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With that goal in mind, the Haiti Communications Project has joined with two organizations, the 500 Years is Enough Coalition, and the Committee of 500 Years of Resistance, to "demystify...[and] bring out the truth about Christopher Columbus' voyage," LaFontant says. The groups will bring speakers and performers to Jamaica Plain on Monday to address slave trade, the annihilation of the native American population and the cultural legacy of colonization...
This opposition to Columbus Day has influenced even more traditional commemorative efforts. Ferino acknowledges that the controversy surrounding the Columbus image has shifted, perhaps permanently, the focus of the holiday...
City Hall has also been making an effort to keep public school students abreast of the rapidly changing meaning of the Columbus story. Cathy Hoffman, director of the city's Peace Commission, has been working with the city's Multicultural Education Committee to "challenge the notion of Columbus as hero" through curricula and student workshops...
...point of view...is that if we let Columbus Day go by without re-looking at it, it means an acceptance of a model of domination, of one culture being able to annihilate other," Hoffman says...
...Graeme Boone has certainly done a great job of spreading the jazz gospel to the Harvard minions," said Eric R. Columbus '93. "The question is, will they love it at midnight the way they love it at noon...