Stand Up To Hatred
This is my first blog ever, so please bear with me and my incoherent ramblings.
I wanted to explain how we came to run such a programme, a bold choice perhaps? How do we deliver such a topic covering genocide and the Holocaust in less than 90 minutes? Can we make it interesting and thought provoking? I think I'll let you decide!
There is certainly a rising of racial, ethnic, and religious hatred in our midst, not I hope within our small scouting community you understand, but world wide, it is happening in the 21st century, in OUR world, OUR time!
I hope by remembering what went in the past, reminds us all what NOT to do in the future. You might not think it is relevant to you, but if we all stand up to hatred, look at how we talk, act and treat one another, we can change attitudes from hatred to tolerance.
The materials and inspiration from tonight's programme are from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the museum at Auschwitz and photographs from when Gavin and I visited Auschwitz Birkenau.
Comments on what you thought please, should this be part of the programme or leave it to the school curriculum?
Labels: programme
posted by Anthony @ 14:12
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1 Comments:
There is some interesting stuff on the BBC as part of their commemoration ofr Holocaust Memorial Day. Especially interesting is their debate on whether we should continue to maintain Auschwitz or allow it to rot away once the last survivor has died: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7827534.stm
Intelligent people and survivors alike are weighing in on both sides of the argument.
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