some problems with wifi in the march for our lives phone banking room so one activist is just calling up his friends who are 18. “I am so happy for you,” tells his friend who is at a polling place. “You feel energized and powerful?” he asked his buddy.
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the teens have told me that they are calling this phone banking room, “the war room.”
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they’re calling young people 18-21, with lists provided to them by the naacp. This teen is lamenting not bringing headphones, because his ear hurts
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.: “Hi, my name is Jackie Corin I’m with march for our lives,” the teen says & then goes on to explain what the org is. “You know where your polling location is?” she asks.
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“I really think you should reconsider,” one teen girl says she told a man who said he wasn’t going to vote.
She said he told him it was a very important election.
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., 17, called someone who used to bully her in middle school, to tell her to vote. No answer, but she texted her!!
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a freshman english teacher at marjory stoneman douglas is here making calls & wearing this jean jacket
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these two have been high fiving each other after phone calls, but this time, Logan Rubenstein, 14, a freshman at marjory stoneman douglas was left hanging
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Now says that he’s going to go knock on the door of everyone in his neighborhood, to make sure they’ve all voted
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marjory stoneman douglas seniors genevieve martin,17, and rebecca schneid,17, are here covering the activists final push for their high school publications: the yearbook & paper
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pizza is here declares, before warning his fellow activists that this doesn’t mean they can slack off
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“It’s important that your voice is heard,” a freshman at marjory stoneman douglas told a man who said he wasn’t voting. After he hung up, the teen shook his head.
That same teen just asked another voter if he was “educated on all of the amendments.”
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“Ted have you voted yet?” asks , who just arrived in the march for our lives election day “war room.”
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. just told me that the race in Florida is a "litmus test" for "if trumpism will get you elected"
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.@AAlhanti and just drove around with a speaker and microphone yelling at people in the parkland neighborhood to vote.
They ended up picking up two strangers and driving them to the polls. “That’s so dangerous,” remarked as the guys recounted this.
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seen in the march for our lives “war room” a student’s world history text book.
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. just arrived, his daughter, Jaime Guttenberg, died in the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
He has this message for people who haven’t voted yet: “your life and the life of those you love is worth your time to vote, so vote like your life depends on it.”
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Dads and embrace. They both lost kids, Jaime and Joaquin, in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fl. A motorcade is following Manuel Oliver and his wife to the polls. said he wanted to vote “in style.”
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“He always though it was very cool to have motorcycles in our garage,” Manuel said of his son Joaquin. Riding the vehicle to the polls is a tribute to him. Joaquin was 17 when he died in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fl. He would have been able to vote today.
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prior to this, she was huddled with some of her fellow activists on a couch. They’re all glued to their laptops
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. tells me that he has personally texted 64 college students, to make sure they voted. Right now he’s going to start phone banking, and later he’s taking his grandma to vote.
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The war room is officially winding down & are navigating the space on their electric skateboards. In an hour, the activists will be at an election watch party. I will be ~tweeting~ from there.
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