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Chain of Change is committed to advancing justice in and through media. We see gaps and contradictions between how mainstream media often report on violence involving and affecting youth and what you are experiencing in your everyday life. This blog seeks to fill in the gaps by including your story.
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Tucson students take over, shut down school board meeting (UPDATED)
May 12, 2011 - no commentsby Sabrina VIDEO
Students outraged over the proposed destruction of an ethnic studies program took over the board room, with some chaining themselves to the directors’ seats at the front of the room.
Grandmother helping Chicago kids ‘off the block’
April 07, 2011 - 1 CommentCNN
In Roseland, one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, many residents stay off the streets to protect themselves from rampant gang violence. But one grandmother opened her door and invited gang members to come inside.
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gangs, kids off the block, teenagers, violence prevention
Getting To Chicago’s Boys Before Gangs Do
March 22, 2011 - no commentsNational Public Radio
In some of Chicago's troubled neighborhoods, it's not unusual for boys to join gangs at a young age. For many, it's a road fraught with violence.
But a group called Becoming a Man (BAM) is working on getting to those youngsters before they're drawn into gang life or drop out of school.
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chicago public schools, gang violence, gangs
Local program teaches girls the right way to respond to conflict
March 16, 2011 - no comments
That was the topic on a recent chilly day as nine young girls dressed in maroon elementary school colors gathered after classes to sit on the floor around a large pink paper pebble that headlined — “No More Girl Drama.”
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aggression, Brown Bag Apprenticeship Program, cyber bullying, girl drama, girls mentoring program, leadership skills, National Mentoring Summit, Polished Pebbles program
Cyberbullying Rates Across the World and the Role of Culture
February 17, 2011 - 1 CommentCyberbullying Research Center
Being Americans, we tend to focus a lot of attention on offline and online peer harassment here at home. It is interesting, though, to consider the cross-cultural research that has been done on traditional bullying and think about whether they parallel similar trends in cyberbullying across various countries.
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bullying rates, cyberbullying research, global research, international cyberbullying cross-cultural study, media scapegoat
Youth Blog
The Other Westinghouse
December 13, 2010 - no commentsby Lynda Lopez
Tags: Chicago, chicago public schools, education, university of chicago, west side
Welcome to The V-Word
November 23, 2010 - 4 Commentsby Lynda Lopez
Tags: Chicago, chicago public schools, little village, pilsen, violence as public health issue, violence prevention
Chicago: A City of Contradictions
July 29, 2010 - no commentsby Lynda Lopez
Chicago is a city of contradictions. There is so much beauty that lies within the veins of this great city yet there is a paradoxical ugliness that is present in neighborhoods across Chicago. I have lived a relatively calm existence but I have witnessed and felt the pain that violence inflicts on the people of Chicago.
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July 12, 2010 - no commentsby Anonymous
My girlfriend's next door neighbor, let's call her Aubrey, had a gang storm in her house, make a total wreck of everything inside, slash open her mattress, throw her on the ground, verbally abuse her, and threaten her with more brutality for talking back to them. This gang was the Pittsburgh police.
Tags: police, police involvement, police violence
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July 12, 2010 - no commentsby Patricia Feraud
It was two thirty in the hot afternoon, lunch was recently over and it was half hour left until school end, the subsitute teacher was sitting on his desk reading the newspaper, kids were walking around the classroom gossiping as usual. Looking at the school buses rolling into our middle school parking lot, I felt a tap on my shoulder. i turn around to find it was my friend Jasmine* (name changed) with a bloody forehead, smiling at me with excitement.
Tags: gang violence