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Mayor Mike McGinn and Senator Ed Murray will be among the speakers at Washington CeaseFire’s StandUP Washington march and rally to support a ban on assault weapons on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. Other speakers include Mary Lindquist, president of the Washington Education Association, Ralph Fascitelli, Washington CeaseFire board president, the Interfaith Amigos – Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman, and Rev. Sanford “Sandy” Brown from First Church Seattle. Musical guests will include singer Josephine Howell, the Seattle Peace Chorus and the Raging Grannies.
“We are coming together to show our legislators that we want to ban semi-automatic assault weapons,” said Beth Flynn, executive director of Washington CeaseFire. “With more than thirty co-sponsors, we have supporters from political, educational, religious, business, and law groups. Now is the time for action.”

The event has also added 34 co-sponsors from around Washington state. They include:

Austin Foundation, Café Paloma, Causey Law Firm, Children’s Alliance, The Church Council of Greater Seattle, Consejo Counseling & Referral Service, Eagle Harbor Congregational Church, Faith Action Network of Washington, Fellowship of Reconciliation, First United Methodist Church of Seattle, Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, Greater Seattle Business Association, Immanuel Lutheran Congregation, Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness, Islamic Civic Engagement Project, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Lake Washington Education Association, Mother Attorney Mentoring Association of Seattle, Newport Presbyterian Church, One America: With Justice for All, One Million Moms for Gun Control, Plymouth Congregational Church, Rainer Beach United Methodist Church, Resonance Public Relations, Salvatore Ristorante Italiano, St. James Cathedral, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, SEIU Local 6, SeaMar Community Health Centers, Skellenger Bender Law Firm, University Temple United Methodist Church, University Congregational (UCC), Valley & Mountain, Washington State Nurses Association, Wise Patient Internal Medicine.

Participants will march from Westlake Center to the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater. A website has been set up at http://standupwa.org/ with further details.

For the past 30 years, Washington CeaseFire has been the only statewide organization dedicated to reducing gun violence.  Citizens who had been directly affected by gun violence formed the organization in 1983. From a small group meeting in private homes, it has grown to an organization with more than 6,000 members across the state. Washington CeaseFire is now one of the most respected gun safety organizations in the nation and continues to work to reduce gun violence in communities throughout Washington State.

For more information, please call 206-972-1952 or email info@washingtonceasefire.org. Visit our website at www.washingtonceasefire.org. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WACeaseFire, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/washingtonceasefire.

 

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