WAVE Educational Fund

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Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Educational Fund is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to preventing gun violence, injuries and deaths through education and advocacy.

text says: help us stop two reckless gun bills. The image shows a person with long hair holding a megaphone and a sign that says save kids not guns!
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Recently, countless people saw the social media video of a man being murdered. It was horrific. This is also what children see when their friends are shot in front of them.
Thoughts. Prayers. Action.
You thought. You prayed. Now act.
As a nun, I'm expected to offer thoughts and prayers, and indeed I do. But that's not enough. We must rise up and take action together to stop this violence. This can't keep happening. Sister Helen Prejean
Your [blank space] shouldn't determine your access to affordable healthcare. The blank space is alternately filled in with the words race, income, job, zip code.
Wear Orange Weekend 2025 June 6 and 7 at Safe and Sound, 4422 W Leon Terrace in Milwaukee
Milwaukee skyline is along the bottom. Text reads protect community violence intervention
Political cartoon by Clay Bennet is captioned America Reacts. There are two separate images - one of a mother crying and clutching a child next to a newspaper with a mass shooting headline. The other image shows a man crying and clutching his gun.
Hands off! Mass mobilization Saturday, April 5 Handsoff2025.com
WAVE Youth summer internship now accepting applications. Apply now on our website
Budget Listening Sessions April 2, Kaukauna April 4 West Allis, April 28 Hayward, April 29 Wausau
You know what would be tough on crime? Living wage, fully funded schools, guaranteed access to healthy food, affordable housing, universal healthcare, childcare
Governor Evers included in his budget proposal: Funding community violence intervention, office of school safety funding, background checks as part of all guns sales, an extreme risk law.
Image shows Wayne LaPierre, former CEO of the NRA holding a gun. Heading says: NRA Accidentally Forgets to Rise up Against Tyrannical Government
Pro life would be doing something about the children who are shot in school.
Quote from Maya Angelou says: We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Shows a tweet from Deniz S. Tweet says: a student said "If you arm teachers with a gun and a cop sees a black teacher with a gun, guess who's getting shot." Crazy how the students can point out all the potential downsides to arming teachers, but Republicans in DC can't.
Tweet from Zack Hunt says If children are slaughtered in their school and your reaction is "Don't you dare think about taking my guns!!" rather than "How do we stop this from ever happening again??" then we don't have a difference in political opinion. We have a difference in morality.
toys are scattered around a blue background. Text says I want to live in a country that loves its children more than it loves its guns.
A group of WAVE Youth Interns gathers together, posing for the camera. They all wear shirts that say end gun violence.
A line of people stand together smiling for the camera. It includes WAVE staff, interns, and two representatives from the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention