Wear Orange
for a Future
Free From Gun Violence
Since the death of Hadiya Pendleton, orange has been the defining color of the gun violence prevention movement. New York gun violence prevention advocate Erica Ford spearheaded orange as the color of peace through her work with her organization, Life Camp, Inc. Whether it’s worn by students in Montana, activists in New York, or Hadiya’s loved ones in Chicago, the color orange honors the more than 100 lives cut short and the hundreds more wounded by gun violence every day.
National Gun Violence Awareness Day is the first Friday in June, which will be June 5 in 2020. Together, with hundreds of thousands of Americans, we turned America orange. But the work doesn’t end there. Every town and partner organizations continue to do life-saving work so that as a country we can get closer to realizing a future free from gun violence.
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