We can’t achieve racial justice if people aren’t safe in the communities where they live. Email Gov. Lamont and your state legislators asking them to establish a grant-making authority to support community-based violence prevention programs. 

Our proposed CT Initiative to Prevent Community Gun Violence would support community-based prevention programs through dependable funding, coordinate technical assistance and ensure accountability to save lives in the urban centers that account for most of Connecticut’s gun homicides (learn more here). More than 20 cities and states around the U.S. have similar programs, with demonstrated success. It’s time for Connecticut to take action! 

Take action now! Click here to contact your elected officials.

The Town Hall Watch Project is a crowd-sourced effort to maintain a calendar of all 187 state legislators’ town hall meetings. It lets us (and other advocacy organizations) efficiently keep track of town hall sessions so we can send supporters to these public forums to advocate for our legislative priorities.  

Volunteers monitor the constituent communications of the legislators to whom they are assigned. When they see a town hall scheduled, they enter the details in a Google form. It takes no more than 5 or 10 minutes a week to track and enter the information. 

Sign up to volunteer here.

Learn more about the Town Hall Project here. 

Many states have organizations similar to CAGV who rely on grassroots supporters just as we do. Ask your out-of-state friends and family to sign up. It’s especially important in conservative states where lawmakers don’t support common-sense gun laws. 

Direct them to ceasefireusa.org/affiliates.