|  This Week's Reflection on Gun Violence Prevention... NFTY (National Federation of Temple youth) and the RAC (Religious Action Center) Partner with Broad-Based Gun Safety Coalition for "Wear Orange" Campaign On the 15th anniversary of the historic Million Mom March, NFTY and the RAC announced that they would be founding partners in "Wear Orange" (www.WearOrange.org), a new campaign to reduce gun violence in America. The campaign honors the 88 Americans whose lives are cut short by gun violence every day - and the countless survivors whose lives are forever altered by shootings each year - by designating June 2, 2015 as the first annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Everyone - especially Reform Jewish teens - is invited to take part! Everyone who agrees that we should do more to save lives from gun violence can do one simple thing: Wear Orange. The group of Chicago teens behind the Wear Orange campaign chose the color because hunters wear orange to announce themselves to other hunters when out in the woods. NFTY and the RAC are joining leading organizations to partner on Wear Orange, including Everytown for Gun Safety, Amnesty International, Know Your IX, the JED Foundation, and the National Coalition against Domestic Violence. Julianne Moore, Sarah Silverman and Michael Stipe have also pledged their support and will call on fans to Wear Orange on June 2nd.
To stand with NFTY and the RAC on this campaign, visit www.WearOrange.org and use the site's pledge tool to change your social media profile picture or share why you'll be #WearingOrange on June 2nd. Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from NFTY leaders about what wearing orange means to them. Rabbi Andrew Klein |
