The Violence Policy Center is the new name of the New Right Watch (NRW), a non-profit group that "researched" what it perceived as a new right-wing American political movement. NRW focused its attack on semi-automatic firearms with two releases: "Assault Weapons and Accessories in America" (1988), a joint effort with EFEHV, and "Assault Weapons: Analysis, New Research, and Legislation" (1989). Funding for New Right Watch was received from individual and foundation grants. VPC is a non-profit national "educational" foundation that proposes firearms restrictions, including total handgun prohibition, as measures to reduce violence in America. VPC's Executive Director, Josh Sugarmann, formerly the Executive Director of the New Right Watch and, previously, with the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, authored a book attacking the NRA -- NRA: Money, Firepower, and Fear (1992). In 1997, VPC produced a report attacking NRA's Eddie Eagle program, calling it "Joe Camel with feathers". This attack was so scurrilous that many in the media denounced it. It stands as clear evidence that VPC is more interesed in attacking NRA than in finding any rational or effective solutions to violence in America.
Headquarters: 1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
(212) 484-1616
www.ceasefire.org
Executive Director: Elizabeth Schmidt
CeaseFire, Inc. was formed in 1995 with a stated mission to "reshape the gun violence debate in America." Infused with money from Courtney Love, the widow of rock star Curt Cobain, who committed suicide, the organization signed on the numerous high- profile celebrities and business people listed below to their advisory panel. CeaseFire runs TV Public Service Announcements with celebrities and runs print advertising in major newspapers and magazines with the message that guns are dangerous and gun ownership is a threat to family and friends. Their stated goal is to promote "handgun-free homes and families" by claiming that gun ownership is a public health threat.
Advisory Panel Members
Reginald Brack, Chairman, Time, Inc.
Senator Bill Bradley, (D-NJ)
Stephen Brobeck, Exec. Dir. Consumer Federation of America
Doug Carlston, Chairman and CEO, Broderbund Software, Inc.
President Jimmy Carter
Senator John Chafee, (R-RI)
K. Kaufer Christoffel, M.D., M.P.H., Children's Mem. Hospital, Chicago
Walter Cronkite, Journalist
Barry Diller, Chairman, Silver King Communications
Michael Douglas, Actor
Millard Drexler, CEO, Gap. Inc.
Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Co.
Susan Estrich, Professor, The Law Center, The University of Southern California
Senator Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA)
Mark Finucane, Former Chairman, National Association of Public Hospitals
Tom Freston, Chairman, MTV Networks
Kieth Geiger, Pres., Nat'l Education Association
Gerald Grinstein, Chairman, Burlington Northern
Alan G. Hassenfeld, Chairman, Pres. and CEO, Hasbro, Inc.
John F. Kennedy, Jr., Editor in Chief, GEORGE
Deborah Leff, Pres., The Joyce Foundation
H. Michael Lemmons, Exec. Dir., Congress of Nat'l Black Churches
Edward Malloy, Pres., University of Notre Dame
Paul Newman, Actor
Michael Ovitz, Pres., The Walt Disney Company
Ron Perlman, Pres., Revlon, Inc.
Mike Pertschuk, Co-Director, The Advocacy Institute
Roberta Copper Ramo, Pres. American Bar Association
Steve Rattner, General Partner, Lazard Freres & Co.
Matt Rodriguez, Superintendent, Chicago Police Department
Mark Rosenburg, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Nat'l Center for Injury
Prevention and Control
Dewey Stokes, Former Nat'l Pres., FOP
Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO, TELE-TV
Stephen Teret, M.D., M.P.H., Director, John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
James Todd, M. D., Executive Vice-Pres., AMA
Jann S. Wenner, Chairman, Wenner Media, Inc.
Lois Jean White, Pres.-Elect, Nat'l PTA
Jay Winston, Director, Center for Health Communications, Harvard University
Million Mom March Organization
Million Mom March National Office
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA 94110
tel: 415 821-8200
tel: 888-989-MOMS fax: 415-821-5811
email: national@millionmommarch.org
Board of Directors
Mary Leigh Blek, Board President
Tom Vanden Berk, Chair
Tony Hernandez, Secretary
Beckie Brown
Donna Dees-Thomases
Katina Johnstone
K. Francis Lee, M.D
Catherine Murphy
Steve Young
Andrew McGuire, Executive Director
Million Mom March (MMM) is a national grassroots, chapter-based organization formed in 1999 as a reaction to the shooting at the jewish community center in suburban Los Angelos. Their stated goal is to win passage of "gun laws, including: (1)licensing of handgun owners, (2) registration of handguns, (3) creating consumer product safety standards for guns, (4) closing the "gun show loophole," and (5) limiting gun purchases to no more than one a month." They staged a march in Washington, D.C. On Mothers Day 2000 and have continued to build a national organization. The founder, Donna Dees-Thomases is a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Americans for Gun Safety
Arlington, Virginia
Phone (202) 775-0300
Founder: Andrew McKelvey
Executive Director: Jonathan Cowan
ww2.americansforgunsafety.com
AGS was formed in June, 2000 and claims to be a centerist gun safety group. Its Executive Director, however, is the former Chief of staff to the aggressively anti-gun Andrew Cuomo at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. AGS is building a national group by affiliating with smaller state based groups and providing them with funding and an national network under which to operate.
Consumer Federation of America
1424 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-387-6121
Fax: 202-265-7989
www.consumerfed.org
Organized in 1968, the CFA is a federation of consumer groups from around the nation. It currently has 260 members all parts of the country (For a list see http://www.stateandlocal.org/listomems.html.) CFA has now made the regulation of firearms a primary area of activity. They are the primary proponent of the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act which would give the U.S. Treasury Department broad authority to regulate guns, including the authority to ban them. CFA also operates a tax exempt 501 (c) (3) called the Consumer Federation of America Foundation.
HELP Network
Children's Memorial Hospital
2300 Children's Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60614
Phone (773) 880-3826
Fax (773) 880-6615
www.guninfo.org
Join Together
441 Stuart Street
The American Jewish Congress
Headquarters:
Government Affairs:
www.ajcongress.org
The Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
140 S. Dearborn St. Ste. 1100
The Joyce Foundation
135 South LaSalle Street, Suite 4010
Firearm Injury Center at Penn (FICAP)
3440 Market Street, First Floor
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1101 14th Street NW, Suite 700
California Wellness Foundation
6320 Canoga Ave., Suite 1700
Board of Directors
Earl G. Mink, Chair
State Anti-Gun Organizations
ALABAMA
Society Against Firearm Endangerment
Mothers Against Violence
ARIZONA
Handgun Control Activists
CALIFORNIA
Californians for Responsible Gun Laws
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
Women Against Gun Violence
Los Angeles Teens On Target/Youth Alive
COLORADO
Colorado Children's Campaign
Physicians for Social Responsibility -- Colorado
CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Coalition Against Gun Violence
Sue McCalley
P.O. Box 523
Southport, CT 06490
P: 203-637-2694
FLORIDA
Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
MAD DADS of Greater Ocala
GEORGIA
Georgians Against Gun Violence, Inc.
Georgians United Against Gun Violence
HAWAII
Firearms Coalition
Hawaii Firearms Control Coalition
ILLINOIS
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence
Quad Citizens for Responsible Gun Laws
Rise High Projects
INDIANA
Concerned Citizens About Gun Violence
G.R.I.E.F. of Indiana
IOWA
Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence
KENTUCKY
Kentuckian's Chapter for Handgun Control
Kentucky Voice for Crime Victims
Presbyterian Church (USA)
LOUISIANA
Louisiana Ceasefire
MARYLAND
Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse
MASSACHUSETTS
Americans for a Non-Violent Society
Citizens for Safety
Dorchester Youth Collaborative
Stop Handgun Violence
MICHIGAN
Michigan Citizens for Handgun Control
SOSAD
Women Against Gun Violence
MINNESOTA
Citizens for a Safer Minnesota
Lynne Westphal
MISSOURI
Ad Hoc Group Against Crime
Coalition Against Concealed Guns
Missourians Against Handgun Violence
E.N.O.U.G.H.
NEBRASKA
Nebraskans for Responsible Gun Ownership
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Seacoast Advocates for Gun Control
NEW JERSEY
Cease Fire New Jersey
Joan Diefenbach
Jack Johnson
Ellen Saxon
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Ceasefire
NEW YORK
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Handgun Control of New York
Mothers Against Violence
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
Committee For The Silent March
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence
OHIO
Handgun Control Federation of Ohio
L.E.N.A.
Parents of Murdered Children
OREGON
Oregonians Against Gun Violence
PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvanians Against Handgun Violence
SOUTH CAROLINA
Citizens for a Safer South Carolina
The Alliance for South Carolina s Children
TENNESSEE
Tennesseeans for Responsible Gun Ownership
TEXAS
Houston Area Violence Prevention
Physicians for a Violence Free Society
Texans Against Gun Violence
Leslie Bernard
Texans Against Violence -- Houston
Texans Against Violence
Barbara Lindley
Cindy Wetherall
Texas Crime Prevention Clearing House
UTAH
Utahns Against Gun Violence
VERMONT
Vermonters Against Violence
VIRGINIA
Virginians Against Handgun Violence
Melanie Costello
WASHINGTON
Mothers Against Violence in America
Washington Cease Fire
WISCONSIN
American Trauma Society
Citizens Against Handgun Violence
Mobilization for Survival
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Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Phone (617) 437-1500
Fax (617) 437-9394
www.jointogether.orgJoin Together was formed to serve as a national organizing link for national, state and local organizations
to promote anti- violence prevention programs and to support passage of restrictive gun laws. In particular,
Join Together supports the "public health" approach to criminol violence, seeking to treat crime as a
disease and firearms as the cause.
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
Phone (212) 360-1540
Fax (212) 249-3672
Jack Rosen, President
Phil Baum, Executive Director
2027 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone (202) 332-4001
Matthew Dorf, Director
The American Jewish Congress has long supported restrictive gun laws. However, they are now engaged in
active Congressional lobbying for passage of legislation that infringes Second Amendment rights.
New York, NY 10017
Phone (212)573-5000
Fax (212)599-4584The Ford Foundation has provided financial grants to programs aimed at restricting gun ownership and
regulating gun owners' rights.
Chicago, IL 60603-5285
Phone (312) 726-8000The MacArthur Foundation is a primary source of financial support for groups and individuals promoting the
anti-gun agenda.
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Phone (312) 782-2426
Fax (312) 782-4160The Joyce Foundation is one of the leading sources of funding for anti-gun groups and individuals. Anti-gun
academics receive grants to complete studies that invariably find a link between gun ownership and crime.
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3335
(215)614-0319
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/FICAP, founded in 1997 at the University of Pennsylvania, conducts research on firearms as a "public
health" problem. This research is designed to show that restrictions on firearms ownership are the solution
to firearms injuries. FICAP is funded by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation (see above) and designs research
projects to produce anti-gun research that is used to influence the media, policy makers and legislators.
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone (202) 898-0150
Fax (202) 898-0172
http://www.psr.orgOrginally formed to oppose nuclear weapons, PSR has widened their scope to include many other causes.
On firearms it has endorsed international small arms disarmament. PSR has endoresd virtually every
restrictive gun law which has been proposed including one-gun-a-month, ban on "junk" guns, and
ammunition purchase restrictions.
Woodland Hills, California 91367-7111
Phone (818) 593-6600
www.tcwf.org
Alice A. Lytle, J.D., Vice Chair
Gary L. Yates, President and CEO
Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D.
Stewart Kwoh, J.D.
Luz Vega Marquis
Barbara Marshall, R.N.
Douglas X. Patino, PH.D.
Peggy SaikaThe California Wellness Foundation is a private foundation funded in February, 1992 by a substantial
endowment from Health Net, one of California's largest health maintenance organizations. Through grants
the Foundation funds research and public action targeted at "public health" issues. This includes grants for
anti-gun research, community and governmental action, and policy advocacy. This foundation is one of the
primary funding sources for state and local anti-gun causes.
The following organizations operate at the state level to promote the passage of anti-gun laws and
ordinances. These groups are also very active in the area of initiatives and referendums in those states
which allow these plebiscites.
David Reynolds
502 Montgomery Highway
Suite 202
Vestavia Hills, AL 35216
F: 205-979-2750
P: 205-979-2999
Marilyn & Michael Jackson
605 40th Street
Fairfield, AL 35064
P: 205-785-6765
Geraldine Anderson
3617 W. Camino Real
Glendale, AZ 85310
Kae McGuire
2140 Shattuck Ave.
Suite 1201
Berkley, CA 94704
P: 510-649-8946
F: 510-649-8970
email: CRGL@GUNLAWS.ORG
Andrew McGuire
Executive Director
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA 94110
P: 415-285-1793
Susan Shaw
Ann Reiss Lane
P.O. Box 1501
Culver City, CA 90232-1501
P: 310-204-2348
F: 310-204-6643
Fidel Valenzuela
7601 Imperial Hwy.
JPI - Room # 31T-3135
Downey, CA 90242
P: 310-401-8166
F: 310-401-7201
Barbara O Brien
1600 Sherman
Denver, CO 80203
P: 303-839-1580
Sam Cole
1738 Wynkoop St., Ste. 1
Denver, CO 80202
P: 303-298-8001
F: 303-293-2813
Steve Bourie
P.O. Box 644
Dania, FL 33004
P: 954-989-9374
email: GUNFREEFLA@AOL.COM
Patrick Hadley
President
P.O. Box 3704
Ocala, FL 34478
P: 904-629-3100
Ronald W. Horn--Board Chairman
P.O. Box 673732
Marietta, GA 30006-0063
P: 404-521-3605
Clinton M. Marsh
1401 Adams Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30311
P: 404-699-0708
Patty May
450 Kaha St.
Kailua, HI 96734
P: 808-536-7733
Nadine Odera
P.O. Box 1245
Kaneoke, HI 96744
P: 808-235-4222
Dan Kotowski
175 Jackson St., Ste. A-1038
Chicago, IL 60604
P: 312-341-0939
F: 312-341-9770
Teresa Mesich
P.O. Box 3084
Rock Island, IL 61204-3084
P: 309-788-7339
John May
Box 104
Chicago, IL 60613
P: 312-879-7920
David Mason
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208
P: 317-940-9682
Patty Williams
2915 North Oakwood
Muncie, IN 47303
P: 765-282-2210
F: 765-747-3299
John Johnson
P.O. Box 2643
Cedar Rapids, IA 52406
P: 319-364-7382
email: JJIPGV@AOL.COM
Nancy Evans
306 Chelsea Road
Louisville, KY 40207
P: 502-894-9050
P.O. Box 14123
Louisville, KY 40212-1023
P: 502-367-0638
Reverend Kathy Lancaster
Criminal Justice Office
100 Witherspoon St.
Louisville, KY 40202-1396
P: 502-569-5803
Richard Haymaker
254 Nelson Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
P: 504-766-6432
F: 504-769-3810
Nancy Fenton
3000 Chestnut Ave, Ste. 203
Baltimore, MD 21211
P: 410-889-1477
F: 410-889-1480
Morrison Bump
P.O. Box 497
Natick, MA 01760-0005
P: 508-785-0817
Harlan Jones
95 Berkeley Street, Room 412
Boston, MA 02116
P: 617-542-7712
Lavall Brown
Executive Director
1514-A Dorchester Ave.
Dorchester, MA 02122
P: 617-288-1748
Jennifer Fraser
29 Crafts Street, Ste. 300
Newton, MA 02135
P: 617-965-4636
F: 617-965-7308
Marj Levin
801 S Adams, Ste 104
Birmingham, MI 48009
P: 248-540-6868
Clementine Barfield
2441 W Grand Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48208
P: 313-361-5200
Jeannie Weiner
P.O. Box 2453
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
P: 248-661-2030
Mary Lewis Grow
Ken Collins
1238 East Shryer Avenue
Maplewood, MN 55109
P: 612-483-1149
5704 Kemrich Dr.
Edina, MN 55435
P: 612-941-8493
Alvin Brooks
President
3330 Troost Ave
Kansas City, MO 64109
P: 816-531-0000
F: 816-753-6565
Sharon Polster
3692 Runnymeade St.
Charles, MO 63301
P: 314-946-2657
Steve Sorkin
9378 Olive, Ste. 120
St. Louis, MO 63132
P: 314-692-7452
F: 314-692-7454
Linda Spence
P.O. Box 10053
Kansas City, MO 64171
P: 816-855-1721
F: 816-234-3039
Joan Vinke
16512 Frederick Circle
Omaha, NE 69130
P: 402-334-8944
Alex Hirlihy
55 Lang Road
Rye, NH 03870
P: 603-964-9079
Bryan Miller
15 East Redman Avenue
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
176 West State St.
Trenton, NJ 08608-1190
P: 609-396-9546
2000 Florence Avenue
Hazlet, NJ 07730
P: 908-264-1236
F: 908-264-9278
199 Laurel Circle
Princeton, NJ 08540-2718
P: 609-924-8468
Sherry Tippett
922 Acequia Madre
Santa Fe, NM 87501
P: 505-982-4253
David Schiling
Box 271
Nyack, NY 10960
P: 914-358-4601
Odile Stem
26 W 84th Street
New York, NY 10024
P: 212-873-3361
F: 212-687-1482
Aissatou Bey-Garcia
Harlem Hospital Center
Division of Plastic Surgery
506 Lenox Ave
New York, NY 1003
Barbara E. Hohlt
322 Bleecker St., #E9
New York, NY 10014
Manhattan: 212-592-3400
Westchester: 914-337-6818
Long Island: 516-733-0029
F: 718-797-2825
email: BCANH@MSN.COM
Katina Johnstone
322 Bleecker St., #E9
New York, NY 10014
P: 516-247-9109
Lisa Price
Executive Director
Marcia Owen
Assistant Director
P.O. Box 9204
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
P: 919-403-7665
F: 919-403-6585
email: ncgv@juno.com
Eric Fingerhut
Steve Ferris
2775 S Moreland Blvd., #200
Cleveland, OH 44120
P: 216-561-3663
F: 216-561-1942
Janice Sturkey
Chris Redmond
716 Upson Street
Akron, OH 44305
P: 216-762-0670
Nancy Rhue
100 E 8th Street, Room B-41
Cincinnati, OH 45202
P: 513-721-5683
Tuck Wilson
Chair
David DeMarkey
P.O. Box 82966
Portland, OR 97282
P: 503-233-1224 (Meeting Points)
P: 503-239-2111 (Tuck Wilson)
F: 503-233-0772
Daniel J. Siegel
Rebeca Williams
P.O. Box 495
Wynnewood, PA 19096
P: 610-446-0817
P: 888-444-PAHV
email: PAHV@AOL.COM
Betsy Robinson
P.O. Box 1764
Beaufort, SC 29901
P: 803-521-1299
Anton J. Gunn
P.O. Box 11644
Columbia, SC 29211
P: 803-343-5510
Eugene Kaiser
2504 Forest Glen Circle
Clarksville, TN 37043
P: 615-552-2202
H: 615-552-2178
Dr. Joseph C. Kaye
Mid-Town Family Resource Center
3630 West Dallas St.
Houston, TX 77019
P: 713-630-6677
Ellen Tuliaferro
323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 95235-8579
P: 216-648-9214
Bruce Elfant
Travis County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1748
Austin, TX 78767
P: 512-473-9100
P: 512-371-3236
F: 512-473-9640
701 Oxford
Houston, TX 77079
P: 713-861-2755
Dave Smith
13164 Memorial Drive, Box 160
Houston TX 77079
P: 713-827-8916
Tom Plumbley
11001 Midway Rd
Dallas, TX 75229
P: 214-352-4841
H: 214-243-8674
F: 214-352-4581
7657 Rowling Acres
Dallas, TX 75248
P.O. Box 797652
Dallas, TX 77057
P: 972-614-2557
Margy Chaikin
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711
P: 512-462-1886
Bill Nash
Chairman
476 E South Temple, Ste. 254
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
P: 801-328-4930
Bonnie O Brien
200 Old Farm Road South
Burlington, VT 05403
P: 802-864-4677
F: 802-658-5002
Alice Mountjoy
President
P.O. Box 271
Norfolk, VA 23501
P: 757-623-7918
F: 757-622-3953
P.O. Box 29462
Richmond, VA 23242
P: 804-649-8752
F: 804-742-8259
Pamela Eakes
105 14th Avenue #2A
Seattle, WA 98122
P: 206-323-2303
F: 206-323-2132
Bruce Gryniewski
509 10th Ave East
P.O. Box 20246
Seattle, WA 98102
P: 206-322-7564
F: 206-324-7885
Jack M. Bergstein, M.D.
9200 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
P: 414-257-5023
F: 414-454-5830
Sally Miley
210 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Madison, WI 53710
P: 608-266-4611
Verdall De Yarman
2943 North Bausman St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
P: 414-562-8014
NRA Institute for Legislative Action
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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