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Video – Coffee Talk: Responding To Hate & Violence, Part 2

On Sunday SpokaneFāVS hosted a Coffee Talk where panelists continued a previous discussion on Building Dialogue for Justice in Response to Hate & Violence.

The first conversation took place at the June Coffee Talk and can be viewed below.

Panelists spoke on the topic briefly, before leading a discussion on the topic with attendees.

Some questions addressed included:

  • What is the role of each citizen to create a more civil society where random acts of violence cannot be tolerated as normal?
  • How can we empower ourselves to effect a positive change in our community?
  • What actions, large or small, can each of us commit to on a daily basis? 

Panelists were:

The next SpokaneFāVS event will be in September. Details coming soon.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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