Sentences with phrase «end to gun violence in»

The national event came a week after hundreds of Baltimore students left school to march to City Hall to call for an end to gun violence in schools and on the city's streets.

It's easy to think of the Stoneman Douglas survivors — strikingly eloquent and fiercely committed to bringing a permanent end to gun violence in US schools — as older than their years.

Now, as an adult, he works to put an end to gun violence in his community by applying what he knows about fighting to issues in his city.

Eighteen student survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and founders of the #NeverAgain movement have sent a letter to the business community asking for support for the March for Our Lives and their efforts to put an end to gun violence in the U.S.

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Three years after she was shot at a Tucson supermarket, the former Arizona congresswoman has become a major force in the effort to end the plague of gun violence.

For years, the stipulation severely chilled the C.D.C.'s activity in the field — even after 2013, when President Barack Obama ordered the agency to look into causes of gun violence and strategies to end it.

Along with pastoring The Way Christian Center in the Bay Area, I serve as the director of the LIVE FREE Campaign, a faith - based movement committed to organizing the moral voice and actions of the faith community to end gun violence and mass incarceration.

Come Saturday morning, these multiple faith organizations, including Central Presbyterian, not only made an appearance in D.C., but showed up in full force, signs in hand, ready to march alongside one another to support an end to gun violence.

Cerberus needs to honor its promise to the victims of Sandy Hook and to all Americans whose lives have been turned upside down by gun violence by ending its investment in this destructive industry.»

In both cities, the call from survivors of the Parkland massacre last month is for Congress to pass stricter gun control laws and to end gun violence.

I believe we can all come together as a city and work collectively to end gun violence, reduce tensions in our neighborhoods, and improve police - community relations.»

UPPER MANHATTAN — A week after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., left 27 dead, uptown campaigners are showing their support for an end to gun violence at nightly vigils.

The report comes 5 months after President Barack Obama announced an end to the ban on public health research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had been in place since 1996.

The fashion label stands in solidarity and support of Americans working together to end gun violence.

Liev Schreiber shows his support for the fight to end gun violence while attending the March for Our Lives on Saturday morning (March 24) in New York City.

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With the support of a teacher, students at Suncoast High School in Florida wrote and recorded a CD of songs urging an end to gun violence.

As a tribute to Arne's sense of connection to the community and his deep quest for social justice, he personally led a large demonstration at Soldiers Field in Chicago of educators, parents, students, and community leaders to call for an end to gun violence.

While students have been building a powerful and inspiring movement to end gun violence in schools, PA lawmakers have been laying the groundwork to vote on legislation that would militarize school buildings and allow teachers to carry concealed weapons.

Lori Alhadeff, mother of Alyssa Alhadeff — one of the 17 victims killed during the Stoneman Douglas massacre — held a tennis fundraiser in honor of her daughter for a non-profit organization to end gun violence and help fund schools with better security measures.

Communities across the country demand real action from leaders to end gun violence in our schools and neighborhoods.

It is a search that ends in still another massacre, and a heroic gesture by the boy who comes to understand, as grown - ups seemingly can not, that guns and violence are not the answer; that, in war, there are no winners, and that the ultimate losers are the innocent caught in the middle.

Cartoonists demand action to end gun violence Most people have probably seen the video that did the rounds of Twitter, YouTube, and the rest of the internet (did it get on TV in the US?)

«We ended up choosing four games; 1) Grand Theft Auto [IV] represented an antisocial game where the violence is not really defensible (killing innocent bystanders serves no real purpose), 2) Call of Duty [Black Ops] represented a violent game where we had players use violence in a defensible way (players had to kill zombies to avoid dying), 3) Portal 2 was a non-violent control to Call of Duty (similar in perspective, and the use of a gun - shaped tool), 4) World of Zoo represented a purely prosocial game without any violence».

The piece, titled «The Embassy,» engages local rappers and artists in putting an end to the gun violence that's aff ected the lives of so many New Orleans natives.

Donahue, an alumnus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said he'd donate some of his winnings to the March For Our Lives movement to end gun violence and mass shootings after the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead and 15 injured at the school in Parkland, Fla..

«This was the first of a series of events that I am going to host, because gun violence is so important and so pervasive that we can't address all the issues that lead to it or find solutions to end it in one meeting,» Wilson tweeted.

(Newser)-- The students in Florida pushing for an end to gun violence after the Parkland mass shooting remind Bill Murray of the students who pushed for an end to the Vietnam War half a century ago.

The announcement by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D - Fla., comes days after students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled to Washington to participate in the «March for Our Lives» event to end gun violence.

«We're marching to show our support for students across the country who are demanding that leaders take action to end gun violence in our schools and communities.

Meantime, our students continue rallying to end gun violence here, in Tallahassee and in DC.

We hope to ensure that the conversation about gun violence does not end in a vicious cycle of short - lived media attention.

Anna Sophie Tinneny and several classmates from Pennridge High School — where students received detentions for walking out of school in a call to end gun violence — got an up - close view of the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday and a personal meeting with several of the Parkland, Fla., students they've been seeing on television.