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Marshall Mend and Ty Beaver plan to raise money for the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene and other groups through a deal with a New York City-based organization to sell its diversity curriculum, “A Study of Heroes.” Mend and Beaver are shown Tuesday at the institute/Kathy Plonka, SR.
A longtime Coeur d’Alene human rights activist has struck a deal with the New York City-based Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States to market and sell its character education program, “A Study of Heroes.” Marshall Mend, a founding member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, is forming a nonprofit organization called Human Rights Sales and Marketing, which will donate a portion of the proceeds to human rights organizations, including the Coeur d’Alene-based Human Rights Education Institute. “This program inspires kids to be mentors and heroes,” Mend said. “The program is so good and so exciting and something people can believe in”/Alison Boggs, SR. More here.
Question: What would the Coeur d’Alene area be like today if the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations hadn’t emerged to challenge the Aryan Nations?
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Arch_Druid on March 05 at 10:24 a.m.
We’d still be watching goose stepping neo-Nazis strutting down Sherman Ave. And getting a lot of negative media coverage.
Transplanted_Texan on March 05 at 9:57 p.m.
We’d be much worse of, not just in terms of PR as Arch points out, but in terms of character.
Mr. Gissell, Mrs. Gissell, Stewart, Wassmuth, and Mend, as well as the national figure Dees, are among my personal heroes. I owe much of my devotion to social justice causes to them, and any good I do in this life is partially their good as well. I tip my cap to them, and feel very fortunate that I’ve had the chance to tell Gissell and Stewart as much in person (or at least, over the phone - thanks for that DFO).
Arch_Druid on March 06 at 9:19 a.m.
Saw a letter to the editor in the CDA Press where the author claims that Stewart, et al did more harm than good. Guess the guy is a white supremacist sympathizer.