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Our September Newsletter is out! Highlights: our newly formed Teachers Unify Crisis Intervention and Support Team, #ProjectLockdown, @teachersunifypc.bsky.social guest La-Shanda West, and updates from our friends at ENOUGH! Plays, @feelgoodaction.bsky.social, @newtownaction.org.
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Congress won’t save him. A gun lock might.
We’ve seen culture shifts before — seatbelts, smoking, drunk driving. We didn’t wait for Congress then, and we can’t now. It’s time to do the same with secure firearm storage. Projectlockdown.org
#ProjectLockdown
#NoGunLeftUnlocked
#SecureStorageSavesLives
#SafeSchoolsSafeCommunities
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Summertime meant a vacation for the Armed with Reason podcast, but we’re back. Last week we welcomed Abbey Clements — former Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher and co-founder of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence
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The biggest threat to our schools is at home
How to normalize the gun safety conversation
We refuse to accept gun violence as normal. These tragedies aren’t inevitable—they’re preventable through education, responsibility, and action. Join us. #ProjectLockdown #NoGunLeftUnlocked
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50- Jaue Baloes (Photo Credit: Preston Spire, used with permission) Nonprofit organization Teachers Unify To End Gun Violence worked with creative agency Preston Spire to launch a campaign called Project Lockdown: No Gun Left Behind. The campaign has one goal in mind: Ensure that all gun owners use gun locks, as two-thirds of school shootings occur as a result of an unsecured gun. The agency and nonprofit filmed various videos and social content,
Q campaign started its Lock-a-Gun-Now initiative (which makes locks available with one click from retailers such as Amazon, Lowe's and Walmart) and created a child-run Gun Lock Stand, designed to mimic a child's lemonade stand. Brand Buzz
Thank you, www.campaignlive.com, for uplifting #ProjectLockdown. Secure storage saves lives!
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#BooksNotBullets
#SafeSchoolsSafeCommunities
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Lockdowns start at home. Buy a gun lock today.
Visit ProjectLockdown.org to learn simple, effective ways to lockdown firearms and find secure storage options to purchase now.
Roughly 4.6 million children live in homes with at least one unlocked, unsecured firearm.
#ProjectLockdown
#BooksNotBullets
#SafeSchoolsSafeCommunities
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Gun Locks 50 cents
When kids and their teachers sell locks instead of lemonade, something’s wrong. 2 in 3 school shootings started with access to an unsecured firearm. Lock up. Save lives. #ProjectLockdown
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No teacher or child should fear for their life at school. This back-to-school season, join us and help protect our classrooms and neighborhoods through secure firearm storage.
#ProjectLockdown
#BooksNotBullets
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"This used to be a lemonade stand. Maybe someday it can be one again."
Stop a tragedy before it starts.
#ProjectLockdown
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Gun Locks
After a school tragedy in Minneapolis, kids & adults gathered to support #ProjectLockdown — Ed, a music teacher, and Mary Cathryn, a former classroom teacher & education leader. The kids led conversations on secure firearm storage because “Gun Locks Save Friends.” projectlockdown.org