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Let’s Use This Teachable Moment to Save Lives
January 20, 2011 - no commentsIn an open letter sent by the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama suggests parents use the Tucson tragedy as a teachable moment.
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Stop the Violence: Program tackles gangs, guns
June 14, 2010 - 3 CommentsA Chicago program is working to get gangs and guns off the streets.
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Teen fatally shot at house party
June 14, 2010 - no commentsA 15-year-old boy was shot and killed after a bullet flew through an apartment window over the weekend.
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Wounded: Stop the Violence
June 14, 2010 - no commentsVideo interviews of youth survivors of gun violence
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Father Plefger and Annette Nance-Holt interview
June 14, 2010 - 1 CommentFather Plefger and Annette Nance-Holt speak about their violence prevention efforts.
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Stop the Violence: Mayor Daley
June 14, 2010 - no commentsChicago Mayor Richard M. Daley discusses how parents can help stop the violence - video interview-
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Teen shot handing out anti-violence flyers
June 05, 2010 - no commentsA teenager was shot while he was reportedly handing out flyers for an anti-violence event. The shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. Friday at 67th Street and Blackstone. Police say the 18-year old suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
The director of the Woodlawn Organization tells ABC7 Chicago that Johnathan Lee was working for her group. She says the flyers were for a week-long event sponsored by Ceasefire.
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CPS anti-violence program takes off, slowly
June 03, 2010 - no commentsAs CJ lay in a hospital last winter nursing a gunshot wound to his arm, the prospect of graduating from high school seemed a distant dream for the skinny Roseland teen. Mostly left to his own devices, he had drifted to the streets at an early age and often skipped school, since attending class required crossing a web of gang lines that conflicted with his own affiliations.
Five months later, CJ rarely misses a day, participates in class and is on track to graduate. He credits his turnaround to an ambitious program launched by Chicago Public Schools this school year to stem youth violence.
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Beach violence alarms alderman
June 02, 2010 - no commentsA North Side alderman is calling for police surveillance cameras along a stretch of beachfrom Oak Street to North Avenue to keep a lid on violence this summer.
"We just don't want any gang problems at the beach," said Ald. Vi Daley (43rd), whose lakefront ward includes North Avenue beach. "Beaches are there for people to enjoy, to play volleyball, swim and walk along the beach. We want to make sure it's a safe place for people to go.''
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Students’ party brings sparkle — and hopes for peace — to Rogers Park
May 26, 2010 - no commentsLast school year, several students on their way to school watched a teacher get carjacked. Fights are a constant, and kids often are chased. Sirens wail and shots ring out when they are home at night. The kids avoid Pottawattomie Park, just outside their school's front door, because of the gangs hanging out there. Recently, a woman was lurking around the school handing out fliers to the teen girls, trying to entice them into sex work, with a phone number to call.
But rather than fear their community, the teens are trying to change it. For the second year in a row, they are hosting a party with a straightforward and time-tested goal: peace. A student-organized party informally called the "peace event,'' will be held on the streets around the school and part of Pottawattomie Park on Saturday, and the students are hoping the whole neighborhood will come.
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