Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by 30 years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodrguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today,...
Empowered by his own experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodriguez offers us a unique book, one that speaks of change and progress not from a legislative floor or an ivory tower, but from the trenches, where the laws of the gang rule the community...
Both a memoir of a life in a street gang and a manifesto to stop the violence and restore the community, this approach to a solution includes real-life examples of the young people the author has met, incorporates specific strategies for change, and draws inspiration from Joseph...