This is an awareness campaign started by the March for our Lives Pine Hills Chapter that focuses on educating people on how individualism is affecting our ability to protect our communities and why we must break out of that frame of mind to create a better future for us all. We choose us when we stop to think about how reacting to harm affects our entire community and aspire for more for all of us.
This is a campaign for us to re-imagine public safety and support for our neighbors!
Street Justice is the term we use to refer to different forms of retribution that is common outside of the justice system when a perceived injustice occurs and is usually carried out by regular people. In many ways, our justice system largely acts as a form of retribution against offenders and it greatly impacts the way we view justice. We must work towards justice for one another to lessen the ability for harm to infiltrate our communities, and we can do that be becoming positive bystanders in our community and actively learning to have grace for one another before casting judgement -- with this campaign we hope to educate people on how to do just that!
The lack of a responsive and fair justice system is what creates the necessity for street justice and sets the pace for progress in our communities. We can affect change in our communities by creating our own systems for more complete and representative justice. We can still choose us even if there is not motivation from our governing bodies to do so.
In our country about 99% of mass shooters are someone seeking revenge for some way in which they've felt they've been wronged, we think that it's seminal to get to the root of this emotional response if we want to understand justice and ultimately how to heal.
This is about healing and how we can heal as a community.
This is about communication and ultimately what we aren't saying to one another.
Raising awareness and making time and space for each other starts with taking a step back yourself and examining how you can be a better conveyor of the type of justice that you'd like to see. Exploring this website will give you an opportunity to learn about the disparate ways that we believe that you can support yourself and your community.
Contact us and find out how you could get involved!