“For decades, we’ve only been surviving,” said Oscar Sanchez, director of youth and restorative justice programming at Alliance of the Southeast. “Who is there but ourselves to take care of the needs of the community? Who was there? Not the city administration. It is easy to read about the harm you caused without ever enduring or witnessing the constant pain. Our home is full of contamination. Full of death. And we are here still. Instead of removing his root issues you continue to make the wound larger.”
