TWO great events at Veterans Plaza and Civic Building in Silver Spring this weekend!
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CALL
TO ACTION on Saturday
Gun
Control Rally & March
Starts
w/Rally at Veterans Plaza (8:45 a.m.)
This Saturday there will be a “March on Washington for Gun Control.” This is a grassroots upsurge of families
across America to demand a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
and for urgently needed measures like licensing of firearms. The
march is supporting both federal legislation and the state bills currently
being considered by the Maryland Legislature in Annapolis.
Silver Spring area residents
are getting together with Senator Jaime Raskin and others at 8:45 a.m. in
Veterans Plaza, downtown Silver Spring for a pre-march rally. They will
then leave for the Metro by 9:30 a.m. to travel to the Capitol together. The
group will assemble there at 10:00 a.m. and march.
The march – down Constitution
Ave all the way to the Washington Monument - will be a silent procession,
holding signs with the names of victims of gun violence. Congressman Chris Van Hollen will join delegations
from Newton, Conn., actress Kathleen Turner, and others from throughout the
country for this march.
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GET
HEARD on Sunday
State
Legislative Forum
4
p.m. Silver Spring Civic Building
Join Silver Spring friends and neighbors Sunday January 27th at 4 p.m. in
the Silver Spring Civic Building for a legislative forum with State
senators and representatives in Annapolis. The event is coordinated by
Progressive Neighbors.
Scheduled participants include Senators Jamie Raskin,
Karen Montgomery, and Roger Manno, along with Delegates Sheila Hixson, Tom
Hucker, and others.
There will be a Q&A session about state policies and
initiatives that will affect our area:
- Death penalty
- Green energy and wind farms off the coast
- Education funding
- Gender equality
- Gun control- Roads, sidewalks, and public transportation
- Civil liberties
- Safe streets
Come meet your representatives, be heard, and help improve our community in the process... all at one public meeting in our own neighborhood.
- Death penalty
- Green energy and wind farms off the coast
- Education funding
- Gender equality
- Gun control- Roads, sidewalks, and public transportation
- Civil liberties
- Safe streets
Come meet your representatives, be heard, and help improve our community in the process... all at one public meeting in our own neighborhood.
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