Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

September 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM

Firearm Suicide Prevention Webinar ft. Lt. Gov. Davis

A conversation with Lt. Gov. Davis, Eastern PA Director of AFSP Samantha Bruno, and Dr. Jay Breneman CW: Mention of suicide. If you or someone you care about is experiencing suicidal thoughts, help is available. Please call 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to speak with someone now.  Fellow Advocate, F…

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  Carol Lastowka, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

September 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM

Keeping all PA kids safe 🍎

Please join us on Zoom on September 18. Fellow Advocate, I’m reaching out to tell you about our Statewide #KeepKidsSafe Virtual Roundtable on Wednesday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m.  COUNT ME IN School communities across the country are still reeling from last week's tragic and preventable high schoo…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

September 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM

We want to hear from you

Take our 2-minute survey to share your concerns about gun violence this school year.   Now that Pennsylvania schools are back in session, our campaign to #KeepKidsSafe is also in full swing.  Part of that campaign is tapping into the concerns that parents and guardians across the Commonwealth share…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 31, 2024 at 4:36 PM

5 min to save a life

Get involved in our Keep Kids Safe Campaign! Fellow Advocate, Together, we’re building a movement to #KeepKidsSafe across Pennsylvania this school year. I know I say that a lot but I don’t say it lightly.  Through the end of September, we’re focusing our efforts on gun safety policies that will fost…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM

Not just school buildings

Let’s keep kids safe in school zones too. Fellow Advocate, We spend a lot of time talking about school shootings, and how to prevent them, and rightfully so. But according to a new report by The Trace,1 gun violence in the vicinity of schools can also traumatize children and impede their learning. …

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  Josh Fleitman, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 23, 2024 at 4:31 PM

Friday night lights turned deadly

Take action to require background checks on ammo sales.  Fellow Advocate, When you think of Friday night lights, what comes to mind? For me, it’s a chill in the air, the smell of grass, and the thrill of a high school football game. Certainly, it doesn’t conjure up images of horrific gun violence. B…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM

Announcing our new merch site 🥁

Now, you can show off your advocacy with our merch store. Fellow Advocate, I have some really exciting news for you: Our merchandise store is making its debut today! And, just in time for Back to School, our featured item is a CeaseFirePA backpack. As our movement grows more powerful and more diver…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 12, 2024 at 4:31 PM

Launching our Keep Kids Safe Campaign 🚀

Join our call to prioritize gun safety this school year. Fellow Advocate, As my wife and I prepare our daughter to start school this fall, I have one consistent, haunting thought distracting me from picking out backpacks and pouring over the kindergarten curriculum. Will my daughter, and all Pennsyl…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

August 7, 2024 at 9:09 PM

I’ve got a secret 👀

Our Advocacy Day video is ready for your viewing pleasure. Fellow Advocate,  I’ve been sitting on an exciting secret. I commissioned a hype video of our Advocacy Day on May 7 – our largest day of action this year – and it’s now ready for your viewing and sharing pleasure! 🍿 Today marks three months …

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  Carol Lastowka, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

August 5, 2024 at 6:30 PM

Letter to the Editor Webinar ✍️

Learn how to write an effective Letter to the Editor in your local paper. I hope your summer is going swimmingly! 🏊 I wanted to (very briefly, I promise!) interrupt these last hot and hazy summer days to invite you to take a powerful next step in your advocacy. As we all start thinking about Back to…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

August 1, 2024 at 9:40 PM

We’re endorsing Kamala Harris AND 83 PA champions!

We’re building a federal-state partnership to end gun violence. Fellow Advocate, It’s official: CeaseFirePA Action has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President in 2024.  Vice President Harris has been an integral part of the most pro-gun safety Presidential Administration in U.S. History.…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

July 31, 2024 at 10:26 PM

Changing the narrative on firearm suicide

Our new Director of Firearm Suicide Prevention Policy started this month.  Fellow Advocate, Firearm suicide is responsible for over half of all gun deaths in Pennsylvania,1 impacting rural areas from the Poconos to the coal region the most. It is a crisis that affects our friends, family, and neigh…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA PAC · [email protected]

July 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM

Challenge accepted?

Help us unlock a $15,000 donation.   Since I last reached out, I received some truly excellent news:  generous donors have challenged us to raise $185,000 toward our $200,000 goal of flipping (at least) two PA House seats to gun safety champions, and promised to chip in the remaining $15,000 if we …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA PAC · [email protected]

July 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM

We’re ready to win

We will make gun safety an electoral winner.  Fellow Advocate,  May 7 was a visceral day. Maybe you were with us when – in front of 600 gun safety advocates – two1 of our priority bills2 failed to pass in the PA House, each by a margin of just one vote.  On that day, it became abundantly clear to m…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

July 15, 2024 at 2:46 PM

When gun violence becomes political violence

More guns will not make us safer Fellow Advocate,   This weekend’s bone-chilling assassination attempt of former President Trump in Butler, PA shook me, my team, and our entire nation to our core. It harkens back to dark eras in our history where violence, not words or votes, were used to settle pol…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFire · [email protected]

July 12, 2024 at 10:15 PM

This bipartisan budget will save lives.

Last night, Gov. Shapiro signed a gun safety budget into law. I’m coming to you with some really good news: last night, the PA General Assembly passed and Gov. Shapiro signed a bipartisan budget for the fiscal year 2024-2025. This budget includes a $56.5 million investment in community-based gun vi…

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  Carol Lastowka, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

July 8, 2024 at 4:45 PM

CORRECTION: Guess who is headlining our summer meeting?

Join us and our special guest next Wednesday, 7/10. I'm reaching out again because the original version of this email contained a typo in the name of our honored guest, Tyson Combs. I apologize for this error, and please see the corrected version below.  Wednesday's meeting will be a great time, a…

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  Carol Lastowka, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

July 5, 2024 at 9:30 PM

Guess who is headlining our summer meeting?

Join us and our special guest next Wednesday, 7/10. Fellow Advocate,  I hope you’re having a sizzling summer so far and that your Fourth (of July) was fantastic! I’m reaching out because I wanted to personally invite you to our Volunteer Virtual BBQ and Summer Meeting on Wednesday, July 10. And as …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

July 3, 2024 at 10:31 PM

One year since Kingsessing

The solution is stalled in Harrisburg.  Today marks one year since the horrific Philadelphia mass shooting that killed four adults and wounded two children. Around 8 p.m. on July 3, 2023, a jarring barrage of shots rang out in Southwest Philly’s Kingsessing neighborhood, where the sound of gunfire …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 27, 2024 at 2:07 PM

URGENT: PA budget deadline in 3 days

We need $100 mil to fight gun violence.  Fellow Advocate, I have a couple important updates to share about our push for a $100 million gun safety budget in Pennsylvania. First, this week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis, for the first time in American …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM

SCOTUS upholds DV protections

Tell PA Sen. Leadership – ERPOs are constitutional  Fellow Advocate, I’m coming to you with some good news: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in U.S. v. Rahimi to uphold decades of established law, keeping guns out of the hands of individuals with civil domestic violence restraining orders. But…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM

FWD: SCOTUS overturns federal bump stock ban

Demand a statewide ban in PA.   I know you get a lot of emails, but I need to make sure you saw my message from last Friday, when the United State Supreme Court overturned the federal bump stock ban.  It's been all over the national news, but those stories have all omitted a very important piece re…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM

Can you make it tomorrow?

Please join us at a press conference tomorrow at City Hall.  Fellow Advocate, I wanted to reach out quickly and invite you to a Public Safety Press Conference tomorrow, to sign a new bill to ban bump stocks in Philadelphia. It will be held in the Mayor’s Reception Room, Philadelphia City Hall, on T…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 14, 2024 at 7:27 PM

BREAKING: SCOTUS overturns federal bump stock ban

Demand a statewide ban in PA.  Fellow Advocate, I’m coming to you with some breaking news: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal bump stock ban1 enacted in response to the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history, in Las Vegas in 2017. Now I urgently need you to contact your state…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM

Investing in safer communities

We need $100 mil to fight gun violence.  Fellow Advocate, It’s budget season in Harrisburg again, and that means we are continuing to push for big investments in community-based gun violence prevention and intervention programs across the Commonwealth. From now through the legislature’s June 30 bud…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

June 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM

Can you make it on Friday?

Please join us at a press conference this Friday.  Fellow Advocate, I wanted to reach out quickly and invite you to a Gun Violence Awareness Month press conference and rally this Friday, June 14, held by Sen. Vincent Hughes. This event will be held at Mighty Writers, 12 E. Church Lane, Philadelphia…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA · [email protected]

June 7, 2024 at 7:45 PM

Give in honor of Wear Orange Weekend

Contribute to our movement and help power our events this weekend.   This weekend, June 7-9, is Wear Orange Weekend. Gun violence prevention advocates across the country, and here in Pennsylvania, will gather to honor the lost and stand with survivors of gun violence.Some photos from Wear Orange eve…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

May 31, 2024 at 4:31 PM

Our newest board member

As we get ready to ramp up for the fall, I’m proud to announce Cayla Waddington has joined our Board of Directors. Cayla Speaking at our Advocacy Day rally in Harrisburg, May 7, 2024. Credit: Dave Hochendoner.I want to introduce you to the new Youth Advisor to our Board of Directors, Cayla Waddingt…

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  Carol Lastowka, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

May 29, 2024 at 6:01 PM

Join us on June 8 in Southwest Philly →

We will have a table at this great event.  I’m reaching out to invite you to an important event in your area. Please join us for the Philadelphia Wear Orange – Gun Violence Victim Remembrance Rally and Community Resource Fair. It will be held at the Mothers Bonded by Grief Botanical Garden of Heali…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

May 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM

This is a marathon

I’m still angry about yesterday’s vote, but so inspired by our presence.Give me a moment to explain what happened yesterday. In the morning, our movement showed up like never before. A sea of 560 orange-clad survivors, doctors, priests, nuns, rabbis, nurses, teenagers, and everyday Pennsylvanians fl…

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  Carol’s iPhone · [email protected]

May 7, 2024 at 1:02 PM

My morning bus report

We are headed to Harrisburg for Advocacy Day and we need you to take action with us. As CeaseFirePA’s Organizing Manager, I’m tasked with helping to run the show at Advocacy Day – and on top of that I’m currently on my way from Southeast PA to Harrisburg to help paint the Capitol orange.  My team a…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

May 6, 2024 at 8:35 PM

Just one day away

It’s not too late to invest in our biggest day of the year.We are now one day away from Advocacy Day and I have to say that I am overwhelmed by your generosity and commitment to our movement. Since I last wrote you, 60 grassroots donors have stepped up to the plate, allowing us to accommodate even m…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

May 2, 2024 at 10:46 PM

Help sponsor our biggest day of the year

Your investment can make next week’s Advocacy Day extra impactful.Our Advocacy Day is next Tuesday, May 7th, and I can’t wait to showcase the enormous power of our movement with you in Harrisburg. So far, over 500 advocates from the majority of PA counties have signed up to travel to Harrisburg and …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

April 30, 2024 at 5:55 PM

BREAKING: U.S. House Judiciary Committee in Philly

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on gun violence in Philly– can you make it? I wanted you to be the first to know: the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on gun violence in Philadelphia this Friday, May 3, at 9:00 a.m., at the William J. Green Jr. Federal Buil…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

April 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM

Tell your Senator: Demand a Hearing on Ghost Gun Bill

It’s time the Senate heard from us on Ghost Guns!I want to be completely honest about one thing: it was your activism that compelled the Pennsylvania House to pass the bipartisan House Bill 7771 (aka the Ghost Gun Bill) last month. Your relentless advocacy convinced our representatives, including th…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

April 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM

Ask your Rep. to Co-Sponsor Bill to Stop Gun Trafficking ⤵️

House Bill 2206 to stop crime guns is out of Judiciary and needs more co-sponsors! I’m writing to you with some truly excellent news: House Bill 22061 just advanced through the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives! If you need a refresher (that’s ok!), right now all gun d…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

April 16, 2024 at 6:46 PM

What I told NPR

We have big plans to address PA’s gun suicide crisis and we need your help addressing them. Content warning: suicide. If you or anyone you know is in crisis or considering suicide, please call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8. As I told NPR Morning Edition's Michel Martin today, "M…

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  Brandon Flood, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

March 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM

Today’s BIG victory

Today, the PA House passed legislation to treat ghost guns as real guns. Fellow Advocate,  I’m coming to you live from the Capitol again, with some fantastic news! The PA House just passed major legislation1 banning ghost guns as we know them. Thanks to your heroic efforts, House Bill 777 passed its…

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  Brandon Flood, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

March 25, 2024 at 7:31 PM

FWD: Take action on ghost guns [URGENT]⤵️

Please see below and join me in taking action Hi, it’s me, Brandon – CeaseFirePA Action’s Deputy Director of Government Affairs. I’m coming to you live from Harrisburg. Before I go into the Capitol, I wanted to make sure you saw Adam’s email from the other day. ICYMI: HB 777, which would ban ghost g…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

March 23, 2024 at 6:20 PM

Take action on ghost guns [URGENT]⤵️

Last weekend in Bucks County, a gunman used a semi-automatic ghost gun to commit a triple homicide and then fled to New Jersey in a stolen vehicle. This triggered an interstate manhunt, and forced the Falls Township community into a weekend-long lock down, canceling their St. Patrick’s Day parade.1…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM

Crime Gun Summit – April 16 & 17

Fellow Advocate,   On April 16 & 17, CeaseFirePA will be joining with Brady: United Against Gun Violence for a Crime Gun Summit in Philadelphia. It’s going to be a powerful and informative event, and tickets are going fast, so reserve yours now.  Brady is a national leader in the gun safety advo…

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Education Fund · [email protected]

March 8, 2024 at 7:34 PM

Multiple SEPTA shootings are preventable.

Tell Harrisburg To Take Action Gun Violence Prevention Advocate,  Tuesday night, my kid begged me to take the SEPTA bus home–she finds it fun. We got off blocks from Broad & Snyder–about 30 minutes before someone was murdered on a different bus blocks away.1 The day prior, a teenager was killed …

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  Adam Garber, CeaseFirePA Action · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 4:48 PM

we're making progress on ghost guns

help us score another win for safety Gun Violence Prevention Advocate,  Ghost guns – fully-functioning, untraceable firearms that can be quickly assembled from a kit, and can be bought without a background check – are wreaking havoc on our communities. Recently, Delaware County was rocked by the kil…

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