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.
🗓 Grassroots4GVP Event: Panels for Prevention: Margarita Muñiz Academy Student Presentation
Lynn Grilli and Valerie Geary have been working with the wonderful students at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Jamaica Plain as they prepare their project on gun violence prevention for the Aspen Challenge. Margarita Muñiz Academy competed against 16 other Boston area high schools a few weeks ago, and they were one of three schools chosen as the winners of this prestigious competition!The students will be travelling to the Aspen Challenge the following week to present their winning project - but we get a sneak peek! Please join us on Thursday, June 17, at 11:30am to watch the video of the students' presentation. They will join us on the call for a Q&A session and to talk more about their project and their hopes for the future of gun violence prevention.
This is a wonderful opportunity for mutual learning. We will get to hear directly from students whose lives have been drastically impacted by gun violence, and we will give them the opportunity to practice their presentation before they head to Aspen. We hope you can join us!
When? Tuesday, June 17, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Where? Zoom
🗓 Grassroots4GVP Event: June Statewide Meeting
Please join us for our next statewide meeting on Monday, June 23, from 7:30-8:30pm, where we will cover how to submit written testimonies for bills. While we're focusing on H.548 and S.397 in particular, the information will be applicable to submitting written testimonies for any issues that you care deeply about and want to support.
Erin Dowd, from our Public Education Team, will lead our session. She'll offer a brief overview of the two bills, explain why written testimonies are so vitally important to getting bills passed, and lead us through writing and submitting our own testimonies.
Contact: Valerie Geary
When? Monday, June 23, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Where? Zoom
📚 Public Education: Stoneham Farmers Market
Join our table at the Stoneham Farmers Market to help kids make a bracelet craft while we talk to their grownups about secure firearm storage and extreme risk protection orders! New to tabling? This is perfect for you! Experienced at tabling? Come on down! Bonus: after your shift, stay for the Beer Garden and Summer Concert featuring dance classics with Better Her Than Me, hosted by the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce.
Contact: Erin Kennedy
When? Thursday, July 10, 2:30 - 6:30 PM
Where? Stoneham Town Common, 35 Central Street, Stoneham
📚 Public Education: Newburyport Yankee Homecoming Family Day
We will be tabling for secure storage at this family-centered event during Newburyport's annual Yankee Homecoming celebration. Many local businesses, organizations and non-profits take part in Family Day fun offering free crafts, games, activities and handouts. The booth is free as long as you provide a free craft, game, activity or handout for the kids.
We are looking for volunteers to do children's craft and to talk to parents about secure storage.
Contact Ann to volunteer at ahaaser.ma@gmail.com
When? Saturday, August 2, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Where? Rupert A. Nock Middle School 70 Low St, Newburyport