Baldwin LIGHT group to make radio appearance
March 24, 2023
Members of the Baldwin LIGHT group will appear on the Saturday Light Brigade radio show on Saturday to discuss their annual vigil for victims of identity-based violence.
The group members will be on the radio at 10:35 a.m. on 88.3 FM.
LIGHT, which stands for Leadership through Innovation in Genocide and Human rights Teaching, is an organization focused on identity-based violence. They aim to educate people about the Holocaust, since it was such a massive act of identity-based violence, as well as other such acts of violence.
The group’s annual all-night vigil will run from 8 a.m. on March 31 to 8 a.m. April 1, during which students will be reading names of victims of identity-based violence. The names will include members of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, people of color, indigenous people, and many more.
“These are people who have been murdered because of who they are,” Freshman Representative Sol Wiedor said. “Our goal is to not let them go forgotten.”
Stephany Ochs, the president of Baldwin LIGHT, believes that the vigil is a way for people to remember the victims.
People know more information about the perpetrators, and not a lot about the actual victims, Ochs said.
“There are thousands of people killed each year in America,” they said.