Bloomington

Bay Area: KQED Broadcasts Class Actions, March 19 at 7:30

Not In Our Town: Class Actions

Watch the opening scenes to Class Actions by clicking on the image above.    


Class Actions Video Extra—Bloomington United: Ready to Respond to Hate

"Part of the motivation of these attacks is to isolate those who they are attacking. To make the victims feel victimized.


Bloomington, Indiana: United and Ready to Respond to Hate

"Bloomington, Indiana: United and Ready to Respond to Hate" is part of the Not In Our Town program, Class Actions, that premieres nationwide on PBS stations in February 2012. 
 
When a string of anti-Semitic acts rocked the college town of Bloomington, Ind.

Not In Our Town: Class Actions

Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, we shipped off our next film, Not In Our Town: Class Actions to PBS. Not In Our Town: Class Actions

Not in Our Town: Class Actions features three stories of students and their communities standing together to stop hate and bullying. Premieres on PBS stations in 2012. 


Bloomington focuses on diversity and tolerance (Video: Indiana Public Media)

In late November and early December, the city of Bloomington, Ind. stood behind the Jewish community after several acts of anti-Semitic vandalism. Rocks were thrown into the windows of the Chabad and Hillel houses at Indiana University. A glass case listing Jewish Studies faculty was broken. Swastikas were discovered in a student dorm. Then, just days before Hanukkah, Hebrew texts from the university and county libraries were taken to men’s bathrooms and urinated on. Bloomington—a college town—received national attention. 


Tomorrow's Leaders in the Fight Against Hate

Lessons for Engaging Diverse Youth in Hate Crime Prevention

By Willie Halbert, NIOT Bloomington-Normal Member

Institutionalizing NIOT

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.