On Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 PM The Maysles Cinema will present the Beyond Bullets: Gun Violence in America curated by Sylvia Savadjian. This event will feature three films on the topic of gun violence in America. The films include Living for 32 directed by Kevin Breslin, Bullets in the Hood: A...
On Tuesday, April 12th, nearly 200 NYC teens woke at the crack of dawn to board buses headed to Albany, New York. Beyond Bullets rode along with them as they prepared to lobby New York State and City legislators for sensible gun laws.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been busy. They have launched a national truck tour , which ends in Washington D.C. the week of April 11th. They also have a new website which traces where our crime guns from, and provides state-by-state data on gun laws and gun trafficking.
We'd like to extend a huge congratulations to our partners at High School for Enterprise, Business & Technology in Bushwick, Brooklyn for their award-winning presentation, Guns in America. They won Third Place at the school's 2010 Humanities Fair last week. The presentation was thoroughly...
This week, President Obama invited the National Rifle Association to the White House to have a discussion with gun control advocates about our national background check system and the gun show loophole. Not surprisingly, they refused the invitation. Maybe the Obama Administration is just going to...
This past weekend, I made my annual visit to Columbia, MO for the True/False Film Festival. This documentary festival is just amazing. From world-class films to local community involvement, every detail is impeccably cared for and the lovely town comes together for discussion about important issues...
Therno Diallo is a student at High School for Enterprise, Business & Technology at Grand Street Campus. At last week's Humanities Fair at EBT, Therno gave a presentation about gun violence and how it affected him after his uncle, Amadou Diallo, was shot 41 times by NYPD plainclothes officers....
We put out the request for good news and it keeps coming in! This is from Kamiyiha West from High School for Enterprise, Business & Technology at the Grand Street Campus, who recently took a trip to the Netherlands with the United Nation's Model UN Program. Here she describes her trip (...
If any of you have seen Jon Alpert, DCTV's Founder, you know that he often wears a feather in his DCTV cap. One Sunday morning he was spotted by a Brooklyn social worker, Ashley Young, who wanted to talk about said feather.
