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NEWS & LETTERS, February 2008 - March 2008Cease FireLos Angeles--The Cease Fire Committee, based in South Central Los Angeles, was organized to stop gang warfare and violence in their communities through gang intervention, organizing breakfasts to bring rival gang members together, and community forums and speaking out against the Los Angeles Police Department's suppression-only programs. Recently, David Cay Johnston, author of FREE LUNCH, spoke of how (under capitalism), the middle class and poor pay—through taxes—for government subsidies including hundreds of millions of dollars for privately owned professional sports stadiums. At the same time organized youth sports programs in the ghettos have been drastically defunded. He attributed a lack of these programs as a significant reason for the rise of today's massive number of gangs and gang violence. I'm sure the lack of hope for a well-paying job, unemployment, a prospect of ending up in prison, the constant portrayal by the mass media of gang members as incorrigible criminals and today's economic crises are also factors. --Basho |
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