***ENOUGH IS ENOUGH*** Save Our children!: A SHORT POEM ENTITLED "HOPE"

***ENOUGH IS ENOUGH*** Save Our children!: A SHORT POEM ENTITLED "HOPE": "Our troubled youth & young adults need education, not self extermination,they need love,not just from God above,they need for people to care..."

A SHORT POEM ENTITLED "HOPE"

Our troubled youth & young adults need education, not self extermination,they need love,not just from God above,they need for people to care,not people who just wanna stare,they need hope, to help them cope,they need a new life,free of suffering & strife,they need their parents to wake up & step up,they need their fathers to say "I'm hear for you son,then hopefully they wont have to die from a bullet fired from a gun"!..............................NO VIOLENCE-KNOW PEACE

"BODY COUNT" 2015

To whom it may concern,                                                                                                                                                                How high does the "body count" have to be before politicians, community leaders & people in the communities that suffer from the "PLAGUE" of "GUN VIOLENCE",get serious about preventing & stopping the violence that has put our communities under seige. It is now Spring with Summer on the way,will we experience the same as the Summer of 2014,where the "body count" in our communities was outrageous,which led to our leaders making speeches and photo ops to stop the violence.I say no!We need change,not the the same as before.A cowardly approach to this "CRISIS" will not work,we already have of proof of this.There are activists & orgs. who have missions & visions on how to save our youth & young adults and communities from any more senseless violence.The budgets which are given to our community leaders are not being used to help activists & Orgs who want to make a change for our communities,when politicians are approached for donations to help the troubled youth & young adults stuck on the  corners & war zones of the streets.They are told its not in their budgets,well its time to go into the( we aint got it fund) and start financing  those who need donations to change the element of violence in our communities,It is time to stop allowing the "PLAGUE" of violence hold our communities hostage.We have made no real progress in the movement in stopping the violence due to the fact,that those with budgets are not wiling to write checks for those who are on the front line in the movement to stop "GUN VIOLENCE".Give us what we need,I know there will be greater progress in the process towards a cease fire in our communities.Our children are the future,its time to invest in it.   ...................NO VIOLENCE-KNOW PEACE...............www.enoughisenoughsaveourchildren.org

WHAT WE CAN DO TO "UNITE" AGAINST THE "CRISIS"OF "GUN VIOLENCE"IN AMERICA'S INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES!

To "UNITE" against the "PLAGUE" of "GUN VIOLENCE" in our communities,first of all some of us in the community,need to stop living in denial about the daily occurrence of "VIOLENCE" in the community,stop believing that their children are some how exempt of whats happening.Second is the issue of how much do we care about our youth & young adults well being & future.The safety of our elderly needs to be a "PRIORITY",the elderly should be able to walk down the street,without fear of being robbed or shot.The people in the community need to support "GRASS ROOT ACTIVISTS & ORGANIZATIONS",who are on the front line in the fight to end "GUN VIOLENCE".Unity means standing for the greater good of the 'CAUSE" for which we unite! Understanding benefits of  "UNITY" in the community are unmeasurable,realizing that without the participation of those who live in the community all is lost.No more young lives have to be lost,in order for a community to "UNITE". When called upon by those who are making changes in the community to "STOP THE VIOLENCE",show up and stop staying home watching what happened on the local news.Instead be the news as the community who has "UNITED" to prevent "GUN VIOLENCE" in their community.It takes selflessness, unconditional commitment, sacrifice,speaking out,donations to fund programs for the communities troubled youth & young adults.Churches who's members are from the surrounding community,need to start being more involved in the major needs of the community.The members should demand this especially from these mega churches who take money out of the community and give back very little,start scheduling weekly meetings on the progress being made and what else needs to be done. Collaboration of  all activists,org etc. for one "CAUSE", to rid our communities of the "PLAGUE" of "GUN VIOLENCE".No more selfish agendas by those who say their for the people,but their actions say differently.No more going along to get along.Those outside the community,cannot solve what goes on in our communities.This is up to us,the people of the community.Let us "UNITE",for it is long over due!..............NO VIOLENCE- KNOW PEACE!

"HOW HAS GUN VIOLENCE BEEN PROMOTED THROUGH TODAY'S MUSIC"?

Some of todays music does promote violence,most of those who use lyrics about "GUNS" in their music,generally are the same artists who are arrested for "GUN" possession. Violent lyrics in music,means big business for most record labels promoting Hip Hop artists,who's lyrics promote violence.Our youth & young adults today are disillusioned by what they hear in music,that glorifies violence and going to prison.Most of the artists have never been shot or to prison.Artists who are arrested,the charge is commonly weapons and drug possession.The youth today are being setup by the music industry and by other entities.The message in music needs to change.Todays message is kill or be killed.A lot of record companies are profiting from music that promotes "GUN VIOLENCE",so the question is what do we do to stop it?..............................NO VIOLENCE-KNOW PEACE!

"RISE UP PEOPLE"

In N.Y.C.,in every Boro., state & city officials are cutting services such as the closing of schools,closing of senior citizen centers,daycare centers also removing 42,000 children from childcare as September 2012,services for troubled youth & young adults are being cut.Now state & city officials are saying the state is broke,I noticed certain communities in N.Y.C. are not going to loose their services,because their not are not just going to sit back and let it happen,This is to the communities who are! Its time to "RISE UP" and not allow these cuts to cripple our communities,we must mass together and say "NO" to any cuts or suffer from our own lack of  not making a "STAND" ,state & city cuts in our communities will result in disastrous condition's for our communities.Senior citizens will have no where to go,schools will be over crowded resulting in increased school violence,Parents who depend on city & state childcare will have to pay for private childcare,resulting in food being removed from their tables,"GUN VIOLENCE" will rise to a higher level the it all ready is, due to no prevention services to troubled youth & young adults."RISE UP PEOPLE"...................ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.................NO VIOLENCE-KNOW PEACE!

"LIFE IS PRICELESS"

Every Human Life Is Priceless

  Every human life is priceless so said Edgar Allan Poe
The great poet from the U.S.A. a few centuries ago
But since he lived on this Planet so many have died in wars or met with foul play
Perhaps even as many as have died in the natural way.

Every human life is priceless that's how it ought to be
But so many dying of hunger and living in poverty
And so many suffering for their beliefs and their rights to them denied
And by oppressive Governments their hopes and dreams destroyed.

Every human life is priceless though not all see it that way
So many human predators on the defenceless prey
The Amin's and Hussein's and the Milosevic's are no longer rare
And murder is on the increase and some bad people every where.

Every human life is priceless that's what a great poet once said
One who still lives on in literature though he's been long with the dead
But sad to say there's still too many who look on human life as cheap
Even as of little value as a donkey's or a sheep.

Francis Duggan