DEVELOPERS OF DREAMS PRESENTS BLACK MEN UNITED FOR PEACE

1. We seek to work in unity with Black Men who are former gang leaders, community activist, clergy, educators, and entrepreneurs throughout every community in the City of Chicago, to work for peace and to end violence.

2.  We seek to build unity among Black men to heal the past grievances we have had against each other because of our gang life styles, often imposed on us in environments of poverty, miss-education, drug addiction, low self-esteem, negative attitudes and dysfunctional families.

3. We seek to heal our own broken lives, broken homes, broken families, broken communities, and broken promises by agreeing to hold each other accountable, not to perpetuate the crimes, slander, and distrust that lead us down the road of the vicious cycle of revenge.

4. We seek to eradicate the guns and other weapons as the way to address problems in our community.

5. We seek to train ourselves and our youth in how to deal with conflicts with appropriate resolutions.

6. We seek to mediate in minor conflicts to prevent them from being major, block by block, and community by community.

7. We seek to help the victims of violence, and who mourn the loss of love ones with encouragement, financial support and protection.

8. We seek to organize our youth to show them alternatives to violence, and crime.

9. We seek to harness the business and financial resources of our communities to find gainful employment for ourselves and for other young men and women in our communities.

10.We are not against seeking to work with other ethnic groups and police to eliminate the violence that is taking the lives of innocent children, women and elders through gun violence associated with spread of drugs and guns in our communities, but we will start with working with Black men first.