Neighbors,
This weekend we welcome marchers from around the country for the
March for Our Lives. Unfortunately, in the District of Columbia, we
are all too familiar with the damage that gun violence causes.
Last summer we lost the bright young life of Jamahri Sydnor, who
was getting ready to begin her freshman year at Florida A & M
University. Just a few weeks later, Zaire Kelly's life was taken on
his way home from a college preparatory class. We know the pain
that guns cause.
It is in that spirit that we will welcome the young people from
Parkland, Florida and the thousands of people who will travel to
the District of Columbia to march this weekend. Each member of the
Council has been provided tickets to the 'stage section' of the
rally and I have reached out to Jamahri and Zaire's families to
ensure they are invited to be a part of the rally this Saturday.
In addition, I hope to see many of you at the Rally for D.C. Lives, which will
take place prior to the national March, at 9:00 am at Folger Park
(3rd and D Street, SE). We will be joined by other Councilmembers,
Congresswoman Norton, Mayor Bowser, and hundreds of Washingtonians
standing up against gun violence -- and D.C.'s own lack of
self-determination to make our own gun laws. After the Rally for
D.C. Lives, the group will walk over to the national March for Our
Lives on the National Mall.
Finally, I invite those attending the march to stop by my office
downtown to warm up, use the restroom, or just take a rest. The
Ward 5 office in the
John A. Wilson Building at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW will open
from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm. (Note that you will
only be allowed to enter the building from the D Street NW
entrance)
In Service,
Kenyan
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In this
issue of the Ward 5 Report:
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Councilmember
McDuffie, Mayor Bowser, and District agency leadership on a community walk through of the
North Michigan Park neighborhood (above, left).
Councilmember McDuffie visited several Ward 5 DCPS elementary
schools earlier this month, including Noyes, Wheatley, and Burroughs. Above (right)
Councilmember McDuffie talks with the principal, teachers, and
students at Burroughs Elementary.
More of Kenyan in the Community:
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Councilmember
McDuffie on the Radio
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Hearing
the Council
Councilmember McDuffie was featured on the D.C. Council's new radio
show, Hearing the Council, available on D.C. Government radio, WHUR
96.3 FM, HD4. If you missed it live on the air, listen to Councilmember McDuffie
as he discusses growing up in Ward 5, some of the jobs he had as a
young man, and what he sees for the future of Ward 5.
Business
Matters with Andy Shallal
Councilmember McDuffie joined Andy Shallal for his WPFW, 89.3 FM
radio show, Business Matters, where they discussed McDuffie's work to bring a lens of racial
equity to an array of public policy areas including
education, housing, employment, and criminal justice reform.
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March with
Councilmember McDuffie in the D.C. Emancipation Day Parade -
Saturday, April 14
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On
Saturday, April 14, walk with Councilmember McDuffie & your
Ward 5 neighbors as we celebrate D.C. Emancipation Day 2018. We
will meet at 1:00 PM at 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
Parade will start at 2:00 PM and proceed along Pennsylvania Ave
from 10th Street NW to 14th Street NW
RSVP: http://ward5emancipationday2018.eventbrite.com
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Clean Up of Park
at 14th Street, Rhode Island Ave, and Brentwood Road NE - Saturday,
March 24
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On March
24 at 10 AM, give back to your community through a litter clean up
of the park, located at 14th Street NE, Brentwood Road NE, and
Rhode Island Avenue NE. Organized by D.C. Department of Public
Works and the Brookland Neighborhood Civic Association, this event
provides certified volunteer hours and an opportunity to meet your
neighbors. Additionally, this event is the first step in fostering
a safer space at this intersection. No RSVP is needed - just show
up! Garbage bags, gloves, and equipment provided.
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The 2nd Amendment does not include the right for individuals to bear arms.
ReplyDeleteJust read it. Can half literate Americans read the English language?
The 2nd Amendment gives the right to "A well regulated Militia", of the people (the nation, state, county or community), not any individual, not any individual "to bear arms", "individual rights" are not there. Read it!
A necessary delusion was confirmed by the Supreme Court, the "boys want toys".
Just like many other self serving national delusions, they have made up their own version of "reality" that suits their needs, boys want toys. To take over the continent from Native Americans and commit genocide, they made up self serving false delusions, like "Manifest Destiny". To keep African slaves, they made up their own false delusions, still harming us all to this day. Cops are shooting innocent black people, modern day lynchings in our streets.
The "patriots" armed for a war, say that if the govt. became repressive they bear arms in defense of the peoples freedom. Fine!
What are they doing to keep the govt from repression right NOW, just waiting for the "conflagration"?
Don't accept fringe tweeks to failed gun laws. What is the difference between an 18 year old sociopath mortally wounding you or your loved ones, and a 21 year old sociopath, or 40 year old, or 70 year old? Same wound, same blood, same death! What is the difference between our children shot with an AR-15 or a Glock handgun.
Please go back to the real 2nd Amendment, set up well regulated popularly based militias, Civil Defense Corps, of the people, to secure a free state, deal with climate change, restore the infrastructure, clean up the environment, fight political corruption and corporate destruction of the planet. We must for the sake of a sane world, and our children's lives, get rid of guns outside of legitimate professional access, beat "swords into plowshares".
Video games, though unhealthy, don't shoot anyone, nor violent movies, insane easy access to firearms flooded all over the U.S. and violent unhealthy people shoot guns, kill and maim people, innocent animals, destroy our world,
crush our hearts.
We ban assault rifles for 18 year olds, as if a 21 year old is safe, and hand guns kill children in schools and on the streets.
Five "Parkland mass shootings" every day an average casualty toll of 96 people per day, and how many innocent animals killed and maimed.
What will be done about the unconstitutional arsenals in private hands, 15 million semi-automatic long arms "out there". We must go back to the fundamental, the actual United States Constitution, the founders authorization for the "people" to be armed in a "Well regulated Militia", read it!