{"id":762,"date":"2009-02-06T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=762"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:55:18","slug":"vigil-against-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/documentary\/2009\/02\/06\/vigil-against-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil Against Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday evening, a group of Raleigh citizens gathered to hold a vigil against violence. It comes after a stark rise in homicides in 2008, and was held in remembrance of the 34 victims and the impact on the community. The vigil took place at 5 p.m. in Nash Square, across from city hall. Prayers were held and the names of the victims were read in reverence as a community came together to speak out against the violence. It was hosted by the Triangle Interfaith Alliance, who hosts vigils throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Octavia Rainey<\/h2>\n

“Violence has had a huge impact on our community. It makes people fear uncertainty, distrust, anxiety. They bring people together.”<\/td>\n

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Tom McCann<\/h2>\n

“This is one small way of saying I don’t want violence for myself, for my children, for my city. This helps us raise awareness through the media”<\/td>\n

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Bill Bingham<\/h2>\n

“(These vigils help us) talk about things, come to an understanding”<\/td>\n

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Roberta Mothershead<\/h2>\n

“We believe in the sanctity of life, that we are all connected. A loss of life is a loss for all of us. The importance of these vigils is many layered: A visual image, a spiritual witness, and helps us support each other.”<\/td>\n

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Scott Bass<\/h2>\n

“These people’s lives are lost, not forgotten. This is for victims, families, and the perpetrators. We don’t think the people who commit these acts need to be discarded.”<\/td>\n

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About 35 people gathered in Nash Square to remember those murdered in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}