It's Monday June 13th. I'm Trevell Anderson.

And I'm Josie Deffy Rice and this is What a Day.

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On today's show, the average price of gas spilled past the $5 mark plus

thousand celebrated pride this past weekend, although some events were marred by threats of violence.

But first, it was a big weekend for gun control activists and gun reform laws. So let's start with this.

That's the sound of demonstrators in D.C. during last Saturday's nationwide anti-gun rallies organized

by the group March for our lives. Trevell, what can you tell us about the protests?

Yes, so as many may remember, March for our lives is the organization founded by survivors

of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

In the aftermath of that shooting, they had organized what became the largest single day of protest

against gun violence in history. Well, in light of the last few weeks, in which there's been an

absurd number of mass shootings, including those in a black neighborhood above Low New York,

and at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Hundreds more rallies happened nationwide,

and at least 45 states and Washington, D.C. Organizers say rallies even took place internationally

in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Saturday's demonstrations marked the first

ones by the organization in four years, and thousands of folks led by young people showed up

expressing their anger over the federal government's continued in action since. Here is Jacqueline

Corrin, one of the co-founders of March for our lives speaking in D.C. Many of us have been wearing

our marching shoes for years, but today we're telling Congress, we're telling the gun lobby,

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