Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gang Peace office is cramped. Just a small room with a TV and VCR for about 20-30 kids from the neighborhood who are in almost every day. AIDS education posters compete with quotes from Malcolm X on the walls. A flyer for the play "Our Young Black Men Are Dying and Nobody Seems To Care" lies on the table...
...Another Gang Peace volunteer, Keith Meredith,31, tries to start the meeting in Rodney'sabsence. No luck...
Then Rodney arrives. As soon as he gets out ofhis grey Gang Peace van, he is surrounded by theboys. He asks who wants to go with him to see aplay at the Strand Theater that weekend...
...free? Will Gang Peace pay forour ticket?" is the common refrain...
Founded two years ago, Gang Peace is anorganization which resists definition. WhateverDailey and his followers think can help Bostonyouth--that's what they do. They act as advocatesfor kids in trouble, take part in community forumson police practice, mediate between gangs, conductworkshops on issues like AIDS, drugs, andviolence, sponsor concerts, help teens find jobs,encourage programs to get the teenagers to usetheir "entrepreneurial" skills to do somethingother than sell drugs. Gang Peace has also enabledseven people to take courses at Atlantic UnionCollege by computer...