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Guacs Magical Tour Pop Up Rally

Name: Guacs Magical Tour Pop Up Rally
Start: 2023-08-03T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-08-03T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Milwaukee City Hall

August 3 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

One of our partner organizations, Change The Ref, is on a 25-city tour this summer, stopping at various locations across the country to host gun violence prevention events. Change The Ref was founded by Patricia and Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin “Guac” Oliver was one of 17 people killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, just over five years ago.

Change The Ref does fantastic and cutting-edge advocacy work, and they work to amplify youth voices in particular. For example, this tour centers around their yellow school bus, which they adapted for rallies and events. It is a reminder that guns are the number one cause of death for children in the United States.

Details

Date:: August 3
Time:: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Venue

: Milwaukee City Hall
: 200 East Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202 United States + Google Map

Support Our Cause

People in our communities without direct experience with incarceration are often ill-informed of the negative, and catastrophic, effects on earnings and employment, physical and mental health, housing and education, and family well-being created and perpetuated by the carceral system. Through our advocacy work in local and state government, EXPO creates space, opportunity, and support for system-impacted individuals to raise their voices about the systemic and institutional harm of the incarceration. In the words of one of our organizers, EXPO’s work “shines a light of awareness and truth where others refuse to acknowledge.”