Alysa's Wear Orange Fundraiser
The first time someone pointed a gun at me, I was 13 years old. I froze, I felt helpless, because it was a gun. For a long time, this is how I felt about gun violence - it was too big of a problem to tackle, I was helpless to do anything to make our world safer from guns. I was wrong.
In the last year, I have learned that gun violence touches all of us, everyday. From suicide and domestic violence, to school shootings and every day violence in our streets - None of us is immune to the culture of gun violence that endangers Americans more than any other industrialized country on the planet. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense is the grassroots counterweight to the NRA and the gun lobby, that pushes it's 'guns everywhere' policies from coast to coast. In my experience working with survivors of gun violence and parents who want to protect their kids, I am reminded that We Don't Have To Live Like This.
I am working as a trainer, mentor, activist and manager in my role at Moms Demand Action to build and foster a nationwide network of badass leaders who know that We Can End Gun Violence through common sense policies. The money I am raising will be invested in developing leadership in the SW states, supporting survivors of gun violence who have turned their grief into action, and a program called BeSMART, aimed at preventing children's access to unsecured weapons.
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 President Obama's Inaugural Parade. They honored her life by wearing orange — the color hunters wear in the woods to say "see me". On June 2, 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. You, too, can do something to reduce the culture of violence in our country, and save some of the 33,000 lives lost to gun violence this year alone. 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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