{"id":744,"date":"2007-12-20T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/20\/christopher-rose-community-empowerment-campaign-visits-ps-119\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T03:28:40","slug":"christopher-rose-community-empowerment-campaign-visits-ps-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/12\/20\/christopher-rose-community-empowerment-campaign-visits-ps-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign Visits P.S. 119"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

\"Christopher
\nSharon Rose (mother), Darryl Matthis (family friend) & Xamayla Rose (sister) in our library raising awareness about the insidiousness of gang influence on urban youth.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher
\nMrs. Rose receiving flowers made by our students.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

\"Christopher
\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n

Creative Writing teacher Gen Berretta invited the Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign<\/i><\/a> to our school, P.S. 119 The Amersfort School of Social Awareness on Avenue K in Brooklyn. If you don’t remember, Christopher Rose was the young boy who was killed for his iPod<\/i><\/a> in 2005 on Farragut Road in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Since, his mother Sharon Rose and family have created an organization in Christopher’s memory to foster community activism and raise awareness against gang influence on our youth.<\/p>\n

The Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign will aim to mobilize community stakeholders and others for support and involvement in activities to increase community awareness of the following: <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>\u2022 The factors that contribute to youth violence
\n\u2022 Occurrences of violence
\n\u2022 The impact of violence
\n\u2022 Strategies for preventing delinquency of adolescents that leads to youth gang involvement and community violence<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\"What<\/a><\/div>\n
This poem was read by one of our students:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

What color should I die for?
\nBlue?
\nRed?
\nor
\nGold?
\nHow old do I grow before my love of the color grows cold?
\nHelp me choose a symbol my friend can die for.
\nThe star?
\nA Hat?
\nOr
\na hand sign?
\nIt all makes sense?
\nWho wouldn’t die for a color or symbol?
\nI would……wouldn’t I?
\nYou can…won’t you?
\nMy baby brother should….. shouldn’t he?
\nAre these symbols that hold us together, the meaning of life?
\nIs a color as important as Freedom or a symbol and hand sign as virtuous as Love.
\nStop!
\nWhat madness have we created.
\nWe fight and die for issues of no meaning.
\nGang Life has no future.
\nNo Profit.
\nNo virtue.
\nNo worthy goals.
\nI choose a life with a future.
\nI reject mindless commitments to meaningless issues
\nand conflicts that gang life offers me.
\nWhy should I serve or follow these men who create conflict and hate to the point that it spirals out of control.
\nYesterday you were my friend and today you are my enemy because they say you are.
\nRubbish!
\nI will choose my friends, my future, my destiny.
\nYes I would die for Freedom.
\nNo I won’t die for your special color,
\nsymbol, hand sign, or street corner.
\nWhat kind of brotherhood would ask me to do such a thing?
\nI reject Gang Life and choose…
\nLife!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

DTL – Gang <\/a>Intervention.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharon Rose (mother), Darryl Matthis (family friend) & Xamayla Rose (sister) in our library raising awareness about the insidiousness of gang influence on urban youth. Mrs. Rose receiving flowers made by our students. \u00a9 Frank H. Jump Creative Writing teacher Gen Berretta invited the Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign to our school, P.S. 119 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,325,618,1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-christopher-rose","category-gang-violence","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-c0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}