Important Matters of Controversy Presentation: Please attend if you can.

Matters of Controversy Presents   STOP KIDS FROM KILLING KIDS   Special guest:  Ples Felix of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF)   Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 7pm   Come hear a powerful presentation by Ples Felix about youth violence, and how TKF is "breaking the cycle of youth violence by empowering kids, saving lives, and teaching peace."   TKF was founded by Azim Khamisa to "stop kids from killing kids " after the 1995 shooting death of his 20-year-old son Tariq by a 14-year-old gang member, Tony Hicks. Seeing victims on both sides of the gun, Azim reached out in forgiveness to the grandfather and guardian of Tony Hicks, Ples Felix. Over the last 13 years, TKF has been providing its powerful and proven school-based violence prevention education programs to inspire and empower students to say "no" to gangs, guns and violence.   Through TKF's school-based nonviolence programs and curriculum, TKF works with elementary, middle, and high school students. They teach about the realities of gangs, violence, revenge, and the importance of becoming "peacemakers". Tariq Khamisa Foundation   www.tkf.org      " From Murder to Forgiveness "  Award winning book  by Azim N. Khamisa "Homicide is the leading cause of death in California for youth ages 15-19"    First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego (opposite UCSD Medical Center)     donation requested sponsor: The Peace and Democracy Action Group of the First UU Church for more information call  858-459-4650   flyer attached  =================================================================================    www.ActivistSanDiego.org Networking for social justice ======================================= It starts with the heart and radiates out – César Chavez ======================================== To be removed, reply with the subject "remove" ======================================== www.costofwar.com