CLEVELAND, Ohio-March For Our Lives Cleveland and Women's March Cleveland will host a June 11, 2022 noon rally and march on the steps of Cleveland City Hall in Cleveland, Ohio at 601 Lakeside Ave at Willard Park to march for our lives and for reproductive rights. The upcoming event is a local march to some 500 marches for our lives protests hosted to end gun violence planned by March For Our Lives National for June 11. This group was founded in 2018 by student survivors of a mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead and 17 injured. (Click here to register on Facebook for the open-to-the-public Save Roe rally and march for our lives on June11 at noon on the steps of Cleveland City Hall. Click here to register for the event at mobilize us. Registration is optional).
Speakers for Cleveland's June 11 march and rally on the steps of City Hall include student activist Art McKoy Jr., Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio, former Ohio Senator Nina Turner, Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones, Cuyahoga County Poet Laureate Honey Bell Bey, Democratic Lt Governor Candidate and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Cheryl Stephens, Democratic Ohio Attorney Geral Nominne State Rep. Jeff Crossman, community activists Elaine Gohlstin, Delores Gray, Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., other community activists, public school students of greater Cleveland, educators, Cleveland victims of gun violence and other crimes or their family members, Black clergy, Black greater Cleveland educators, and voting and Civil Rights advocates. Call head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman of Women's March Cleveland at 216-659-0473 for more information. Coleman said that at least 1,000 people are expected to attend that gathering.
