March for Our Lives students encourage first-time voters

The humor was juvenile, but the message was serious.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who founded the March for Our Lives have released a video titled “My First Time” that encourages first-time voters to register for the November election.

Would-be voters have until Oct. 9 to do so. The video features several of the students describing their first time voting in terms that make it sound as if they are very much describing a different first time. They’re joined by actors who are part of We Stand United, a group of artists advocating for progressive causes.

“My first time, everybody clapped afterward,” says March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg.

Her first time “was in the back of a firehouse,” adds actress/model Zoë Kravitz.

“Mine was in a church,” says actor Don

Cheadle.

The humor gives way to pleas to register about halfway through. The video is part of an ongoing push by March for Our Lives to encourage voter registration and turnout in the midterm elections.

“Young people are poised to lead the nation,” said actress Rosario Dawson, who also appears in the video. “They are the biggest potential voting bloc, and they can decide the midterm elections.”

The actors and actresses in the video have all appeared in superhero films, a fact not lost on Hogg.

“Every single American has the chance to be a superhero — in real life,” he said. “Every single person has the chance to stand up for what they believe in, all they have to do is vote.”