is it jewish passover honors freedom and perseverance ?
“The boy never spoke to anyone about why he didn’t want to go home after school…. Slowly his anger became his new best friend. He started to beat up on girls, kill chickens, steal bikes and clothes. He would sneak into people’s homes just to destroy them.” —Daniel Cacho Until he discovered poetry while he was in juvie for gun posession, Daniel Cacho felt enslaved by severe childhood abuse. When he recites his searing work at the theater event “Doikayt: A Los Angeles Passover” on April 1, he’ll recall how an uncle molested him and hung him from trees in his native Belize. The abused Cacho felt worthless and powerless, even after he joined his mother in Los Angeles at age 15: He packed guns and courted danger, and landed himself in the juvenile detention center a few times. It was there that the teenager chanced to attend a DreamYard/L.A. writing class three years ago. “Poetry allowed me to take my power back,” said Cacho, 22, who now teaches DreamYard workshops. “It’s been my freedom
