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Greensboro Justice Fund's Winter 2007 newsletter includes the following stories: Ruth Trujillo-Acosta, New Executive Director of the Greensboro Justice Fund; Granting surpasses $48,000 in 2006!; The Progress of Truth; New Documentary on the Truth and Reconciliation Project: Bring it to Your Hometown; Campaign for Fair Food Takes on Goliath ‹ McDonald's; Hate Crime at Guilford College; Si Kahn Sings for GJF in Northampton; Community Fundraising to Serve Grassroots Struggles; Our Sorrow; S/Heroes of 2006. For more information, and to read the full text of the newsletter, please visit http://www.gjf.org
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Greensboro Justice Fund's Winter 2007 newsletter includes the following stories: Ruth Trujillo-Acosta, New Executive Director of the Greensboro Justice Fund; Granting surpasses $48,000 in 2006!; The Progress of Truth; New Documentary on the Truth and Reconciliation Project: Bring it to Your Hometown; Campaign for Fair Food Takes on Goliath ‹ McDonald's; Hate Crime at Guilford College; Si Kahn Sings for GJF in Northampton; Community Fundraising to Serve Grassroots Struggles; Our Sorrow; S/Heroes of 2006. For more information, and to read the full text of the newsletter, please visit http://www.gjf.org
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<H3>Ruth Trujillo-Acosta, New Executive Director of the Greensboro
Justice Fund</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>On Monday, March 5, 2007,</SPAN> the
Greensboro Justice Fund will change. On that day Ruth
Trujillo-Acosta, long-time administrator of the Greensboro Justice
Fund, will become Executive Director, the first full-time paid staff
person in the last 22 years. </P>
<P>Ruth is my long-time friend y hermana. She was born in El
Salvador and grew up in the liberation struggle where as a teen she
fought against the United States military-backed oligarchy and their
police and paramilitary. Close friends were among the tens of
thousands "disappeared" by the death squads, most assuredly to their
death. She escaped to the United States when only 19 to work for the
Salvadoran refugee and solidarity movement during the '80s, and the
FMLN in its diplomatic corps at the United Nations in New York. It
was there that she met her husband, Gustavo Acosta, and had her
daughter Xochilt, now 17 years old and a junior at Holyoke High
School. </P>
<P>Ruth's unshakable determination to change the world on behalf of
the poor, women and people of color was reaffirmed by her experience
at Smith College here in Northampton supported by a full scholarship
in the Ada Comstock Program. She came to work for the Greensboro
Justice Fund as very part-time administrator in 1999. She built our
website and our computer database and has run much of the day-to-day
operations. (You have probably gotten her thank-yous for your
donations.) Since graduation from Smith she has worked at the Peace
Development Fund, for the Women's Research Project of Franklin
County and then as director of programs for Northampton's battered
women's shelter, Safe Passage. She managed all these positions while
continuing her part-time work with GJF. We feel an organizational
guilt for plucking her from Safe Passage but this is balanced by our
joy at knowing what she will contribute to the struggle for social
justice through the Greensboro Justice Fund. </P>
<P>She has in her spare time continued to be actively involved in
the struggle for immigration rights and anti racism, and brings
national stature in that movement to her work with GJF. </P>
<P>Thank you, Ruth, for what you have done and for what you will do
for the Greensboro Justice Fund. We have a lot of work ahead and it
is with great anticipation that I look forward to doing it with you.
</P>
<P align=right><I>Marty Nathan MD, Executive Director 19922007</I>
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<H3>Granting surpasses $48,000 in 2006!</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>On November 12, 2006,</SPAN> the Greensboro
Justice Fund voted to fund thirteen grassroots groups a total of
$25,000 to support such diverse activities as protesting the Iraq
War in the military town of Fayetteville, North Carolina to helping
unite poultry growers, environmentalists and workers in their common
interest against huge poultry conglomerates. Five thousand dollars
went to post-Katrina justice in New Orleans to support the fight for
poor people and people of color to return and rebuild and to combat
the pervasive prison-industrial complex. </P>
<P>We have now granted more than one-half million dollars to
grassroots justice organizations in the last twenty-one years. We
have made a difference in the South, providing a resource where
there is usually none to people who know that the status quo is no
longer tolerable. With no deep pockets, your donations have made the
difference. </P>
<P><B>Fall, 2006 Grantees:</B> </P>
<P><B>Activists With A Purpose (AWAP)</B>, Grenada, MS $2,000 to
fight against racism past and present in this Mississippi town.
Their work focuses on increasing Democratic rights for
African-Americans, protecting and promoting youth and their
leadership and dealing with the effects of unaddressed past racial
violence. </P>
<P><B>Western North Carolina Citizens for an End to Institutional
Bigotry, (NCCEIB)</B> Asheville, NC $2,500. For more than a decade
the GJF has provided general support for this energetic group of men
and women who have changed the political landscape in Western North
Carolina by confronting racist Indian sports mascots in schools,
exposing racist and bigoted violence, and taking a stand on first
amendment issues. </P>
<P><B>Center for Artistic Revolution</B>, North Little Rock, AR
$1,000 to support innovative, artistically-augmented community
organizing work that "focuses on Fairness and Equality for ALL
Arkansans" and creating collaborative organizing efforts between
diverse communities. </P>
<P><B>Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression</B>,
Louisville, KY $2,500 for general support for this amazing
grassroots organization that has for decades devoted its meager
resources to the struggle to root out racism in the Louisville area,
focusing particularly on ending police brutality. </P>
<P><B>Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida</B>, Immokalee, FL
$1,500 for their work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers to organize the Alliance for Fair Food. (See article this
newsletter.) </P>
<P><B>Appalachian Women's Alliance</B>, Floyd, VA, $1,000 for the
ongoing anti-racist feminist work through its Clinchco, VA Center in
an isolated sector of the Virginia mountains. </P>
<P><B>Critical Resistance</B>, Southern Regional Office, New
Orleans, LA $2,000 for their Amnesty for Prisoners of Katrina
campaign, to ensure that those arrested for taking care of
themselves and their family after the storm are not imprisoned and
that the prison industrial complex is not used as a tool to respond
to disaster in Louisiana. </P>
<P><B>Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance</B>, Atlanta, GA $1,000 to
this coalition across the lower rungs of the poultry production
pyramid to promote workplace safety and a reduction in the number of
disabling injuries suffered by poultry processing workers. </P>
<P><B>Common Ground Legal Advocacy Committee</B>, New Orleans, LA
$3,000 for its work with the impoverished and historically oppressed
returning residents of New Orleans to ensure a just reconstruction
based in self-determination and personal and neighborhood
empowerment. </P>
<P><B>Western North Carolina Workers Center</B>, Morganton, NC
$2,000 for general support in educating and organizing low-wage
workers in one of the least unionized areas of the country. </P>
<P><B>South Carolina Progressive Network</B>, Columbia, SC, $3,000
for general support as it continues to bring together men and women
across broad sectors of the disempowered in South Carolina to shape
public policy. </P>
<P><B>South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice</B>, Miami, FL $3,000
for general support for this faith based organization supporting the
right to union representation and decent living conditions for
low-waged, mainly immigrant workers in the Miami-Dade County area.
</P>
<P><B>Fayetteville Peace Rally Coalition</B>, Fayetteville, NC $500
to support the March 17 rally for peace and against militarism in
this strongly pro-military area. </P>
<P>The diversity and centrality of the organizing is striking. The
board found itself making difficult decisions among groups whose
value to our country's future is without parallel in the GJF's
history. We vowed that next time our resources would be greater and
the number and size of grants larger. Please help us meet that
promise. </P><BR><BR>
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<H3>The Progress of Truth</H3>
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<H6>Marty Nathan and TRC Local Task Force member Ed Whitfield
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<P><SPAN class=leadin>The seeds of trut</SPAN>h were planted in
Greensboro by the country's first Truth and Reconciliation
Commission report. Their growth now is not limited to the City. </P>
<P>During the last eight months there has been widespread discussion
of the document and attempts to convince city government to
implement its broad-ranging recommendations. One hundred people
gathered during a snowstorm in December for a community dialogue at
Greensboro's Bennett College, a historically black women's
institution which will ultimately house the archives of the
Commission. A second large gathering will occur at the downtown
public library on March 11 from 4 to 6 pm. </P>
<P>The Report has been taken to local Presbyterian and Methodist
churches for discussion and it has been actively taken up by the
clergy of the Black ministerial alliance. Bishop Chip Marble
presented the Commission Report to hundreds at the Episcopal Urban
conference in Raleigh, where GJF Board Member Rev. Nelson Johnson
and former Mayor Carolyn Allen spoke. </P>
<P>A region-wide coalition of students and faculty from six separate
colleges is meeting to study the report and carry out campus-based
academic discussion. They plan to promote it on their campuses as
extensively and seriously as the "One City One Book" reading
initiatives adopted by many cities. Students are taking on their own
initiative, planning a student-led conference on April 14 focused
solely on the Commission Report. </P>
<P>Finally, a wave of activism took 5,000 progressives to Raleigh on
February 10 in a demonstration to revitalize the people's movement.
Headed by the North Carolina NAACP, the HKonJ March carried Truth
and Reconciliation with it. The 14 points of the People's Agenda
included a call for a statewide truth commission based on the
Greensboro and South African experience. </P>
<P>Less than a year ago you, the supporters of the Greensboro
Justice Fund, responded to a call to aid in dissemination of the
lessons learned from the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. The product of that effort, the Greensboro Truth and
Reconciliation video, is being shown at forums and gatherings
throughout the country and accessible on our website, <A
href="http://www.gjf.org">www.gjf.org</A>. A copy is free upon
request to our all our grantees. </P>
<P>Please contact us if you would like a copy of the DVD to give to
your local school system, library, college, or organization. It is
available for $10 to cover copying and shipping by calling
413-584-1079 or emailing <A
href="mailto:RuthTrujillo@comcast.net">RuthTrujillo@comcast.net</A>.
</P><BR><BR>
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<H3>New Documentary on the Truth and Reconciliation Project: Bring
it to Your Hometown</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>A new documentary film</SPAN> by Adam Zucker,
<I>Greensboro: Closer to the Truth</I> will be premiering at the
South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, March 917. The
film follows four of the victims of the Massacre who worked to
initiate the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission through
their organizing and their testimony and raises questions of
justice, memory, truth and forgiveness as related to this very
public atrocity. </P>
<P>After its premiere the film will be shown at </P>
<UL>
<LI>Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC, April 912,
<LI>River Run Film Festival in Winston Salem, NC April 1823,
<LI>Nashville International Film Festival April 1926 and
<LI>The Boston Independent Film Festival 4/2530. </LI></UL>
<P>If you know of a film festival or an independent film theatre in
your area at which a showing would be appropriate, please contact
the Adam Zucker at <A
href="mailto:info@greensborothemovie.com">info@greensborothemovie.com</A>
or visit the website <A
href="http://www.greensborothemovie.com">www.greensborothemovie.com</A>.
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<H3>Campaign for Fair Food Takes on Goliath McDonald's</H3>
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<P><SPAN class=leadin>On January 10</SPAN> the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers with their support organization the
Student/Farmworker Alliance announced a major mobilization for
farmworker justice focused on McDonald's, the world's largest
fast-food corporation. On April 1314, 2007 activists will converge
in the Chicago area, corporate headquarters to demonstrate for
higher wages and safer working conditions on behalf of those who
grow and pick tomatoes for McDonald's burgers. </P>
<P>Thousands will be demanding human rights for farmworkers at the
following events: </P>
<UL>
<LI>Major rally outside McDonald's global headquarters in Oak
Brook, IL, Friday, April 13.
<LI>Carnaval and Parade for Fair Food, Real Rights, and Dignity in
downtown Chicago, Saturday, April 14 . </LI></UL>
<P>Two years after the CIW and Taco Bell announced their historic
agreement ensuring a contract increasing wages and improving working
conditions for the farmworkers who supply Taco Bell's, McDonald's
has yet to meet the challenge posed by the Coalition for Immokalee
Workers to do the same. In late 2005 CIW sent out an action alert
that produced thousands of emails, letters and calls to McDonald's
headquarters demanding fairness for farmworkers. </P>
<P>The corporate response was to announce that it would partner with
the Socially Accountable Farm Employers (SAFE) to redesign its
supply chain program supposedly to improve farmworker conditions.
However, SAFE consists of collaboration between a corporate
controlled lobbying interest (the Florida Fruit and Vegetable
Association) and a social services agency dependent on the FFVA.
</P>
<P>According to a statement released by United Students Against
Sweatshops, "Corporate controlled monitoring programs have never
worked and are deemed completely illegitimate by everyone involved
in the implementation of worker rights. The incentive of
corporate-controlled monitors to continue to receive a pay check
from the corporations they work for continually outweighs their
incentive for uncovering and remediating worker rights abuses...
Workers are the only ones who know what conditions are like day to
day and what improvements need to be made." </P>
<P>These words were prophetic. In December it was revealed that one
of McDonald's suppliers, Ag-Mart, had hired a Florida labor
contractor who had spent 33 months in prison for enslaving and
beating workers. </P>
<P>"Despite increasing public pressure on the fast-food giant,
McDonald's has refused to recognize the seriousness of the
exploitation of tomato pickers exposed through the Taco Bell
boycott, and refused to work with the CIW to address that
exploitation," according to the Student/Farmworker Alliance website.
"Instead, it has taken measures that appear aimed at undermining the
hard-won advances in wages and working conditions established in the
agreement with Taco Bell." </P>
<P>>From CIW, "Today, we are tired, in the words of Martin Luther
King Jr., of 'relying on the good will and understanding of those
who profit by exploiting us.'" </P>
<P>CIW and S/FA are joined by two of the Greensboro Justice Fund's
other grantees, the South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice and
Interfaith Action of South Florida, in this Campaign for Fair Food.
</P>
<P>For more information, visit Student/Farmworker Alliance website
at <A href="http://www.sfalliance.org">www.sfalliance.org</A> or
Coalition of Immokalee Workers at <A
href="http://www.sfalliance.org">www.ciw-online.org</A>.
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<H3>Hate Crime at Guilford College</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>On early Saturday morning,</SPAN> January 20,
approximately fifteen members of the Guilford College football team
attacked three Palestinian students while calling them racist names:
"Sand n____s", "Terrorist", and "f__ing Palestinians". Two of the
Palestinians, Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah, were also Guilford
College students and Omar Awartani was a student visiting from
Raleigh's North Carolina State University. They were preparing to go
out for the evening when the football players confronted them. Faris
tried to prevent violence by shaking the hand of one of the football
players, but the three were attacked anyway, and beaten with fists,
brass knuckles, and loose bricks that were lying around the area,
which was under construction. All three were treated for concussions
and Faris suffered a dislocated jaw. </P>
<P>Three of the football players have been arrested for criminal
assault and ethnic intimidation based on complaints by the
Palestinian students and are out on bail. </P>
<P>As of the writing of this article none of the football players
have faced any repercussions so far at the college and continue to
go to classes, while the college undergoes its own judicial
investigation. One of the players is an All-American. </P>
<P>Guilford has so far treated this as an "altercation" not a hate
crime. There have been no steps taken yet to protect those beaten or
to speak to the ethnic abuse evident in the slurs that accompanied
the brutality. </P>
<P>Students, however, have spoken out, with a large campus
demonstration demanding a response from the College. Rev. Nelson
Johnson, Greensboro Justice Fund Board member, spoke at that rally,
drawing the parallels between the violence and that of the Massacre
in Greensboro in 1979. </P>
<P>All of us are aware of the anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiments
generated, played on and acted upon by this country's "War on
Terror". The Guilford violence is not an isolated event but is in
part a reflection of the present national rhetoric and policy.
Because of that, it is something that we as a country must face and
react to. </P>
<P>The Greensboro Justice Fund voted an emergency grant to support
the legal and organizing needs of the Palestinian victims and
recommends that supporters contact Kent Chabotar, President: <A
href="mailto:chabotar@guilford.edu">chabotar@guilford.edu</A>,
336-316-2146 and Aaron Fetrow, Dean of Campus Life: <A
href="mailto:afetrow@guilford.edu">afetrow@guilford.edu</A>,
336-316-2133 to request support of the victims and investigation of
the conditions that led to the violence. </P>
<P>Guilford College has been and can be a beacon to a troubled
nation. We eagerly await its return to that role. </P><BR><BR>
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<H3>Si Kahn Sings for GJF in Northampton</H3>
<P><IMG height=259 alt="Si Kahn Poster" hspace=10
src="cid:002601c76002$079ded60$6401a8c0@DELLNEW" width=200
align=right border=0>In September Si Kahn did a wonderful benefit
concert for GJF. On a warm September evening Si held forth on stage
at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, armed only with his
guitar, his voice, and his incredible repertoire of songs. </P>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>Two hundred guests filled the hall,</SPAN> GJF
supporters and donors, as well as appreciative townspeople. They all
came ready to hear a great concert, learn more about our good work
and support our mission. </P>
<P>And who better to convey the spirit of the Justice Fund's mission
than Si Kahn: not only a singer and songwriter but also a speaker,
writer and workshop leader who has lived in the South and worked
there as a labor organizer for the last 40 years. </P>
<P>The audience was not disappointed. The songs and the speeches put
the message across about the kinds of people we work to support,
telling of the courage of everyday people struggling to live in
challenging circumstances. With the help of our generous supporters,
we raised $8,000. </P>
<P align=right><I> Development Coordinator Christine Olson</I>
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<H3>Community Fundraising to Serve Grassroots Struggles</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>This has been a season</SPAN> of house parties
for GJF. Between October and January, five people came forward and
hosted benefits in their home, raising over $10,000 for the Fund.
</P>
<P>These events happened in Baltimore and Hyattsville, Maryland;
Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Rosendale, New York; Los Angeles and
Atlanta. More are planned for the Spring including two in
Massachusetts. </P>
<P><B>Baltimore, MD:</B> On November 15th, 2006, the University of
Maryland School of Law hosted a panel discussion: "International
Justice Tools for the Local Justice Toolkit." Panelists included
people who had been involved in all levels of Greensboro's Truth and
Reconciliation (TRC) process, as well as representatives from
Baltimore's Community Conferencing Center. Each of these justice
processes grow out of indigenous cultures, both inside and outside
of the United States. They have been modified for use in current
U.S. cities and states, and panelists shared their experiences and
talked about both the opportunities and challenges that these
complementary justice processes present. </P>
<P>Following the panel discussion, local board members and friends
of the Greensboro Justice fund hosted a fundraiser at a nearby pub.
Old and new friends of the GJF were able to relax and mingle,
reflecting on the discussions of the day, as well as catching up on
recent work being done by the GJF. Board Chair Rosalyn Pelles was
able to attend and answer questions people had about the current
outlook for the Fund. Over $3000.00 was raised at the event. </P>
<P>Altogether it was an inspiring evening. It reaffirmed that the
work of the GJF continues to stretch and redefine expectations for
justice in the U.S. The questions of those who attended, including
those from law students and members of the Maryland Community
Justice Task Force, showed an openness to learn from the lessons of
Greensboro and to think creatively about how the TRC process might
help a justice process in their own communities. <I> Board Member
Brenda Blom</I> </P>
<P><B>Chapel Hill, NC.</B> GJF executive director Marty Nathan
joined with dozens of GJF supporters and friends at a house party at
the home of Claudia Prose that raised more than $2,500. Nathan was
joined by GJF grantees Allison Carpenter, Field Coordinator,
Students Responsible for a Global Environment (SURGE); Lupe Huitron,
Internship Coordinator for Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF),
and Connie Gates, representing the National Farmworker Ministry.
Those assembled heard about the history of the Fund, the important
role of our granting, our plans to hire staff so that we can further
institutionalize and expand our work, and about the actual
difference that their dollars make in the field. <I> Board Member
Lucy Lewis</I> </P>
<P><B>Hyattsville, MD,</B> December 30. Showing the DVD of Alison
Duncan's testimony at the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation set
the stage for a lively discussion with young activists, parents and
long standing supporters of the GJF about lessons learned and the
tasks ahead. About 30 people gathered at the Quaker Meeting House of
advisory committee members Lainie and Rob Duncan on a Saturday
afternoon to hear about the Truth Commission and support the work of
the GJF. Opening with the 16 minute Summary of the hearings brought
a broad sweep from images of the original attack to the public
announcement of the findings of the Commission. The findings' impact
was made even more moving when Rosalyn Pelles, chair of the board of
directors of the Greensboro Justice Fund and participant in the Nov.
3rd demonstration was so uplifted hearing their conclusions for the
first time that she had to pause before proceeding with her planned
speech. </P>
<P>Alison and Cesar Weston's combined testimony created a visual
tribute to the diversity that is brought together in this struggle.
A young white woman and a strong black man comforting each other as
they deliver their emotionally vulnerable yet politically powerful
testimonies inspired us to look inward and to take action. A
poignant question in the discussion that followed, "How can we
insure that the young activists today have the opportunity to act on
their beliefs in the reality of economic survival and debts?"
brought new commitments from old activists to engage in the training
of a next generation. </P>
<P>This opportunity to connect with each other and the generous
financial contributions strengthen the work of the Greensboro
Justice Fund and have served to spread the message of restorative
justice that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission represents.
<I> Rob and Lainie Duncan</I> </P>
<P><B>Atlanta, GA,</B> January 20. Emory University Professors Ivan
Karp and Corinne Kratz hosted a warm and lively reception for Marty
Nathan and her husband Elliot Fratkin at their home in Atlanta.
Surrounded by African art collected in two lifetimes of work in
Kenya, Marty spoke of the struggle for the Fund's survival after the
Massacre in Greensboro twenty-six years ago, and its growth as a key
support for organizations working in the South for economic and
racial justice. After showing the Greensboro Truth Project film,
Rev. Thee Smith spoke of the Atlanta community's work in exposing
"lynching postcards" that celebrated murders of Black men in the
last century. A thoughtful conversation about historical truth and
present-day justice went on into the night. Our thanks to Cory and
Ivan and their friends </P>
<P>Imagine your name next year on the list of heros and sheros as a
house party host. Please consider helping us out in this way. You
can do something as small or as grand as you wish and we will help
you plan each step of the way. We have speakers, films, and
literature available. Contact Marty Nathan or Christine Olson at the
office. </P><BR><BR>
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<H3>Our Sorrow</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>For the death of longtime supporter</SPAN>
Delbert Wong of Los Angeles. Father to three members of our advisory
committee, Judge Wong was a man of tremendous courage and wisdom. He
was the first Asian-American federal judge in this country's
history. The world is poorer for his loss. </P><BR><BR>
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<H3>S/Heroes of 2006</H3>
<P><SPAN class=leadin>Each year the list grows longer.</SPAN>
Without these people, and many more too numerous to mention, we
simply would not exist, let alone be situated at the present
juncture of growth. </P>
<P>The following have helped make possible the country's first Truth
and Community Reconciliation Commission, the Truth Project that is
disseminating nationwide the lessons from the work of that
Commission and the hiring of the first full-time staff person, our
new executive director, who will be instrumental in building the
Greensboro Justice Fund to double our granting and create an
endowment that will sustain us and our support of the movement for
years to come. You did it. You made the effort to change our country
through supporting justice and peace in the South. </P>
<P>Martha Ackelsberg, Florence, MA; Vanessa & Beth Adel,
Northampton, MA; Guillermina Alvarez & Rhonda Reznick, Pico
Rivera, CA; Anonymous/Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts,
Springfield, MA; Helen H. Bacon, Williamsburg, MA; Philip Barreca,
New York, NY; Lisa Baskin, Leeds, MA; Pauline Bassett & Alan
Katz, Florence, MA; Debbie Bergen & Fred Koster, New York, NY;
Roger and Bea Blacklow, Silver Spring, MD; Hisani & Thomas
Lillie-Blanton, Washington, DC; John & Brenda Blom, Baltimore,
MD; Elizabeth T. Bogren, Brooklyn, NY; Alan Bloomgarden & Kathie
Bredin, Florence, MA; Charles R. Brainard; New York, NY; Linda
Brooks, Chapel Hill, NC; Jose & Rose Calderon, San Dimas, CA;
Tom Camarella & Ronnie Jayne Solomon, Culver City, CA; Frieda
Rapoport Caplan, Los Alamitos, CA; Miriam Chaiken & Tom Conelly,
Penn Run, PA; Madeline Chang & Alan Ramos, New York, NY; Steve
& Deb Clark, Washington, DC; The Community Church of Chapel Hill
UU, Chapel Hill, NC; Jewish Community Endowment Fund/Phyllis Cook,
San Francisco, CA; Jane Cross & Paul Spector, Northampton, MA;
Dan Croteau & Cate Woolner, Northfield, MA; Lawrence J. &
Dolores J D'Angelo, Besthesda, MD; Lori Divine-Hudson, Northampton,
MA; James Donnell, Cranberry Township, PA; Roger Doyle, Columbus,
OH; Lainie and Rob Duncan, Hyattsville, MD; David & Patricia
Earnhardt, Nashville, TN; Gerald & Sandra Eskin, Chicago, IL;
RMF Foundation/Richard Friedberg, New York, NY; Enrique Gentzsch,
Minneapolis, MN; Bruce Gillam, Staten Island, NY; Miriam Goheen,
Amherst, MA; Stephen & Diana Goldberg, Washington, DC; Edmund
Gordon, Pomona, NY; Ira Helfand M.D. & Deborah Smith MD, Leeds,
MA; John Heyman, Jackson, MS; Katherine M. Hieatt, Brooklyn, NY;
Rev. Leo James Hoar, Springfield, MA; Zee N. & Charlene Holler,
Greensboro, NC; Lynne & Joseph F. Horning Jr., Washington, DC;
Sam Hummel & Kriti Sharma, Durham, NC; Terry & Carol
Hutner-Winograd, Stanford, CA; Nelson & Joyce Johnson,
Greensboro, NC; Alfred and Mary Kahn, Ithaca, NY; Henry S. Kahn
& Mary Gillmor-Kahn, Atlanta, GA; Si Kahn, Charlotte, NC;
Bernard Kastin, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA; Kurz Family Foundation
Ltd./Herbert & Edythe Kurz, Piermont, NY; Lawson Valentine
Foundation, West Hartford, CT; Martin & Gita Lefstein,
Baltimore, MD; James Levey & Christine Olson, Northampton, MA;
Lucy Lewis, Carrboro, NC; Pauline Lipman & Rico Gutstein,
Chicago, IL; Lovinger Family Foundation/Jeffrey & Pamela
Lovinger, New York, NY; Emily Mann & Gary Mailman, Princeton,
NJ; George & Arky Markham, Northampton, MA; Dr. Mark Marquardt
& Dr. Rebecca Young, Chapel Hill, NC; The Purple Lady
Fund/Barbara Meislin, Tiburon, CA; Victoria Mendolia/Peninsula
Community Foundation, San Mateo, CA; Winky Foundation/Gerrish H.
Milliken, Oroville, WA; Tom Mitchell & Jill Over, Durham, NC;
Nathaniel D. Davis Foundation/Barbara L. Davis & Sharon Davis
Levi, Concord, OH; Catharine & David Newbury, Northampton, MA;
Bill Newman & Dale Melcher, Northampton, MA; Beth & Daniel
Okun, Chapel Hill, NC; Rep. John & Rose W. Olver, Amherst, MA;
Edgar C. Peara, Eugene, OR; Rosalyn & Don Pelles, Silver Spring,
MD; Dale & Lorna Peterson, Amherst, MA; William Preston Jr.
Vineyard Haven, MA; Dr. Claudia Prose, Chapel Hill, NC; Jean Quan
& Floyd Huen, Oakland, CA; Miriam Jolee Robinson, Silver Spring,
MD; Jill & Ron Rohde, Chicago, IL; Drs. Henry Rosenberg &
Katherine Hicks, Northampton, MA; Ann Roy, Southampton, MA; Peter
& Tara Rubinas, Pittsboro, NC; Susan Sarandon, New York, NY; Dr.
Jeff Scavron, Springfield, MA; Alfred H. Schwendtner, New York, NY;
Neal & Gale Shepherd, Durham, NC; William L. Shuman,
Fayetteville, AK; Mary & Al Siano, Greenfield, MA; Dan Siegel
& Anne Weills, Oakland, CA; John & Cynthia Sill, Rochester,
MN; David Sloviter, Meadowbrook, PA; Barbara S. Smith, Chappaqua,
NY; Sarah Snider, Freemansburg, PA; Buddy Steves & Rowena Young,
Houston, TX; Frances W. Stevenson, Bend, OR; Wenda Tai & Wesley
T. Ward, Cambridge, MA; Esther & Eugene Terry, Amherst, MA;
Carolyn Tkach, Easthampton, MA; Alan & Margaret Tung, New York,
NY; Florence Wagner , Los Angeles, CA; Kitsi Watterson,
Philadelphia, PA; Marea Wexler, Northampton, MA; John & Janet
Wilborn, Louisville, KY; Douglas & Carol Wingeier/SisBros Fund,
Asheville, NC; Bob and Jan Winston, Amherst, MA; Stephen &
Bettina Winter, Belmont, MA; Martin A. Wohl & Marissa
Labozzetta, Northampton, MA; Buck Wong & Phyllis Chiu, Los
Angeles, CA; Dolores Wong, Los Angeles, CA; Kent & Jai Wong, Los
Angeles, CA; Marshall Wong, Los Angeles, CA; Shelley Wong & Rev.
Tyrone Pitts, Alexandria, VA; Edgar P. & Barbara J. F. Wyman,
Whitefield, NH; Paul Zarembka, Buffalo, NY; and Alan Zaslavsky,
Cambridge, MA. </P>
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