Stop the Violence in Youngstown to take its message nationwide

YOUNGSTOWN — A city-based group is taking its anti-violence message nationwide.

Stopping the Violence, a three-year-old non-profit organization, has established the Stopping the Violence Movement, an outreach ministry composed of singers, mimes, dancers and step teams, comedians and gospel, inspirational and positive musical poets.

Their first stop is Saturday in Columbus. They also plan trips to Atlanta in February and to Los Angeles in April. Additional appearances will be announced as the schedules are finalized, said Patricia Owens of Stopping the Violence.

Performances also will be shown on the group’s Website which is being developed.

Owens said that the group hopes to raise awareness of violence and encourage people to work together to develop a way to address it. The organization hosts a block party with an antiviolence theme each summer in the city.

In the past, they’ve also performed as part of the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. observance but decided to take the message on the road this year, Owens said.

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