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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2015-02-17/understanding-action-ou
 r-choices-our-roles-our-responsibilities
LOCATION:Center for Civil and Human Rights 100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. ATLANTA
 \, GA 30313
SUMMARY:Understanding to Action: Our choices\, our roles\, our responsibili
 ties
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 elays or postponement in the event of inclement weather.\n\n\n\nThese aler
 ts will be sent using an app called Gather that keeps your phone number pr
 ivate and the list will expire on 2/18/2015. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Georgia Comm
 ission on the Holocaust\, the British Consulate-General of Atlanta and the
  Center for Civil and Human Rights have partnered to present an evening co
 nnecting and examining the increased relevance of moral themes from the Ho
 locaust in Europe and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.\n\n\
 n\nThe call to action in combating injustice\, prejudice\, and discriminat
 ion resonates with greater significance through the exploration of these p
 eriods of history and their connections to current global issues such as t
 he continued violation of human rights in areas throughout the world. Thes
 e and other themes will be discussed by a panel of experienced academics\
 , advocates\, and activists.\n\n\n\nEngland was the first European country
  to make teaching about the Holocaust a mandatory part of curriculum in se
 condary schools. Holocaust education addresses one of the central mandates
  of education in the United States\, which is to examine what it means to 
 be a responsible citizen. As two of the founding member countries of the I
 nternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\, the United Kingdom and the U
 nited States share a solemn commitment to ensuring that evils such as geno
 cide\, racism\, and antisemitism are eradicated through education and legi
 slation.\n\n\n\nAside from Georgia’s own unique history from the Civil W
 ar through the Civil Rights Movement\, it is one of only 13 states with a 
 secular and non-partisan Holocaust commission. It is also home to the Cent
 er for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta which inspires and empow
 ers visitors to join the ongoing dialogue about human rights in their comm
 unities. \n\n\n\nThrough the work of state agencies\, national institutio
 ns\, and international organizations the fight against prejudice and discr
 imination has expanded beyond combating Holocaust denial and hate speech. 
 This call to action must be accompanied by a true understanding of our cho
 ices and our responsibilities.\n\n\n\nThe program will be preceded by a re
 ception starting at 6pm with the panelists and Holocaust survivors. \n\nT
 his event is free and open to the public.\n\n \n\nThe Panel\n\nModerated 
 by Dina Bailey\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Dina Bailey is the Director
  of Educational Strategies for the National Center for Civil and Human Rig
 hts in Atlanta\, Georgia. In fulfilling this mission\, Ms. Bailey oversee
 s three major components of the institution – interpretation/content\, e
 ducational initiatives\, and community programming.  Prior to working at 
 the National Center for Civil and Human Rights\, Dina was the Director of 
 Museum Experiences for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center wh
 ere she oversaw the entire programmatic side of the institution. Dina bega
 n her career as a high school English teacher – teaching American Litera
 ture and Advanced Placement English. Her degrees include a Bachelor of Sci
 ence in Middle/Secondary Education from Butler University\; a Masters in A
 nthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the University o
 f Sussex\; and\, a graduate certification in Museum Studies from the Unive
 rsity of Cincinnati. Ms. Bailey has been published in both the formal educ
 ation and museum fields. \n\nAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n
 \nAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is the Charles Howard Candler Prof
 essor of Law at Emory Law\, associated professor in the Emory College of A
 rts and Sciences\, and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law an
 d Religion of Emory University. An internationally recognized scholar of I
 slam and human rights and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives\, Pr
 ofessor An-Na'im teaches courses in international law\, comparative law\, 
 human rights\, and Islamic law. His research interests include constitutio
 nalism in Islamic and African countries\, secularism\, and Islam and polit
 ics. \n\n\n\nThere are two main aspects to An-Na’im’s work\, both ari
 sing from his personal experiences as a Muslim from Northern Sudan struggl
 ing to reconcile his Islamic faith and identity with his commitment to uni
 versal acceptance of and respect for human rights. First\, he is striving 
 to promote two interrelated objectives\, namely\, a liberal modernist unde
 rstanding of Islam\, and the cultural legitimacy and practical efficacy of
  international human rights standards. This side of his vision and commitm
 ent has resulted in a wide range of publications\, particularly in relatio
 n to Islamic and African societies. Second\, he is concerned with renderin
 g scholarship in the effective service of positive social change\, especia
 lly in relation to the twin objectives mentioned above. This concern is re
 flected in his work in human rights advocacy in general\, as well as the d
 evelopment and implementation of several public policy-oriented projects s
 ince he joined the Faculty of Emory Law School in 1995.\n\nNorbert Friedma
 n\n\n\n\nNorbert Friedman was born in Krakow\, Poland\, in 1922. Germany i
 nvaded Poland on September 1\, 1939. Britain and France declared war two d
 ays later. Norbert was imprisoned in 11 concentration camps including Dach
 au and Flossenbürg. He was liberated from a death march by the U.S. Army 
 on May 1\, 1945. He worked as an interpreter for the Fourth Armored Divisi
 on until the fall of 1946 when he began studying for a career in journalis
 m at Johan Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt\, Germany. He immigrate
 d to the United States in 1950. He served as a Gallery Educator and a memb
 er of the Speakers Bureau at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. He
  moved to Atlanta in 2010 where he has shared his story to audiences at th
 e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, University of Georgia\, Ken
 nesaw State University and various religious institutions. \n\nM. Alexis 
 Scott\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nM. Alexis Scott is the daughter of World War II
  veteran and civil rights activist William Alexander “W.A.”  Scott II
 I. During WWII\, W.A. was assigned to the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion 
 as a reconnaissance sergeant\, photographer\, camoufleur and part-time his
 torian in the S-2 (Intelligence Section). He took photographs at the liber
 ation of Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. After the war\, W.A.
  returned to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. On July 16\
 , 1948\, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 which aboli
 shed racial discrimination in the armed forces. That same year\, W.A. beca
 me circulation manager of The Atlanta Daily World\, the nation’s first b
 lack-owned daily newspaper in the 20th century which was founded by his fa
 ther in 1928. W.A. served on the committee to celebrate the first official
  national holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr. W.A. 
 served as member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and was appoin
 ted by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial 
 Council.\n\n\n\nAlexis is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School. 
 She attended Barnard College in New York City and Spelman College in Atlan
 ta. Following a 22-year career with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, Ale
 xis joined the family business in 1997. She is publisher of The Atlanta Da
 ily World and a regular commentator on FOX 5 Atlanta’s “The Georgia Ga
 ng” program. In 2011 she was inducted with her family into the inaugural
  Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame. She received a 2013 award for column wri
 ting from the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists. She was inducted i
 nto the 2007 Business Hall of Fame of the Mack Robinson College of Busines
 s at Georgia State University. She also received a 2007 Trailblazer Award 
 in Honor of Coretta Scott King from the Southern Christian Leadership Conf
 erence\; the 2005 Millennium Pacesetter Award from the Atlanta Business Le
 ague. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters from Argosy Univer
 sity in Atlanta in 2003.\n\nJeremy Pilmore-Bedford\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nJe
 remy Pilmore-Bedford took up his appointment in Atlanta as Her Majesty’s
  Consul General in August 2013. He leads a team which works throughout the
  Southeast to promote UK-US trade and investment\, support British nationa
 ls\, conduct public diplomacy on key issues\, and build scientific co-oper
 ation. He also sits on the Marshall Scholarship selection committee.\n\n\n
 \nJeremy’s previous posting was in London where he was the Head of the U
 K Foreign Office’s Caribbean\, Central America\, and Mexico Department. 
  In this role he helped to re-invigorate UK relations with Latin America 
 and the Caribbean\, pushed for greater trade links\, and supported joint e
 fforts to combat drugs and crime within the region. Prior to this Jeremy w
 orked in the Foreign Office’s policy planning staff\, and before that wo
 rked on supporting democratic reform in Ukraine after the 2004 Orange Revo
 lution.\n\n\n\nJeremy joined the UK’s diplomatic service in 1990 as a gr
 aduate entrant. He has served overseas in Qatar\, Singapore\, Russia\, and
  Malaysia.  \n\n\n\nJeremy was born in Sevenoaks in Kent\, England.  He 
 graduated in politics\, history\, and economics from Brunel University in 
 London.  During his time there he participated in a one-year exchange pro
 gramme with the State University of New York and worked as an intern for a
  US Congressman.\n\n\n\nJeremy is accompanied on his posting by his wife A
 manda\, a counsellor\, and his two teenage children\, Olivia and Alasdair.
  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nThis project is supported by the Georgia
  Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and thro
 ugh appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.\n\n\n\n 
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