BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action

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Nonviolence Training for the New Gun Sense Movement: Powerfully Peaceful Action in the Face of Armed and Aggressive Opposition

Facilitated by Michael Gagné

Sponsored by BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, Delaware County United for Sensible Gun Policy, Chester County Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, and Lower Merion United

Saturday, April 18, 2015

10:00 AM-3:00 PM

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Photos from Delaware Valley Remembers Sandy Hook

: Thank you to all the volunteers who helped on December 7

: Signing in before the event

: Timothy Horner, Villanova Assistant Professor of Peace & Justice Education, gave the welcome

: Rev. Katie Day of Heeding God’s Call opened the program with a prayer

: Memorial slideshow of the victims at Sandy Hook

: Tom Buglio of Chester County Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence and Shira Goodman of CeaseFire PA MC’ed the event

: Lori Haas, whose daughter was shot and wounded at Virginia Tech, urged the crowd not to sanitize gun violence with the use of euphemisms; loved ones are not “lost,” she said; they are “ripped from us.”

: Starr Cummin Bright shared her powerful story of surviving being shot at point blank range at a church in Chester County

: LisaBeth Weber performed her beautiful song, “All the Angels”

: Beverly Wright of Chester, shared the tragic impact of her son’s death by gun violence

: Villanova’s a cappella group, Minor Problem, gave an energized musical performance

: Governor Ed Rendell delivered the keynote address

: Rendell’s $100 question: What logical argument is there for the legality of someone with three felony armed robbery convictions being allowed to purchase an AR-15 from a private seller without a background check

: Governor Rendell received a standing ovation

: Terry Rumsey, Co-Chair of Delaware County United, delivered a request for financial support for the Delaware Valley Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

: Video of Francine Wheeler, whose son, Ben, was killed at Sandy Hook, testifying about background checks at the PA House Judiciary Committee

: Villanova’s Gospel Choir closed the program

: Dave Scholnick, PA Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, urged supporters to push state legislators to co-sponsor H.B. 1010, which would require background checks on the private sale of long guns in PA

: Heeding God’s Call and Villanova students installed this t-shirt Memorial to the Lost representing the 26 victims at Sandy Hook and the 288 gun homicide victims in Philadelphia last year

: Memorial to the Lost on the Villanova campus

: Singing at the Memorial to the Lost

: Shawn Kraemer, Chair of Lower Merion United

: Robin Lasersohn, Co-Chair of Delaware County United

: Rendell with singer songwriter, LisaBeth Weber

: Chester Mayor John Linder and Police Commissioner Joseph Bail have been consistent supporters of gun violence prevention efforts

: Kathy Leary of BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action served on the event organizing committee

: Audience members came from all over the Delaware Valley

: Che Saitta of CeaseFire PA and Shara Dunham of Heeding God’s Call

: Delaware County United Steering Committee member, Carol Seeley

: Brendan McPhillips of Mayors Against Illegal Guns handled the press work for the event, which got great coverage

: Bill Deckhart of BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action gave an impassioned call to get involved with local gun violence prevention organizations

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: Thank you to everyone who came out to mark the Sandy Hook anniversary and is ready to speak out for stronger gun laws

: This beautiful photo of Shara Dunham of Heeding God’s preparing the electric candles was published in the Delaware County Daily Times and the Main Line Times