Newtown Action Alliance contributes to Congressional Report on Gun Violence in America
Recently the Newtown Action Alliance was asked to contribute to The 2014 Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America, being released Wednesday, June 25th. The report is the first collaboration of its kind between Members of Congress, gun safety advocates, and public health/academic communities on the nation’s gun violence epidemic. It offers comprehensive legislative and policy solutions to the crisis. Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance, has been invited to attend a meeting on Capitol Hill the day of it’s release along with other contributors and stakeholders “to discuss implications of the report and effective actions that will help make our children and families safe from gun violence
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The Kelly Report
Recently the Newtown Action Alliance was asked to contribute to The 2014 Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America, being released Wednesday, June 25th. The report is the first collaboration of its kind between Members of Congress, gun safety advocates, and public health/academic communities on the nation’s gun violence epidemic. It offers comprehensive legislative and policy solutions to the crisis. Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance, has been invited to attend a meeting on Capitol Hill the day of it’s release along with other contributors and stakeholders “to discuss implications of the report and effective actions that will help make our children and families safe from gun violence
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Newtown Action Alliance contributes to Congressional Report on Gun Violence in America
Recently the Newtown Action Alliance was asked to contribute to The 2014 Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America, being released Wednesday, June 25th. The report is the first collaboration of its kind between Members of Congress, gun safety advocates, and public health/academic communities on the nation’s gun violence epidemic. It offers comprehensive legislative and policy solutions to the crisis. Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance, has been invited to attend a meeting on Capitol Hill the day of it's release along with other contributors and stakeholders “to discuss implications of the report and effective actions that will help make our children and families safe from gun violence.
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Grief, photos no longer inspire change in gun debate
All week, the videos of the father — red-faced and shouting, or speaking deliberately as tears streamed into his salt-and-pepper beard — made it seem as though Richard Martinez's anguish might turn him into the new face of the gun-control movement.
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Honor With Action
Days before the one-year anniversary of the shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Newtown Action Alliance and supporters honor the memories of gun violence victims through acts of kindness and service around the DC metro area prior to the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence at the Washington National Cathedral.
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2014-03-10 Media Highlights: Team 26 Rides! Watch this Video!
Team 26 rode from Harlem to Morristown (NJ) to Doylestown (PA) yesterday. They will be riding to Baltimore (MD) today and to the National Cathedral & US Capitol tomorrow. According to the Gun Violence Archive, 3,057 people have been injured by gun violence in America and 1,863 have been killed since Jan. 1, 2014.
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2014-03-02 Media Highlights: Newtown's Team 26 cyclists ride to bring message to D.C.
Well over 30,000 Americans have been killed by guns (this past year). But, these are just statistics. Behind each gun death is a person, a family and their shattered dreams. We are senselessly losing brothers and sisters, future artists and dancers, teachers and doctors. For all we know, we lost the child who would have grown up and cured cancer.
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2014-01-21 Media Highlights: MLK, Jr. Day and Hollywood & Gun Violence
Newtown Action is an action-based grassroots organization founded by residents of Newtown, Connecticut in the weeks after December 14, 2012.
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2013-12-13 Media Highlights (The National Vigil for Gun Violence Victims Issue)
Newtown Action is an action-based grassroots organization founded by residents of Newtown, Connecticut in the weeks after December 14, 2012.
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Newtown a year later: Nation reflects on legacy of its 2nd-deadliest mass shooting
Eric Milgram doesn’t exactly have the typical résumé for a gun-control activist. Like millions of Americans, he grew up around firearms. He received his first shotgun at the age of 13. As a young man, he owned eight guns and was a member of the National Rifle Association. After moving to Newtown, Conn., in 2010, he set up a target behind his house and tried to teach his children to shoot. He was even contemplating buying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
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Sandy Hook vigil held at National Cathedral
Singer-songwriter Carole King lent her voice to the chorus of hundreds gathered at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the Newtown massacre.
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Gun advocates remain passionate about reform
Sandy Hook Vigil held at National Cathedral
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Well said Monte
We can't turn back the clock on the many senseless acts of violence. But we can choose how we respond to those acts
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WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF THE NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE “Stand Your Ground’ Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force”
The Newtown Action Alliance (“NAA”) is a 100% volunteer based grassroots organization founded by Newtown residents in the weeks after December 14, 2012. The NAA works with other gun safety organizations towards safer schools, streets, towns, and cities. Members of the NAA travelled from Newtown, Connecticut to Washington, DC early this morning to attend this hearing and to meet with lawmakers to press for common sense measures that will reduce gun violence.
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We need lawmakers to enact the people's will on gun control
Just two weeks ago, a gunman entered a school in Georgia with an AK-47and began shooting. An Australian baseball player was senselessly murdered in Oklahoma City. Elementary schools in Colorado hold drills where five-year-old kids hunker down behind tables while an "active shooter" knocks at the door. Just this week, Colorado voters ejected in recall elections two state senators who had sponsored new gun control laws in the wake of the Aurora cinema mass shooting. And the grim parade of gun violence in our cities marches on.
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NAA Info Session Planned For DC Trip
The group is planning on visiting Congress, to deliver a letter with a message demanding “background checks and other common-sense measures to prevent gun violence,” according to its website. Members of NAA and other advocates from across the country are planning to meet with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders during the visit, delivering letters and lists of gun violence victims since 12/14.
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Open Letter To Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
As members of the community of Newtown, Connecticut, we are writing you today because during our search for solace in wake of the events of last December it has come to our attention that your company continues to allow guns to be carried into its stores. Although we here in Newtown love our Starbucks, we are very concerned that your policy undermines the safety and wellbeing of our citizens.
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Newtown Action Alliance applauds the Senate Appropriations Committee for approving its Labor, Health and Human Services Bill, including the “Now is the Time” initiative.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved its Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill on Thursday that includes $10 million for gun violence prevention research, $18.5 million for a National Violent Death Reporting System expansion and $119 million in new funding to increase access to mental health services. This includes a total of $95 million for the administration’s Now is the Time initiative.
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Newtown Action Alliance calls on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate to vote in favor of B.Todd Jones as the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
Newtown Action Alliance urges the Senate Judiciary Committee to take action to prevent gun violence in our nation by voting in favor of B.Todd Jones as the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
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Gun Violence Changed My Life – a Personal Account of the Seattle Café Shooting
For Sheryl Wiser, it was one year ago, May 30, that gun violence shook her life. Though the event was national news, she never heard from her family. They never realized how close she was to the Seattle Café Shooting. It has taken her nearly that long to tell them about her experience in an e-mail she felt compelled to share with Newtown Action Alliance. Before the massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in our community of Newtown, Connecticut, we felt relatively safe from gun violence. That day woke us up to take action for smarter, safer gun laws because we realized that if such horrific violence can happen here, in Newtown, it can happen anywhere.
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