Alliance for Justice Awards More Than $170,000 to Promote Youth Activism

The Alliance for Justice is awarding Co/Motion Grants totaling more than $170,000 to eighteen local organizations that support youth activism around the problem of gun violence in America. The Alliance's Co/Motion Youth Gun Violence Prevention Initiative seeks to strengthen the voice of young people by providing them with valuable skills and resources to support their dedication to the prevention of gun violence through advocacy, grassroots organizing and public education.

What does this translate to? Past experience says it means things like:

Busing schoolchildren to anti-gun protests during school hours
Ad campaigns that target those too young to think critically about the claims
Mandatory "educational programs" preaching an anti-gun message

What it doesn't mean are any actual gun-safety programs -- like, say, NRA's Eddie Eagle. Why not? Because the anti-gun crowd are not interested in gun safety; they are interested in banning guns.

Posted on 2003-05-10 04:20:09.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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