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Baltimore Peace Movement: A report on their weekend of healing

A poster from the Baltimore Peace Movement, formerly known as Baltimore Ceasefire 365, encouraging residents of Baltimore to work for peace and help heal people whose lives have been shattered by violent crime. (image courtesy Baltimore Peace Movement)
A poster from the Baltimore Peace Movement, formerly known as Baltimore Ceasefire 365, encouraging residents of Baltimore to work for peace and help heal people whose lives have been shattered by violent crime. (image courtesy Baltimore Peace Movement)

The Baltimore Peace Movement is a community-based non-profit group that works to end violence in Baltimore.

On Mother’s Day weekend and three other weekends every year, they hold events to encourage all of us to act peacefully, and to help those who are in danger or in mourning.

On the Mondays following each Peace Movement weekend, we check in with the group’s co-organizers.

Letrice Gant is one of those co-organizers, and also Deputy Director of the Baltimore Community Mediation Center. Since 1995 they’ve been providing free conflict resolution services to communities across the city.

Ms. Gant joins us on Zoom.

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Baltimore Peace Movement co-organizers Erricka Bridgeford (left) and Letrice Gant, shown at a March, 2018 Baltimore Ceasefire fundraiser hosted by Homegrown Baltimore. (photo by Sloane Brown for Baltimore SNAP)

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