gun violence

Join New York City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito and residents of El Barrio/East Harlem for a peace march this Friday! The Council Member's office has been working tirelessly to prevent gun violence in their district, and now they're gathering the neighborhood together for some collective action.

Gather with them on the corner 116th Street & Madison Avenue at 5:30pm. The group will depart at 6:00pm. The march route follows Madison Ave south to 106th Street, then heads east...

We're thrilled with the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, and want to learn from their tenacity and ingenuity. We're proud to support a movement that's demanding a better world for everyone, and organizing itself along the way, allowing room for a democratic process naturally. They believe fiercely in their cause, and it's becoming clear that more and more people are realizing that they, too, are part of the 99%. With increased participation across...

Yesterday we visited A Philip Randolph High School while their students were making a peace mural. We're starting an ongoing program at A P Randolph to discuss gun violence and the making of healthy communities. You'll be reading their blogs and watching their videos over the next few months, so stay tuned.

The peace mural was one of the first events their Humanities department put on, and the students had a great time! We got letters from a few of the students describing their...

On June 30th there was a shooting in Harlem's Morningside Park, while teens were playing basketball and younger kids were playing on the playground. This was apparently the third shooting in a week in the area, and the brazenness of this shooting - at 7:00pm in a crowded public park with families all around - struck fear in parents from the neighborhood and spurned responses from the community.