Reconciliation GetTogethers–April 29th.

Posted by Benjamin on: 04.21.2008 /

Recently I’ve been following the doings of an Australian organization called Getup, which has been up to a number of extremely kewl things.  One of their current efforts is promoting an evening of Reconciliation conversations between indigenous and non-indigenous folks in Australia.

So on April 29th, some 223 GetTogethers are organized already all over Australia.  Check out the map on the event home page–and realize that the *vast* majority of the populations lives on or near the coasts of the continent.  It seems they’re doing this as a kind of follow up to the recent long-time-in-coming official apology to the Indigenous people of Australia.

I’m totally wowed by this.  Feels like *huge* movement towards MTWABP.

So a couple questions:

• If you’re Australian, are you planning to attend or even host one of these GetTogethers? We’d *love* for you to share with us about it here on JaC in early May.
• Whatever nation you’re from, have you ever been involved in this sort of conversation?  Please share with us about it!
• How can we … move this direction in the U.S.?  How can *I* host such a GetTogether?  I want to be involved, but I feel … totally inept.