(Common NRA CLAIMS & ACTUAL FACTS; Gun Victims Action Council Brochure; The RESEARCH) GUN VICTIM’S ACTION COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE ACTION GUIDE/TOOL KIT BACKGROUND: Far from being the socially conscious company they claim to be, Starbucks’ actions reveal they vigorously support the NRA’s lethal Pro-Gun Agenda. This agenda is significantly increasing everyone’s risk of being a…
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Valentine’s Launch of Starbucks Boycott
(Common NRA CLAIMS & ACTUAL FACTS; Gun Victims Action Council Brochure; The RESEARCH) (For Launch packet please contact epfnational@ameritech.net) BACKGROUND: Far from being the socially conscious company they claim to be, Starbucks’ actions reveal they vigorously support the NRA’s lethal Pro-Gun Agenda. This agenda is significantly increasing everyone’s risk of being a gun violence victim…
GUNS: The Research
The most complete study of the profile of open carry “law-abiding citizens,” was performed in 2009 in the State of Indiana. (See indystar.com, October 11, 2009, “Should these Hoosiers have been allowed to carry a gun in public?”) The study clearly demonstrates that, far from being innocent “law abiding citizens,” many of the people who…
Valentine’s Launch Starbucks Boycott
(Common NRA CLAIMS & ACTUAL FACTS; Gun Victims Action Council Brochure; The RESEARCH) GUN VICTIM’S ACTION COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE ACTION GUIDE/TOOL KIT BACKGROUND: Far from being the socially conscious company they claim to be, Starbucks’ actions reveal they vigorously support the NRA’s lethal Pro-Gun Agenda. This agenda is significantly increasing everyone’s…
PEACEMEALS: Connecting with Gun Shops
PEACEMEALS: Golfstown, NH: a project encouraged by the local Episcopal Peace Fellowship Chapter. Peacemeals – Building personal nonviolence skills, enjoying good company, taking nonviolent action for peace and justice locally. (St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Goffstown, New Hampshire.) For more information, contact the Rev. Bill Exner: exner@comcast.net Basic info: + Gun violence in US today accounts…
9/11 Resources from Vicki Garvey
Not only will we mark the 10th anniversary this year, but we do so on the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 19 already provides us with quite helpful propers, but I thought some of you might be interested in some other resources. The internet has a lot, as you might imagine and although I have…
Accompaniment for Peace in Colombia
By Linda Eastwood Imagine yourself sitting in a simple church in North West Colombia (as I was a week or so ago), talking to about twenty members. A pastor asks for everyone who has NOT been displaced by violence to raise their hands. After a pause, you and your US colleague do so. Everyone else…
Creating a Culture of Peace: Peace Gardens
by Janet Chisholm, Creating a Culture of Peace Executive Director and Past Chair of EPF “We call it the peace garden because well (healthy)-fed people are happier and naturally peaceful!” – Dave Patterson, Past President, Veterans for Peace, San Diego. Older and younger vets came together in San Diego with community allies for a weekend…
Film Explores Human Rights in El Salvador
by Mark Moring at Christianity Today’s Entertainment Blog Return to El Salvador, narrated by Martin Sheen, explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The 12-year conflict (from 1980 to 1992) killed over 75,000 people and displaced nearly one-fifth of the population. the documentary brings the struggles of this beleaguered country back into view and…
Ethical Musings on the Libyan No-Fly Zone
Acting in response to a United Nations authorizing resolution, the United States, along with some of its NATO allies and France, established a Libyan no-fly zone. The allies have succeeded in implementing the no-fly zone as well as enabling Libyan rebels to retake some of the ground they can initially captured and then lost to…
