My children always ask for world peace as one of their birthday wishes. They've inspired me to ask--for my 40th birthday this year--for contributions to Moms Demand Action/Everytown, a national organization of activists making world peace possible by working to solve the U.S. epidemic of gun violence.
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 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 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 today in support gun sense policies, to invest in the leaders who are working to make a future free from gun violence a reality, and to fulfill a birthday wish! ♥