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Palo Alto, CA students use video to talk about discrimination.
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How one teacher handles hearing the saying in her class
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Gunn High School students challenge the use of the derogatory saying.
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Theater director stages play to revisit tragic murder and its lessons.
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Inspiring voices from the Not In Our Town Movement and why they care
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Gunn High School students transcend the hurt of stereotypes.
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Students and teachers creating new ways to make their schools safe for everyone.
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Palo Alto High School students use art to confront intolerance.
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Each year, Facing History teacher Jane Wooster asks the students in her classes to take on a "social action" project of their own choosing. This year, several of the students have chosen to conduct a lunch-time demonstration to draw attention to the use of the word "illegal" to describe undocumented immigrants, and start a school-wide conversation about the way immigrants are perceived in their community.
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Thao, executive director of National Hmong American Farmers, immigrated to Fresno, CA with his family at age 8, after Laotian citizens were granted asylum in the US after the Vietnam war. Many of the first Hmong farmers suffered from discrimination, so Thao left his "cushy" job at the city of Fresno to ORGANIZE his community in a fight against injustice.
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Inspiring voices from the Not In Our Town Movement and why they care
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San Francisco students find a creative response to hate.
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Youth reactions to the violent attack of a California student
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Newark, CA community members dress as angels to counter hate group.
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After Ku Klux Klan flyers blanket an Indiana University campus neighborhood, Rabbi Sue Silberberg leads Bloomington United as they plan a community response. This is a DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions. For more information on the film, visit niot.org/ClassActions
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Kiki Vo is an extraORDINARY Sacramento student who, through her perserverence, strong character, and ability to Forgive, has been able to celebrate life, finding happiness and success. Ten years ago, Kiki and her sisters were badly burned in a house fire in their native Vietnam that took the life of their mother. Raised by her father after securing treatment in the United States, Kiki and her sisters edured taunts and bullying and were separated when their father died of lung cancer a few years later. They have since been reunited.
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Youth reactions to the violent attack of a California student