In late February of 2017 our social justice group met with a woman named Catherine Chatham from Everytown for Gun Safety. We Went to EveryTown’s headquarters and did some of their work. Everytown for Gun Safety is an organization working to help prevent gun violence. We sorted and got a count of their inventory. What…
Guns and Empathy: Lisa Miller
by Yannik
In February 2017 our group invited Lisa Miller to come into our classroom to have a screening of her documentary and to answer some questions. Lisa Miller is a journalist who works for New York Magazine. She created a documentary called “Guns and Empathy”. This documentary paired 16 people up who were on different sides…
Interview with Talmage Cooley 11/21/16
by Yannik
Earlier this year we had an interview with Talmage Cooley who was a important gun activist. We met him at a restaurant and talked to him about his work and how we can make a difference. He gave us many ideas of how we can make a difference. Talmage started working on gun violence issue…
Interview with Donna Dees 11/19/16
by Yannik
In November of 2016 our group went on an interview with Donna Dees who was one of the people who started the Million Mom March. We were very excited to interview her about her work, but the important reason why we met with her was to talk about a potential screening of the new movie…
Interview with Kim Russel 11/18/16
by Yannik
Early in November our group met with Kim Russel, a representative from the Brady Campaign. We talked about various things. We interviewed Kim Russel about her work with the Brady Campaign. We talked about laws and we learned about what the Brady Campaign does and how we could make an impact. We learned that it…
