DETROIT (AP) - Detroit’s Neighborhood Service Organization is continuing a decade-long effort to reduce dangerous New Year’s Eve gunfire in the city with a campaign called “Hugs, Not Bullets.”
The Group’s Youth Initiatives Project starts the campaign at 10 a.m. Monday at the Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown Detroit. The group says that 50 Youth Initiatives Project participants and students from the Osborn Campus and Central Collegiate Academy will attend.
Organizers say that speakers will address the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and youth violence in metropolitan Detroit.
Besides reducing New Year’s Eve gunfire, the project also seeks to cut down on gun violence in general.
Project leaders work with elementary, middle and high school students “on the importance of conflict resolution and productive ways to settle disputes.”
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