This week, Governor Dannel P. Malloy joined the “Wear Orange” campaign by issuing a proclamation that June 2 will be “Gun Violence Awareness Day” in the State of Connecticut. “Wear Orange” campaign and National Gun Violence Awareness Day was inspired by Chicago teens who refused to be silent in the face of daily gun violence.
In support of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the Greenwich Council Against Gun Violence will be raising a large banner on the train trestle at Old Greenwich Metro-North Station today, Friday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m.
The Greenwich Council Against Gun Violence is a local grassroots organization of concerned residents from Greenwich. Their mission is to join hands with others to work for common-sense state and federal regulation of firearms to help reduce gun violence.
About Wear Orange
In 2013, a small group of teens at a South Side Chicago high school asked their classmates to honor the life of their murdered friend Hadiya Pendleton by wearing orange – the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others and a color that reflects the value of human life. They inspired the Wear Orange campaign (wearorange.org), a coalition of more than 200 non-profits, cultural influencers and elected officials working to reduce gun violence in America. Spearheaded by Everytown for Gun Safety, the campaign asks Americans who believe we can do more to save lives from gun violence to do one simple thing on June 2, National Gun Violence Awareness Day: Wear Orange. Those who wear orange pledge to honor the lives of Americans stolen by gun violence, to help keep firearms out of dangerous hands and to protect our children from gun violence. Wear Orange has already reached more than 220 million people worldwide and is fast becoming the symbol of the gun violence prevention movement.
