MCC Students Plan Remembrance Event to Memorialize Victims of Mass Shooting in Buffalo
May 19, 2022
WHAT: Monroe Community College will hold a remembrance event memorializing 10 Black victims who were murdered and other victims wounded in Saturday’s racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo. Led by the MCC Student Government Association (SGA) and Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project (HGHRP) student leaders, the event also serves as a call to action for MCC members to continue promoting peace and justice on campus and in the community.
Isabella DeRubeis, president of MCC Student Government Association
“On behalf of the Monroe Community College student body, we are devastated by the horrific violence of the Buffalo mass shooting. This event is held in honor and remembrance of the victims who lost their lives, and in solidarity with the Buffalo community,” said Isabella DeRubeis, president of SGA. “The MCC community will not be silent in the face of racial violence. We will continue to do our part in combating hate and promoting peace and justice.”
Prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is among the College’s top five priorities for 2021-22 and beyond.
WHERE: R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Atrium on MCC’s Brighton Campus, 1000 E. Henrietta Road; parking is provided in lot V.
WHEN: Noon to 12:15 p.m. Thursday, May 19
DETAILS: Event schedule:
- Remarks — SGA President Isabella DeRubeis
- Reading of the names of victims — HGHRP President Kalina Kron; Bernard Alexander, senator of public relations, and Christal Knight, senator of diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in SGA. Images of the victims will be displayed on easels and a candle will be lit under each one
- Moment of Silence
“An essential part of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project is bringing awareness to human rights issues. Our organization will not stand for people’s human rights being violated,” said HGHRP President Kalina Kron. “When we see people’s right to live, get groceries, and just be a person being infringed, we want to not only bring awareness to it, but we feel a call to action. What can we do to make a change in this broken and depraved society? How can we as students change the world so that maybe one day, we will no longer need a human rights organization?”