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Target of march for Our lives – community protection for gun legislation to control – shouted loudly from ground zero in Washington D.C. and echoed in the hundreds of other communities who held their own marches.

There are several hundred in Buffalo people got together on Saturday morning on Jefferson Avenue couple of blocks from the Tops supermarket, where terror attack claimed lives of ten people and wounded three more exactly four weeks earlier.

Buffalo demonstrators met in corner of Jefferson and Glenwood avenues before exit off south, stopping briefly at the lawn memorial to 10 victims outside Tops and then collection in big circle in wasteland on st. corner of Jefferson and Riley Street, just opposite a closed supermarket.



LOCAL MARCH FOR OUR LIFE

Protesters march down Jefferson Avenue past website of Tops massacre during the “March for Peace, cry for Rally “Our life”. for action to the end gun violence in solidarity with in national March for Our lives.


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Local march organizers Ekaete Bailey and Kat Moores, and director of the WNY Peace Center. director Deirdre EmEl and board co-chair Victoria Ross, called on elected officials to take concrete action to eliminate gun safety: general background check required for purchase a gun; ban on assault weapons that go beyond the increasing of minimum age for purchase; and cancellation of protection of legal trade in Arms Act, which gives legal protection to gun sellers.

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“That’s what gives hope right now,” EmEl said. of crowd who brought signs and sang for world. “This is it.”

The march did not go exactly as planned. Microphone problems exhausted speakers making it hard hear around the nearest ring of marchers.

And Mark Talley son of Massacre victim Geraldine Talley was supposed to speak in did not do it programmatically.

Tully, who turned out to be the only family member of a victim at the event told The Buffalo News that he felt the march was “disorganized”. mistake march at the shooting site for only a month removed from the massacre.



LOCAL MARCH FOR OUR LIFE

Mark Talley, whose mother Geraldine Talley was killed in Tops attack bows head in the blink of an eye of silence outside website of massacre.


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Bailey said in two weeks of planning for march that she worked with Partner with VOICE Buffalo, a non-profit organization that works with victims’ families to see if a relative would be interested in Speaking. She was told that Talley would be ready and was surprised and confused when he did not show up.

“That’s not what we are wanted put on him – we thought that was what he was wantedBailey said after the march. “His feelings matter. we are not want hurt or offend family member.”

March featured significant number of white people part visit of Bison, which, according to the US Census, make up about 71% of blacks.

The organizers asked the participants of crowd to raise their hands if it was theirs first time in area of ​​Jefferson, and the response showed significant involvement from outside immediate east side communities, hopeful moment for EmEl.

“It was brave, because if they can do it, if they can break this barrier, of coming out of their comfort zone… that’s why different communities come out to support idea of gun legislation and not just to support victims in our African American community then we have chance really speak start to build bridges,” she said.

Poet Laureate Gillian Hainsworth, who read her play “The Revolution Will Rhyme”, shared a different point of view on crowd.

“Racism white people” fight- she said. – It’s theirs fight. I need see them out here because they need to know They need to see the peaks, they need to see the memorials and our communities.”



LOCAL MARCH FOR OUR LIFE

Buffalo Poet Laureate Gillian Hainsworth recites her spoken poem “The Revolution Will Rhyme” as the crowd surrounds her at the end. of march for Our lives in Buffalo.


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Raquel Alston, a local pastor and lifelong East Sider, attended the march and was concerned about the absence of black participation.

“It great,” she said of strangers were there on Saturday, “but this also breaks my heart that I can’t see people of color.”

Hainsworth said she thinks the march location maybe it hurt too much for a lot of in black community to experience.

“I think black people need grace and need time and everyone doesn’t have it in they should be here in front of Tops, she said. – Not everyone has it. in surround them people who don’t look like them, who they are not know if they really care about them or just showing up because we out here so I guess it’s always fair practice to give people grace and understand that much of our problems are so multifaceted.”

Saturday was first a time when EmEl could force herself walk Tops Markets after the shooting. She said it hurt.

“I’m so angry,” EmEl said through tears. “We should angry every day, angry every day that our children and our brothers dying in in street. Because it’s happening – we just I don’t see… That’s the difference – people saw it with them eyes. You hear about gang violence and it’s “whatever just move to back house”I think I heard gunshots.” It’s sad, but it like ordinary.”

EmL praised the groups, which she called “football”. soldiers,” or community members who day after day helped to barricade the inhabitants of Jefferson area from lingering pain nearby. She mentioned the Stop Violence Coalition, Parents Most Valuable and Pastor James Giles of Back to Basics Ministry.

Marches in Buffalo and DC to commemorate deaths of 10 in Topsoe, victims of Uvalde

This year”March for Our life” – inspired last months deadly mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas – follows a similar event of same name four years ago, after a teenage shooter armed with 17 killed with assault rifle people in middle school in Parkland, Florida.

Harris Stanfield fragrance who was at Tops Markets at the time of shooting was last speak in event. She thanked people who attended for their willingness to act.

“Is not over. There are so many work be done,” said Stanfield. “It doesn’t matter how hard is to enter crowds like it… any time that anyone talks about this massacre and what it brought us for in world to see what’s going on on in our communities, which are on in our communities – I’ll be here.”

When Stanfield finished, the crowd chanted, “You are not alone.”

Staff news reporter Khaajra Gilani contributed to this article.

Ben Tsujimoto can be contacted at [email protected], at (716) 849-6927, or on Twitter @Tsuj10.

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