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Turning Hate into Opportunity for Community Building
What can a community do when a hate group comes to town and targets a wide variety of organizations, each of which have different ideas of how to respond -- or not?
That's what happened in Charleston and Wheeling, West Virginia in March 2010. The Westboro Baptist Church hate group announced it would picket Jewish and Catholic institutions, a local university, and, as a last-minute addition designed for maximum emotional anguish, the Montcoal Mine, where a dozen miners had just lost their lives.
How could the community respond, particularly…
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When Hate Comes to Your Town
Communities confronted by hate group activity reflect on challenges and successful strategies in responding to groups from the Aryan Nations to the National Socialist MovementSupporting Victims of Hate
Survivors and supporters of victims of hate speak out about their stories and ways to help victims feel less alonePrevention and Community Engagement
The Not In Our Town network shares strategies for hate crime prevention and building safer, more inclusive communitiesLaw Enforcement in the Fight Against Hate
Law enforcement and Not In Our Town leaders offer insights on hate crime and the law, the importance of working together, and new challenges in the fight against hate.Not In Our School and Youth Organizing
Educators, youth and community members share lessons in teaching tolerance and acceptance
An Advocate for Victims and Survivors of Violence Reflects on the Process of Recovery
By Tina D’Elia
When Gwen Araujo was tragically killed in an anti-transgender hate crime murder, I was working as the director of Hate Violence Survivor Program with Community United Against Violence (CUAV). Immediately following the devastating loss, in this role I connected with community groups like Community United Against Violence (CUAV). Immediately following the devastating loss, in this...
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Q & A with Oscar Garcia, San Diego Deputy District Attorney, Hate Crimes Unit
Editor’s Note: Oscar Garcia has been a prosecutor for 24 years, and for the last three years, he’s specialized in hate crime cases in San Diego County. His team prosecutes on average 15 to 20 cases every year. NIOT.org spoke with Garcia about California’s hate crime law, the challenges in doing this work, and the role law enforcement can play in helping improve underreporting of hate...
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The message of NIOT is Reaching the Classrooms and Schools of Bloomington-Normal, IL By Marc Miller, NIOT Bloomington-Normal Member
It’s parent night at at the neighborhood elementary school. Children, their parents in tow, rush from room to room, excited to show off their drawings and projects. Parents, anxious to know more about their children’s progress, take in the posters and decorations as they move from class to class. But for some, a simple table in the corridor...
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Lessons From Prince William County, VA
Q & A with Illana Naylor, founding member of Unity in the Community in Prince William County, Virginia
Editor’s Note: In response to a rash of hate crimes in her community, Illana Nayor reached out to her church, other faith communities and concerned citizens to form Unity in the Community in 1995. The group, based in Prince William County, VA, has remained active for nearly 15 years, and a key to the group’s success has been...
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How Twin Cities in Illinois Adopted Not In Our Town
By Mike Matejka, Bloomington-Normal Not In Our Town
After Billings, Montana, perhaps no other community has the Not In Our Town history that the twin cities of Bloomington and Normal, Illinois have.
Located half-way between Chicago and St. Louis in the fertile corn belt, Bloomington-Normal is a prosperous community, anchored by the national headquarters of State Farm Insurance and two major universities. It enjoys the highest per capita...
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A Rabbi Reflects on the Power of Faith Communities in the Fight Against Hate
By Rabbi Brad L. Bloom M.S. W., D.D.
Editor’s Note: Rabbi Brad Bloom was the Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel in Sacramento, California, when in 1999 arsonists attacked the synagogue, as well as two other area synagogues. The fires destroyed thousands of books and historic Holocaust documents, and B'nai Israel, with nearly $1 million in damages, suffered the most serious blow. Investigators found anti-...
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A Student Reflects On a Peer's Murder and His Community's Response
By Jeff Bryant
I was a senior in high school and had just moved to Newark, California, when the community was rocked by an act so hateful that it captured national attention. Gwen Araujo, a local transgender teen, was tragically killed by a group of young men. Before her body was discovered in the Sierra Mountains in a shallow grave, Gwen had been beaten and strangled to death.
At the same time I learned of her death, I...
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