TN DEATH PENALTY BLOG
We are traveling through Tennessee's heartland and highways, meeting folks and starting conversations about our death penalty.
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- Citizens United Against the Death Penalty
- Murder Victims Families for Human Rights
- Google News: TN death penalty
Contributors
Friday, April 14, 2006
the journey of hope rides again...
it could be said that the incubation of the modern anti-death penalty movement in our state occurred during the tennessee journey of hope - from violence to healing in 1999 ...
what is the journey???
according to their web site ... the journey of hope...from violence to healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty...
journey "storytellers" come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation...they are real people who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder...they recount their tragedies and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues...
in 1999 they spent 17 days criss-crossing tennessee speaking to thousands about their particular message that forgiveness is about the victim's family members - not perpetrators - and it leads to healing...
it is through the journey that i met one of my favorite people-characters in the world, george white ... i treasure seeing george at ncadp conferences and often share things in my presentations that george has unselfishly shared with all of us ...
that 1999 journey included a concert at the ryman organized by steve earle and included, jackson browne, emmylou harris, the indigo girls, and dixie chick natalie maines ...
this year's journey will tour virginia from october 13-29 and we hope will spend a couple of days in eastern tennessee ... sister helen prejean will once again join the journey for a few days oct. 21,22 and leave the 23rd...
the lil' jesuit dude is being encouraged to spend at least a week traveling with the journey which will lead into the 2006 ncadp conference in virginia (at a site outside of washington dc to be named shortly)...
tcask has a 10 minute video of 1999 tennessee journey footage that is available for use in presentations and discussions ... drop us a line at tcask@tcask.org or call us at 615-463-0070 ...
peace out - <3
what is the journey???according to their web site ... the journey of hope...from violence to healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty...
journey "storytellers" come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation...they are real people who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder...they recount their tragedies and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues...
in 1999 they spent 17 days criss-crossing tennessee speaking to thousands about their particular message that forgiveness is about the victim's family members - not perpetrators - and it leads to healing...
it is through the journey that i met one of my favorite people-characters in the world, george white ... i treasure seeing george at ncadp conferences and often share things in my presentations that george has unselfishly shared with all of us ...that 1999 journey included a concert at the ryman organized by steve earle and included, jackson browne, emmylou harris, the indigo girls, and dixie chick natalie maines ...
this year's journey will tour virginia from october 13-29 and we hope will spend a couple of days in eastern tennessee ... sister helen prejean will once again join the journey for a few days oct. 21,22 and leave the 23rd...
the lil' jesuit dude is being encouraged to spend at least a week traveling with the journey which will lead into the 2006 ncadp conference in virginia (at a site outside of washington dc to be named shortly)...
tcask has a 10 minute video of 1999 tennessee journey footage that is available for use in presentations and discussions ... drop us a line at tcask@tcask.org or call us at 615-463-0070 ...
peace out - <3
