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2013 Think Green Project
>2013 Think Green Project!
>Bring your old electronic items for recycling and your old documents for shredding
>to the
>Imani Pearls Community Development Foundation's 2013 Think Green Project!
>Learn about urban gardening, composting, energy conservation and receive  exciting
>giveaways for an environmentally conscious lifestyle. There will be fun activities
>for kids and raffles too.
>The event will take place SATURDAY, June 29th from 10 AM-1 PM  at the Bronzeville
>Community Market, 4400 South Cottage Grove.
>Sponsored by the IPCDF, Chicago Conservation Corps, AVA Electronics Recycling  and
>Great Energy Stewards.
>
>Contact Larken Akins (larkenakins@yahoo.com [mailto:larkenakins@yahoo.com]) for 
>questions or for more information.  Please see the attached flyer for a list of 
>acceptable electronic items.

june grads

2013 June Grad

 

It was really very disturbing that there was absolutely NO MEDIA COVERAGE, for 4th Annual Urban Prep College Signing Day, and where we were located, they could have come out on foot from the brick and mortar of their news stations. VERY DISTURBING, but, if one of these young men get into legal or criminal trouble, they will get helicopters, mics shoved into their faces,...See More

 — with Mesha Polk, Ebony Godluvsme, Meagan Cheve and 30 others.

lock'em up and throw away the key?

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., blasts U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk's, R-Ill., plan to lock-up 18,000 U.S. citizens without a trial (mostly young Black men) as "a sensational, headline-grabbing, empty, simplistic, unworkable approach" 

There's a core of substance in Kirk's `empty, simplistic' crime-fighting proposal

Eric Zorn

Source:  ChicagoTribune.com

It's an arresting idea, so to speak.  Round up 18,000 members of the Gangster Disciples street gang and put them behind bars awaiting trial.  On what charges?  

"Drug dealing," said U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., when he first publicly advanced the notion earlier this month in a TV interview on WFLD-Ch. 32. And "murdering people, which is what they do," he continued.

Specifically, Kirk said in an appearance on WTTW-Ch. 11 Wednesday that "about 40 percent of the homicides in the city are due to the Gangster Disciples (including) the murder of Hadiya Pendleton."

Hadiya, a 15-year-old honors student at King College Prep, was shot and killed in a South Side park in late January, allegedly by a man affiliated with the Gangster Disciples.  "And if they complain," about the mass arrests, Kirk said, "just say this is about the death of Hadiya Pendleton."

Well, there's a lot wrong with Kirk's plan, which U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., blasted as "a sensational, headline-grabbing, empty, simplistic, unworkable approach" in an interview with the Sun-Times Wednesday.

First, in America we don't just go around locking people up because of who they hang out with or what we think they might do (or at least we haven't since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II).

Nevertheless, as raw, outlandish and half-baked as Kirk's proposal is, and as murky as his numbers are and as weak as his understanding of cause and effect may be, give him credit for advancing the idea that we need a new, stronger approach to combat gang violence, and for reminding us how huge the problem truly is. 

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