The first weekend in June is Wear Orange weekend, a remembrance observed by anti-gun violence movements around the country.
Wear Orange began in memory of Hadiyah Pendleton, a 15 year old who was killed in a spray of gunfire in a park in Chicago. God Before Guns invites everyone to Wear Orange on Sunday, June 6 in solidarity with all who believe in the sanctity of life and want to help build a nation that elevates that life above the fears that lead us to being a society armed against itself.
God Before Guns will observe Wear Orange this year in a video interview with John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, who has authored the book, Children Under Fire: An American Crisis. A link to the interview will be forthcoming.
Learn more here: https://www.godbeforeguns.org
We grieve the loss of 8 lives in Atlanta – 6 of whom were immigrant Asian women. We grieve and recognize that this violence – including the 150% increase in anti-Asian hate incidents over the past year – is part of a larger pattern of systemic violence. We grieve and recognize that six of the eight killed were immigrant, working-class, Asian women perceived as sex workers—a subset of the Asian community that has historically been invisible and therefore targeted for abuse and violence every day.
