{"id":167559,"date":"2020-06-05T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=167559"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:32:15","slug":"sph-community-members-wearorange-3","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2020\/sph-community-members-wearorange-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SPH Community Members #WearOrange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner-container banner-has-html\"><div class=\"bu-slideshow-container 2020-sph-#wearorange autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-167565\" data-slideshow-name=\"2020-sph-#wearorange\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-fade\" id=\"bu-slideshow-167565\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-167565_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2020\/06\/BUSPH-Wear-Orange-2020-Zoom-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-167565_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2020\/06\/BUSPH-Wear-Orange-2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-167565_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/sph\/files\/2020\/06\/wear-orange-1-757x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-167565\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 5, 2020<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>School of Public Health faculty, staff, and alums gathered remotely on Zoom on June 5, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wearorange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Gun Violence Awareness Day<\/a><span>, to join the call to end gun violence in America. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/wearorange.org\/about\/\">&#8220;Wear Orange&#8221;<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0movement<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>was created to make it easier for people to show their support for common-sense solutions to gun violence. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s murder and the righteous protests and march, I\u2019ve been awash with feelings of rage, grief, sadness and exhaustion,&#8221; said Craig Andrade, associate dean of practice and director of the Activist Lab. &#8220;I imagine many of you are holding similar feelings.&#8221; But, he said, he feels hope because he is part of &#8220;a community that stands up over and over and says that gun violence is a public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But today is different, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; said Andrade. &#8220;Today, we also say racism and the use of guns to act on that racism is a public health crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty, staff, and alums gathered remotely on Zoom on June 5 to join the call to end gun violence in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15205,"featured_media":167567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2043,3243],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3538,3541],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/167559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/167559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175129,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/167559\/revisions\/175129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=167559"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=167559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}