March For Our Lives – February 14, 2026

Today marks eight years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

I was a child then. Like so many students, I went to school believing it was a place you were supposed to be safe. Surviving the shooting that day shattered that belief. It changed how we moved through the world and forced us to grow up overnight.

Eight years later, it is still painful to say that school shootings have not stopped. Children across this country continue to carry a kind of fear no child should ever have to know.

In the days that followed Parkland, our grief became resolve. My friends and I did not feel prepared for what came next, but we felt a responsibility to act. We founded March For Our Lives because we could not accept that what happened to us would simply become another headline, another statistic, another cycle of thoughts and prayers.

Since then, we have marched. We have organized. We have trained young leaders, challenged lawmakers, and helped shift the national conversation around gun violence. None of it erases what we lost. But it has proven that change is possible when people refuse to look away.

March For Our Lives continues today for that same reason: to build a future where fewer families have to carry this kind of pain.

If you feel moved to support that work, I invite you to stand with us. 

We are working to raise $10,000 this week to sustain youth-led organizing, education, and accountability efforts across the country. Your support makes it possible for young people to keep showing up long after the headlines fade.

All of us at March For Our Lives believe in a future where students do not fear being shot at school. Where lockdown drills are no longer normal. Where parents can send their children to class without wondering if it will be the last goodbye.

Everything we do turns memory into action and action into policy. With your help, we can protect what we have won and keep pushing forward.

Will you make a contribution to help us reach our goal and keep us fighting for a future without school shootings?

Thank you,

March For Our Lives

Email us: info@marchforourlives.com