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Rally Planned To Promote Peace In Face Of Long Beach Violence by Ryan ZumMallen | Archive | 03.11.10 |
+ 2:30pm | In an effort to unite the community and remember family members and friends lost to violence, a peace march organized by teachers, community leaders and organizers alike will be held at the end of this month. Organizers are touting the event as Peace 4 LB.  “We thought there was a need for this type of voice, this type of involvement,” says Carrie Beltran, a teacher at Wilson High School who has been one of the event’s main facilitators. Beltran and others concerned with local youth violence began planning about three months ago for the March 27 event. A 9:00am rally will be held at Cesar Chavez Elementary that includes community meetings and workshops, followed by the march and celebration from 12:00pm-3:00pm.“We have lots of people in this community that have lost family members to violence and they really wanted to stand up for peace and community involvement,” Beltran says. Fliers for the event encourage participants to bring signs, pictures and t-shirts in remembrance of their lost loved ones. The group lists is mission as follows: “To advocate for peace and raise awareness of the effects of youth violence through shared experiences, group dialogue, and partnerships with schools and community members of Long Beach.” Click here to join the Peace 4 LB rally Facebook page. Local students and other youth will entertain the crowds with performances during the rally. Tryouts are being held next Tuesday and anyone interested can contact CBeltran@LBSchools.net.
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Randy LB Res Good luck! I hope you intend to hold hands and all walk in harmony with the Ross family! I'M OUT! Peace, Love. Hope and Den Let us not be in denial that what we are really asking for is individuals to have self respect. With this the power of any March carries with it a level of integrity beyond reproach. With self respect comes healing, acceptance, compassion, and most important a contagious level of preservation through mentoring others by our own actions not reaction. CHARLIE O REALLY, That's All we need is another peace march, rally, and meetings and etc to remind us of the lost loved ones caused by youth gang violence, while all along we already know what the answer is - PARENTS - and if you don't know the definition of the word - your in real trouble! A Believer in LB It sounds like this event is going to be a POSITIVE voice for the community! Those who reject or put down the event must only have internal bitterness or resentment of something they're obviously not over- sucks for you :( Now the rest of the us can actually unite and continue to fight back those who keeps trying to bring us down! Yes it's another rally/march, but it is one that will always be needed! The problem(s) don't go away just because some ignore that it exists. Through time, hard work and collaboration of the people will this effort against youth violence be answered. I'll be standing for my brother... barjj These marches for neighborhood peace are important but after so many years and so many marches people start to get cynical because we get the sense that nothing has improved.There are some who continually want to throw money at this problem as if that will overcome the deep social problems that exist. How committed are the parents and leaders of these neighborhoods in confronting the problem of fatherless families? Frankly, if this problem isn't addressed in the decades to come I don't know how you turn it around.Boys need full-time fathers to inculcate values of right and wrong and to enforce them, period. astar ent Good Luck..someone has to take a stand...I am organizing one for my neighborhood...if GOD is for us; who can stand against us!
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