Friend,

As we near the end of a challenging but historic year, we are continuing to put our attention towards the work our movement needs to prioritize in the year ahead. This year, countless headlines shared stories of gun violence tied to gender-based violence. An average of 57 women in the United States are shot and killed by an intimate partner every month, and for many Black and other women of color, police are often ineffective in interrupting violence before a gun is introduced. 

Gender-based violence against people of color is often a pathway to gun violence, and the gun violence prevention movement must advocate for solutions that invest in survivors. 

We at Community Justice recognize a critical policy and organizing gap across the gun violence prevention movement that fails to address the urgent need to advance solutions that address the needs of survivors of gender-based violence. 

 

We heard from many of you that our communities needed a road map to help drive survivor-centered policy to prevent gender-based gun violence. We are thrilled to release our new community-driven gender violence policy paper and we want you to be the first to see it.

The paper was written and informed by our communities, and is a blueprint to inform policymakers on how to invest in community solutions that empower and support survivors and their communities to prevent gun violence. 

We propose a three step framework for policymakers that includes:

1. Enacting a Public Health Approach to Gender-Based Violence 
2. Prioritizing Policy Solutions that Go Beyond Hardware and Police Response
3. Investing in Community Survivor Care as Gun Violence Prevention

Another world is possible, and our communities are ready to build it. 

In solidarity,

Sawyeh Maghsoodloo

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