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  1. Chicago International Youth Peace Movement Conference
  2. Gofundme.com/ChicagoYouthPeace | ChicagoYouthPeace.eventbrite.com
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  4. MEDIA ALERT / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  5. Contact: ChicagoYouthPeace@gmail.com
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  8. //////////// Wed 6/3: Press Conference for Chicago International Youth Peace Conference ////////////
  9.  
  10. #ChicagoYouthPeace: Mobilizing, activating and empowering young people, in grades 5-12, to get organized and
  11. use their voices for peace and social change.
  12.  
  13.  
  14. From June 4th to 6th, Chicago will host the first Chicago International Youth Peace Conference at Chicago Theological Seminary, 1407 E. 60th St, and at Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S Cornell. Conference leaders and organizers will hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 3rd, at 9AM, outside the mayor’s office on the 5th floor of Chicago’s City Hall, 121 N LaSalle St.
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  16. Full conference press release, schedule, presenter bios and logo: http://tinyurl.com/ChiYouthPeacePress
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  18.  
  19. PRESS CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
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  21. Jessica Disu, @FMSupreme: Chicago’s Jessica Disu (FM Supreme) uses language as a tool for positive change. She’s an international performing poet, mc, artist, activist and educator who describes herself as a “humanitarian rap artist.” She has shared the stage with Common, MC Lyte, Lupe Fiasco, KRS One, and Boys II Men. Jessica has produced and hosted dozens of youth led events and forums for the past five years.
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  23. Richard Taylor, @TrulyTaylorMade: Author and motivational speaker Richard Taylor hails from Chicago, IL. Richard dealt with insecurity, low self-esteem, and feelings of worthlessness that resulted from being bullied and ridiculed in his childhood. Now, at the age of 27, Richard is a nationally recognized best selling author and speaker. He is on a mission to be one of the influential voices for his generation and the generations to come. Richard stars in a motivational YouTube series, “Getting Over The Hump,” and wrote the books “Unashamed” & "Between The Dream." His goal is to inspire the masses to tap into their inner potential to create the change they want to see.
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  25. Page May, @may20p: Page May is a Chicago-based youth organizer with We Charge Genocide (@ChiCopWatch). She is one of the 8 youth delegates who traveled to the United Nations and the lead author of the shadow report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture. She is currently organizing the youth-centered campaign, #ChiStops, to challenge stop-and-frisk in Chicago (@ChiStopsWCG). She has the privilege of working with the elementary school students of Village Leadership Academy. They have co-organized several actions against police violence, i.e. the Reclaim MLK march, Stephon Watts Memorial and Freedom Ride, and Rally for Reparations. Currently, she is working to launch Assata's Daughters, a new grassroots organizing collective for Black women in Chicago.
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  27. Ethan "Ethos" Viets-Van Lear, @EthosIII: Poet, Organizer, and Prison Abolitionist born and raised on the Northside of Chicago. Ethan’s work focuses on abolition through transformative/re-distributive justice work in the form of Peace Circle Keeping as an alternative to punitive punishment practices. Ethan also does environmental work in his community with an organization called LETS GO Chicago. He is currently enrolled at UIC in the College of Education. Ethan recently traveled with a delegation of young people (We Charge Genocide) to the United Nations Committee Against Torture to charge the Chicago Police Department with torture.
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  29. The lead organizing group for the conference is Chicago International Youth Peace Movement, along with a coalition of faith-based groups and individuals led by Jessica Disu (@FMSupreme), who was recently chosen by Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the city's “Summer of Faith and Action” program.
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  31. "If you're looking for solutions to violence in Chicago and around the world, you should look to the young people who are the most disproportionately affected by it," says Jessica Disu of Chicago International Youth Peace Movement. "The message of the Chicago International Youth Peace Conference is, if you want young people to put the guns down, you need to give them something else to pick up. Our goal is to mobilize, activate and empowering youth to get organized and use their voices for peace and social change."
  32.  
  33. In March, Jessica Disu and the group she founded, Chicago International Youth Peace Movement, partnered with ABC 7 Chicago to write and perform in "Still Believe, Yeah" a Public Service Announcement to promote peace and encourage conversations about nonviolence and hope: http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/fm-supreme-launches-still-believe-psa-promoting-peace/539810/
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  35. Chicago International Youth Peace Movement, a peer-to-peer mentoring and youth leadership advocacy group, empowers, inspires and activates youth and young adult voices for nonviolence and social change. Our mission is to creatively promote peace and nonviolence through the arts, mentoring, civic engagement, and youth led and young adult facilitated programming.
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  38.  
  39.  
  40. Chicago International Youth Peace Movement Conference
  41. gofundme.com/ChicagoYouthPeace | ChicagoYouthPeace.eventbrite.com
  42.  
  43. MEDIA ALERT
  44. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  45.  
  46. Contact: ChicagoYouthPeace@gmail.com
  47.  
  48.  
  49. ////////// June 4th~6th: Chicago Organizers Host Global Youth Peace Conference #ChicagoYouthPeace //////////
  50.  
  51. Mobilizing, activating and empowering young people, in grades 5-12, to get organized and use their voices for peace
  52. and social change.
  53.  
  54. From June 4th to 6th, Chicago will host the first Chicago International Youth Peace Conference at Chicago Theological Seminary, 1407 E. 50th St, and at Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S Cornell. The conference is being organized by Chicago International Youth Peace Movement and a coalition of faith-based groups and individuals led by Jessica Disu (@FMSupreme), who was recently chosen by Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the city's “Summer of Faith and Action” program.
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  56. The conference's global leadership training committee will facilitate enlightening discussions that motivate and empower students to become agents for social justice, nonviolence and education through peer to peer mentoring. This committee consists of accomplished social justice leaders who have the skills to help young people build creative solutions to combat violence and facilitate peace in Chicago and around the world. Over 350 Chicago youth and young adults from some of the City's most impoverished neighborhoods are expected to attend.
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  58. Objectives of Chicago International Youth Peace Movement Conference:
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  60. - Serve youth and provide Millennial role models of success
  61. - Educate and empower youth through organizing and activism workshops
  62. - Create a platform and space in which youth dominate and “own” their voices to create solutions to combat violence
  63. in communities
  64. - Improve the educational outcomes for Young Men of Color
  65.  
  66. Intended Audience:
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  68. - JP Morgan Chase Fellows
  69. - Community Members
  70. - Civic Engagement Officials
  71. - Global Millennial Leaders
  72.  
  73. "If you're looking for solutions to violence in Chicago and around the world, you should look to the young people who are the most disproportionately affected by it," says Jessica Disu of Chicago International Youth Peace Movement. "The message of the Chicago International Youth Peace Conference is, if you want young people to put the guns down, you need to give them something else to pick up. Our goal is to mobilize, activate and empowering youth to get organized and use their voices for peace and social change."
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  75. The Chicago International Youth Peace Conference is supported by generous donations from community partners including: Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago Urban League, I Grow Chicago, R.A.G.E, Kids Off The Block, JP Morgan Chase Fellowship Initiative, Derrion J. Albert Scholarship Fund, Hyatt Corp, Mayor's Commission for a Safer Chicago, and Casey Family Programs.
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  77. Despite generous community support, the Chicago International Youth Peace Conference is still greatly in need of donations and hopes to raise $20,000 by June 4th. Donation link: http://www.gofundme.com/ChicagoYouthPeace
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  79. Recognized members of the academic, faith and entertainment communities are supporting the conference, including: Dr. Iva Carruthers, Shawn Dove (Campaign for Black Male Achievement), Dr. Mahalia Hines (Think COMMON Entertainment), Isiah Thomas, Lil Herb and others.
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  81. Special guests at the conference will include: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson; Andrea Zopp, Chicago Urban League; The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ; Phillip Agnew, Dream Defenders; Isha Haley, Heart & Soul LLC; FM Supreme, Chicago International Youth Peace Movement.
  82.  
  83. In March, Jessica Disu and the group she founded, Chicago International Youth Peace Movement, partnered with ABC 7 Chicago to write and perform in "Still Believe, Yeah" a Public Service Announcement to promote peace and encourage conversations about nonviolence and hope: http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/fm-supreme-launches-still-believe-psa-promoting-peace/539810/
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  85. Chicago International Youth Peace Movement is presently touring Chicago elementary and high schools, producing "Peace Talk Workshops" and screening their new PSA to empower young people and young adults to become the change they wish to see.
  86.  
  87. Chicago International Youth Peace Movement, a peer to peer mentoring and youth leadership advocacy group, empowers, inspire and activate youth and young adult voices for nonviolence and social change. Our mission is to creatively promote peace and nonviolence through the arts, mentoring, civic engagement, and youth led and young adult facilitated programming.
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