Emiliano Zapata, Mexico News

The Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy's Youth Action Team recently hosted a school-wide assembly to discuss violence in the city, bringing the message "It's NOT whatever!" to their classmates on Thursday, April 18.. Students at the school were assigned the task of creating and leading a project to address youth violence in Oakland.

At the 2012 inaugural edition of this short film competition, which gives paired filmmakers two weeks to crank out works based on a "theme" quote, Bethany Orr 's Winner was, yes, the winner of both the Audience and First Place awards.

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A forensic worker covers the body of a woman who was shot dead by assailants, whose daughter was also killed, while she was selling coffee on a street corner in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday, April 9, 2013.

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