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Thank you to DCTV Presents and LoMAL for a successful screening and panel discussion yesterday! Our panelists, Richard Aborn, Shaina Harrison, Maria Hinojosa and Clarivel Ruiz, tackled some very complex topics, and they were all deeply knowledgable about the issues. There were even a few disagreements, which is always the sign of a good conversation.

July 24th, 2010 is The National Day of Action to Silence The Violence. Our partner and the subject of one of our videos, the great violence prevention youth organization United Playaz of Banana Kelly High School, has teamed up with Urban Peace Movement and 106 KMEL to create a truly National event! The Bronx Chapter of United Playaz, founded by the wonderful Amelia...

This week, Beyond Bullets has been in attendance at the 4th Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which is taking place at the United Nations. We've attended meetings on gender mainstreaming in the prevention of small arms trafficking, the role of youth in the prevention and combating of weapons trafficking, and the presentation of the Small Arms Survey Yearbook 2010, which is an annual, comprehensive publication about small...

Editor’s note: In mid-May PopTech held a salon workshop to highlight Ceasefire’s innovative efforts to “intercept” gun violence and to discuss how new information technologies might help broaden the impact of these initiatives in various communities.

To continue our exploration, PopTech recently caught up with Stephanie Skaff, the project director of the Downtown Community Television Center initiative called Beyond Bullets. The project is using youth-produced media – and media...