bump stock" devices that let semi-automated weapons burn like a machine gun.
Protesters consider these measures insufficient. "When you lot give us an inch, that bump stocks ban, we will have a mile," said pupil Delaney Tarr. "Nosotros are not here for breadcrumbs, we are hither to lead."

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Updated at 12.39am GMT

seven.57pm GMT xix:57

Out west, where it is about 1pm PT, demonstrations continue. More from The Guardian's Sam Levin :

Huge crowds have gathered in San Francisco for ane of the biggest marches of the day in California.

Sara Butorac, 15, stood outside San Francisco city hall conveying an anti-NRA poster.

"We need this to stop," Butorac said. "Everyone needs to come up together and have that support for everyone that has been losing their lives and their loved ones."

She said her school regularly does active shooter drills where they discuss whether to run or hide. Some teachers have instructed them to throw objects at a gunman as a terminal resort: "We are beingness trained."

Sam Levin (@SamTLevin)

At SF #MarchForOurLives, Amanda Butorac, 24, says she will before long be a instructor and is sad students spend so much time training for shooters: "They shouldn't exist afraid to come to school."

Her sister, Sara, 15, said her school practices running, hiding, throwing objects at a gunman pic.twitter.com/gWqVhwFvVx

March 24, 2018

Her older sis, Amanda, 24, is studying to become a teacher and said it was depressing that students had to spend so much time thinking about a possible killer in their schools.

"I feel as a future educator that students across the nation shouldn't be afraid to come up to schoolhouse. Their education should be their virtually important fourth dimension. You should be finding out who y'all are in high schoolhouse, not worrying and being agape."

Manon Starring, 17, said she was tired of reading and so many terrible stories: "We need change. We are definitely overdue. This is a big step today. Nosotros need to go our voices heard."

7.19pm GMT xix:19

Sam Levin

More from the Guardian'southward Sam Levin in Oakland.

There was a huge oversupply of protesters outside city hall in Oakland, considered one of the most liberal cities in the state.

A solitary pro-gun protester showed up with a large "SUPPORT THE NRA" sign that towered higher up the crowd.

Protesters, including many high school students, repeatedly shouted him downwards, some linking hands and forming a circle around him.

"Talk to the kids! Talk to the kids!" they shouted.

There was as well a stiff showing of teachers at the Oakland rally, which took off just earlier a sister protest in San Francisco across the bay.

six.56pm GMT 18:56

Jennifer Hudson concluded the rally's musical performances, with student activists joining her on stage.

Hudson'due south mother, brother, and nephew were killed in a shooting in 2008.

Actress Jennifer Hudson performs during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, DC — Extra Jennifer Hudson performs during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, DC Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 6.57pm GMT

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It's a sunny, crisp day at the main March For Our Lives in Washington DC, merely the aforementioned can't exist said for demonstrations in other parts of the US.

Protestors take braved freezing temperatures in Bethel, Alaska, where a high schoolhouse educatee killed two classmates and wounded two others in 1997.

Jill Burke (@jillburkealaska)
@march4ourlifeak student organizers are on the Park strip setting up. 10:30 am. 24 degrees. Curls of steam drift out of their mouths as they talk over where to pale their signs — remembrances to mass and school shootings across the nation, starting with Bethel, Alaska in 1997. pic.twitter.com/n9N4Q6s9zz
March 24, 2018

(24 degrees Fahrenheit is about -four degrees Celsius).

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Emma Gonzalez, one of the best-known Parkland student activists, speaks side by side.

Speaking rapidly, she says everyone in the "Douglas customs" was for ever altered past the shooting last month.

"No one could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach."

She lists the 17 people killed, humanizing them by specifying details about their personalities before suddenly falling into a long period of silence, tears rolling downwardly her confront.

CAP Action (@CAPAction)
For half-dozen minutes & 20 seconds —the time the #Parkland shooting lasted — @Emma4Change lists names & stands in silence to award those killed. #MarchForOurLives #EndGunViolence #NeverAgain picture.twitter.com/FHZ4uRhZVs
March 24, 2018

Information technology's another amazingly powerful, self-confident and equanimous appearance from a young person flung into the public eye just a short time agone.

The oversupply begins to chant "Never again!"

Emma remains silent.

An alarm beeps. Emma announces that 6min 20secs have passed. At that bespeak during the Parkland shooting, she says, "the shooter has ceased shooting and will soon walk costless" and alloy in with the oversupply, not being apprehended for another hour.

The crowd chants "Emma, Emma" as she leaves the phase.

Emma Gonzalez addresses the march. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 6.47pm GMT

6.30pm GMT eighteen:30

Newtown youth speak out

Matthew Soto, nineteen, only spoke nigh the affect of gun violence.

His sister, Vicki Soto, was gunned down in the shooting at Newtown's Sandy Hook elementary, where she taught first grade.

"Get involved in your community, because change no matter how pocket-sized, is alter."

Soto said he was on stage because at that place were no significant changes to US gun laws after xx students between six and seven years onetime, also equally six adult staff members, were killed at Newtown's Sandy Hook elementary school.

"V years ago and no alter has come," Soto said.

A Sandy Hook elementary graduate, Tommy Murray, followed Soto.

Murray said he was in sixth class at the school when the shooting occurred. The gunman was his neighbor.

"I have attended vigils, I take protested in front of the gun lobby in our town," Murray said.

"They didn't ban assail weapons, they didn't pass background check bills."

Another Newtown student, Jackson Mittleman, talked about how he became an anti-gun violence organizer when he was 11-years-old.

"Long after the media trucks leave, we will stand by you in your healing and recovery," he said.

"Mr Trump, senate and all elected members of Congress, you accept failed us. Nosotros have had plenty of your NRA agenda."

"Nosotros are going to vote you out."

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Sam Levin (@SamTLevin)
At the Oakland march, lots of support for Blackness Lives Matter and #StephonClark, 22-twelvemonth-old killed past police in Sacramento this calendar week in his grandmother's backyard. motion-picture show.twitter.com/EctQMgBZf8
March 24, 2018

There's a lot of support for Black Lives Matter in Oakland, a metropolis that helped give ascent to the national movement against police force brutality, writes Sam Levin .

Some protesters here take argued that the discussion about gun policy must include conversations about constabulary violence.

Before this week, police in nearby Sacramento shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark, an unarmed blackness father of two who was continuing in his grandmother'due south backyard. The killing had sparked protests across the California capital, and many mentioned Clark'due south name at the Oakland rally.

Jamie Thrower, 30, who wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to the rally, said, "How exercise we make sure nosotros're protecting children of color from police violence? ... If you're non talking near that, y'all're missing a huge narrative."

She said she was frustrated some were criticizing Black Lives Matter protesters for shutting down freeways earlier in the week to raise sensation about Clark's killing.

Jonathan, a 39-year-erstwhile protester, wore a shirt that said, "Stephon Clark got shot too. End constabulary violence."

He declined to give his last proper name, simply said: "Law shoot people at a far greater rate than mass shootings. ... Police force disproportionately target people of colour."

He added of Clark, "He's a victim of gun violence just as much equally all these other people ... Disarmament has to include police."

Law in Oakland also killed unarmed Oscar Grant in 2009, i of the high-profile killings of black men by police enforcement that helped spark national protests and Black a Lives Matter.

6.20pm GMT 18:20

Lois Beckett

The March for our Lives organizers are weaponizing the NRA's fright-mongering political videos, playing them before speeches as a sign of what they're fighting confronting.

Earlier rally organizer and Parkland student Sarah Chadwick spoke earlier in the rally, she was introduced with a video that juxtaposed clips of NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch's "Your Fourth dimension is Up" video, an attack on entertainers, media outlets, and the athletes taking a knee to protest police violence, with Chadwick'south parody of that aforementioned video.

Sarah Chadwick// #NEVERAGAIN (@Sarahchadwickk)
"To every spokeswoman with an hourglass who uses costless speech to modify and undermine what our flag represents...Your Time is running out. The clock starts at present."
-@sarahchad_ #MarchForOurLives moving picture.twitter.com/k29FB2vHPI
March 6, 2018

The cuts back and forth, between the high school activists who just survived a school shooting, and Loesch, a longtime bourgeois radio host and Fob News commenter, could not exist sharper, and the loftier school students seem to relish juxtaposing their passionate, goofy activism agains the apocalyptic rhetoric the National Burglarize Association has used for decades.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/mar/24/march-for-our-lives-protest-gun-violence-washington

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