The following information was compiled by the amazing Karen Bentrup. Our focus
tomorrow will be on gun violence.
Planning meeting & groups: - Womens March had a youth-led planning meeting on
2/25 at P&J (Samia Assed)- Resist Trump Tuesday - is planning the pre-rally
march for 3/24 (Cheryl P, Lisa C, & Patty K)- Three Sisters - "March for Our
Lives" rally on March 24 at Civic Plaza (Zoey)- Moms Demand Action - meeting
Wed 2/28 630pm at Unitarian Church (Maggie B, Cheryl H)- De-escalation/safety
teams + legal observer volunteers - organized by Ilse Biel (Peace & Justice Ctr)
Some of the associated issues and stats that I have encountered include school
push out, school to prison pipeline, and the militarization of our schools via
ROTC & NRA. Some links below FMI.
Militarization of our schools – WATCH THIS Democracy Now interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4c5QvW86EPat Elder, the director of the ;
National Coalition to Protect StudentPrivacy, a group that confronts militarism
in the schools. He is the author of“Military Recruiting in the United States.”
The gunman who fired on studentsand teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida, a19-year-old white former student named Nikolas
Cruz, was a member of the ArmyJunior Reserve Officer Training Corps program,
known as JROTC. Cruz also tookpart in a four-person JROTC marksmanship team at
the school which had received$10,000 in funding from the NRA. “[The NRA]
realize that if they can startlinking the children with the guns at age 13 in
the high schools, it’s awin-win proposition for them and for the sellers of
weaponry,” says Elder
School Push Out + School to Prison
Pipelinehttps://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2009/pushed-outhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15289168.2016.1214451?journalCode=hicp20http://dignityinschools.org/about-us/mission/
NRA HAS TO
GOhttp://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/why-the-nra-needs-to-go/article_8b798a7f-e05f-582e-95ff-6b087d62d2d3.html
Rachel Maddow on Trump administration acts to weaken existing gun laws -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hpqkk4uN0s
Gun violence – Gun laws· Americas gun violence – in 17 charts -
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/us-gun-violence-statistics-maps-charts·
America’s gun culture in 10 charts -
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081· CNNs charts - ;
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html·
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/·
https://www.safehome.org/resources/gun-laws-and-deaths/·
https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-by-the-numbers/· Visuals of ;
all the mass shootings w/ deaths andinjured -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/02/america-mass-shootings-gun-violence·
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm·
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm·
http://crimadvisor.com/data/Brady-State-Scorecard-2015.pdf·
https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/get_educated
