Regional Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation

Regional Alliance

Dear ATRR members and friends:

We are pleased to share details about an upcoming Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation gathering in April, 2012.

register

Download the Conference Schedule Here

The goals for the conference include:
1. reconvening and revitalizing ATRR
2. sharing successes and challenges with continuing memorial efforts
3. exploring new possibilities for common work around ending racism and its legacies

We will meet in Newnan, Georgia. The full program will be Saturday, April 21, with welcoming events
on Friday evening and a closing memorial and march on Sunday morning.

We are seeking brief (no more than two paragraphs) proposals for panels or sessions on the following topics (or others you may suggest):

1. the relevance of memorial groups today? What does the work today look like?
2. current hate crimes: prevention and education
3. how do we build a new movement, especially that addresses apathy and involves young people?
4. highlight new groups to ATRR as well as those that have emerged since our last conference in 2007
5. how might the arts promote this work?
6. what are the challenges/solutions to sustaining this work? what are its best practices?
7. what does civil rights/human rights education look like today?
8. what have been the negative reactions to memorials and what might we learn from them?
9. what are research-based approaches?
10. what issues face us today? (disproportionate representation of blacks in the judicial system, etc.) and how might our coalition address them?
11. the status and/or roles of current truth and reconciliation efforts.

Please submit your proposals by January 15, 2012. The planning committee will notify panelists by February 15, 2012.

We are able to offer a limited number of scholarships for organizations that are members of ATRR (www.atrr.org). We can offer up to $200 reimbursement for purchased gas, or $200 per ticket toward the reimbursement of airfare for two members from each group. We can also offer two hotel rooms for each member organization. All meals on Saturday will be provided for all registered participants.

For more information about scholarship requirements and to register for the conference, please go to www.atrr.org.

For questions, please write to:

Elliot Long,
Senior Secretary
Winter Institute
University of Mississippi
enlong@olemiss.edu

We very much look forward to being with you in April next year and appreciate your continuing leadership in your communities and in the region.

Best,

Planning committee:

Blair Rothstein
Suzanne Minarcine
Theophus Smith
Susan Tate
Rich Rusk
Charles Tucker
Susan Glisson