Dear Crown Heights, October has been an exciting month at the Mediation Center. We began a new year of our youth program, Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets, with a fabulous group of Youth Organizers. They have done a lot in the few weeks since they got started, including exploring the neighborhood with a Crown […]
CONTINUE READINGAt Union United Methodist Church on this past Wednesday, October 23rd, over 50 community members gathered to listen to a panel of young people discuss their lives. The audience consisted mainly of adults. The primary rule of the evening, enforced by Reverend Kevin Jones, Clergy Liaison of the S.O.S. Clergy Action Network, was that the […]
CONTINUE READINGOn October 27th, The S.O.S. Clergy Action Network led its annual march to advocate for peace. Over 200 faith leaders and residents showed up to walk on St. Johns Avenue from Nostrand Avenue to Troy Avenue. The walk ended at Beulah Church of the Nazarene, where a reception was held. The event was energetic and […]
CONTINUE READINGOn October 17th, a group of concerned community members met at Launch Charter School for the first in a series of conversations on neighborhood violence. In this first session we unpacked some of our experiences and feelings about violence. We moved on to explore some of the causes of violence and some of the effects […]
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