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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.
  • 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
  • No Human Being Was Born Illegal (2 min)
    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.
  • Eliza Riley - ADVOCATE
    At the anniversary of the American Disabilities Act, a group of disability rights advocates march in solidarity to assert their rights as Americans and human beings. Many are here because of the work of Eliza Riley, a disability rights advocate in Silicon Valley, who has developed a youth leadership program for people with disabilities.
  • Extraordinary Upstander: Royal Chicano Air Force
  • Students Shattering Stereotypes
    Rockford, IL middle school students use skits to challenge stereotypes.
  • New Immigrants Share Their Stories
    The students of Newcomers High School in Long Island City, which specializes in teaching recent immigrants, and those of St. Luke's, a private middle school in Manhattan, have come together to dialogue about difference and combat bias. The Building Bridges project was created through a collaboration between Newcomers teacher Julie Mann, and St. Luke's teacher Kim Allen, who met ten years ago through a Facing History workshop. Ms. Mann's class of English-learners exchanged letters with their St.Luke's "buddies", and in the first of several meet-ups this year, received help editing their personal immigration stories. In return, St.Luke's students are preparing research papers on immigration informed by the interviews they conducted with their Newcomers buddies.
  • One Mississippi: Creating Dialogue On Campus
    Leaders of One Mississippi, a student group devoted to bridging racial and social barriers at the University of Mississippi, bring students together for a dialogue meeting about their hopes and fears for the organization. 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.
  • Extraordinary Upstander: Royal Chicano Air Force
  • No Human Being Was Born Illegal (2 min)
    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.
  • Eliza Riley - ADVOCATE
    At the anniversary of the American Disabilities Act, a group of disability rights advocates march in solidarity to assert their rights as Americans and human beings. Many are here because of the work of Eliza Riley, a disability rights advocate in Silicon Valley, who has developed a youth leadership program for people with disabilities.
  • Extraordinary Upstander: Jennifer Gaxiola
  • Students Shattering Stereotypes
    Rockford, IL middle school students use skits to challenge stereotypes.
  • One Mississippi: Creating Dialogue On Campus
    Leaders of One Mississippi, a student group devoted to bridging racial and social barriers at the University of Mississippi, bring students together for a dialogue meeting about their hopes and fears for the organization. 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 Share Their Thoughts on Bullying
    Students take time to reflect on how Not in Our School and Not in Our Town programs affected them. They discuss stereotyping, bullying, and their own experiences with intolerance.
  • Brian Cox - ORGANIZE
    As a former pro football player, Brian Cox understands the value of teamwork and community in achieving a goal. After retiring from the NFL, Cox came back to his native Los Angeles, witnessing the destruction that gang violence had wrought on his old neighborhood.