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Greetings everyone. Please send me your favorite peace quote...it can be your own words or from someone else (please include who said it). I want to create a power point peace program.
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For over 4 years, a coalition of leaders and community members of Erie, PA have met to address the rise of violence in their communities. This coalition, also instrumental in forming The Gathering for Justice in Erie, a chapter of a national movem...
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At 10:14am on May 1, 2009, Kevin Sanchez said…
The Our-story of our fight
By: Curly X

we fought this war for our own land,

we lost that fight, they chopped off our hands.

“DON’T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE, NOTHING READ”

“All WE WANT IS WHITE NOT RED”

we fought this war for our own land,

we lost that fight, they plopped cuffs on hands.

“DON’T CROSS THIS BORDER INTO TOWN”

“All WE WANT IS WHITE NOT BROWN”

we fought this war for our own land,

we fight it still with our own hands.

“DON’T SPEAK UP SPIC, DON’T PICK A FIGHT”

“I JUST WISH YOU WERE ALL SNOW-WHITE’

We fight this war for our own land,

I can’t be white and join your Klan.

“YOU WILL LOSE, THERE WILL BE BLOODSHED”

“THIS DAY WILL YOU PEOPLE DREAD”

We fight this war for our own land,

Eventually, you will see we all bleed red.

This is the road that I will choose,

And in this fight YOU will lose.

“NO, YOU CAN’T”

“SI, SE PUEDE, AND YES WE CAN”
At 12:30pm on March 20, 2009, Kevin Sanchez said…
hey, how you been. long time no talk
At 10:59am on January 12, 2009, Kevin Sanchez said…
Thank you. I will try to come up with more to share with my familia. I hope all is well. How has life, educaion, and the movement, been treating you. If you need anything, Im always a phone call away.

Peace and Love
At 10:22am on January 12, 2009, jessica said…
hey big head, we r the best of friends and i thank God for u almost everyday, luv u
At 4:21pm on January 9, 2009, Kevin Sanchez said…
Rhyme with No Reason?
By: Curly X

This poem is dedicated to Oscar Grant and the other Oscar Grant’s

Bullets piercing the bodies of my people,
I thought the constitution said we are all equal.

Puppets in this world voicing our sad stories,
Eyeballs filled with sanction killings by police sissies.

When will the shooting stop from the hired guns,
Good men die while marksmen freely run.

Mothers hanging on to the last breath of there child,
Minutes go by and she grows more, wild.

Murders are banging Her heart to death,
Riots seem old, it outgrows the poor, and defiles.

Bigots were crushed by the hands of peaceful men,
Cries didn’t come from guns, but from there mouth and pen.

Lead an army of soldiers with guns and rocks, and we will be crushed,
Because violence begets violence, when we are rushed.

Heal our broken hearts with sage and gospel song,
The real ordeal is to fix the pain of wrong.

Forgive and forget, seems to far fetch,
But I promise, you,
Brother Killing Brother, Sister Killing Sister,
Others shooting others to enact revenge,
Its like rhyme with no reason, it doesn’t end.

I want to thank Paradise, for being my inspiration. I hope that our words reach Oakland, and we can be there for them, and heal, organize, and do things the right way. Because you and I know, riots are what the oppressor wants. It gives them a reason to oppress. Destroy the violence, and they have no tools against us.

Peace and Love Delete Comment
At 12:32pm on December 11, 2008, Cynthia said…
Thanks for the wonderful words about Jonathan. I think he's pretty wonderful but I'm a bit biased I think :). Jonathan is very committed to what he is doing. He is so good at it because he believes in the Gathering and is giving his all for it - giving up being at home, sleeping on couches, not knowing from trip to trip where he'll be staying. He is loving it. Happy holidays to you and yours.
At 12:54pm on December 5, 2008, Curtis Jones said…
What's up lil sista? I hope your doing well. Give me a call when you can. Call my office number and I'll give you my cell then. Be styrong no matter what your going through!!!
Big Bro!
At 2:45pm on October 15, 2008, Bobby Hill said…
hay Michelina this is bobby a frient of Tuffys just speaking its good 2 see people standing up for something but any ways hope 2 meet you at the next event live good later
At 12:05pm on September 7, 2008, Carmen Perez said…
Hey Michelina, how are you doing away at school. I just viewed your page to send you a message and noticed we share the same quote, great pick. Just wanted to drop you a line. Let us know how things are going.
At 8:47pm on September 6, 2008, Juan Pacheco said…
Greetings Sister,
Hope you are doing awesome. I am doing good. I have been tied down about because I had to move to a new place so my time has been streched like crazy. I have just been working on keeping our group together and solid so that is a good thing. How are you?
Peace and much Love,
JP

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
--Marianne Williamson

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
--Mariam Wright Edelman

It always seems impossible, until its done.
--Nelson Mandela

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence is the language of the inarticulate…
--Dr. Bernard LaFayette

More People, more power, more progress.
--Jonathan L. Lewis

If you are not willing to die for it, then your struggle is in vein..
--Kevin

We are far more powerful than the machine of oppression.
--Mr. Harry Belafonte

Free yourself from the cognitive structure of your mind.
--Juan Pacheco

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
--Che Guevara

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world... the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw

Tell me, I may forget;
show me, then I may remember;
but involve me, and I'll understand.
--Chinese proverb// Sankofa

My life is my message.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Juveniles Don't Belong in Adult Prisons

Child Watch® Column
By Marian Wright Edelman

Jails and prisons are dangerous places for anybody, but especially for children and teens. Many of these institutions house vicious predators who have been locked up for brutal violent crimes. Yet on any given day, approximately 9,500 juveniles under the age of 18 are locked up in adult penal institutions. Children as young as 15 can be prosecuted as adults in many states without review by a judge or a court hearing.

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Posted on August 1, 2008 at 1:49pm — 1 Comment

 
 

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The mission of The Gathering is to build an Intergenerational, movement, rooted in history, cultures and non-violent direct action to heal communities, build collective strength and generate an environment of hope and opportunity.

Civil rights and social justice organizations have come to understand that collective action on a national basis is required to stop child incarceration and challenge the immoral process which perpetuates an unjust justice system. These groups are working under extremely difficult circumstances and many of them with little or no resources. The Gathering is a national movement that creates a coordinated space to 1) fortify relationships between regional groups, 2) support local endeavors and 3) enhance the ongoing organizing of non-violent direct action training. Central to its mission is strengthening our moral environment.

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