Saturday, there will be a vigil for victims of gun violence by the whale statue in Mayor Bill Overstreet Park.<\/p>\n
The event, led by Moms Demand Action, will begin at 4 <\/a>p.m<\/a>. Moms Demand Action is a movement that started after that shooting, and there are chapters of Moms Demand Action in every state, including a local group that’s part of the Alaska chapter.<\/p>\n The upcoming vigil marks the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.<\/p>\n While the organization’s name is Moms Demand Action, people of any gender may join. Students Demand Action, a similarly minded student organization, will assist with the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the seventh anniversary of Sandy Hook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":56397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[322],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-56396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}