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  • Mosaic: No One Walks Alone
    Art students at Patchogue-Medford High School wanted to do something ...
  • Joselo Lucero Visits Newcomers High School
    The students of Newcomers High, a school for newly arrived immigrants, reached out to Joselo Lucero with letters of sympathy when his brother Marcelo was killed in 2008. Two years later, Joselo visits the school to speak to the students about what he learned from the loss of his brother, his experiences as an immigrant, and the difficult process of forgiveness.
  • Students at Jewish High School Talk About Acceptance
    How does Not In Our Town inspire students to talk about inclusion and take positive action against hate and intolerance? At the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) leaders invited Not In Our Town Executive Director Jonathan Bernstein to present films and engage in conversation about working together to create safe schools and communities.
  • Staging a Response to Hate
    After transgender teen Gwen Araujo is killed by local youth in the Silicon Valley suburb of Newark, the town's residents and civic leaders must acknowledge and deal with this brutal and preventable crime. Through their local high school production of The Laramie Project, the students and Newark residents begin to see parallels in their own community. This is an excerpt of Not In Our Town Northern California: When Hate Happens Here.
  • What Do You Say? What's in a Name?
    How do the names people call you affect the way you see yourself?
  • Angels Turn their Backs on Hate
    Newark, CA community members dress as angels to counter hate group.
  • Youth Leaders Share Strategies for Standing Up to Hate
    Students shine at national Not In Our Town gathering.
  • Palo Alto High Students Respond to Larry King Shooting
    Youth reactions to the violent attack of a California student
  • Youth Lead the Fight Against Hate in Olympia, WA
    Olympia students speak out when Neo-Nazis organize in their town.
  • Lowell High Students Dance Away Hate Group
    San Francisco students find a creative response to hate.
  • Angels Turn their Backs on Hate
    Newark, CA community members dress as angels to counter hate group.
  • From Dialogue to Action: Bloomington Unity in the Community Responds to KKK Flyers
    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
  • Students Take On Cyberbullying (3 min)
    When Facing History teachers Jamie Lott and Mary Sok asked their World Cultures class about bullying at their school, the class described the hallways as safe. But after listening to a presentation given by hate crimes task force officer Dave D'Amico, they started a discussion about the widespread problem of online bullying, and how they as a class could take the first steps toward preventing it.
  • Slater Jewell-Kemker - EXPRESS
    Slater Jewell-Kemker is a 17 year old filmmaker and reporter who celebrates the best of humanity, empowering young people to change the world with media and technology.
  • Extraordinary Upstander: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Students Teach Students to Stand Up to Bullying
    Shaw High School students use role play to discourage bullying.
  • What Do You Say? What's in a Name?
    How do the names people call you affect the way you see yourself?
  • Lauri Massari: How We Started Not In Our School
    Learn how one middle school counselor created an anti-bullying program at her school and spread it to the entire community. 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
  • Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School (3 min)
    At Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, students are mapping their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," including the cafeteria, media lab, and locker rooms, students created a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and opened the conversation about how to create a safer school.
  • Kiki Vo - FORGIVE
    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.