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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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“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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.@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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“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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. 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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