Parkland student activist on why you must vote

Delaney Tarr, a student journalist and graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived one of the most deadly school shootings in U.S. history joins “Salon Talks” to urge you to vote.

Tarr explains how she and her peers mobilized and built a movement around ending gun violence and in support of gun reform, known as the March for Our Lives. “I’ve never seen a community so unified in the way that it was after the shooting. It’s not just that something horrible happened, it’s that it’s a shared experience that we’ve all had,” Tarr told Salon. “We get it. We get not only going through this tragedy, but the huge weight of activism, the pressure of it.”

Tarr and her fellow Parkland survivors have turned to mobilizing young people to vote in a big way. “We are a huge group of the voting population, but only one in five people in our age demographic votes,” Tarr said. “If we were to change that, than we could sway pretty much every election in our favor. We could control who has the power in this country.”

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