ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE FOR SENSIBLE GUN LAWS:

We are a group of citizens from DC, MD, and VA who have been demonstrating for sensible gun laws since the Aurora Colorado Theater shooting in July 2012.  On July 27th, 2017 it was exactly five years of Mondays that we have been in front of the White House from 11am-1pm with our signs, banners, and other materials talking to people  from all over the country and from all over the world. We speak with people one on one about the importance of having common sense gun regulations. We are not an "organization," we are an ordinary group of concerned citizens seeking to make change in our culture of violence.

Specifically we are calling on the President and Congress to:

*Recognize This Is A Public Health Emergency

*Require Universal Background Checks

*Oppose Concealed Carry Reciprocity of Guns Among States

*Oppose Deregulation on Sales of Gun Silencers

*Ban Sale of Bump Stocks

*Ban High Capacity Magazines and Military Style Assault Weapons

*Recognize Domestic Violence Directly Relates to Weak Gun Laws

*Oppose Repealing Gun Free School Zones

*Close The Terrorist Gun Loophole "no fly, no buy" 

*Require Gun Safety Training

*Mandate Gun Insurance for Gun Owners

*Provide Research Funds Into Causes and Solutions to Gun Violence

We have spoken to NRA members and have found places in our dialogue for common ground. With others, we have needed to respectfully agree to disagree. Most of the people who stop and chat with us agree with many of our ideas and support us. We encourage all US citizens we meet to email/write, visit or call their Senators or Congressional representatives, the President, Governors, and participate in national and grassroots activities. We remain hopeful and optimistic. It is what brings us back week after week. In many instances we have measurably changed people’s minds on this issue.

Various professional organizations have joined in our demonstrations --The Brady Campaign, Protest Easy Guns, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Newtown Action Alliance as well as victims and relatives of victims. Our numbers vary weekly.  Along the way, we have attended Judiciary Committee Hearings, worked to organize The January 2013 March on Washington for Gun Control, participated in Congressional Action Days organized by Moms Demand Gun Sense/Everytown for Gun Sense and most recently assisted with the "lie-in" of teens in front of the White House after the Parkland high school mass shooting. We have received both domestic and international press coverage calling attention to this issue.

Michael Schlotterbeck is a medium, tarot card reader, spirit artist, astrologer, teacher, and writer based in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He is a certified medium through the Indiana Association of Spiritualists at Camp Chesterfield and is currently working towards his Associate Minister certification.  Michael has spent most of his adult life as a spiritual seeker studying various topics including comparative religion, contemporary spirituality, and mysticism.

Hi, I’m Chris Spurvey

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Umaymah Mohammad is a senior at IUPUI double majoring in Neuroscience and Political Science. She is an organizer and focuses on countering Islamophobia and the liberation of Palestine, among other anti-racist work. She is a co-founder of the Muslim Youth Collective, an organization that trains young Muslims to be leaders in the resistance against Islamophobia, racism, and all forms of oppression.

MUSLIM YOUTH COLLECTIVE...

Being Muslim in today's political climate is getting more difficult everyday, and countering Islamophobia is a movement that must be led by and informed by Muslims.



 This training is the initial launch of an Indianapolis coalition of Muslim youth to begin strategic organizing around unwarranted surveillance and targeting of the Muslim community.



This training will help to:

-Develop an analysis of Islamophobia and how it affects our community

-Unpack the dominant myths and narratives about Muslims

-Move from looking at Islamophobia as individual acts toward an analysis of state violence and systems of oppression

-Unpacking internalized Islamophobia

-Brainstorm ways to counter Islamophobia as a Muslim community in Indianapolis

Bree Bonchay is licensed psychotherapist with almost two decades of experience working in the field of mental health and trauma recovery.

She specializes in helping people recover from toxic relationships, and shares her insights about Narcissistic Personality Disorder and psychopathy in her blog FreeFromToxic. Her articles have been featured in major online magazines, she is the founder World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day, (WNAAD), which is celebrated every 1st of June, and she is on the Board of Directors for The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Educators & Survivor Treatment.

Dr. Bradley Nelson is the developer of an advanced form of energy medicine. A holistic Chiropractic Physician and Medical Intuitive, Dr. Nelson is one of the world’s foremost experts in the emerging fields of Bioenergetic Medicine and Energy Psychology.  His bestselling book, “The Emotion Code” helps rid people of their unbalanced emotional baggage. Users of The Emotion Code technique have found freedom from emotional problems like depression and anxiety, as well as physical problems including fatigue, pain and disease. A key element of The Emotion Code is removing emotional baggage that has clustered around the heart, interfering with one’s ability to find love and success. Dr. Nelson has coined this cluster of emotions, the “Heart-Wall,” and it has been called “the most important discovery in the history of energy medicine.”

About CaDori: Born Cathy Marshall in Birmingham, AL, she was the eldest girl of 13 siblings, and was a natural born leader with a giving spirit from a young age. She coined the name "CaDori" as a combination of her name, her mother Doris and her late son Dougie.

CaDori loves helping others. She is a registered nurse by profession but spends a tremendous amount of time giving back. CaDori is the founder of CaDori Helping Hands, a non-profit charity to help people in need. She was once homeless, and had to live in a shelter temporarily when her children were young and knows first-hand the struggle of depending on good-hearted people and faith in God.

In July 2017, CaDori founded the Helping Hands organization to help those in need in an effort to give back. Last year alone, CaDori Helping Hands has provided turkeys and hams at Thanksgiving, donated baby supplies to young mothers, and delivered cleaning and personal care items to families who've lost everything during Hurricane Harvey. In addition, this past summer, CaDori donated backpacks full of school supplies to children in a local shelter and fed over 100 people displaced by Hurricane Harvey at a hotel in Livingston, TX, and gave nearly 100 new coats to those in Need this winter season.

In addition to CaDori Helping Hands, CaDori also founded Dougie's Kids, Inc. in January 2011. Dougie's Kids, Inc. is a charitable organization dedicated to helping and ensuring the well-being of children across America. It is named after her oldest son, Bobby Denerio Marshall Brown, affectionately known as "Dougie", who passed away in 2010 in a motorcycle accident. Dougie adored children and always assisted them by giving helpful advice, taking them to fun places and supporting them by attending games on Saturdays. To date, Dougie's Kids has given to shelters, schools and awarded scholarships and in doing so, has positively impacted the lives of many children.