2014年2月16日 星期日

Hands Off My Handbag!

So she went to where all social movements seem to be starting these days,Every application that comes here goes through a thorough review process by a panel of scholars and filmmakers, says Jeff Hardwick,christian louboutin outlet senior program officer in the division of public programs for NEH. Facebook, and expressed her feelings of frustration."I went on Facebook and said that we need to'e together to do something that makes the streets a lot safer," Sanchez said. "A lot of women understood how I felt."While rallies seem to be a dime a dozen these days, something folks told her when she suggested one, Sanchez decided to take it to the streets because this rash of purse-snatchings is a manifestation of a deeper problem."The mentality of people has changed over the last 20 years,At the moment,german uniforms twenty European laboratories have an iCub, which was developed in Italy thanks to a European FP7 grant for the IIT." she said. "There are people out there that have no love or respect for each other. There's no encouragement or self-love. You have men out there that are just killing people for no reason. It's sad. Something has to be done." 

Now, we say "something has to be done" a lot here in Philly when it'es to violence. While there are folks among us that can remember when women and children and Senior Citizens were off limits on the streets when it came to who to victimize, I can't. I came to Philly as a student at Temple in 1987 and heard about muggings, purse snatchings, people being beaten up and other things…and anyone was fair game.And practically from the moment I became a part of the city's media'munity, I've covered at least one gathering a year where a group of men, mostly older, almost always African American and some Latino, have gotten together and promised to take our streets back.I want to give them an "A" for effort. I want to pat things like the 10,000 Men movement on the back. I want to cheer these things and give them support. 

But while the ramp-up is nice, and it's something to cover, the "there" isn't "there" after a few months … and no one is taken to the woodshed for that.Sanchez thinks that needs to change."It's time for us to'e back to being a village," she said. "Crime has no color. We have to start figuring out ways to protect ourselves and to teach our children better. We have to hold politicians and our City Council people accountable.He has more than earned his place in America, so you can imagine our joy when after years of pleading with the State Department, the Morph Suits embassy in Kabul issued him and his family US visas two weeks ago. We can't do it alone. We need help."Sanchez also says we need to hold the'munity accountable as well. That's true. When you can show up for court, but not your kid's graduation, that's a problem. If you can show up to the club, but not to the town-watch meeting, that's a problem. If you don't know where your kids are and it's midnight, that's a problem.

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