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Walk Out for What: Using Social Media to Amplify Your School Walkout

Presented live on April 18, 2018, this webinar focuses on how young people can best use social media to make sure the world is watching and listening to students of color during student walkouts scheduled for April 20th. We talk strategies, tactics, and hashtags and answer your most pressing social media questions. The fight against gun violence is nothing without the voices of the directly impacted. Harness the full power of the internet to amplify your voice.

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