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Congresswoman Cori Bush is a registered nurse, community activist, organizer, single mother, and ordained pastor representing the people of Missouri's First Congressional District. Congresswoman Cori is in her second term in the United States House of Representatives, serving on the House Oversight Committee-including as Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs-and the House Judiciary Committee.

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The Official Website of Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri

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Our Mission

Born out of a tragic school shooting, March For Our Lives is a courageous youth-led movement dedicated to promoting civic engagement, education, and direct action by youth to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence.

We aim to c reate safe and healthy communities and livelihoods where gun violence is obsolete.

In the days after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, we knew we had to make sure that what happened to our community never happens again.

We cannot allow one more person to be killed by senseless gun violence. We cannot allow one more person to experience the pain of losing a loved one. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or a text that never comes. We cannot allow the normalization of gun violence to continue. We must create a safe and compassionate nation for all of us.

Gun Violence Deaths in America in 2021

We demand bold action to end the

After the shooting on February 14, we organized the largest single day of protest against gun violence in history. Millions came together to protest our political leaders' inaction.

Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the 1960s, we toured the country on the Road To Change. Along the way, we registered over 50,000 new voters.

We also met with family members, community leaders, and survivors of gun violence across the country. This allowed us to expand our understanding of gun violence and how it affects each community differently. We'll never forget each story we heard and each ally we made in this fight for justice.

For Mayors For Our Lives, we held voter registration events with 200+ mayors, helping register 800,000 people on National Voter Registration Day - an all-time record.

We spurred a historic youth turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, with a 47% increase over the last midterm election and the highest percentage of youth voter turnout ever. Voters made it clear that the status quo was no longer acceptable - a record 46 NRA-backed candidates lost their elections that November.

Policy Agenda

It will take all of us advocating for sensible gun violence prevention reforms to make it happen. Educate yourself on the policies.

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Our Chapters

We have hundreds of chapters around the country led by students who enact change on the local level. Whether organizing a walkout at a high school, lobbying for better safety measures on campus, writing statewide legislation, or showing up at school board and city council meetings, our chapters make change.

Our Founders

March For Our Lives was created out of tragedy. These founders created this organization in the days following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018.

Sofie Whitney
Sarah Chadwick
Sam Deitsch
Ryan Servaites
Ryan Deitsch
Matt Deitsch
Lauren Hogg
Kirsten McConnell
Kevin Trejos

Kaylyn Pipitone
John Barnitt
Daniel Williams
David Hogg
Delaney Tarr
Diego Pfeiffer
Dylan Baierlein
Emma Gonzalez
Jackie Corin
Jammal Lemy

Brendan Duff
Alfonso Calderon
Bradley Thornton
Adam Alhanti
Cameron Kasky
Alex Wind
Charlie Mirsky
Chris Grady
Daniel Duff

Read more about what we're up to:

Can you keep an activist campaign running during a pandemic? March For Our Lives is trying

Fast Company

Fighting Gun Violence In The Age Of Coronavirus

Refinery 29

How Youth Of Color Are Reimagining The Anti-Gun Violence Movement

Refinery 29

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Make a Donation that Saves Lives

Guns are now the leading cause of death for young people in America.

Lawmakers continue to play political games with our lives. Our generation can and will be the ones to end this epidemic.

Make a donation today to support our youth-led movement to save lives at this critical moment.

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Our Mission We aim to c reate safe and healthy communities and livelihoods where gun violence is obsolete. In the days after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, we knew we had to make sure that what happened to our community never happens again.

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Tuesday afternoon, a number of St. Paul high school and middle school students walked out of class. They say that the city's public school district is not doing enough to keep them safe as COVID-19 case numbers spike due to the rapid spread of omicron.

Organizers are demanding the district immediately move to distance learning for two weeks, and to use that time to implement a set of demands the students believe will make in-person learning safer. If the district does not meet their demands, organizers say they will continue to walk out.

The student group MN Teen Activists played a key role in organizing the walkout. Jerome Treadwell is senior at Highland Park Senior High School and a leader of MN Teen Activists.

Speaking to host Cathy Wurzer, Treadwell said student demands include N95-grade masks for staff and students, a full 10-day isolation period or negative tests for people who contract COVID-19, two weekly antigen or PCR tests for staff and one for students, robust contact tracing and a metric the district can use to determine when schools should go to distance learning again.

In the meantime, student organizers are calling for a temporary return to distance learning. For some students, in-person classes provide critical resources they don't have at home, Treadwell said, but students should not be in schools until key safety measures are put in place.

Recently, Treadwell said the district has seen high absences and a lack of school transportation and substitute teachers due to the latest wave of the pandemic. He says the majority of St. Paul public school students are people of color and that the pandemic has laid bare racial inequities in public health.

"It seems that the [St. Paul] district is attempting to risk students' lives for the sake of remaining open," Treadwell said. "We should prioritize public health over anything else."

In a statement, the district said it offers weekly COVID-19 tests for all staff and take-home tests for students. The district plans to make medical-grade and N95 masks available to staff and students, among other measures.

The district also released a staffing metric it said will determine if schools move to virtual learning: "If on any day, a school has 25% or more of their classroom teachers absent, families will receive a notice from the school. If this absence rate is projected to continue for more than 3 days, families will be notified about a temporary shift to virtual learning."
Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

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A St. Paul school walkout organizer calls for COVID-19 safety measures

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Tuesday afternoon, a number of St. Paul high school and middle school students walked out of class. They say that the city's public school district is not doing enough to keep them safe as COVID-19 case numbers spike due to the rapid spread of omicron.

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Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced 'Shoe-Tez-Caht') (he/him), is a 19-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful voice of a global youth-led environmental movement.

He focuses on educating his generation worldwide about the state of the planet they are inheriting and inspiring them to take action to create a better world. His work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The Daily Show, Comedy Central, CNN, MSNBC, HBO, and VICE.

The Organization

Xiuhtezcatl is Youth Director for Earth Guardians, which works to inspire, galvanize, and train diverse youth to be effective leaders in the climate and social justice movement-using art, music, storytelling, civic engagement, and legal action to advance solutions. Earth Guardians Crews work to implement campaigns and projects in their own communities around the world.

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"Educating communities about climate change is key-showing them that their lifestyles are contributing to it and giving them ways through our '50 Simple Things' list to reduce their personal footprints."
-Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

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Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced 'Shoe-Tez-Caht') (he/him), is a 19-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful voice of a global youth-led environmental movement. He focuses on educating his generation worldwide about the state of the planet they are inheriting and inspiring them to take action to create a better world.

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TakeAction Minnesota is a multi-racial people’s organization building power for a government and economy that works for all of us. We’re a hub for Minnesota’s progressive movement, bringing together people

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The Nature Conservancy is tackling the root causes of some of the toughest problems facing people and nature today, replicating good ideas to save many places and improve people's lives.

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Bana, born in 2009 in Aleppo, Syria, is known worldwide for her tweets during the siege of the city in 2016 and for her subsequent calls for peace and an end to all global conflict. Her tweets have earned her a legion of admirers around the world by giving a remarkable insight into the daily horrors of life in the city at this time, including air strikes, hunger and the prospect of her family's death. In December 2016, Bana and her family were safely evacuated from Aleppo to Turkey. Bana's debut book, DEAR WORLD, published with Simon & Schuster in 2017 and has sold in over 17 countries globally. In her own words, and featuring affecting letters from her mother, Fatemah, DEAR WORLD is not just a gripping account of a family endangered by war it also offers a uniquely intimate, child's-eye perspective of one of the biggest humanitarian crises in history. In the past year, Bana has been awarded the 2018 Atlantic Council Freedom Award and has been named a Rising Star by the Asian Awards 2018.

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The Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative is a collective of 16 renowned Native American nonprofit organizations in Minneapolis and Saint Paul that have been providing powerful and effective services for more than four decades. This collaborative has now come together to support a shared mission of modernizing and upgrading each of their antiquated and deteriorating facilities. While some organizations have already begun work on their capital campaigns and have secured meaningful investments, by joining forces this collaborative effort will work to accelerate all projects involved. Once completed, this historic endeavor will enable all participating organizations to continue providing the highest quality services for the Native American community in the Twin Cities for years to come.

As was clearly demonstrated over the previous 18 months during the pandemic and civil unrest that rocked the Twin Cities, there remains an extreme urgency to combat the disparities that continue to burden the urban Indigenous community. The Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative was founded because, simply put, Native American nonprofits do not have the resources to properly invest in their capital needs. Instead, all available resources have been dedicated to helping people through their programming and direct services to reverse these disparities. To this end, this initiative has now united to seek capital investments to modernize and bolster the capacity for all organizations participating within this effort.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 presents a unique opportunity for both government entities and the philanthropic sector to partner with the Twin Cities Native American community in a positive and impactful way by supporting this collaborative to achieve its stated goals. The organizations that comprise the initiative have committed to pursuing a single resource request so that partners with the Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative can commit the required resources without having to pick winners and losers.

This is an opportunity for all of us to shape the Twin Cities Indigenous community for generations to come. Our ancestors passed on our culture, our lifeways, and our customs to our predecessors and to us. Our predecessors founded the very organizations within this collaborative, and then passed them onto the current leadership. Now it is our time to commit ourselves to pass on state of the art facilities with robust programming to the future leaders emerging from our community. It is now our time to play our role in this living legacy that spans millennia. It is now our time to build the future we want to see for our people. This is the very heart of the Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative and we invite you to be part of this historic movement.

The Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative is comprised of the following Urban Native American community organizations:

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Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative - Metro Urban Indian Directors

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The Urban Indigenous Legacy Initiative is a collective of 16 renowned Native American nonprofit organizations in Minneapolis and Saint Paul that have been providing powerful and effective services for more than four decades. This collaborative has now come together to support a shared mission of modernizing and upgrading each of their antiquated and deteriorating facilities.