Meetings here and elsewhere 2008

YEAR 2008

History of the future encourages the reflection of discrimination

Among the associations present at the History of the Future Festival, Les Petits Débrouillards de Nantes used the support of the Brotherhood Boat to animate a workshop devoted to slavery and discrimination. The reflection is articulated around simple questionings adapted to an audience of young children.

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"How does the Brotherhood Boat float?"
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Human rights are invited to Nantes
During the third International forum of human rights in Nantes, on June 30th to July 3rd, 2008, under the sponsorship of Mongrel in Nantes, the Brotherhood Boat presented a conference entitled "Concrete Memory of the Slave Trade and Construction of a Multicultural and Interdependent Future". In particular done with the collaboration of both Jose Hipólito dos Santos, socio-economist and specialist in the development of Portugal, consulting with UNO, FAO and UNESCO and founder of the SEIES association (Social Engineering Society of Studies and Intervention) in Lisbon, and Jean-Pierre Halter, sociologist, in charge of studies within the Unit of research, the studies and the formation with the INJEP (National Institute of Youth and Popular Education).

Jean-Pierre Halter (left), regulator, and Jose Hipólito dos Santos (speaking).

In the foreground, some speakers among an attentive audience.

20 Minutes, July 2, 2008

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Stopover in Brest 2008
At the time of the 2008 Brest demonstration, the Brotherhood Boat presented its project to a broad panel of visitors of many ages. Many testimonies of support were materialized by multiple gifts.

Dieudonné Boutrin (left) and Daniel Proust, the people in charge of the project, in front of the Brotherhood Boat stand.

An illustration of the Brotherhood Boat by Thomas (Brest), 8 years.

From Brest to Douarnenez: (photos still to come)

Welcome with Douarnenez: (photos still to come)

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New horizons on the other side of the Atlantic

The University of Columbia New York, via its vice-senior, Robert Fullilove, invited the Brotherhood Boat to communicate the support and the outcomes of his project within the framework of the History of the Slave Trade Conference.

In the center, Robert Fullilove, vice-senior of the University, godfather and partner of the project in the name of Columbia University.