Monday, December 22, 2008

The Peaceful Streets of Boston

It is the LACK of SELF-REFLECTION and the HYPOCRISY that gets to me, America, not the "peace" part! I'm ALL FOR PEACE!

"Details set on making streets safer; 80% of funds raised for first-year costs" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | December 18, 2008

Working with 25 new street workers, core social-service agencies in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods will stay open late nights and weekends, offering job training and preparedness programs and family support outreach, according to plans for a $26 million initiative officially unveiled yesterday by the Boston Foundation and city and community leaders.

That's one of Madoff's "charities!"

The initiative, known as StreetSafe Boston, would also teach the street workers the skills of mentoring and mediation, in an ambitious effort to reach the 16- to 24-year-olds in five neighborhoods along or near Blue Hill Avenue who commit most of the city's violent crimes.

"One of the main thrusts of the work here is to build a culture of peace," said Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission and one of the architects of the initiative....

So we can what, SEND THEM AWAY to WARS BASED on LIES?

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So when is the USraeli government going to come around to a "culture of peace," huh?