(more calls to action that need your support here: CALLS TO ACTION: What you can do NOW!) UPDATE: The House of Represenatives passed this bill, now it’s up to the senate! Please send a message or call your State Senator, contact info below. UPDATE: The Massachusetts Police Chief Association has ENDORSED THIS BILL! But that does NOT MEAN YOUR STATE
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SIGN THE PETITION HERE – it’s easy, just fill in your info on the right. You can choose to be kept off of any lists. Please sign and share this petition, let’s tell the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates, give us a recall provision! There is none in the county charter as it is now, but the assembly is currently
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The state senate has already passed this bill, it needs to pass the house. Let’s make sure our youth have the knowledge they need to make the right decisions.
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UDPATE Help is still needed to staff the tables, ESPECIALLY IN COTUIT AND MARSTONS MILLS CAPE & ISLANDS VOTE! A Cape & Islands Non-Partisan Voter Registration Drive A movement is afoot. Cape and Islands Votes is organizing voter registration drives across the cape for June 14, 15 and 16. HELP IS NEEDED IN EACH LOCATION! This is a nonpartisan effort
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Consider this Cape Cod woman’s story of resilience and ask yourself if we are doing enough. On Being Resilient. by Meaghan Mort My story of resilience begins when I was in middle school if I recall correctly (this was some time ago), when a neighbor sexually assaulted me. He asked me to “come here” because he “needed to show me
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Thank you Attorney General Maura Healey. Her Federal Court victory on Friday, April 6, 2018, has set a national precedent. We’ve been posting a series on the effort Maura Healey has made on our behalf to enforce the assault weapons ban by banning copycat weapons that had been slightly altered and sold as “compliant,” and the gun lobby’s effort to
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This weekend a two-day event titled “Massachusetts Women’s Leadership and Firearms Summit” is being by co-sponsored by Gun Owners Action League (GOAL.) GOAL is the NRA affiliate organization that filed a lawsuit against Maura Healey seeking to overturn the MA assault weapon ban. The State Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is also a co-sponsor and they will be hosting at their
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This is the third in series of articles about our assault weapons ban here in MA, challenges by the NRA and support for those challenges by legislators, several representing Cape Cod. More pieces coming over the next couple of weeks, including legislation supported by NRA lobbying. In July, 2016, Attorney General Maura Healey issued a directive to gun-dealers and manufacturers
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This is the first of four posts about AG Maura Healey’s actions to protect us, and the NRA and their legislators efforts to stop her.
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