Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answering machine in its Cambridge officetypifies the organization's approach. "Hello,you've reached Gang Peace. And we're glad to be ofservice to you. We want to help you do anythingexcept sell drugs and shoot guns...
Their philosophy, though not unique, differsfrom that of other organizations trying to helpBoston youth. Gang Peace doesn't tell people toleave gangs. It doesn't tell them to stop sellingdrugs or carrying guns...
Dailey says that young people need to know thatthere are "other things out there." For Dailey,showing young people alternatives to the "druggame" is the primary purpose of Gang Peace...
...others in the community are more familiarwith other aspects of Gang Peace's work,particularly their role in mediating disputesbetween gangs...
Roger Harris, the principal at the TimiltyMiddle School in Roxbury, considers himselfheavily indebted to Dailey and Gang Peace. InSeptember 1990, his first month as principal ofthe school, a fight between two boys over abasketball game escalated to what Harris called a"potentially very dangerous situation." At the endof the school day, some kids inside the schoolcalled their older brothers and cousins in theprojects to come down and protect them from agroup from another neighborhood who were outsidethe school with guns...