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SFGATE: Thousands of students protest gun violence in nationwide walkout

Thousands of students protest gun violence in nationwide walkout
Published on March 14, 2018 at 09:22PM by By Jill Tucker
In New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Parkland, Fla., and other cities across the East Coast, thousands of students poured out of schools Wednesday as the clock struck 10 a.m., leading off what promised to be the largest coordinated school-day protest in decades. The National School Walkout comes a month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed by a former student. As the Parkland teenage survivors — who, since the day of the shooting, have advocated for government action to end school gun violence — walked out of class at 10 a.m., news helicopters flew overhead.
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