Face the Truth Town Hall

The Racial Profiling: Face the Truth campaign has been working to build alliances among directly affected communities, coordinate advocacy efforts and field activities, and educate and mobilize broad support for legislative and policy reforms.

More than 100 national and local organizations as well as individuals have signed on to the Face the Truth Campaign, endorsing its goals, objectives, and principles.  Across the country this summer, local and national organizations worked together with communities to produce a series of hearings on racial, ethnic, and religious profiling, where those who have experienced profiling could tell their stories.

Now, as we all prepare for a September week of actions rooted in the overarching goal of passing legislation and other measures aimed at bringing an end to racial profiling, consider hosting a town hall meeting.  A town hall meeting based in, and sponsored by, communities affected by profiling can be a helpful tool to educate communities, elected officials and the public, build or strengthen ties with coalition partners, and speak truth to power on campaign and local recommendations, advancing the goal to eventually end racial profiling.

The Face the Truth campaign has created a Town Hall Toolkit for interested campaign members.  It includes a guide to hosting a Face the Truth Town Hall on racial profiling, a checklist of helpful hints to outreach, plan and conduct the town hall, as well as the substantive fact sheets and issue briefs highlighting and explaining some of the campaign’s key asks.  We intend for these documents to assist you in creating an effective event whether you are new to Town Hall hosting or have done it dozens of times before.

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