Let us introduce you to Rachel Jacoby.
Hailing from Highland Park, IL, in 2022—like so many of us—she was shocked and devastated by the news of recent shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY, and an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. So she organized a March For Our Lives rally in her hometown.
Three weeks later, seven people were killed and 48 more were injured in a shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade, exactly where Rachel’s rally was earlier that summer. Suddenly, Rachel herself was a survivor.
Gun violence can happen anywhere to anyone.
Rachel never expected to be on the front line of the gun safety movement. She grew up “Midwestern polite.” She didn’t talk about religion or politics.
But today, she is one of the loudest voices fighting for change and a driving force behind recent lifesaving gun safety legislation in Illinois that banned assault weapons—just like the one used in the Highland Park shooting.
This is what happens when gun violence touches your life, as it’s done to so many. It can completely change the trajectory of your life. And it’s completely changing the lives of young people across the country.
We owe it to young people like Rachel who are doing the work, to all survivors, and to those who were taken from us far too early to create a safer world.
In solidarity,
Team March For Our Lives
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Your Personal Invite To the Movement Fund 💌💙
At March For Our Lives, we call our monthly supporter program The Movement Fund.
Why are monthly recurring donors so important? The amount of one-time individual donations we receive as an organization varies vastly from month to month.
Without a steady stream of monthly donations coming in our door, it would be impossible to accurately plan our budgets, create long-term strategies to win a future free from gun violence, plan and execute on-the-ground organizing efforts, recruit and train more gun safety champions, and more.
One of the best ways that you can help sustain our movement is by becoming a recurring monthly donor. Can you sign up today?