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Protests: Flash Mob for Peace, North Philly
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Protests: Flash Mob for Peace, North Philly
"They're tired of funerals every year, and prayer services and who they know that died. So this is taking a stand and letting our young people know this is what they got to do, they got to be about something, stand for something," Sister Nancy Fitzgerald, principal of Saint Martin de Porres, says of her students.
In brightly colored T-shirts identifying their schools, hundreds of children from the five North Philadelphia Catholic schools raised awareness of the violence that plagues their neighborhoods in a “flash mob for peace” this afternoon. For about 20 minutes, the children held up signs that read “Peace” and “We want peace now,” while chanting, “P-E-A-C-E,” and “What do we want? Peace! When do we want it? Now!” Predictable, perhaps, but well meaning.
Teachers and parents from Saint Martin de Porres, Visitation B.V.M., Ascension, Saint Hugh and LaSalle Academy cheered and smiled in support while cars driving past the area honked wildly and the police monitoring the protest sounded their sirens in a show of support. The kids chanted, "P-E-A-C-E," and "What do we want? Peace! When do we want it? Now!"
“This is Stand Across Lehigh, a spinoff of Hands Across Lehigh Walkathon. It's a flash mob for peace,” says Fitzgerald. "We hear enough about young people maybe doing things they shouldn't be doing. This is a Catholic school flash mob for peace, along Lehigh Avenue. We're very proud of our young people. And let's have peace in Philadelphia.”
The children were visibly enthusiastic, screaming and waving down passers-by. “They are excited about it. They want to do something positive, and we give them a channel and they run with it. Because that's what they want,” Fitzgerald says.
Says Saint Martin de Porres seventh grader Chris Nelson, “Today we're really chanting for peace," Nelson says. "My grandma died and my cousin died in drive-bys and stuff like that. I don't like my family dying."
you dont have the money to being into camp because philly just has t be the poorest city in america, no plane trip can bring me to america. i hate you lads you hit me with darks, you like my brothers theres alot of them. i will join muslim mob for my right reasons. you hate me because i am my father son and the rest stay thin for a reason. so i have more to say but no tonight.
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