"Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence": Reading and Discussion

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Join editors Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening for a reading and talk for the newest title in the Voice of Witness series, "Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence."

About "Throwing Stones at the Moon"

For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia face a range of abuses from all sides, including killings, disappearances and rape — and more than four million have been forced to flee their homes. The oral histories in "Throwing Stones at the Moon" describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives.
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Sibylla Brodzinsky is a journalist who has spent more than twenty years writing about Latin American politics, human rights, and social issues in publications including The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Guardian.

Max Schoening is a researcher in the Americas division of Human Rights Watch. He contributed research to Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, a forthcoming photography book by Stephen Ferry.

Founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. The Voice of Witness Education Program, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, aims to bring socially relevant, oral history-based curricula into schools throughout the U.S. Voice of Witness is the nonprofit division of McSweeney’s Books. To purchase a copy of Throwing Stones, visit http://www.store.mcsweeneys.net.

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