Community Outreach

Season for Nonviolence – Chicago Youth

Chicago Access Television, Channel 19

Nine Week Mini Series

With all the violence and injustice permeating our diverse Chicago neighborhoods, there are positive and powerful stories happening in each. Stories of youth reaching beyond the conditions which surround them. In many cases situations of direct involvement - stories of determination in the face of danger, direction in the quest for sanity and safety, reaching out beyond the apparent, stories of struggle to quell the violence, finding alternatives and opportunity to change the circumstances, which have previously held them a prisoner in their own community.

Along with the financial support of Transcendence Global Media and the Direction of Nick Angotti, Chicago Partners for Peace and Nonviolence, the Committee for the Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence and with support and involvement of numerous Social Service Organizations, an amazing Production Team crafted a CAN-TV Mini-Series hosted and paneled by youth: A Season for Nonviolence – Chicago Youth television show so that our youth might tell their stories.

A Season for Nonviolence – Chicago Youth, a Nine Week Mini-Series, belongs to the youth – featuring their stories, being hosted by one of their own. Nine different youth-hosts, with nine three-member guest panels.

Produced: January through March 2009

Screened: CAN-TV, Ch 19, February through April

Organizations and Youth Participants

Feb 4 – Maywood Youth Council

Host: Derion Scruggins

Guests: Caitlin Williams, Chanal Coughlin, Mahogany Williams

Feb 11 – Evanston Township High School, Peer Jury Members

Host: Noah Silver-Matthews

Guests: Sara Pitt, Raquel Levy, Kaylee Coughlin, Martrell Davis

Feb 18 – Maywood Youth Council

Host: Derion Scruggins

Guests: Jack Smtih, Cameron Stokes, Remington Stokes

Feb 25 – Union Impact Center / Safety Network of Auburn Gresham / I.C.P.G.V.

Host: Christopher Hightower

Guests: Christine Goggins, Juan Vargas, Edwin Gonzalez

Mar 4 – Latino Organization of the Southwest

Host: David Villanueava

Guests: Jonathan Suarez, Guillermo Parada, Alfredo Borraza

Mar 11 – Live the Peace / Southwest Youth Collaborative

Host: Christon Bufford

Guests: Christopher Hightower, Justin Richardson, Jonathan Richardson

Mar 18 – Chicago Urban League

Host: Tyreeshaw Owens

Guests: Shawn Kimmons, Yazzmine Dixon, Darlene Brown

Mar 25 - Southwest Youth Collaborative

Host: Arthur McGraw

Guests: Nathaniel Bacon, Jasmine Ortiz, Victor Trinidad

April 1 - Latino Organization of the Southwest

Host: David Villanueava

Guests: Jonathan Suarez, Guillermo Parada, Alfredo Borraza

Production Team
Producer: William Gadomski

Supervising Producer/Director: Nick Angotti

Talent Coordinator: Julie Pottebaum

SNV Illinois Coordinator: Gina Harris

Chicago Partners for Peace and Nonviolence, Executive Committee: Karen Johnson, Wendell Grandville, Gina Harris and Nick Angotti