Beyond Parkland: Oakland Kids Who Experience Gun Violence Every Day

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It's Tuesday. Sam talks with three Oakland teenagers about the gun violence they regularly encounter. They have been held up at gunpoint and known friends and mentors who have been shot. These Castlemont High School students are involved with a violence intervention program called Youth ALIVE! Through the program, they mentor middle school students on the dangers of guns.

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0:00.0	I finished high school almost 17 years ago.
0:03.0	So going back, it can be a little weird.
0:05.4	Where's your locker?
0:07.2	We don't use the lockers.
0:08.4	What?
0:09.2	Everything's changed.
0:10.2	We don't even have books to take home.
0:14.0	We leave all the books in the class.
0:15.4	So really?
0:16.0	Yeah, we don't.
0:16.7	That's Gabriel Pat.
0:17.6	He was a student at Castlemont High in East Oakland, California.
0:21.5	He's given me a tour.
0:22.6	This used to be a kindergarten, I think.
0:25.0	Really?
0:25.5	Yeah, there used to be a big old play structure right here.
0:28.3	You know, as old as this makes me feel.
0:30.4	Talking with Gabriel, even 17 years later, a lot of things
0:33.8	are still the same.
0:34.9	There are crushes and clicks and classes and sports,
0:38.6	and all the petty yet life-changing stuff of high school.
0:42.0	All of a sudden, things will be OK with everybody,
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