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The New York Daily News
Elizabeth Lazarowitz

A NEW short film aimed at curbing gun violence centers on the enduring sorrow of a Brooklyn mother five years after her son was gunned down on a Crown Heights streetcorner. In the brief but powerful video, Robin Lyde recalls seeing her son Benny, 21, sprawled on the sidewalk near her house. “So close to home, but not home,” she says in the film, “Benny Lyde: A Role Model
Dies Young.” “I started praying.”

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stephanie | 11/19/2010 - 3:15pm | 0 comments
Street Level Media: A Conversation with Beyond Bullets' Stephanie Skaff | PopTech
Colleen Kaman

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 production – as a critical component of gun violence prevention.

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allie | 06/01/2010 - 12:54pm | 0 comments
Film Activists Are Taking Antiviolence on Location | The New York Times
Karen Zraick

Ronald Merritt, a filmmaker, peered out at the group of 30 high school students who stood before him on a Lower East Side sidewalk.

“If y’all lost somebody to gun violence, raise your hand,” he said.

Nine students did so. Their stories poured out: the friend killed after a rowdy party; the relative singled out by a rival gang.

Mr. Merritt nodded. A video camera recorded the students’ faces then panned back to him.

“Think about it,” he said. “It could be your life next.”

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jesse | 05/24/2010 - 1:32pm | 0 comments
Wall Street Journal | Students Use Video to Explore the Impact of Gun Violence
Shelly Banjo

One downtown media arts group has a message for New York City youth: Pick up a camera, not a gun.

This week, Manhattan’s Downtown Community Television Center is taking a giant bus around more than a dozen city schools to get students to make videos and talk about friends and family who have been killed in gun violence.

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jesse | 05/19/2010 - 3:45pm | 0 comments
BEYOND BULLETS NYC LAUNCHES!

DCTV is proud to announce the launch of BeyondBullets.org, a website aimed to use the power of media to quell America’s gun violence epidemic.

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tahnee | 05/13/2010 - 4:29pm | 1 comments