Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has asked residents for a moment of silence in honor of the Sandy Hook victims on Friday.
Malloy’s fellow governors in Maine, Illinois, Michigan and several other states called on residents to follow suit with a moment of silence and to ring bells to remember the dead. The National Cathedral in Washington plans to ring its bell 28 times as part of an interfaith memorial.
President Obama will also observe the moment of silence.
#MomentForSandyHook Churches will ring bells 26 times on Friday 6:30am. Tweet us if your SoCal church is participating.
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) December 21, 2012
Gov. Nixon asks everyone in #missouri to take a #momentforSandyHook at 9:30 this morning. #N4TM
— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) December 21, 2012
National Moment of Silence. Friday, 930am #MomentForSandyHook twitpic.com/bnsdsb
— Episcopal Church (@iamepiscopalian) December 21, 2012
Gov. Quinn asks everyone in #illinois to take a #momentforSandyHook at 8:30 this morning. #N4TM
— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) December 21, 2012
Advocates for bringing an end to gun violence are also calling for a national moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. EST and are enlisting websites to promote the message and go silent themselves.
Please join me in a moment of silence Friday at 9:30 am to honor the victims of the tragedy in Newtown CT #momentforSandyHook
— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) December 21, 2012
News reports list Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, television host Ryan Seacrest and singer Britney Spears as leaders of the web effort, as well as Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff, former American football star Joe Montana and actress Goldie Hawn.
Ironically, the National Rifle Association will kick off a media campaign at 10.45 Eastern.
Websites that are joining the moment of silence effort can add a bit of javascript that will put an overlay on the site for five minutes. More than 170,000 have pledged to support the cause as of this writing.
Big name sites supporting the cause, according to its website, include
Other organizations reported to be participating include
- AOL
- ESPN
- TechCrunch
Major web sites used a similar technique in January to bring attention to the debate on SOPA in Washington, D.C.
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