[lbo-talk] 30th Anniversary of the Klan/Nazi killings in Greensboro

[Thomas Seay]

A Truth, Justice and Healing Conference Marking 30 Years Since the Klan/Nazi Killings in Greensboro
What: It is thirty years since the tragic killings of five labor and community organizers, the wounding of ten others, and the terrorizing of an African American public housing community in Greensboro, North Carolina, by Klan/Nazi members on November 3, 1979. We are commemorating this anniversary with a Truth, Justice, and Healing Conference. 
When: November 4th through the 7th. 
Where: The first session begins on Wednesday, November 4, at 1:00 PM, at New Light Baptist Church, 1105 Willow Road. The final session starts at 1:30 PM on Saturday, November 7, in Pfeiffer Chapel on the campus of Bennett College, and features a keynote address by former Ambassador to South Africa, James Joseph. In between, an exciting and varied program offers plenaries and workshops on issues of truth and healing; labor and community organizing; immigration and migrant worker conditions; black/brown unity; youth organizing, including high school and college students and street groups and gangs; leveraging Stimulus money for jobs, equity and wealth in poor and minority communities; and the central role of religion and spirituality in the movement for social and economic justice.
Who: Participants in the conference, in addition to Ambassador Joseph, will include the current Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson; former Mayor Carolyn Allen; Rev. Baldemar Velásquez of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC); Ched Myers, author and theologian; James Andrews, President of the North Carolina AFL-CIO; Dr. Abdel Nuriddin, Co-Chair of the Greensboro Human Relations Commission; Jorge Cornell, leader of street groups (often referred to as gangs); Signe Waller Foxworth, widowed on November 3, 1979; Attorney Irv Joyner, Co-Chair of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission and faculty member at the North Carolina Law School; and many others.
Primary Sponsors of this event: Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Greensboro Justice Fund, International Center for Transitional Justice, North Carolina Council of Churches, Greensboro Human Relations Department, Greensboro Human Relations Commission, Andrus Family Fund, Tikkun, Network of Sprititual Progressives
For more information, call 336-230-0001. Visit the Beloved Community Center website at www.belovedcommunitycenter.org and watch a 12-minute video. Watch for more information on each of the four days of the commemorative conference, with themes, speakers, times and venues.