Voice of Witness

This Thursday, join Voice of Witness Education Program Director Cliff Mayotte and Tides for an event from their Momentum Mixer series on The Story of Education. Cliff will join representatives from Tides, the George Lucas Education Foundation, and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity to address the question: Without education, where do we go?

Event details:
Thursday, November 01, 2012
6:00pm
VolunteerMatch Offices
550 Montgomery 8th Floor

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The Voice of Witness Education Program uses books from the series to bring socially relevant, oral history-based curricula into U.S. schools. To learn more about the Education Program, please visit our Teachers page and order a free copy of our resource for teachers, The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History.

This week, the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row reviewed the latest title in the Voice of Witness series, Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence. Edited by Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening, Throwing Stones at the Moon is a powerful collection of oral histories from Colombians from all walks of life, including farmers, union leaders and former guerillas. They describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement.

To read the full review and to see why the Chicago Tribune called Throwing Stones at the Moon “absorbing”, click here.

Learn more about Throwing Stones at the Moon and purchase the book on the McSweeney’s store here.

Join Voice of Witness and co-editors Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi at Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland this Wednesday for a reading from  Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons.

Inside This Place, Not of It was published in partnership with Justice Now. It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States.

Wednesday, October 17
Diesel, A Bookstore
5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA 94618
7 pm

For more event details, click here.

To learn more about Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, click here.

This event, and the work of Voice of Witness, is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Read the latest coverage of Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence, edited by Max Schoening and Sibylla Brodzisky, on PBS NewsHour Online. Read the full piece to see why the author describes Throwing Stones at the Moon as “searing” and to read Max and Sibylla’s analysis of the upcoming Colombia-FARC Peace Talks in Oslo, Norway.

To read the full article, click here.

Learn more about Throwing Stones at the Moon and purchase the book on the McSweeney’s store here.

Last week, Barnes & Noble’s The Long List reviewed the newest title in the Voice of Witness series, Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence.

Barnes & Noble writes, “Editors Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening have interviewed a broad range of undefeated victims, soliciting heartfelt first-person reportage that brings home the human cost of violence inflicted by rebel and soldier alike.”

Click here to read the full review.

To read an excerpt from Throwing Stones at the Moon at Foreign Policy in Focus, click here.

Learn more about Throwing Stones at the Moon and purchase the book on the McSweeney’s store here.

An article by the Southern Poverty Law Center describes an arson attack on a Toledo mosque, the latest in a string of violent assaults across the country. The photo below shows the remains of the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque. From the article:

“We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, told Hatewatch today in describing the devastation caused by a fire deliberately set in the mosque’s prayer area on Sunday afternoon, just minutes after worshippers had left the building. [Click here to read rest of the article.]

Americans’ experiences of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim attacks are described in Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice. One of our narrators, Zak Muhammad …

Join editors Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi Wednesday, October 17 at Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland to discuss their book, Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. The eighth book in the Voice of Witness series and published in partnership with Justice Now, Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States.

Event details:
Diesel, A Bookstore
5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA 94618
7 pm

For more details, click here.

To learn more about Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, click here.

This event, and the work of Voice of Witness, is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Calling All Educators!
 

The Voice of Witness Education Program is pleased to announce our second annual Open House for Educators on Thursday, September 27 from 5:30-7:00 at ScholarMatch, located at 849 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

Join us for pizza and conversation and to learn about our socially relevant, oral history-based curricula and resources, including:

* Our free teacher’s guide, The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History

* The Voice of Witness book series

* School/site visits and workshops

* Oral history training for classrooms and communities

* Summer Oral History Institute for high school students

* Curriculum planning and teacher support

Interested in learning more? Please RSVP to Voice of Witness Education Associate Claire Kiefer:  claire.kiefer@voiceofwitness.com

This week continues our book tour for Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence. We hope you’ll join editors Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening at an event this week!

NEW YORK:

September 17
New York University, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, IPK Main Conference Room, New York, NY
6:30 pm
Join Sibylla, Max, and Stephen Ferry, author of Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, for a reading and discussion. For more information, click here.

September 18
Columbia University, Jerome Greene Annex, Morningside Heights Campus, 410 West 117th Street  NY, NY 10027
6:30 pm
Join Sibylla and Max for a reading and talk. This event is co-sponsored by PorColombia. For more information, click here.

September 19
McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY
7:00 pm
Join Sibylla, Max, Christian Salazar (former Representative in Colombia of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights), and Stephen Ferry (author …

This week, Voice of Witness is excited to announce the release of our newest title, Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence, edited by Max Schoening and Sibylla Brodzinsky. The remarkable oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread consequence of Colombia’s human rights crisis: forced displacement.

To buy Throwing Stones at the Moon from the McSweeney’s store, click here.

To read a review of Throwing Stones at the Moon and see why Truth-Out described the book as “beautifully edited…less like a written record and more like a story you listen to…”, click here.

To read a Q&A with Max and Sibylla on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, click here.

And, to read an excerpt from Throwing Stones at the Moon on Granta, click here.