\nhttps:\/\/guyaneseonline.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/november-gca-newsletter-_final.pdf<\/a>, page 15.
\nby Tangerine Clarke
\nUsing words of solace to comfort relatives of the Jonestown mass suicide that occurred on November 18, thirty-three years ago, [Guyanese] Ambassador Bayney Karran spoke of the trauma and emotional suffering and stigmatism that innocent victims and their families endured\u2026 The message by Karran that honored the former members of the People\u2019s Temple during a memorial dedication service in Oakland California on May 9, 2011, spoke of the great anguish and the loss of so many lives, and the feelings of sympathy for the victims that had swept across the nation of Guyana on that very sad day.<\/p>\n
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Jonestown Memorial Plaques Laid in California Cemetery<\/strong> A Memorial Divides Survivors<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 29, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown memorial unveiled after 32 years<\/strong> Nearly 200 people gather at Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery to dedicate Jonestown memorial<\/strong> Jonestown memorial at Oakland cemetery provokes catharsis, closure and controversy<\/strong> Jonestown memorial dedicated in East Oakland<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 27, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown memorial dedication allowed to proceed<\/strong> Local Jonestown Survivor Speaks Out About Controversial\u00a0Memorial<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 26, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown Memorial Will Be Unveiled at Evergreen Cemetery Sunday<\/strong> Judge: Jonestown Memorial Dedication Can Go Ahead<\/strong> CA judge OKs continued use of Jonestown memorial<\/strong> Judge Refuses To Enter Jonestown Memorial Controversy<\/strong> Jim Jones’ Name Stays on Memorial<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 25, 2011<\/p>\n Judge Hears Testimony In Legal Battle Over Jonestown Memorial<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 15, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown Massacre memorial gripped by controversy<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 13, 2011<\/p>\n Lawsuit targets Jonestown cult leader’s name on Oakland massacre memorial<\/strong> Jones’s Name on Jonestown Memorial — For Now<\/strong> Jonestown memorial can go forward, judge rules<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 12, 2011<\/p>\n Judge Denies Bid to Stop Jonestown Memorial<\/strong> Dispute Over Jonestown Memorial In Oakland Spills Into\u00a0Court<\/strong> Court Hearing: Should Leader’s Name Appear on Jonestown Memorial?<\/strong> Outrage at Jonestown Massacre Monument<\/strong> Guyana Tribute Foundation and Founder File Complaint In CA Superior Court Against Evergreen Cemetery Assoc., et al<\/strong> <\/p>\n May 10, 2011<\/p>\n Peoples Temple memorial includes Jim Jones’ name<\/strong> <\/p>\n April 14, 2011<\/p>\n Should Jim Jones be on Jonestown memorial?<\/strong> <\/p>\n March 5, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown memorial – and donations – hard to track<\/strong> <\/p>\n March 4, 2011<\/p>\n Councilman Bogue Balks at Jonestown Monument<\/strong> Group Seeks to Protect Legacy of Victims of the Jonestown Massacre<\/strong> <\/p>\n March 1, 2011<\/p>\n Rep. Jackie Speier against Jim Jones\u2019 name on memorial<\/strong> Should Jonestown memorial include Jim Jones?<\/strong> <\/p>\n February 28, 2011<\/p>\n Son Of Rev. Jim Jones, Descendant Of Jonestown Massacre Victims Battle Over Monument <\/strong> Jonestown memorial debate stirs anger<\/strong> Controversy Snarls Plan For New Jonestown Memorial<\/strong> Jonestown Massacre Monument Still In Debate<\/strong> Feud Over Jonestown Memorial<\/strong> Families, cemetery clash over Jonestown memorial<\/strong> <\/p>\n February 24, 2011<\/p>\n Jonestown massacre memorial still generating controversy<\/strong> <\/p>\n November 19, 2010<\/p>\n Thirty-two years later, Jonestown controversy still simmers in Oakland<\/strong> Peoples Temple observance: Jonestown memorial rift<\/strong> New Jonestown memorial going forward<\/strong>![\"02-05_thumb\"](\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/02-05_thumb1-300x180.jpg\")
<\/a>June 2, 2011<\/p>\n
\nby Vicki Perry, Associated Content
\nMany healing tears were shed Sunday at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, Calif. Approximately 100 people stood along the hilltop where a mass grave marks the final resting place of over 400 people who died Nov. 18, 1978.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/03\/us\/03bcjonestown.html<\/a>
\nby Shoshana Walter, The Bay Citizen<\/em>
\nAt a recent dedication ceremony for a Peoples Temple memorial in Oakland, Kathy Barbour, a survivor of the 1978 massacre, knelt on the lawn of Evergreen Cemetery to look at photos of the victims of Jonestown. As nearly 200 people milled around her, Ms. Barbour, a quiet woman with white hair, peered nervously toward the path leading to the cemetery gates. \u201cI was expecting the gauntlet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110530100931\/http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/05\/29\/BAQQ1JN5IS.DTL<\/a> and https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110602131743\/http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2011-05-30\/bay-area\/29598516_1_jonestown-tragedy-jonestown-memorial-jonestown-victims<\/a>
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nIt took 32 years and a last-minute court ruling, but on Sunday hundreds of Jonestown families could finally say goodbye.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110603062035\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/05\/29\/nearly-200-gather-dedicate-jonestown-memorial\/<\/a>
\nby Associated Press
\nNearly 200 people gathered at Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery on Sunday to dedicate a newly completed memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, organizers said.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/oaklandnorth.net\/2011\/05\/30\/jonestown-memorial-at-oakland-cemetery-provokes-catharsis-closure-and-controversy\/<\/a>
\nby Micki Boden, Oakland North<\/em>
\nOn Sunday at Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery, dozens of people gathered in the sunshine to remember Jonestown at the unveiling of a memorial for those who died in the Peoples Temple mass suicide in 1978. Bring up Jonestown to people who read and watched the news in 1978, and you may hear a story of disgust, anger and shock. But ask the people who were there for this weekend\u2019s service, and you will hear about love, dedication, agony and finally\u2014after 32 years\u2014closure.<\/p>\n
\nKGO-TV<\/em>
\nPain and anguish resurfaced Sunday, more than 30 years after the Jonestown massacre. On Sunday, family members dedicated a memorial to those who died in Guyana, including the infamous church leader who led them to their deaths, Jim Jones.<\/p>\n
\nby Carolyn Jones and Matthai Kuruvila, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nDedication of a Jonestown memorial, which includes the name of Jim Jones among the victims, can proceed Sunday despite a last-ditch effort from a rival survivors’ group to stop it, a judge ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2011\/05\/27\/local-jonestown-survivor-speaks-out-about-controversial-memorial\/<\/a>
\nby Laura Cole, CBS Sacramento<\/em>
\nA controversial memorial for the massacre at Jonestown will include the name of mass murderer Jim Jones, and now one local Jonestown survivor is speaking out about it. Few can share the stories of Jonestown, but Thom Bogue can. He is a survivor who became a small business owner and a Dixon city councilmember.<\/p>\n
\nby Helene Goupil, KRON<\/em>
\nA judge has denied a bid for an injunction that would have blocked the unveiling ceremony of a memorial for the 918 victims of the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978.<\/p>\n
\nby Shosana Walter, The Bay Citizen<\/em>
\nAn Oakland judge decided Thursday to allow a controversial memorial for victims of the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana to be formally unveiled Sunday, despite cries of protest from survivors who say the memorial should not exist.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/ca-judge-oks-continued-use-of-jonestown-memorial\/article_c2b44feb-be5e-5a0d-a874-bc0bd44003b6.html<\/a>
\nby Robin Hindery, The Associated Press
\nA Northern California judge has denied a motion seeking to block further use of a newly completed memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/28037941\/detail.html<\/i> no longer active
\nA judge Thursday denied a bid for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the formal unveiling of a memorial at an Oakland cemetery that commemorates the 918 victims of the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Jim-Jones-Name-Stay-on-Memorial-122679864.html<\/a>
\nBy Lori Preuitt, NBC Bay Area<\/em>
\nThis weekend a long awaited memorial to the people who were killed in the infamous Jonestown massacre in 1978 will be unveiled.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/28023247\/detail.html<\/i> no longer active
\nA judge is hearing testimony and arguments Wednesday in a bitter legal battle over a controversial memorial at an Oakland cemetery to commemorate more than 900 people who died in the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/8514881\/Jonestown-Massacre-memorial-gripped-by-controversy.html<\/a>
\nby Nick Allen, Daily Telegraph<\/em>
\nAttempts to commemorate the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, when more than 900 members of a religious cult committed mass suicide are mired in controversy after its founder’s name was etched on the memorial.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/lawsuit-targets-jonestown-cult-leaders-name-on-oakland-massacre-memorial\/article_11cf7209-6f8f-5709-927f-2a46a7d94356.html<\/a>
\nby Dan Schreiber, San Francisco Examiner<\/em>
\nOf the 918 names listed on a memorial for the victims of the Jonestown Massacre, one stands out: \u201cJames Warren Jones,\u201d the cult leader who ordered the killing of a congressman and a news crew at his Guyana compound in 1978, then instructed his entire following to swallow a fatal dose of a cyanide-laced drink.
\nHis name appears on one of the four stones recently installed at Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery, where the bodies of more than 400 unidentified victims are buried in a mass grave.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Jim-Joness-Name-on-Jonestown-Memorial—-For-Now-121792944.html<\/a>
\nby Chris Roberts, NBC<\/em>
\nIn the infamous Jonestown massacre in 1978<\/a>, 918 people died, including Congressman Leo J Ryan, 305 children, and the Rev. Jim Jones, the founder of the People’s Temple and the architect of one of the largest mass suicides in recorded history. But was Jones a victim? And should Jones’s name be on an Oakland memorial dedicated to the victims’ memories? For now, yes, an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday, blocking temporarily the effort of a woman who lost 27 family members to the poisoned Kool-Aid to remove Jones’s name from the monument.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110520210407\/http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/05\/12\/BAER1JFM1N.DTL<\/a>
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nCemetery crews can finish installing a Jonestown memorial despite emotional pleas from a rival survivors’ group that the memorial not include the name of Jim Jones, a judge ruled late Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sanleandro.patch.com\/articles\/judge-denies-big-to-stop-jonestown-memorial<\/a>
\nBay City News<\/em>
\nA judge today denied a bid for a temporary restraining order that\u00a0would have halted further work on a memorial at an Oakland cemetery to\u00a0commemorate the 918 victims of the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana in\u00a01978.
\nHowever, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert McGuiness said\u00a0he will have another hearing on the legal dispute over the memorial on May\u00a025, four days before a dedication ceremony is to be held at the Evergreen\u00a0Cemetery at 6450 Camden Ave.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2011\/05\/12\/dispute-over-jonestown-memorial-in-oakland-spills-into-court\/<\/a>
\nOAKLAND (CBS \/ AP) \u2014 A woman who lost 27 relatives in the 1978 Jonestown tragedy is waging a legal battle against an East Bay cemetery over a recently completed memorial to the more than 900 victims that includes the name of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sanleandro.patch.com\/articles\/court-hearing-should-leaders-name-appear-on-jonestown-memorial<\/a>
\nBay City News<\/em>
\nA hearing today in Alameda County Superior Court will discuss a controversial memorial to the 918 victims of the 1978 massacre at Jonestown in Guyana, including Rev. Jim Jones.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2011\/05\/12\/36526.htm<\/em> no longer active
\nBy Iulia Filip, Courthouse News<\/em>
\nA woman who lost 27 family members in the 1978 Jonestown Massacre has sued an Oakland cemetery association and its top officers, claiming that after she spent 18 years raising money to build a monument to the victims, the cemetery pulled a switch and decided to erect a different monument, based on a design from Jones’ People’s Church, which “proposes to include the name of Jim Jones himself as a victim of the Jonestown Massacre-Suicides.”<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/www.blacknews.com\/news\/guyana_tribute_foundation_sues_evergreen_cemetery101.shtml<\/em> no longer active
\nToday, families represented by the Guyana Tribute Foundation, a non-profit corporation, and its founder Jynona Norwood (Plaintiffs) announced that on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 they filed a complaint in Superior Court of CA (Alameda County) against Evergreen Cemetery Association, Evergreen Cemetery president Buck Kamphausen, and the cemetery’s executive director Ron Haulman (defendants).<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191207140453\/https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Peoples-Temple-memorial-includes-Jim-Jones-name-2372007.php<\/a>
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nJonestown finally has a memorial, more than three decades after the mass suicide in Guyana claimed 918 lives and seared the Bay Area with grief and disbelief. Workers at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland installed the final granite marker Monday of a $45,000 memorial to those who died Nov. 18, 1978, at the Rev. Jim Jones’ jungle compound and on a nearby airstrip.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/religionnews.com\/2011\/04\/14\/was-jim-jones-a-victim-of-jonestown-or-the-cause\/<\/a>
\nby Tracy Gordon, Religion News Service<\/em>
\nWhen the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 followers to commit mass suicide at his compound in the jungles of Guyana in 1978, was he, too, a victim of the massacre — or simply its cause? That seemingly philosophical question has recently become concrete.<\/p>\n
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nSusan Ashby’s 82-year-old aunt, who lost both her children at Jonestown, has one wish in her waning days: to see their names on a permanent memorial honoring victims of the 1978 massacre.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/dixon.patch.com\/articles\/councilman-bogue-balks-at-jonestown-monument<\/a>
\nby Carlos Villatoro, Dixon Patch<\/em>
\nA monument is being planned for a cemetery in Oakland that will honor the 400 or more individuals buried at the cemetery who committed suicide on the orders of People’s Temple leader Rev. Jim Jones. Dixon City Councilman Thom Bogue wants no part of it.<\/p>\n
\nby Boyce Watkins, Black Voices<\/em>
\nDr. Jynona Norwood is on a lifelong mission. The mission is one that is written in the blood and spirit of her own relatives, many of whom died in the infamous Jonestown Massacre 32 years ago.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/rep-jackie-speier-against-jim-jones-name-on-memorial\/article_850a42c0-0573-5603-9707-a07fc8b8e800.html<\/a>
\nby Mike Aldax, San Francisco Examiner<\/em>
\nDemocratic Rep. Jackie Speier, whose life was forever altered by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, told The San Francisco Examiner on Monday she is opposed to plans to include Jim Jones\u2019 name on a memorial to the victims.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Should-Jonestown-memorial-include-Jim-Jones-2472696.php<\/a>
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nThe seemingly unending tragedy of Jonestown intensified Monday when a group of victims’ families ramped up their fight to stop a planned memorial that would include Jim Jones’ name among the massacre victims.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sfappeal.com\/news\/2011\/02\/son-of-rev-jim-jones-descendant-of-jonestown-massacre-victims-battle-over-monument.php<\/a>
\nThe San Francisco Appeal<\/em>
\nControversy over a proposed memorial for the victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre came to a head Monday at the Oakland cemetery where more than 400 of the People’s Temple suicide cult followers are buried.<\/p>\n
\nby Mike Aldax, San Francisco Examiner<\/em>
\nA battle has erupted on how to memorialize the more than 900 people who died in the mass suicide.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/news\/controversy-snarls-plan-for-new-jonestown-memorial\/nKzwD\/<\/i> no longer active
\nFoxReno.com\u00a0–
\nOAKLAND, Calif. — It’s been over 30-years since the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, but a planned victim’s memorial has attracted controversy. A group of local clergy members, activists and survivors support a plan to build a memorial wall in Oakland’s Evergreen Cemetery.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Jonestown-Massacre-Monument-Takes-a-Twist-117120843.html<\/a>
\nBy Mathew Luschek, NBC Bay Area<\/em>\u00a0–
\nA memorial to remember victims of the Jonestown massacre is in debate, reports the Oakland Tribune. The major controversy is whether or not to include the name of Jim Jones, who led hundreds to their ultimate death in 1978.<\/p>\n
\nby Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix<\/em>
\nBy any measure, the Jonestown Massacre is one of the most tragic episodes in US history. Thirty-two years after the murder of more than 900 people in Guyana\u2014followers of the Rev. Jim Jones forced to drink poison\u2014the nightmare refuses to fade away.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/east_bay&id=7986770<\/em> no longer active
\nby Vic Lee, KGO-TV<\/em>
\nA fight is brewing between families of victims from the People’s Temple massacre more than three decades ago and an Oakland cemetery. The battle is over plans for a memorial.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/jonestown-massacre-memorial-still-generating-controversy\/article_8693a6df-3020-5936-a038-77d1c934ff43.html<\/a>
\nby Brent Begin, SF Examiner<\/em>
\nA host of local reverends, activists and survivors will hold a press conference Monday to support a memorial wall in Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery. The memorial has hit several snags, including opposition from Jones\u2019 son, who wants Jones\u2019 name on the memorial wall.<\/p>\n
\nLink at http:\/\/510pen.org\/en\/aggregator\/sources\/2?page=8<\/i> no longer active
\nTwo competing groups vied for the right to host a memorial service for the victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre at Oakland\u2019s Evergreen Cemetery yesterday, November 18, 2010, the thirty-second anniversary of the infamous event.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-11-19\/news\/24839821_1_jynona-norwood-jonestown-memorial-ceremony<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/11\/19\/MNET1GEEDD.DTL<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.religionnewsblog.com\/25411\/peoples-temple-observance-jonestown-memorial-rift<\/a>
\nby Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2010\/11\/19\/apnewsbreak_new_jonestown_memorial_going_forward\/<\/a>
\nby Tim Reiterman, Associated Press<\/p>\n