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By: stephanie

Thanks to a generous matching grant from The Knight Foundation and New York Community Trust, DCTV will bring Beyond Bullets to 7 NYC communities in Spring 2010. We are thrilled to be working with emerging journalists and filmmakers to explore the issue of gun violence throughout the city and to highlight existing solutions.

DCTV will be creating a series of videos for the web, and touring these videos to schools in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and Crown Heights (Brooklyn); Harlem...

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Our Partner's Event: Albany Lobby Day

By: stephanie

On April 27, 2010, our partners at New Yorkers Against Gun Violence will host its annual Albany Lobby Day in Albany, NY. Hundreds of teenagers from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island, Westchester and Buffalo will pay a visit to their state and city leaders to discuss the issue of gun violence and lobby for stricter gun laws and safer streets. The students will give public presentations and meet privately with lawmakers to make their case to get illegal weapons off the streets where...

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Growing Up Scared - Who Cares?

By: stephanie

According to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, more than 60% of children surveyed by The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence were exposed to violence within the past year, either directly or indirectly, and nearly 1/2 of them were assaulted at least once in the past year. The numbers are even higher for urban minority youth: 85% have directly witnessed acts of violence and 69% have been directly victimized...

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One Milwaukee

By: stephanie

Serve Marketing created the "One Milwaukee" campaign in response to Milwaukee's gun violence epidemic. They draw interesting parallels between teen pregnancy (Milwaukee has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the nation) and gun violence through their campaign. Check out their website to see what they are doing to make the public know that gun violence is everyone's problem in Milwaukee: www.onemilwaukee.org....

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It Only Gets Harder

By: miles

Our youth reporter, Taylor Holt, felt the effects of gun violence on her family when her 16-year-old cousin, Blair Holt, was shot and killed in crossfire while riding on a public bus after school. Although she had watched her family grieve the loss of this talented honor student, she hadn’t felt the direct impact until she set out to interview her aunt, and other grieving families, throughout Chicago.

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