Poem for Youth Alive!
Posted November 11, 2011
By Marianne Williams
Marianne Williams, a Teens on Target Youth Leader, wrote this poem for Youth ALIVE! She performed it at Youth ALIVE!’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on November 10, 2011.
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Occupy movement turns to extending appeal to broad segments of U.S. population
Posted November 2, 2011
Oakland Tribune
By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune
November 2, 2011
OAKLAND – Daniel Wilkerson has a hard time relating to most of what he hears coming from the protesters at Occupy Oakland. He has no use for communism, and he thinks capitalism works perfectly well when done right.
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Success story for Sacramento intervention program
Posted July 14, 2011
East Bay gunshot victim a success story for Sacramento intervention program
Sacramento Bee
July 2011
By Kim Minugh - kminugh@sacbee.com
In an Oakland street, Maurice Stroud took a bullet to the chest and one to a knee. Then, as he fled his masked gunman, he took three more.
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In the Crossfire
Posted November 14, 2008
NEED Magazine
Excerpt from Issue #5, November 2008
Homicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Oakland.
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The High Cost of Gun Violence
Posted June 14, 2008
EAST BAY EXPRESS
June 4, 2008
On a Sunday afternoon in June of 2006, a young man we’ll call Michael Robinson was shot six times on a street in his West Oakland neighborhood. Paramedics rushed the bleeding seventeen-year-old to Highland Hospital’s trauma center, where a medical team treated his wounded legs, arms, and abdomen. Although they stopped his bleeding quickly, and the bullets just missed his major organs, Robinson still needed multiple surgeries. Like approximately 95 percent of the patients treated for violent injuries at Highland Hospital, he had no health insurance.
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Five TNT Teenagers
Posted December 14, 2004
OAKLAND NORTH
December 2010
FIVE TEENAGERS talk about living with violence and trying to do something about it. Ivan Brand says no one has the right to pull a gun on him. Bobbe Miller wants a safe environment for her baby nephew. La’Ban Wade gets ready for college. Dionte Williams reflects on loss. Jake Brand talks about the difference between a gang and a family.
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