Our partners at New Yorkers Against Gun Violence have been working tirelessly to pass the 2010 New York Microstamping Bill, a simple measure that would require gun manufacturers to microstamp any new model of semi-automatic handgun so these guns can easily be traced to crimes.
Tomorrow night a beautiful film is screening at Rooftop Films called A Harlem Mother. This outstanding portrait of Jean Corbett Parker, co-founder of Harlem Mothers SAVE, describes what a mother goes through when she loses her son to gun violence. Filmmaker, Ivana Todorovic, has done a brilliant...
This week, Beyond Bullets has been in attendance at the 4th Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which is taking place at the United Nations. We've attended meetings on gender mainstreaming in the prevention of small arms trafficking, the role of youth in the prevention and...
New York, NY- DCTV’s New York City Tour has concluded, visiting seven high schools in five days. The tour was a resounding success, reaching hundreds of students in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Over the past week, students have been actively engaging with DCTV presenters, responding to films...
Editor’s note: In mid-May PopTech held a salon workshop to highlight Ceasefire’s innovative efforts to “intercept” gun violence and to discuss how new information technologies might help broaden the impact of these initiatives in various communities.
To continue our exploration, PopTech recently...
No one exemplifies the message of Beyond Bullets, DCTV’s anti-gun violence media campaign, better than Ronald Merritt. Ronald is only 23 years old but he has already lost 36 friends to gun violence, the most recent of which was killed on Sunday May 23rd 2010. A former drug dealer nicknamed “Du da...
Ronald Merritt, a filmmaker, peered out at the group of 30 high school students who stood before him on a Lower East Side sidewalk.
“If y’all lost somebody to gun violence, raise your hand,” he said.
Nine students did so. Their stories poured out: the friend killed after a rowdy party; the relative...
One downtown media arts group has a message for New York City youth: Pick up a camera, not a gun.
This week, Manhattan’s Downtown Community Television Center is taking a giant bus around more than a dozen city schools to get students to make videos and talk about friends and family who have been...
