2005-09-01 Human Relations Advisory Committee Minutes

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1 HUMAN RELATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ' MINUTES ' September 1, 2005 7:30PM at Police Station First Floor Community Room r. , Present: Margaret Soli, Chair, Chief J. Cormier, C. McDonald, N. Namji and P. Kelley members. Margaret Soli gave a report on the attendance of Reading students at Anytown. The members reviewed the film clips produced by Religion & Ethics Weekly, a production of Thirteen/WNET, a PBS station, and funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The first segment was entitled "Islam & Democracy", about 5.29 minutes in length comprising mainly an interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, by Bob Abernethy of the program. The second segment on the same general topic discussed Iraqi Shiites, about 8.49 minutes in length, and was mainly a report by Kate Seeyle with interviews with several parties. Chief Cormier volunteered to run the tapes, and to illustrate how a tape could be stopped from time to time to introduce times for discussion. The members examined the manual for the discussion points. The minutes for June 2 were approved. Following the practice run, it was agreed that Nancy Namji would lead the discussion, Margaret Soli agreed to make copies of pertinent parts of the manual for members to review before the October meeting Margaret also distributed some flyers which she would be posting and requested others to do likewise and Paul Kelley was to send an e-mail to the head of the Clergy Association. The members agreed to meet a week prior to the public meeting just to practice for the program The committee adjourned at 9: 00 PM. Respectfully submitted, Paul A. Kelley, Secretary.