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The Human Rights Gathering will be held on April 30th, May 1-2, 1999 at the Centro Cultural, 1014-19th Street, Moorhead, Minnesota. The gathering is the first in Moorhead that will bring together human rights advocates and students from around the Northern Plains region and tri-state area.

This tri-state gathering is expected to attract about 100 or more people from various groups, organizations and churches throughout the area.

Workshop presentations will be from Racism in High School and College sports and the Mascot issues,historical racism and how this affects tribal peoples from around the area, Encounter's of racism in area businesses and how this affects students who live in the community.

A area Human Rights Watch group will be developed thru this gathering and will have the responsibility of documenting human or civil rights violations in the area.

The Human Rights Watch group will work with local Human Rights authorities and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission with the documented complaints of possible violations.

The gathering is open to the public and will cost $20 and for students with ID $10, the cost will cover two meals, information and speakers. There will be seven workshops in the two and half days of the gathering with plenty of information to share. Speakers will come from first nations communities from throughout the tri-state area with local issues as part of the gathering.