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Organization vs Event

Given the June 11, 2022 protests happening around the United States, now seems like a reasonable time to have a separate article for the 2018 event and the MFOL organization that has ongoing efforts. I have created a very basic page March for Our Lives Action Fund to start building out an article about the organization itself to help avoid confusion with the event. It seemed like an easier change than trying to modify this popular page to be centered on the organization. Please share your thoughts and help build our the new article. OurStreets (talk) 05:35, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts about creating pages for both the 2018 marches and 2022 marches?

Now that the 2022 gatherings have occurred and this article only discusses the 2018 marches, should this main article become just about the MFOL movement, and additional articles be created for the 2018 marches and 2022 marches? This would also be a good time to split the List of March for Our Lives locations as proposed there. Just a thought and wanted to get others opinions on it. Jwalte04 (talk) 15:31, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the best way to go about it, but I generally agree. The 2018 march was a huge event in and of itself. I'm not sure how the 2022 ones compare but generally I think they can be separate along with the March for Our Lives Action Fund article about the organization itself. OurStreets (talk) 23:36, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Astroturfing?

Since this is supposedly an encyclopedia, it might be of interest in sense of non-POV to state who funded all that. Seel Link 1 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Our_Lives_Action_Fund 2A01:C22:7794:AD00:EC9D:7A2E:9E5D:5120 (talk) 06:33, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Filibuster and Cloture

The March for Our Lives campaign fights beyond gun laws. They are also protesting to eliminate the filibuster in Senate. According to the Senate.gov website, a filibuster is “the senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution amendment or other debatable question.” On the March for our Lives Website it states, “Enough is enough. We are done being used as pawns. We are done with it being business-as-usual to put politics over people. We are done watching a weapon of obstruction block progress in its path. We demand the Senate eliminate the filibuster.” They dive deeper into how the filibuster is a way that senators play political games with human lives. “It is time to stop paying the price of political obstruction with our lives. Health care. Climate. Fair wages. LGBTQ+ rights. Racial justice. Gun violence prevention. Voting rights. Again and again, senators use the filibuster to play political games with our lives, blocking life-saving measures from earning vote on the Senate floor, and many others from even becoming legislation.” The supporters of the March for Our lives campaign strongly support the elimination of the filibuster in senate and strongly encourage the cloture, which according to senate.gov, “…grants a minority of senators – republican senators who represent 41 million fewer people than Senate Democrats – the power to prevent the Congress that we elected from passing critical legislation to improve, protect, and save our lives.” It is concluded that the March for Our Lives movement is against the filibuster because it is believed that it greatly impacts the progression of gun laws/regulations to the point where there seems to be no urgency to stop the violence. A cloture would benefit their cause because it would end the filibuster. Kvandvelt (talk) 05:44, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]