From Greg Jackson <[email protected]>
Subject BREAKING: President Biden’s Historic and Bold Executive Actions on Gun Violence!
Date April 8, 2021 1:50 AM
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Friends—

Today we celebrate a historic victory— President Biden has just announced bold Executive Actions to fight gun violence! [[link removed]]

The Executive Actions are robust and include clear actions to address community gun violence including:

*
Directing
five
federal
agencies
to
immediately
make
changes
to
26
different
programs
to
direct
vital
support
to
community
violence
intervention
programs.
These
changes
could
lead
to
increased
investments
in
community
violence
interventions.
*
Directing
the
U.S.
Department
of
Health
and
Human
Services
to
create
materials
to
educate
states
on
how
they
can
use
Medicaid
to
reimburse
certain
community
violence
intervention
programs,
like
Hospital-Based
Violence
Interventions.

Today’s historic announcement comes after years of working to push our leaders to prioritize gun violence in communities of color, and on the heels of President Biden committing $5 billion dollars to fund evidence-based community violence prevention programs. This commitment, and the Executive Actions announced today were the direct result of our meetings [[link removed]] with the Biden-Harris Administration, and we are proud to say that we have committed allies in this Administration.

This is HUGE and exactly why we started this work, this organization, and the fight with many of you.

In addition, President Biden has just announced that he is nominating David Chipman to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Since the beginning of our organization, he has shown both personally and professionally that he is committed to implementing bold solutions to end all forms of gun violence, including supporting communities of color.

It’s been 8 years since I survived gun violence, and since then over 800,000 people have been directly impacted including family friends, multiple mentees, neighbors, fellow activists in this struggle and so many more. Coming off one of the hardest years for gun violence in recent history, our communities could not have been hurting more for leadership and change...and today we got that.

We started CJAF nearly five years ago to fill a critical policy and organizing gap across the gun violence prevention movement, as the movement leadership largely ignored the concerns of Black, brown, and Indigenous people.

Today we celebrate, but this victory is not the end of our fight. Here are FOUR quick ways you can help today:

1.
Thank
President
Biden:
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Join
us
in
tweeting
thank
you
to
President
Biden,
for
today’s
Executive
Actions
and
for
committing
to
working
to
end
gun
violence.
2.
Urge
Speaker
Pelosi
and
Majority
Leader
Schumer
to
support
the
American
Jobs
Plan:
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Join
us
in
calling
on
our
Congressional
leaders
to
swiftly
pass
President
Biden’s
American
Jobs
Plan,
which
includes
the
critical
$5
billion
investment
in
community
violence
prevention
and
intervention
programs.
3.
Volunteer
with
our
team:
Fighting
to
end
gun
violence
is
a
daily
opportunity
to
make
change.
Sign
up
for
a
volunteer
by
messaging
our
Distributing
Organizing
Manager,
thia’[email protected].
4.
Text
for
updates:
Text
“JUSTICE”
to
79606
for
up-to-date
ways
to
take
action,
and
information
on
work
happening
in
your
local
community.

We thank President Biden, Vice-President Harris, and the entire Biden-Harris Administration for their partnership and look forward to continuing to work together to build a safer world for our communities.

In solidarity,

Greg Jackson Jr.







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