Gun Violence Prevention Awareness Month was created in 2013 as an effort to raise awareness surrounding the issue of needless and senseless gun violence in New York’s communities. The focus of this effort is to lead a bipartisan charge to concentrate annual heightened attention to gun violence and gun safety each June. New York made history by becoming the first state in the nation to designate an entire month to the issue of gun violence.
Next month, all GVP groups have teamed up to promote orange as the color of our cause. The idea was inspired by a group of Chicago teens who asked their classmates to commemorate the life of a slain friend by wearing orange. They chose the color because hunters wear orange to announce themselves to other hunters when out in the woods. Their friend — Hadiya Pendleton, a 15 year old high school student — marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade and was tragically shot and killed back in Chicago just a week later. This June 2nd would have been Hadiya’s 18th birthday; First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address at what would have been Hadiya’s graduation ceremony on June 9th.
Please consider putting the above orange banner on your Facebook and Tweeter accounts. Lets show support for common sense gun violence on this special day and month!
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