Charlie and Iara's Wear Orange Fundraiser
Charlie and I started to get involved with Moms Demand Action one year ago, we were tired of passively reading daily news about gun violence in the US.
Last year, within few months, Charlie was teaching close to San Bernardino when the shooting there happened. It was hard to stay at home waiting to know whether it might affect him while the shooters were on the run. Few months later I was in lock down at UCLA with a group of students and two colleagues for hours. Why should we be in those situations? Why Sandy Hook? Why Colombine? Why Hadiya Pendleton? Why unintentional shootings by children?
This has become my country, and I decided to do something about this situation, together with my husband.
The Wear Orange Campaign was inspired by friends of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago student killed by gunfire just days after dancing in the President's Inaugural Parade. They decided to honor her life by wearing orange - the color hunters wear in the woods to say "see me". On June 2nd, what would have been Hadiya's 20th birthday, hundreds of thousands of Americans will come together to #WearOrange and show their support for a future free from gun violence. This year, Moms Demand Action is running our first ever Wear Orange fundraising campaign to support our work to elevate the voices of survivors of gun violence, our BeSMART campaign to promote gun safety and prevent child gun deaths, and our ongoing efforts to train more gun sense activists.
Please contribute to support gun sense policies and invest in the women who will lead us to a future free from gun violence!
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