http://live.huffingtonpost.com/#r/segment/50351f5efe34445ba70007cc
A great interview which a good freind Tony Papa about the current need to bleed money from taxpayers by generating fear.....
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
A New AVP Video....
A new wonderful Alternatives to Violence Project Video!!
This video focuses on AVP within the United States prison system. Experience an AVP workshop behind bars and listen to those whose lives have been transformed by AVP.
http://vimeo.com/37108812
Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a nonprofit organization that creates peaceful solutions to potentially violent conflict. I have participated in this live changing project for the last 21 years. Our work at Breathing Space uses AVP ideals as a core to the formation of our community.
This video focuses on AVP within the United States prison system. Experience an AVP workshop behind bars and listen to those whose lives have been transformed by AVP.
http://vimeo.com/37108812
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When you hear the word
VIOLENCE
http://vimeo.com/37108812
About this
video
"Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a nonprofit organization that creates peaceful solutions to potentially violent conflict. Beginning in an upstate NY prison in 1975, AVP has now spread to over 50 countries around the world. As well as prisons, AVP exists in schools, communities and corporate settings. This video focuses on AVP within the United States prison system. Experience an AVP workshop behind bars and listen to those whose lives have been transformed by AVP." |
Thursday, June 14, 2012
NY Reentry Roundtable
A Series of Roundtable Discussions
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012 :00 – 3:00PM
A YOUTH DIVISION OF THE CENTER FOR NULEADERSHIP ON URBAN SOLUTIONS
The Community Service Society of New York (CSS)
Kindly RSVP to Gabriel Torres-Rivera at grivera@cssny.org
The presentation will be on the landscape and developments related to Raise the Age, Raise the Bar, Raise the Youth (BABY), a juvenile justice system initiative that seeks to 1) end the practice of trying, sentencing and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 as adults in New York’s criminal justice system and 2) reset the goals and purpose of the juvenile justice system. Raise the Bar is the community education, engagement and empowerment arm of the initiative. See attachments, please RSVP.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012 :00 – 3:00PM
INSTITUTE FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM & ALTERNATIVES
105 East 22nd Street at the corner of Park Avenue South
Conference Room 4A
Take the 6 or N/R trains to 23rd Street
The presentation will be on the landscape and developments related to Raise the Age, Raise the Bar, Raise the Youth (BABY), a juvenile justice system initiative that seeks to 1) end the practice of trying, sentencing and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 as adults in New York’s criminal justice system and 2) reset the goals and purpose of the juvenile justice system. Raise the Bar is the community education, engagement and empowerment arm of the initiative. See attachments, please RSVP.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
We will be discussing and posting our work with Breathing Space NY (www.BreathingSpaceNY.org), upcoming events and projects, articles of interest, re-entry issues, positive prison programs, our adventures, Alternative to Violence Project (www.AVPNY.org) news and events, and our ongoing work with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
So please comment, learn, enjoy and donate as you feel led..... In the Light!
So please comment, learn, enjoy and donate as you feel led..... In the Light!
Welcome!
Welcome to our blog for Breathing Space NY. This is another way to spread the news about our work in NYC and the Catskills. So please stop in to find updates and ways to support our mission.... Ray
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