Actions + Events
You'll find four categories on this page:
📣 Take Action - use your voice to support GVP work in MA and beyond
🗓 Grassroots4GVP Event - join us for virtual and in-person events and meetings
🧡 Strategic Partner Event - support the work of our partner organizations
📚 Public Education - raise public awareness on secure firearm storage, ERPO, and more
📣 Take Action: Contact your MA State Rep & Senator about S397 and H548
We're currently advocating with our MA legislators to support S397 and H548, both acts to promote raising public awareness about safe firearm storage, to reduce risks of firearm tragedies to children and teens due to unsecured firearms.
Want to get involved? Contact grassroots4gvp@gmail.com.
📚 Public Education: 5th Annual Plymouth Health and Safety Fair
Come visit our resource table at the 5th Annual Plymouth Health and Safety Fair! Learn how we are making communities safer by raising awareness about the critical importance of secure firearm storage. We empower all adults, whether they own firearms or not, to protect their children and families from tragedies caused by unsecured firearms.
Contact: K. Berry
When? Saturday, May 2 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where? Plymouth North High School, 41 Obery Street, Plymouth
🗓 Grassroots4GVP Event: How to keep MA Safe This November - Brookline
Grassroots4GunViolencePrevention meeting on how to keep MA Safe This November. Join us to learn about a critical MA ballot question coming up in November and other ways to prevent gun violence. Your voice matters. Be part of an important conversation about community safety, informed voting, and ways we can work together to prevent gun violence. All are welcome--bring a friend!
Contact: Kristen B.
When? Tuesday, May 5 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Where? Brookline Village Library 361 Washington St Brookline
🧡 Strategic Partner Event: Mother's Day Walk for Peace
Our community partners are so vitally important to the communities they work in, and therefore so vitally important to us as members of Grassroots for Gun Violence Prevention (G4GVP). Your participation, at any level, allows the Louis D Brown Peace Institute to continue to meet the needs of families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief and loss that are consistent and compassionate. Together, we can make a difference and cultivate cycles of peace!
So lace up your sneakers, and pull out your credit card to join our team in support of the amazing work of the Louis D Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: Angela Christiana
When? Sunday, May 10 8:00 AM
Where? Town Field Park 1565 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester
📣 Take Action: Advocacy Day
Your advocacy matters! Join us at the MA State House to urge our legislators to pass our priority bills. Be there on May 12th @ 9:45-11:45am. Then make it a full day of gun violence prevention by joining the MA Coalition Quarterly Meeting @ 1:00-2:00pm.
Please register to receive specific location information.
When? Tuesday, May 12 9:45 - 11:45 AM
Where? MA State House, 24 Beacon St, Boston
🗓 Grassroots4GVP Event: How to keep MA Safe This November - Arlington
Grassroots4GunViolencePrevention meeting on how to keep MA Safe This November. Join us to learn about a critical MA ballot question coming up in November and other ways to prevent gun violence.
Your voice matters. Be part of an important conversation about community safety, informed voting, and ways we can work together to prevent gun violence. All are welcome--bring a friend!
Contact: Kristen B.
When? Wednesday, May 27 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Where? Robbins Library 700 Massachusetts Ave Arlington