2nd Annual PEACE in the NorthEast March and Resource Fair

The Churches of NorthEast LA present:
PEACE in the NorthEast Community March and Resource Fair
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 10:00a-5:00p
Gather: Sycamore Grove Park, 4702 N Figueroa St
March: 10:30a
To: El Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 1900 San Fernando Rd
Resource Fair: 1:00-5:00p

Supported by: The Churches of NorthEast Los Angeles in cooperation with Mayor Villaraigosa, Northeast LAPD, Councilmember José Huizar, Councilmember Ed Reyes, Council President Eric Garcetti, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino, Highland Park Ministerial Association, RemixOurWorld.org , Historic Highland Park NC, Arroyo Seco NC, Glassell Park NC, Lincoln Heights NC, LA32 NC, Highland Park Chamber of Commerce, Glassell Park Chamber of Commerce,
Greater Highland Park Kiwanis, Peace over Violence, Anahuak Youth Soccer Association, Southwest Museum Coalition, District 17 American Legion, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and many more.

Lead by the Churches of NorthEast LA, the NorthEast LA community will meet to march against violence in the streets. The march is down Figueroa Blvd to San Fernando Rd and then down Future St to the Resource Fair. Snacks will be served at the Resource Fair. Bottled water will also be available for marchers. Along with the Resource Fair there will be live and DJ music.

Community groups, families and local organizations and businesses and others are encouraged to join the march and bring organizational / identificational banners or signs. March signs will also be provided. This march and resource fair is being held in response to the violence in the streets of NorthEast LA, the crimes against the person, such as shootings / drive-bys / robberies / assaults / rapes / batteries. Summer is the time when these crimes escalate and so we are taking to the streets to march and declare:Peace in the NorthEast: Stop the Violence.

"Though we are many we are One." 1Cor 12:12
At a recent Churches of NorthEast LA Monthly Breakfast Gathering Chief Murphy challenged the churches to become involved in helping to reduce crime in the streets of the NorthEast LA area. In immediate response the churches and other religiously-based community organizations represented at the meeting said let's do a peace march and so was born the Peace in the NorthEast Community March, which has become an annual march.