Marches and rallies were held in the U.S. and around the world Saturday as part of the March for Our Lives event. The student-led movement seeks legislative action on the issues of gun violence and gun control in response to a series of deadly school shootings.

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The movement is being led by student survivors of the Parkland High School mass shooting in Florida on Feb. 14, in which former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, killed 17 people and injured dozens.

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Rebecca Ramage-Tuttle, assistant director of the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia, says the the DOE rule change is “a slippery slope” for civil rights. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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