Category: Voices
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Teens and Safety Series: What Time of Day is City Heights Safest?
By Brian Myers In the second video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students discuss the time of day they feel most safe in City Heights. An analysis by Speak City Heights partner Voice of San Diego found that “daytime” might not be the easy answer.…
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Teens and Safety Series: Reflections on Safety
By Brian Myers In the first video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students reflect on the word “safety.” For the teens, safety is found in numbers. Most said they feel safest when they’re surrounded by family and friends. Some were quick to note that the…
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Fourth Grader: I Feel So Sad About What’s Happening
By Will Carless As an added bonus to my coverage of the layoff crisis at San Diego Unified this week, here are five videos I shot with my iPhone at Central Elementary School. I spent three days at San Diego schools this week, trying to understand what impact the school district’s decision to lay off…
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It Starts With Us: San Diego Youth Call for Equality at Trayvon Martin Vigil
By Erin Timony, Anais Bernard, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines and Dylan Rohn San Diegans of all ages and backgrounds gathered at Balboa Park March 26 to honor Trayvon Martin. The unarmed Florida teen was shot and killed Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who said he acted in self defense. At the…