Lyft offers free rides to March for Our Lives participants
Source: CNN
Updated 9:46 AM ET, Fri March 23, 2018
(CNN)Ride-hailing service Lyft will offer free rides to those attending the March for Our Lives rallies this weekend.
In a blog post, the company said it has teamed up with march organizers in 50 US cities to offer the service. It said it's committing as much as $1.5 million for the rides.
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To take advantage of it, a rally attendee will have to reserve a ride to his or her city's march and receive a code. (This post tells you how to do it.) https://blog.lyft.com/posts/mfol
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"We believe there is something seriously wrong when the threat of gun violence is so frequent and real throughout our country. And like many, we are inspired by your leadership."
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Students rally outside the Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, a precursor to the March for Our Lives rallies this weekend.
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ANALYSIS: 'March for Our Lives' could define politics for new generation
Mar 23, 2018, 6:56 AM ET
PHOTO: Students rally outside the Capitol Building in Washington, March 14, 2018.
Andrew Harnik/AP
It could define politics for a rising generation.
This weekend’s “March for Our Lives” is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of students and their families to Washington and cities across the country, including some teenagers who have already become almost as famous as the A-list entertainers who will also be in attendance.
If the march delivers on its promise, it could jolt a political process whose calcification is the impetus for the demonstrations. It could invigorate a group of first-time voters who are demanding their voices be heard, in time for the midterm elections.
The ostensible goal is to press for new gun-safety measures, in the wake of last month’s horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. But with realistic hopes for significant action by Congress already dashed, the march has morphed into something larger than that – and potentially more significant.
PHOTO: Demonstrators participate in a lie-in during a protest in favor of gun control reform in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19, 2018.Evan Vucci/AP
Demonstrators participate in a "lie-in" during a protest in favor of gun control reform in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19, 2018.
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“They are in it to change the face of politics, and they know that they’ve got the power and the leverage to do it,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a 41-year-old freshman House member who represents Silicon Valley, told ABC News.
“They’ve been touched by this sense of history, a sense of patriotism – that this is their moment,” said Khanna, who has hosted events with Parkland survivors in recent weeks and has helped draw attention to the march via social media. “Their sense that they’re in charge – that they are leading.” .............................
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