unapologetically
advocating against
ALL
community violence
TAMV offers community consulting, workshops/training, and community accountability meetings to community partners, leaders, organizations, and individuals. Focus is around all forms of community violence such as structural/systematic racism and neighborhood violence/conflict resolution.
unapologetically
advocating
against all
COMMUNITY VIOLENCE
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ABOUT US
Our overall purpose is to equip communities with the necessary knowledge to leverage local grassroots community organizing, to gain power & influence over decisions that directly affect the community, thus creating sustainable change and increasing the conscious level of residents.
MISSION
Combat ALL Forms of Community Violence Through Activism and Organizing
TAMV EVENTS
- Apr 16, 7:00 AM – May 16, 11:00 AMMultiple Locations: Mon Valley
- May 06, 10:05 AM – May 31, 11:45 PMMultiple Locations: Mon Valley
defining
community
violence
Systematic violence effects how people develop in communities and often effects them from reaching their full potential (John Galtung).
TAMV views community violence as a range of events including acts committed by neighborhood gangs; organized crime; systems; police and terrorist attacks. All inhumane acts; sexual violence; bullying; shootings in public areas; homicides and robberies etc.
Systematic structural violence is both visible and invisible. More specifically, there are institutional practices & procedures that adversely affect the mental, cultural and economic structure of a community. TAMV understands that these lends to the social conditions that cause neighborhood community violence (Johan Galtung).
Examples are withholding resources from a community, mishandling funds, and blaming the community for lack of funding to solve the homicides etc.
HOW WE TAKE ACTION
COMPLAINTS
Our Director takes complaints, throughout Allegheny County with a clear focus on the Mon Valley, to generate solutions to community violence. Any person/group etc. can make a complaint.
LOCAL CHAPTERS
The chapters are comprised of residents who live in the Mon Valley and organize around issues that directly affect them. In addition, they support TAMV campaigns, programs and initiatives. All chapters receive training.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteer Supporters are people that don’t belong to a chapter but, support the TAMV mission through advocacy, program participation, donations and helping out at events etc. You don’t have to live in the Mon Valley to be a supporter.
TAMV Consulting & COMMUNITY
ACCOUNTABILITY MEETINGS
TAMV offers community consulting, workshops/training, and community accountability meetings to community partners, leaders, organizations, and individuals. Focus is around all forms of community violence such as structural/systematic racism and neighborhood violence/conflict resolution.
