On the one-year anniversary of the shootings in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six Asian women, people are rallying in cities across the country to call for justice for Asian women facing ongoing attacks and racism.

On Wednesday, the Asian Justice Movement organized rallies in nearly a dozen cities, from Atlanta to San Francisco to New York, in an effort to remember the victims and #BreakTheSilence on anti-Asian hate and violence that continues unabated.

In Atlanta, Georgia House Rep. Bee Nguyen (D) spoke at the rally of how last years deadly shooting spree by a white man in three local spas targeting Asian women hit home because the women who were killed could easily have been our grandmothers, our aunties, our mothers.

I am angry, Nguyen said . To my Asian brothers and sisters, we must rally, we must stand in solidarity, we must protect each other.