We have been using lesson time to educate the pupils about the crimes that have taken place against ethnic minorities in both the UK and the US.
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I have joined this group because Hatred is Not acceptable in my life. I am a 6o year old, proud Grandmother to my now 6 year old Granddaughter. I have had custody of her since she was 15 months old. The hardest part for me in her growing up is Knowing she will eventually be confronted by hate in one form or another. I want her to learn to respond with Love. I want her to fight with Love. I want her to be the human embodiment of Love. I want her to know a part of life is ~be her brother's keeper~. We are a many colored race: every color comes into play in order to create the most perfect of God's gifts........a huge rainbow. It matters not if it is in the sky or on the ground; it is perfect.
The Oakdale-Bohemia Interfaith Anti-Bias Task Force has been in existence since 1996. We have hosted many programs in support of tolerance over the years for members of our communities. As of March 2011, the member houses of worship include B'Nai Israel Temple (Oakdale, NY), St. John Nepomucene R.C. Church (Bohemia, NY), and the Isalmic Association of Long Island (Selden, NY).
Curry For Peace strives to end racially, religiously, and ethnically based violence by bringing those of different backgrounds together literally at the table for a shared meal, in the belief that those who break bread together may be able to come to better understanding of each other.
Curry For Peace is a nonviolent protest movement against ethnic, religious, and racial violence, specifically targeting those people whose cultures are associated with curry-style foods. The movement was created in March of 2010, in reaction to Stonebridge Apartments in Texas denying leases to "curry people", meaning (according to the property manager) anyone who looks Middle Eastern or Asian, or dresses in styles traditionally associated with Muslims, and who cooks with curry or similar spices. Curry For Peace is now international, with people participating in the United States, Singapore, Denmark, the UK, and Germany, and is allied with Australia's Vindaloos Against Violence, which partly inspired our movement. We meet on the second Friday of each month, preferably at a public place such as a curry-themed restaurant, to show solidarity among fellow lovers of spicy food, and to learn about each others' cultures, religions, and national histories, because fear is often born of ignorance.
The Spellbound Development Company will present a reading of a new play THE IDEALIST by Jennifer Strome, directed by Lee Sankowich, at TheTimesCenter (242 West 41st Street) Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 at 7PM. The reading will benefit the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, whose mission supports the education against intolerance.
Bernard Elias, the only living relative of Anne Frank, and the President of the Anne Frank Foundation, has approved her portrayal of Otto Frank in The Idealist. It is the first dramatic portrayal of Otto Frank outside of the story of The Diary of Anne Frank.
THE IDEALIST divulges the infamous, behind-the-scenes saga of author Meyer Levin (1905-1981), in a fact-based account of his role as the original dramatist of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Strome’s play was written under the mentorship of legendary filmmaker David Brown, who produced the original film adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” for 20th Century Fox in 1958.
Strome spent nearly ten years working directly with Levin’s wife, his 3 sons, Bernard Elias, and with the few remaining witnesses to this 60 year-old controversy.
My band the Comets wrote a song, to ask for equal rights, placed in the point of view of a gay student, who gets bullied, but a nice group of people come to his defense. The other song would be one to tell the WBC that they need to quit. But that is in the works still. PEACE&LOVE
Henrico High School, received funding from Partners in the Arts’ for Understand Who You Are, which builds on Henrico Education Foundation’s “Teaching Tolerance and Empowerment across the Curriculum” initiative. History classes will focus on the Holocaust, World War II and totalitarianism, with memoirs and historical fiction about these subjects taught in English classes. The project will culminate in a production of The Diary of Anne Frank, with theatre professionals working with students to train them in theatre arts.
The program also encourages collaboration between teachers and departments.
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Does Reading the Label Really Help? A workshop on diversity
Fear, media, peer pressure and poor role models have helped to create a climate where name-calling, one-up-mansship, and a "what's-in-it-for-me?" mentality has flourished and thrived. The workshop shows us alternatives to destructive communication, and helps open the door to reconciliation. This workshop has helped youth groups, educators, women's groups, school systems. federal government employees and many others learn that we really can "all just get along." The workshop stresses "Personal Responsibility" and small steps as the beginning of what can be a very cathartic process. As we examine how "Ism's" (racism, sexism, ageism...) cause us to live in a fractured world, the workshop helps us see more clearly how we can make a difference... ONE PERSON AT A TIME...starting with ourselves. Very often, we label others and are labeled ourselves, and this labeling only helps to separate us and highlight our need for a common bond. If the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001 taught us anything, it is that when we seek to exclude and distrust each other, and allow walls to be built between us, it can have disastrous effects. This workshop attempts to teach us how to move beyond the barriers that separate us, and to begin to see and experience each other, without labels and stereotypes and preconceived notions.
Florida has become the third state to treat attacks against the homeless as a hate crime, when Gov. Crist quietly signed legislation to that effect in early May. Florida leads the nation in number of attacks on the homeless. The Broward County Sheriff's Office was instrumental in providing testimony that led to the new legislation.