It Isn’t Pretty, But There It Is

By Tamara WestfallcloseAuthor: Tamara Westfall Name: Tamara Westfall
Email: LAH@candidtam.com
Site: http://www.candidtam.com
About: Graduating from the Journalism Program at Columbia College Chicago on a pile of student loans and grants, Tamara Westfall intended to be a war photographer but ended up working as a Community Affairs Producer for WCIU 26, an Investigative Researcher at the Better Government Association and is currently freelancing as an Investigative Writer/Researcher in social, political, and human interests. In the last decade Tamara worked on Emmy Nominated Cultural Documentary, Cambio De Colores, was honored by the Tribune Internship Award for outstanding investigative research, graduated with Honors and on the Dean's List from Columbia, worked on a number of Emmy Nominated programs at WCIU 26, worked on televised coverage for the 2008 Presidential Election, and has organized, volunteered for and managed several successful high publicity productions and events. Tamara spent her childhood in flux growing up as a military brat. She's lived through 13-years of domestic violence, is a recovering foul-mouthed misanthrope, and is the first girl in her family history to complete college. She thrives on critical thinking, problem research, and exploring intolerance. She also enjoys events coordination, volunteerism, painting, and riding her bicycle in her new home town of Los Angeles.See Authors Posts (4) ⋅ November 18, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Memoirs of Someone Who Should Be Dead Or In Jail

By the time I turned 15 I’d lived in three countries, five states, and eight towns. I stayed in a shelter, in low-income housing, two trailer parks, and my grandmother’s. Somewhere in the mix were five broke down apartment complexes, a couple friend’s homes, and one tiny house in the ghetto. In 15-years I’d drifted through probably a dozen communities, at least six different civilian schools, two military base schools, one Bavarian and one…

Milwaukee's 8th Annual Summer of Peace Rally!

By LAHcloseAuthor: LAH Name: LAH
Email: wpadmin@lifeafterhate.org
Site: http://www.lifeafterhate.org
About: See Authors Posts (2) ⋅ August 3, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

The Summer of Peace Initiative provides training and constructivist education to youth and young adults to empower them to be positive social agents in their communities. Teens and young adults are trained as community organizers and receive compensation for their work.

Parents, Don't Let Your Children Fight Violence with Violence

By Berni XiongcloseAuthor: Berni Xiong Name: Berni Xiong
Email: lifespark@bernixiong.com
Site: http://www.bernixiong.com
About: I coach. I speak. I write.See Authors Posts (6) ⋅ June 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

My good friend posted a link to an article that was published on JS Online last week and urged me to read it. It was about Hmong and gang violence. My initial reaction after reading the article in its entirety was disappointment because I am not a proponent of any type of violence for any [...]

Shall Not Be Recognized

By Natali HuesscloseAuthor: Natali Huess Name: Natali Huess
Email: justnatali@gmail.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (1) ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“Richard was the light and love of my life. He always, always encouraged me. Every problem that came up, he was there for me. He provided such balance for me and he was so protective of me and I of him. I was always afraid I would die first and that he wouldn’t get my [...]

Sticks and Stones

By The Bus BanditcloseAuthor: The Bus Bandit Name: The Bus Bandit
Email: TheBusBandit@gmail.com
Site: http://www.thebusbandit.com/
About: See Authors Posts (7) ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

The Bus Bandit (www.thebusbandit.com) is a Milwaukee-based “skeleton in your closet who rides public transit and tells you everything you wanted to know about LIFE but were too afraid to ask! He’ll tell you anyway, usually on Twitter. Dan Knauss, who has been working behind the scenes on the LAH website, got into a conversation with [...]