{"id":7277,"date":"2018-05-13T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:24:45","slug":"mothers-day-walk-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/05\/13\/mothers-day-walk-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How Does It End?\u2019 22 Annual Mother\u2019s Day Walk For Peace In Dorchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTwenty-two years and still no resolution to our children being lost to gun violence,\u201d said Elisha Ross of Dorchester, whose son Michael Ross was killed by gunfire on March 30. \u201cWhere does it end? How does it end? It ends with us here today. \u2026 My son Michal somehow knew his live would end in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was speaking to a crowd of hundreds at the 22nd annual Mother\u2019s Day Walk For Peace this morning, organized by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. The route went from Fields Corner to Boston City Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of survivors and celebrating the effects of community. We are celebrating the power of survivors to influence, impact and inform public policy,\u201d said Tina Ch\u00e9ry, who founded Boston\u2019s Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, after her 15-year-old son Lous was killed by a stray bullet from a shootout between men on a December afternoon in 1993. \u201cWe\u2019re stepping into our power and demanding dignity and compassion for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwenty-two years and still no resolution to our children being lost to gun violence,\u201d said Elisha Ross of Dorchester, whose son Michael Ross was killed by gunfire on March 30. \u201cWhere does it end? How does it end? It ends with us here today. \u2026 My son Michal somehow knew his live would end in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,102,119],"tags":[37,279,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}