CALL TO ACTION AND PUBLIC WITNESS – SUNDAY, January 19 @ 3:30pm AT SITE OF MURDER OF BRION ALEXANDER YOUNG
WHAT: A gathering of neighbors, churches and community groups and Heeding God’s Call, the faith-based movement to prevent gun violence, joining together in public witness to oppose gun violence in our communities, to end the movement of illegal guns from local gun shops to city streets and the criminal market and to pray and grieve over the shooting death of 20-year old Brion Alexander Young, which occurred last Friday in Chester.
WHEN: Sunday, January 19 at 3:30pm.
WHERE: 11th Street and Central Avenue in Chester at the site of the gun murder of 20-year old Brion Alexander Young.
WHO: Concerned citizens.
Local faith leaders.
Local faith leaders.
Sponsored by Heeding God's Call – Chester/Delco Chapter.
WHY: Because too many of our families, neighbors and communities are suffering from the ravages of gun violence, fueled by the movement of guns from legal sale at Chester and Delaware County gun shops to illegal street sale.
VISUALS: 30-40 people of various faiths – praying, singing.
Banners and signs.
Heeding God’s Call is the faith-based and grassroots movement to prevent gun violence. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Heeding is growing rapidly and has active chapters in Northwest and Northeast Philadelphia, in Chester/Delaware County, in Harrisburg and Washington, DC. Heeding seeks to bring faithful and public pressure on gun shops to persuade them to avoid selling to those who would put guns on the street. Heeding was instrumental in bringing federal authorities to shutter notorious Colosimo’s Gun Center on Spring Garden Street in late ’09. Heeding is currently active at two gun shops in Northeast Philadelphia, one in Delaware County, and one near Washington, DC
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8812 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118-2719
www.heedinggodscall.org · info@heedinggodscall.org · 267-519-5302
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