Newtown Action Alliance is a national grassroots organization created after the the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Through all-volunteer activism and advocacy, NAA hopes to transform their tragedy into meaningful action to end the gun violence epidemic. NAA pushes for passing common sense gun safety legislation at the local, state, and federal levels.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was created in December 2012, in immediate response to the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As a leading force for gun violence prevention, the group supports the Second Amendment but believes that common sense solutions are necessary in order to protect our children and loved ones. Moms Demand Action emphasizes that gun violence is an epidemic and fights for stronger gun laws and policies that would decrease this escalating epidemic....
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence is a non-profit organization created 25 years ago following the death of a jogger who was shot and killed in Chapel Hill, NC. The group educates families and schools on gun safety procedures and gun violence prevention. Direct involvement with community leaders and public officials helps spread the message and gain involvement across the state.
Activists participating in a peaceful vigil following the Parkland shooting. Source: ncgv.org
This movement advocates for gun control and against gun violence in the United States. Guns are deeply rooted in the country’s economy – as the world leader in military weapons exports – and social norms. The movement faces many challenges, first and foremost the vagueness of the Second Amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Organizations, including the National Rifle...
The International Feminism movement is an umbrella movement for all feminists movements that take place around the world. The movement, as a whole, allows sub-feminist movements to make connections and find similarities in campaigns/resources to one another. Additionally, this movement allows women's voices to be heard across the world and raises important women's issues from different societies and cultures.