{"id":43424,"date":"2019-08-06T23:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43424"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T03:33:43","slug":"take-action-on-gun-terrorism-join-a-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/take-action-on-gun-terrorism-join-a-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action on Gun Terrorism: Join a Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you call your senators today to demand action on gun violence? If you didn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s not too late! Do it Wednesday by following my instructions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/take-action-on-gun-terrorism-your-first-step\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. And if you did do it &#8230; do it again! You can call or Resistbot your senators every day. They work for you. Make them work harder.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have already talked the talk and are anxious to walk the walk, here&#8217;s your second task for this week: Join an #ElPasoFirme vigil on Wednesday to call for an end to white-supremacist terrorism while remembering the lives lost to gun violence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/event_campaigns\/elpasofirme-a-call-to-action-against-white-supremacy?fbclid=IwAR1fjTgEf6fgI8sQOZ1FlOprvgwnK51xM6ecpPHfdBJibuHV8Ko4KoZrpZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to find an event in your location<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No vigil in your neighborhood? Create your own with a couple of friends. Register it on the #ElPasoFirme website to grow your crowd. Make yourself some signs and stand outside your senators&#8217; offices with them. Another good location would be outside a local news organization&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, make sure you stay informed about other kinds of local actions by signing up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sosamerica2019.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SOSAmerica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neveragainaction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NeverAgainAction<\/a>. Activism isn&#8217;t just about giant &#8220;one and done&#8221; protests like the Women&#8217;s March, as impressive as those kind of events are. We need continuous protests across the country, and these groups are making those happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you call your senators today to demand action on gun violence? If you didn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s not too late! Do it Wednesday by following my instructions here. And if you did do it &#8230; do it again! You can call or Resistbot your senators every day. They work for you. Make them work harder. For&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/take-action-on-gun-terrorism-join-a-vigil\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2092],"tags":[2104,1434,2055],"class_list":{"0":"post-43424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-activism","7":"tag-elpasofirme","8":"tag-gun-control-now","9":"tag-protests","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43425,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions\/43425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}