Let Everyone Be Involved In The Peace Process

From July 30th-August 1st,2010 were some of the most violent days this summer. The most chillin was a young man was ambushed and shot 22 times and then the word on the street is he was not the intended target(WTH). And then you see on the news selected churches were seen marching. The violence in chicago streets are not just a Operation Push problem it's a community and city problem and it's not fair to the organizations that are doing great things in crime ridden area's to not be invited to the table, or to be given a voice in the so called peace process, and how many MARCHES are we gonna see. If marching was the solution the violence would've stopped years ago, until we can get on the streets and talk to these young people the senseless violence will continue. We have a lot of vacant lots and abandant homes in the inner city, let's get on the mayor and alderpersons to utilize some of these property's to have more Boys/Girls clubs and after school programs for our young people to have a safe haven and a place where positive things can be done. Bring in some OG's aka former gang members to mentor or even just have a forum where the voices of these young people can be heard, because they have ideas concerning the peace process and they have real fears. I would like to commend a church whose doing great things and no they're not on TV with operation push and their pastor isn't invited to any of the operation push panal meetings aka gang summits but Allen Metropolitan Church is doing great things with the youth in the roseland/englewood area and you don't have to be a member of the church to be a part of the programs they have. They are reaching out in a quiet but postive way, they bring in chefs, teachers, business people to teach and work with the kids from per-school age and up to young adults their program should be a model for all of us trying to find at least one solution to this senseless violence and destruction in our neighborhoods.