"Peace in the Streets" by Tom Hayden

As a habit of good reading, anything you read should inspire you to ask questions.

Based on Tom Hayden's article, "Peace in the Streets," you are going to go on a virtual quest to clarify and define references he makes current and historical events. You will also expand your knowledge by gathering information about the peacemakers he mentions and by answering your own questions about his opinions.

Let's get started!

Find the answers to the following questions by entering the key words provided into google.com or by clicking on the links in the question (links are words that are underlined and in purple). Answer all questions in complete sentences. These are short answer questions, which means that they should be at least a paragraph (3 to 5 unique sentences) each. If you do not have enough information to write that much, go back and reread the information.

1. In the article, it says 25,000 have been killed by gang violence over the past 24 years (which comes to about 1,041 deaths per year). Compare the number killed by gang warfare to the number of soldiers killed in the war on Iraq and then to numbers wounded in the war on Iraq.  
   To find the answer, go to google.com and type in "Iraq fatalities." Click on the one of the top links to find the numbers.
2. Based on your answers for #1, do you think that the violence between gangs should be considered a war, as Mr. Hayden suggests? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
3. Go to Bloods and Crips Truce Proposal of 1992. Of their seven proposals for education, choose the three you think are most important. For each of those three, describe what they proposed. Then, for each one, explain whether or not you think that goal has been met.
4. What is the WTO? Go to www.wto.org to find out. Look around the site (hint check out links with titles such as The WTO, Who, What, and the Fact File) and then put into your own words who they are what they do. Be sure to include what the letters WTO stand for.
5. What is CYA? Go to http://www.cya.ca.gov/ to find out. Again, look around then summarize in your own words who they are and what they do. Be sure to include what the letters CYA stand for.
6. In the article, Mr. Hayden lists several people whom he interviewed for his book Street Wars. Choose one person he named and search for that person in google. Choose articles that look professional and credible and write a one paragraph summary of who that person is and why you would or would not want to find out more about that person.