Date: November 16 – 18
The weekend before Thanksgiving is the deadliest holiday on US roads. Join religious leaders of every faith in every borough this weekend to commemorate World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. On these days, sermons across NYC, of all faiths, will address this public health issue, offering New Yorkers the opportunity to join the United Nations and cities around the world in memorializing those who’ve been killed in local neighborhoods and calling for safer streets. Faith leaders can use their pulpits and powerful voices to memorialize those who’ve been killed and to remind entire communities that it is up to each and every one of us to make sure there are no more deaths in traffic, that we are all responsible for each other and must slow down and pay attention. Organized by Families for Safe Streets (FSS) — an organization that confronts traffic violence and its epidemic of tragic injuries and deaths.
Clergy Kit, RSVP, and more resources here.
Read ICNY’s “Interfaith Matters” blog by the Families for Safe Streets founders pictured above.
