A GUN IS NOT FUN seeks to be a national campaign to save lives in cities across America.

Author William Electric Black (Ian Ellis James) is looking for community groups, businesses, government agencies, school systems, hospitals, and churches to underwrite the cost of printing so that children in Pre-K/1st & 2nd grade can get free copies. Contact: electricisthecircle@gmail.com.

In a month or so it will be launched on Amazon. 

 

Moms speak out about guns
with the help of an illustrated book

NY City Council Member Laurie Cumbo with author William Electric Black.
Lyn Pentecost, Executive Director of Lower East Side Girls Club; Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, founder and executive director of The Middle Project; William Electric Black.
Activists of Lower East Side Moms Speak Out Campaign (LESCS)

On October 1, 2015 outside PS 188 on East Houston and Avenue D, a group from The Lower Eastside Girls Club’s (LESGC) Moms Speak Out campaign — women who have been affected by gun violence — joined City Council Member Laurie Cumbo and reps from the Middle Project of Middle Collegiate Church to launch the distribution of 3,500 copies of William Electric Black's illustrated book "A Gun Is Not Fun."

LESGC's Moms Speak Out participants plan to distribute the books in front of every public school and day-care center with Pre-K through 2nd grade classes in the East Village-Lower East Side.

"I wrote this book because we are losing too many young people of color to gun violence," said Black, aka Ian James, who received seven Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on "Sesame Street." "It is a plague facing our nation and something must be done so I decided to use the 'Sesame Street' target audience and start educating them about this timely, and too often deadly, issue."

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