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Posted by Bessie HitchcockSTART TIME
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Petition
Group: CommonSenseSavesLives
Related Tags: Anti-ViolenceCommunity BuildingGun ControlPeace
On May 10, 2007, 16 year old BLAIR HOLT, lost his life due to a senseless act of gun violence, while traveling from school on a public bus. Four other students were violently shot and injured during the same horrific incident. All were the unintended targets of another youth’s violent approach to, rather than, communicating verbal mediation towards conflict resolution.
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The INCREASE the PEACE Campaign officially began on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1257 W. 111th Street in Chicago, Illinois. The INCREASE the PEACE Campaign is designed to RAISE MONEY for existing, positive, effective youth programs and to RAISE AWARENESS about the senseless violence that is taking place in our cities. It is our belief that when youth are active and involved in these programs, they will be safer and fewer will be idle, allowing for negative things to happen.
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Behind the Violence
Posted April 5th, 2008 by Jeff Pinzino
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"Magic bullet" is the wrong metaphor, on so many levels, to apply to solutions to Chicago's violence epidemic. Each intervention -- smarter policing, neighborhood watch, providing after-school activities, stronger parenting, getting guns off the steets, reducing violent culture, and giving young people hope for their future -- takes no more than the proverbial bite out of crime. Any successful strategy needs to be comprehensiv
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Petition
Group: CommonSenseSavesLives
Related Tags: Anti-ViolenceGun ControlPeace, War, and Conflict Resolution
To: Governor Rod Blagojevich and Members of the Illinois General Assembly:
Please Support The
Common Sense Gun Legislation For Illinois
As residents of Illinois, we have signed our names below to express serious concerns about the damaging impacts of gun violence to our families, friends and neighborhoods, and most of all, to our youth. We strongly urge you to support common sense gun legislation and make sure these bills are enacted into law in 2008.
We cannot wait any longer.
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We exist to help organize the hundreds of thousands of people across Illinois care about making our communities safer. We want to move from "why we should care" to "how we can take action." We will help concerned citizens 1) Get Organized; 2) Show support for Common Sense Gun Legislation; 3) Get involved by connecting to people, organizations and events to make safer communities.
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Group: CAPS (Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy)
Related Tags: Children: At-RiskGun Control
I will never bring a gun to school;
I will never use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute;
I will use my influence with my friends to keep them from using guns to settle disputes.
My individual choices and actions, when multiplied by those of young people throughout the country, will make a difference. Together, by honoring this pledge, we can reverse the violence and grow up in safety.
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