Shailene Woodley Leads Cross-Country Road Trip to the Democratic National Convention

The "Divergent" actress has been a vocal and active supporter of Bernie Sanders.

ByABC News
July 22, 2016, 12:20 PM

— -- Bern-ing up the highways. As Republicans met in Cleveland this week, across-the-aisle Hollywood star Shailene Woodley has been travelling across the country, leading a group of Bernie Sanders fans on a 7-day road trip from Los Angeles to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Woodley has been a vocal and active supporter of the senator. She joined lawmakers and top grassroots activists for a planning meeting in the senator’s home in Burlington, Vermont, days after the California primary to brainstorm ways to keep his "political revolution" alive.

“It doesn't matter what your cause is. What your issue is. What you stand for or feel oppressed by. ALL issues are united in this movement,” the official website for the road trip reads. “Every movement is unified in our message: it is UP TO US to write the narrative we want our future generations to be born unto. This is our MODERN DAY PEACE TRAIN.”

The group organized two caravans: One departed from Portland, Oregon, and another from Los Angeles, California. They stopped in towns and cities each night as they drove east, meeting folks, holding events and adding cars. In Colorado, they even held a concert and talked to organizers about fracking and climate change advocacy. The group is scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia Saturday ahead of the party’s convention there next week.

By midweek, one of the organizers, Heidi Harmon, said the caravan had grown to about 100 people, many traveling in RVs and decorated cars.

“The overall goal is to really keep the movement moving,” Harmon, a Sanders delegate, said, speaking to ABC News from somewhere between Boulder, Colorado, and Lincoln, Nebraska. “The Bernie Sanders movement is a really inspired moment in our political history and we don’t want people to feel disheartened.... We want to remind people about what Bernie has been saying this whole time. It has never been about him, it has always been about us.”

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