Project Unloaded Introduces its 2024-2025 Youth Council and First-Ever Creator Corps
Young people ages 15-21 serve as advisors and creatives behind social media campaigns and outreach programs to spread the message that Gen Z is SNUG – Safer Not Using Guns In its inaugural class, the Creator Corps will focus on social media content creation and amplification CHICAGO – Today, Project Unloaded, an organization reducing gun […]
Project Unloaded Responds to Deadly Gun Violence at Trump Rally in Pennsylvania
CHICAGO – On Saturday evening in Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old armed with an assault rifle attempted to assassinate former President Trump, killing one spectator and wounding at least two more in the process. In response to the violence, Project Unloaded, an organization working to reduce gun violence through youth-powered culture and narrative change, released the following […]
Reckon: Why Project Unloaded believes ‘guns make us less safe’ as the Surgeon General declares gun violence a public health crisis
By Alexis Wray Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in America. Because of the gun violence epidemic, groups like Project Unloaded believe that “where there are more guns, children and teens are less safe.” Project Unloaded, a gun violence prevention group, works with young people across the country to shift the culture around guns. […]
Just Talkin’ Kenosha: Anvesha Guru, Project Unloaded Youth Council
Watch Anvesha’s interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXFCrsxp14
A Public Health Crisis Demands a Public Health Solution: Project Unloaded Responds to Surgeon General’s First-Ever Advisory Calling for Multi-Pronged Approach to Curb Gun Violence
In the advisory Dr. Vivek Murthy points to anti-smoking, other public health playbooks as models for reducing gun violence CHICAGO – Today, the nation’s top doctor, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, declared gun violence a public health crisis in an advisory, proposing a range of measures for preventing and curbing widespread trauma caused by […]
WBBM: After nearly 2 years, Highland Park screening revisits July 4 parade shooting
By Nancy Harty (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A gun violence prevention group will be showing a documentary on Tuesday night about Highland Park’s response to the parade shooting there almost two years ago. The 20-minute film “Memorial” will be shown just down the street from where a gunman killed seven people and wounded dozens of others. The group […]
Chicago Sun-Times: Gen Z is spreading the word on guns: ‘They’re the problem, not the solution’
One way we young people are trying to end gun violence is through social media campaigns that help explain to our generation why guns make them less safe. By Edgar Vilchez, Project Unloaded Youth Council Your high school statistics class takes a break outside. Everyone walks a few blocks off campus, soaking up the fresh […]
Univision Chicago: Así es como estos estudiantes buscan mantener a jóvenes alejados de la violencia: “Está funcionando”
Watch the story: https://www.univision.com/local/chicago-wgbo/asi-es-como-estos-estudiantes-buscan-mantener-a-jovenes-alejados-de-la-violencia-esta-funcionando-video
WSOC-TV: Organization to end gun violence goes where teens are: social media
By Erika Jackson, wsoctv.com CHARLOTTE — If you know a teenager, you know they can spend hours every day on their cell phone. A new push is using that very means to change the way young people think about guns and gun violence. “It’s infuriating to watch the same thing over and over again and not […]
The Charlotte Post: Project Unloaded aims to reset gun message among young
by Cameron Williams Project Unloaded utilizes social media to help teens understand neighborhoods are safer without guns. Taylor Maxwell, the initiative’s director of marketing and communications, says teens are more likely to hear their message than older adults who already have their own firm set of beliefs. “We started a little over two years ago,” Maxwell […]