Dear Truth Commission Testifiers, Commissioners, Co-sponsors and Supporters,
COMING SOON: VIDEO OF THE MARCH 21 HEARING!
Over the next 8 weeks, we will be creating separate segments of each testimony from the March 21 hearing and posting them online. Look for email notifications.
We hope you will post these clips on your websites and blogs – and share them with your networks. These clips will be useful for study groups and presentations about the hearing. When they are all ready for viewing, we will also make the collection available on DVD as we all continue to work on educating our communities and constituencies.
In the meantime, Riverside Church has posted online their video of the entire hearing, available for web streaming on PC computers.
CONTINUING OUR WORK
1. Working Groups:
Within the next few weeks, groups that met during the afternoon of the Monday March 22 private session will get drafts of the notes reporting what you discussed and decided. We will send a list of names and emails for those in your group to each group. We encourage you to find the best way to stay in communication on your plans for moving forward. Here are two possible ways:
a. by regular conference calls or
b. through google or yahoo group lists.
2. A New Website:
We are working on a new website with greater capacity to help us all stay in touch, have online conversations, and post blogs and notifications of events and activities we are engaged in. Look for a notice once we get this new site up.
3. Follow Up Events:
Let us know if you and your organization are interested in joining in a follow up event in one of these cities (or one that’s not listed):
Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Northern California Bay Area. We’ve had some interest in follow-up events and hope you will carry these forward.
UPCOMING EVENTS
1. Monday, May 3, 7-9 pm, Berkeley, CA, Five Commissioners from the Bay Area will give reflections, show tape, and discuss the work of the Commission, with the goal of seeding educational events in local communities. Location TBA.
2. Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (a Commission co-sponsor) is hosting an ecumenical conference “Peace Among the Peoples” on July 28-31, 2010, in Elkhart, Indiana.
3. The Institute to Honor Freedom of Conscience (a Commission co-sponsor) and the Austin Mennonite Church will be hosting the “National Assembly to Honor Freedom of Conscience” in October 2010 in Austin, TX.
If you have an upcoming event this year, let us know (rbrock@faithvoices.org), and we will post it at the website.
Thanks, again, for your commitment to freedom of conscience in war.
The Truth Commission Planning Committee
Rita Nakashima Brock
Gabriella Lettini
Cathy Ryan
Ian Slattery
