We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.” – Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industriesįather Boyle refers to the years from 1988 to 1998 as the “decade of death,” when gang violence surged in Los Angeles. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. “We stand with those whose dignity has been denied. Located amidst Aliso Village and Pico Gardens, then the largest public housing west of the Mississippi River with the highest concentration of gang activity in a city that was the gang capital of the nation. In 1986, Gregory Boyle, a native Angeleno and recently ordained Jesuit priest, returned from a transformative year working with the poor in Bolivia to become the pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles at the time. Poster (based on an original painting) | Courtesy of Homeboy Industries
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