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East New York, Brooklyn – June 16, 2011 Winchester Key, CEO of the 23 year old community based organization called East New York Urban Youth Corps. says, “This year the annual East New York Urban Youth Corps’s Increase the Peace/Stop the Violence March and rally will commence Tuesday, June 21st 2011 beginning in the streets of Brooklyn at 9:30 a.m. at Atlantic and Pennsylvania Avenues and continue with a press conference and rally from 1:00 pm at 3:00 p.m. in Gershwyn Park (Linden and Vermont).”
All leaders, youth, adults, media and stop-the-violence advocates in the greater NYC and metropolitan area are invited to this important annual event. The afternoon gathering will include an emergency “Enough-Is-Enough Press Conference” to address the alarming trends in juvenile delinquency and to introduce new program solutions to transition kids headed for trouble back into the care of an organized public service community.
The spokesperson for the day’s events will be Minister Kelvin Dove public safety advocate and minister with the House of Lords Churches. Other sponsors include: Reverend Brawley – St. Paul Community BC, Reverand Mitchell – CLCC and Bishop Lyons – First Baptist and OG’s (Orignal Gangsters) consisting of the Bloods, Crips and Tomahawks
Mr. Key says, “The 19-year old alleged ‘gang-banger’ from East New York, Brooklyn charged this week with second-degree murder after firing a gun on the boardwalk at Brighton Beach is the type of sad example of troubled-youth that we know exists here in East New York and we hope that this week’s headlines in the Daily News, NY 1 media and the New York Times helps to drive home the need for the annual march and press conference.”
The annual Increase the Peace/Stop the Violence March is organized by The Key Safety Committee which follows the 23- year old youth advocacy tradition of the ENUYUC which has long been partnering with the local schools, neighborhood youth, the 75th and 73rd Police Precincts and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office to provide youth development programming at its PACT Center.
The Key Safety Committee cites a recent wave of violence that even surfaced in the greater Brooklyn and NYC media including:
June 13, 2011 Brighton Beach Shooting (NY 1 News video: http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/140851/brooklyn-man-charged-with-brighton-beach-shooting )
On May 8, 2011 a man and a boy were shot! Citizens interviewed on television channel NY 1 after an all-too-common shooting in East New York, Brooklyn (http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/138700/man--boy-injured-in-brooklyn-shooting) said what typifies the feelings neighborhoods here, “we were just trying to have our dinner. It’s a high crime area, it’s very high crime, and it’s not a safe area. Unfortunately you need security cameras, you have to be on guard, and you have to watch yourself when you come home. A lot of people have guns out here,” said another.
On May 10, 2011 the body of a jazz musician was found stuffed in a chest in his home in Brownsville, Brooklyn Tuesday morning http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/138848/jazz-musician-found-stuffed-in-trunk-in-his-home
Police say they went to the house of Stanley Wright, 61, on Chauncey Street after his son reported him missing. They found the body in a storage trunk. Neighbors said Wright was a widower who lived alone.
The family members said, “my son and my nephew, they’re older now, but when they were younger he spent a lot of time with them, showing them the different instruments that he played, teaching them the basic keys,” said neighbor Leslie Brooks Stephen. “He gave them two guitars free of charge. He just liked to spend time with the kids in the neighborhood. He was very friendly and he was a good neighbor.”
“This is the evidence of the need and the urgency to improve public safety and to empower organizing all faction in the community to plan for changing the direct of youth who are headed for continuums of delinquency,” says Key.
For more information, contact Winchester Key, President/CEO of East New York Urban Youth Corps and founder of The Key Safety Committee., (347)770-9601 x110. http:/www.enyuyc.net.
