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AROUND THE NATION, A RISING TIDE:COMMUNITIES CLAMOR FOR ACTION ON GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION In Duluth, Minnesota this afternoon, the bells will be ringing. Duluth's citizens are not alone in demanding action. Washington D.C. – In states throughout the nation, the extreme gun lobby and their willing accomplices in public office are getting stiff reactions to their hard-headed refusal to support reasonable steps to protect the safety of American families. Some of those responses: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, two Senators received a frosty reception for offering no genuine response to combating what has been a terrible year of gun violence. In...

Groups urge Congress to extend assault weapons ban The Associated Press 8/2/2004, 7:05 p.m. ET DETROIT (AP) — Dozens of anti-gun violence activists were joined Monday by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his police chief in calling on Congress to renew a federal ban on assault weapons that is scheduled to expire next month. The campaign to extend the ban, which expires September 13, is led by the Million Mom March and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The groups are in the 12th week of their "Halt the Assault Tour" to raise awareness of the looming deadline. Kilpatrick, Police...

Million Mom March 2004: Reflections and New Commitments 5/6/2004 Feature Story by Dick Dahl Four years ago, Laurel Redden couldn't have said who her elected representatives were. A middle-class mother of two from Salem, NH, married for 15 years, Redden was outraged by TV reports of senseless gun violence, but felt powerless to do anything about it. She voted, usually Democratic, but never wrote a letter to an office holder or a newspaper. But then she heard about New Jerseyite Donna Dees-Thomases' ambitious plan to gather one million mothers on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the gun violence...

Moms Plan Second D.C. March on Mother's Day 3/31/2004 Participants in the Million Mom March will reconvene in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, May 9, as part of a three-day event that also features a "Blacklist Ball" on May 8 and lobbying on May 10, the Eden Prairie Sun reported March 25. The first march, held on Mother's Day in 2000, attracted some 750,000 people. (Dan: Bull$hit) Eileen Collard of Minneapolis, who attended the 2000 event, said this year's Million Mom March would focus on renewing and strengthening the federal assault-weapons ban and raising awareness of suicide and domestic violence, the...

MADISON - A concealed carry law in Wisconsin would help "level the playing field" for potential crime victims, "such as little old ladies and store owners," said Sen. Dave Zien, R-Eau Claire. But Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann said he would just as soon have a thief get away with an armed robbery at a store than have a customer with a gun try to save the day. "I don't want to be in a store where someone wants to intervene," McCann told legislators at a committee hearing at the state Capitol Tuesday. "The shooting will start, and...

Million Mom March Joins Forces with Meetup.com 5/19/2003 Press Release Million Mom March 1225 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 www.millionmommarch.org Continue Aggressive Grassroots Growth, Prepare for Future Mobilizations Washington, DC - The Million Mom March organization and Meetup Inc. today (May 14th) announced a new partnership to harness the growing power of technology to allow the Million Mom March to continue building an already strong grassroots "army" of volunteers concerned about the terrible toll that gun violence takes in America. The partnership will allow the "Moms" to use Meetup.com to generate monthly face-to-face get-togethers with others who want to...

Marchers deliver message to NRA Orlando SentinelSandra Mathers, Sentinel Staff WriterApril 27, 2003 They gathered quietly under a chilly, gray sky near a remote parking lot on International Drive, knowing they would never be known for parting the Red Sea -- not even on a movie set. They were, after all, just a small group of moms and dads, friends and relatives eager to participate in the Million Mom March to the Orange County Convention Center on Saturday. About 50 people organized by the Million Mom March organization marched to the convention site. They said they came to send a...

<p>So far this year, 10 Detroit-area children were killed by guns. How can we, as a community and a state, stop this rising tide of gun violence?</p> <p>Other communities that have stood at the dangerous intersection of young people and guns provide a good lesson. The similarities between school shootings in Littleton, Colo., and Erfurt, Germany, are striking -- troubled kids, access to guns and unbearable tragedy. Even more striking: the difference between the two countries' responses.</p>