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"March for Our Lives was the beginning.
Town halls are next.
Organizers are pushing for lawmakers to host events on April 7.
March for Our Lives organizers will now try to confront politicians face to face.
They’re calling it “Town Hall for Our Lives” and are pushing every single member of the House of Representatives to host a town hall on Saturday, April 7.
March organizers are partnering with the Town Hall Project, which helped rally progressives during the congressional fight over health care, to help activists organize.
Congress is on recess through April 8 (April 9 for the House), so some lawmakers already have town halls scheduled.
March for Our Lives and the Town Hall Project are encouraging gun control activists to rally around those already established events — or pressure representatives without a town hall scheduled to host one next week.
David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and one of the March for Our Lives organizers, said this goes for Republican and Democratic Congress members —
they want all 435 representatives to participate. If not, primary and general elections opponents will be invited to attend in their places, or activists will consider holding an “empty chair town hall” to call attention to their absence.
“We’re not for Democrats or Republicans,” Hogg said. “We’re simply trying to save kids.”
According to Hogg, more than 100 town halls have been scheduled.
Hogg said he hopes activists hold politicians accountable for accepting money from the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby,
though he encouraged all constituents to attend — not just advocates of gun control, but those who have opinions about school safety or mental health policy.
“I would just say everyone should come out and make their voices heard,
regardless of what their opinions” are, he said. … “
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You can find more information on creating and/or attending a Town Hall For Our Lives on April 7, here
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“ … At first Eleanor Roosevelt adhered to her own...political topics. She told about her daily schedules, discussed the prints on the White House Walls, and shared low-cost menus for Depression-era households. But reporters pressed the First Lady for more news on public policy, and the press conference sessions soon broadened their scope. As early as April 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt provided a political scoop; she announced that beer would be served in the White House once Prohibition ended. By the end of 1933, according to UP reporter Ruby Black, the First Lady had defended low cost housing, the subsistence homestead program, equal pay for equal work, old age pensions, and the minimum wage. “Tea Pouring Items Give Way to Big News,” Black declared. “No newspaperwoman could have asked for better luck,” reporter Bess Furman recalled. The First Lady, she wrote, “conducts classes on scores of subjects, always seeing beyond her immediate hearers to ‘the women of the country.’” … “ ( You can read more here )
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