Dear Students: Our book comes from this amazing San Francisco-based project, Voice of Witness. Instead of starting to read the book, the requirement for Thursday’s class is that you spend at least one hour, preferably 90 minutes, exploring the Voice of Witness website. http://voiceofwitness.org/ There are several key pages, including one which explains the book series and our volume in that series. http://voiceofwitness.org/books/ There interesting short videos like this one on the situation in Columbia: http://voiceofwitness.org/education/curricula/displaced-in-colombia/ Watch this and other available videos. Also, please read this interview with Dave Eggers and Mimi Lok in Salon magazine. http://www.salon.com/2015/06/13/dave_eggers_on_working_for_justice_through_oral_history_there_wasn%E2%80%99t_much_that_allowed_those_people_to_seem_fully_human/ Finally, do a blog entry on your opening understanding of this project from which our next textbook comes. (Summary and comment.) These will be your first points on the new quarter. Homework for next week: You will be responsible to have read from page 9-84 for next Tuesday. You will need to get started on this soon. These first two chapters are on the death penalty. Jim