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Boalt Hosts "Youth Gang Violence: Teenage Suicide for the Urban Poor"
 On Wednesday, November 13, Father Greg Boyle is presenting "Youth Gang Violence: Teenage Suicide for the Urban Poor." In the talk, Father Boyle explores the media's stereotypes of gang involvement and the profound social and psychological forces that have shaped the young men and women with whom he works. The lecture takes place at 12:15 p.m. in 115 Boalt.
A Jesuit priest, Father Boyle founded Jobs for a Future in 1988 in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, which has one of the highest concentrations of gang activity in the nation. Guided by the motto "Nothing stops a bullet like a job," Jobs for a Future provides a range of services to help at-risk youth find employment, including job placement, counseling, community service opportunities and tattoo removal services. Homeboy Industries is the economic development branch of the organization, in which former gang members work side by side in the program's bakery, graffiti removal patrol, and silkscreen and merchandise ventures.
The talk is sponsored by Boalt's Death Penalty Clinic and Center for Social Justice. For more information, please contact Erin Campbell at 510-643-8010 or ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu.
(11/06/02) |
