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What an enthusiastic crowd at the Water Tower in Milwaukee, WI. The Garden District (Milwaukee\u2019s 13th Ward) invited Generations Against Bullying to be the featured program at their March monthly meeting. The Garden District strives to improve the quality of life through civic involvement and community education. <\/p>\n
James Dean<\/a>, GAB Executive Assistant introduced GAB and why we are such a unique, anti-bully organization. James introduced the concepts of bystander and upstander<\/a> explaining that if an upstander<\/a> acts in a non-threatening way the bullying will stop within 10 seconds 85% of the time. He went on to explain that all of GAB\u2019s programs are centered on creating upstanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n GAB\u2019s special speaker, Michael Turner<\/a> then took the stage to speak about his life and the importance of choices. \u201cThe choices you make can make or break you\u201d. Michael then described how he had made some bad decisions that nearly cost him his life. \u201cIt was subsequent positive decisions to head in a different direction that allows me to be here tonight. I became an upstander<\/a> for myself, and you can too. And as important, you can be an upstander<\/a> for someone else, which just might save their life. (Michael pointed out the GAB poster of the pictures of children who have committed suicide, one as young as 6 years.) Bullycide is now one of the leading causes of death in our middle school age children. If there was just one person to be an upstander<\/a> in these children\u2019s lives they might still be with us today-be an upstander<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n