RI Students to Legislators: We Are Not Targets

← ProJo My Turn: Elizabeth Abbott: RI Should Defy the Gun Lobby Week 2: Students Not Targets Rally → Students from Around Rhode Island Protest at the State House With the 2018 session winding down and no action on The Safe Schools Act, students demonstrated...

ProJo My Turn: Elizabeth Abbott: RI Should Defy the Gun Lobby

Letter to the Editor of the Providence Journal Find Contact Info for Your Favorite Local Newspaper My Turn: Elizabeth Abbott R.I. Should Defy the Gun Lobby Posted April 23, 2018 Last month, impressive youth from all over this country brought their pleas for safety to...

Week 1: Youth Engagement Campaign

What a busy first week! Over the past 7 days I’ve gone to a bill signing with the Governor, canvassed in Speaker Mattiello’s District, been helping the students of RI organize an action coming up soon, and so much more in-between. Transitioning from working as a...

49 Motorcycle Gang Members Arrest in Pre-Dawn Drug Bust

← Great Turnout for Lobby Day Week 1: Youth Engagement Campaign → A year-long investigation involving more than 150 state, federal and local law enforcement officers lead to the arrests of 49 people in May 2018,  including a gang member who was stopped en...

Great Turnout for Lobby Day

← Bishop Tobin Writes in Support of RI Coalition Against Gun Violence Efforts for Common Sense Gun Control 49 Motorcycle Gang Members Arrest in Pre-Dawn Drug Bust → Supporters of common-sense gun safety reforms showed up by the dozens late Tuesday afternoon...

Condemning RI Dems Exclusion of Gun Safety on Party Platform

RICAGV Press Release The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence Condemns the Rhode Island Democratic Party’s Exclusion on Gun Safety FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2018 CONTACT: Kat Kerwin, Director of Communications Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun...

Student Plans School Shooting in Vermont, Is Released on Bail

An 18-year-old former student at Fair Haven Union High School was charged with 4 felonies after police were alerted by his mother that he had bought a gun. A friend also contact the police because he was talking admiringly about the Parkland shooting, and hinted at...