Name: Kai Khorasani

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Mass shootings in the U.S. / School Shooting in US

Date of Fieldwork: January 23, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Newton Action Alliance, Angela Weber

Type of Fieldwork: Direct Action

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Today, our group went lobbying. We were going to be calling about the Assault Weapons Ban. Donna Dees introduced us to Angela Weber, who is a woman that works for the organization, Newtown Action Alliance. She was the one who invited us to go lobbying. On the zoom call, she introduced us to her organization and what we were going to do. We were given a list of senators, along with their numbers to call. Me, Eliezer, and Gunnar decided to split up from Beni and Zoe to do our calls. We did half of the senators, while they did the other half. We were given scripts about the recent shooting in Monterey Park. We were encouraging the senators to help cosponsor the ban. I thought that this was a lot of fun, and hope to do it again.