The goal of this activity is to illustrate the different experiences participants may have based on the color of their skin. It will help provoke thinking and dialogue about different experiences and perceptions. This activity can be emotional and uncomfortable, and should be used with groups that have already worked to developed trust and/or have done other activities that explore the impact of race.
This activity will help your group start thinking about how stereotypes affect how you think about each other and work together. This will give you an opportunity to explore how stereotypes affect you and others.
This five-session discussion guide helps people get involved in an important issue facing all of us: the well-being of our youngest children. The guide looks at how we are connected to the lives of children in our community and the “invisible” effects of racism and poverty. It also guides people in developing plans for action.
This activity will help groups gain an understanding of different ways change can happen, and in particular how Everyday Democracy's dialogue process differs from other ways of creating change in a community.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Action TeamsEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as you move forward to act on the ideas generated from the dialogues. It will help you think about how you can work together more equitably as a team during this phase of the process.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Facilitator Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
This activity will help your group start thinking about how stereotypes affect how you think about each other and work together. This will give you an opportunity to explore how stereotypes affect you and others.
This five-session discussion guide helps people get involved in an important issue facing all of us: the well-being of our youngest children. The guide looks at how we are connected to the lives of children in our community and the “invisible” effects of racism and poverty. It also guides people in developing plans for action.
This activity will help groups gain an understanding of different ways change can happen, and in particular how Everyday Democracy's dialogue process differs from other ways of creating change in a community.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Action TeamsEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as you move forward to act on the ideas generated from the dialogues. It will help you think about how you can work together more equitably as a team during this phase of the process.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Facilitator Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in FacilitationEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as dialogue facilitators. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
Use this worksheet to help you create messages that will reach key groups in your communications efforts. It will walk you through thinking about how you will contact those groups, what barriers you may face in reaching them, and how to overcome those barriers.
Meeting Agenda to Identify the Issue in Your CommunityEveryday Democracy
This discussion will help your group begin talking about a situation that is causing tension in our community or that presents a great opportunity. It will help you narrow down an issue that you should move forward on as a team.
This activity helps participants delve deeper in analyzing racism and start to learn how to use a structural racism lens. Many times, actions are focused on changing the personal beliefs without looking at the practices and procedures that contribute to the issue. Through this activity, participants will have the opportunity to break down the issue of racism at a structural level so that the group can come up with realistic action ideas for change.
Step Forward, Step Back Organizational Identity ActivityEveryday Democracy
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Planning and OrganizingEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as organizers. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to skin color and organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on skin color and/or organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how disadvantages and privileges have played out for us as individuals and we will see how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
As you approach a large community-change initiative, pay attention to racial dynamics. Consider the following examples. Talk about how you might prevent or correct these situations.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Planning and OrganizingEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as organizers. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
How to Develop Discussion Materials for Public DialogueEveryday Democracy
Good discussion materials help people explore a complex, public issue from a wide range of views, and find solutions that they can agree to act on and support. Discussion materials don’t have to provide all the answers; instead, they provide a framework and a starting place for a deep, fair discussion where every voice can be heard.
The step-by-step instructions provided here mirror the order that many discussion guides follow. They are designed to help the writing team move through a series of meetings and tasks to produce the discussion materials.
Our goal in a dialogue circle is to better understand the issue and each other. We will look at different viewpoints and encourage a wide range of perspectives; we don’t have to agree. How we talk to one another is as important as what we say. This chart will help you understand how the process of dialogue differs from debate.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in FacilitationEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as dialogue facilitators. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
Everyday Democracy’s Dialogue to Change process is an adaptable approach to community engagement that is grounded in years of experience and learning with communities throughout the U.S.
In our process, diverse groups of people meet over several weeks, and take part in activities that build trust, provide opportunities to share honestly, learn about an issue and work together on solutions and action.
This is a team building activity for an organizing coalition or action teams to use during their first or second meeting.
Teamwork begins with self-awareness and awareness of other people’s leadership styles. We can’t be good at everything so we need to bring together people with different styles and talents. This worksheet will help you and your team figure out how you can work collaboratively across leadership styles.
A Guide for Training Public Dialogue Facilitators is a comprehensive training curriculum. This guide includes advice for creating a training program for both youth and adults, with expanded facilitator training, plus suggestions for ongoing support and evaluation of dialogue facilitators.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in FacilitationEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as dialogue facilitators. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
Use this worksheet to help you create messages that will reach key groups in your communications efforts. It will walk you through thinking about how you will contact those groups, what barriers you may face in reaching them, and how to overcome those barriers.
Meeting Agenda to Identify the Issue in Your CommunityEveryday Democracy
This discussion will help your group begin talking about a situation that is causing tension in our community or that presents a great opportunity. It will help you narrow down an issue that you should move forward on as a team.
This activity helps participants delve deeper in analyzing racism and start to learn how to use a structural racism lens. Many times, actions are focused on changing the personal beliefs without looking at the practices and procedures that contribute to the issue. Through this activity, participants will have the opportunity to break down the issue of racism at a structural level so that the group can come up with realistic action ideas for change.
Step Forward, Step Back Organizational Identity ActivityEveryday Democracy
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Planning and OrganizingEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as organizers. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to skin color and organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on skin color and/or organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how disadvantages and privileges have played out for us as individuals and we will see how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
As you approach a large community-change initiative, pay attention to racial dynamics. Consider the following examples. Talk about how you might prevent or correct these situations.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Planning and OrganizingEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as organizers. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
How to Develop Discussion Materials for Public DialogueEveryday Democracy
Good discussion materials help people explore a complex, public issue from a wide range of views, and find solutions that they can agree to act on and support. Discussion materials don’t have to provide all the answers; instead, they provide a framework and a starting place for a deep, fair discussion where every voice can be heard.
The step-by-step instructions provided here mirror the order that many discussion guides follow. They are designed to help the writing team move through a series of meetings and tasks to produce the discussion materials.
Our goal in a dialogue circle is to better understand the issue and each other. We will look at different viewpoints and encourage a wide range of perspectives; we don’t have to agree. How we talk to one another is as important as what we say. This chart will help you understand how the process of dialogue differs from debate.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in FacilitationEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as dialogue facilitators. It will also help you to think about how to work together as a team more equitably during this phase of the process.
Everyday Democracy’s Dialogue to Change process is an adaptable approach to community engagement that is grounded in years of experience and learning with communities throughout the U.S.
In our process, diverse groups of people meet over several weeks, and take part in activities that build trust, provide opportunities to share honestly, learn about an issue and work together on solutions and action.
This is a team building activity for an organizing coalition or action teams to use during their first or second meeting.
Teamwork begins with self-awareness and awareness of other people’s leadership styles. We can’t be good at everything so we need to bring together people with different styles and talents. This worksheet will help you and your team figure out how you can work collaboratively across leadership styles.
A Guide for Training Public Dialogue Facilitators is a comprehensive training curriculum. This guide includes advice for creating a training program for both youth and adults, with expanded facilitator training, plus suggestions for ongoing support and evaluation of dialogue facilitators.
A supplemental guide intended to give people with similar racial or ethnic backgrounds an opportunity to talk with each other about issues of racism in sessions preceding and following the regular diverse dialogue sessions of a community-wide study circle program. These optional discussions are designed to be used with Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation.
A six-session discussion guide to help all kinds of people take part in meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and policy change.
This is an exercise to help your coalition create a shared idea about what you hope to accomplish together.
A vision statement is a sentence, or up to a few sentences, that sets out your ultimate goal and shows the meaningfulness of your work to the world. A vision statement should highlight your coalition’s aspirations for the kind of change you want to achieve and provide motivation for others to join your cause.
Resource List for Dialogue and Action on Racism and Civil RightsEveryday Democracy
The resources in this document are for individuals, community leaders and groups, law enforcement officials and elected leaders who want to learn about, organize dialogue, and take action to address specific aspects of structural racism.
This Action Road Map will help communities walk through the steps we need to take to carry out a plan for action. Using this worksheet, you will think about the people, places, and things in your community that can help you reach your goals.
This activity will help coalition members identify their hopes and concerns for the project so that everyone can have a meaningful discussion about goals. This activity is easy to facilitate. The best time for this activity is during the first or second meeting of your coalition.
Esta guía para diálogos comunitarios está dirigida a gente en comunidades rurales y pueblos pequeños que desean progresar de la probreza a la prosperidad. La meta de esta guía es de continuar el trabajo de las comunidades que participaron en programas de diálogo para el cambio basados en la guía Comunidades Prósperas: Colaborando para ir de la pobrexa a la prosperidad para todos. Vale aclarar que no es necesario tener experiencia previa con Comunidades Prósperas a fin de utilizar esta guía.
"When the Mask Comes Off" is a video documentary featuring young people discussing their experiences of living with mental illness. The video features stories of struggle on their journey from misperception and alienation toward self-acceptance and healing. This discussion guide is designed for community conversations following a screening of the film.
Here's the link to the film: https://vimeo.com/94434796
After two high-profile police shootings, the South Bronx community works to increase Latino and African-American presence on the police force and improve relations with the police department.
Subtitled "What can we do to make and keep our community healthy, strong, and vibrant", this 4-session guide was developed as a collaboration between The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and Everyday Democracy. The term “healthy community” can mean many things to many people: jobs, schools, clean water and air, basic health services, recreation, celebrations.
Toward a More Perfect Union in an Age of Diversity: A Guide for Building Stro...Everyday Democracy
A four-session discussion guide examining ideas about unity, diversity, and pluralism, and how they affect us as members of our communities and our country. Created in collaboration with A More Perfect Union.
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Inherited/learned beliefs/customs
Alternate position (an alternative behavior, custom, or belief, one that is different from and challenges the inherited one)
Current view
Basis for your current view (how you came to it)
Reflections on doing this activity
Received norms:
Race/Ethnicity:
Religion:
Sexual Orientation:
Gender:
Name
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Social Work 151
Diversity Exploration #1
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
After you have read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, ask yourself the following questions and single space type your responses. Overtly bold type the prompts with your responses following in regular type. You can be brief, but your responses should be in complete sentences. I want to know what you think, not word-for-word Google responses.
1. What is white privilege?
2. What is unearned advantage?
3. What is conferred dominance?
4. How do people deny that systems of dominance exist?
5. How is white advantage strongly enculturated?
6. What is meant by the myth of meritocracy?
7. How might someone with white privilege use his or her unearned advantage for the betterment of all and not just his/her own cohorts? What ideas do you have about how people who are born “white” can use arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems?
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
By Peggy McIntosh
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems
conferring dominance on my group.”
Through work to bring my materials from women’s studies into the rest of their
curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant they are over privileged,
even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work
to women’s statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or
won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. Denials amount to taboos surround the subject
if advantages that men gain from women’s disadvantages. These denials protect male’s
privileges from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
Thinking about unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since
hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white
privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been
taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught
not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught
not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like
to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of
unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but abo ...
Column I
Column II
Column III
Column IV
Column V
Inherited/learned beliefs/customs
Alternate position (an alternative behavior, custom, or belief, one that is different from and challenges the inherited one)
Current view
Basis for your current view (how you came to it)
Reflections on doing this activity
Received norms:
Race/Ethnicity:
Religion:
Sexual Orientation:
Gender:
Name
Date
Social Work 151
Diversity Exploration #1
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
After you have read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, ask yourself the following questions and single space type your responses. Overtly bold type the prompts with your responses following in regular type. You can be brief, but your responses should be in complete sentences. I want to know what you think, not word-for-word Google responses.
1. What is white privilege?
2. What is unearned advantage?
3. What is conferred dominance?
4. How do people deny that systems of dominance exist?
5. How is white advantage strongly enculturated?
6. What is meant by the myth of meritocracy?
7. How might someone with white privilege use his or her unearned advantage for the betterment of all and not just his/her own cohorts? What ideas do you have about how people who are born “white” can use arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems?
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
By Peggy McIntosh
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems
conferring dominance on my group.”
Through work to bring my materials from women’s studies into the rest of their
curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant they are over privileged,
even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work
to women’s statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or
won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. Denials amount to taboos surround the subject
if advantages that men gain from women’s disadvantages. These denials protect male’s
privileges from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
Thinking about unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since
hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white
privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been
taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught
not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught
not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like
to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of
unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but abo.
Column I
Column II
Column III
Column IV
Column V
Inherited/learned beliefs/customs
Alternate position (an alternative behavior, custom, or belief, one that is different from and challenges the inherited one)
Current view
Basis for your current view (how you came to it)
Reflections on doing this activity
Received norms:
Race/Ethnicity:
Religion:
Sexual Orientation:
Gender:
Name
Date
Social Work 151
Diversity Exploration #1
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
After you have read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, ask yourself the following questions and single space type your responses. Overtly bold type the prompts with your responses following in regular type. You can be brief, but your responses should be in complete sentences. I want to know what you think, not word-for-word Google responses.
1. What is white privilege?
2. What is unearned advantage?
3. What is conferred dominance?
4. How do people deny that systems of dominance exist?
5. How is white advantage strongly enculturated?
6. What is meant by the myth of meritocracy?
7. How might someone with white privilege use his or her unearned advantage for the betterment of all and not just his/her own cohorts? What ideas do you have about how people who are born “white” can use arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems?
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
By Peggy McIntosh
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems
conferring dominance on my group.”
Through work to bring my materials from women’s studies into the rest of their
curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant they are over privileged,
even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work
to women’s statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or
won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. Denials amount to taboos surround the subject
if advantages that men gain from women’s disadvantages. These denials protect male’s
privileges from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
Thinking about unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since
hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white
privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been
taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught
not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught
not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like
to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of
unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but abo.
Guest Lecture at Oregon St U, 4.13.2022.pdfBoWang882266
Shared some thoughts on anthropology students career development and transferrable skills on the grad seminar Uses of Anthropology, by Prof. Shaozeng Zhang, Oregon State University
As global leaders, we need to manage teams working in several locations and often from different cultures.
My name is Marianne Dupuis and I've been coaching since 2010, with a true passion for cross cultural topics. This derives both from my experience leading multicultural teams myself for more than 2 decades and from enjoying living abroad for about that same time too.
www.mariannedupuiscoaching.com
(title image by @hookieduke)
Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Within our own communities, these concepts are not new—but the 2020 pandemic has shone a spotlight on these issues.
It was only February of this year that Prime Minister Kishida’s aide said he “didn’t even want to look at” same-sex married couples.
But surely, we’re not like that. We make technology to make the world better, not hurt it.
Well, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is the technology that we make is not immune to our human biases, and we all have biases. The good news is we can change this. With a bit of courage and humility, we can take the next step into a new frontier of universal design—technology that can be useful to everyone, regardless of their race, ability, identity or sexual orientation.In this 2-hour interactive session, participants will explore together common types of biases in technology and tackle difficult conversations around product design and development decisions.
It will be led by CJ Hostetter (they/them), a designer with ten years of experience in UX design who identifies as nonbinary.
This workshop will take place in person and be centered around small-group discussions tailored to digging in deep and sharing personal predicaments around bias in tech.
人種差別、性差別、同性愛嫌悪、トランスフォビア。
私たちのコミュニティでは、これらの概念は目新しいものではありませんが、2020年のパンデミックによって、これらの問題にスポットライトが当てられるようになりました。
また、岸田首相の側近が同性婚カップルを「見たくもない」と言ったのは、今年2月のことでした。
でもきっと、私たちはそんなことはない。私たちは、世の中を良くするために技術を作るのであって、傷つけるために技術を作るのではありません。
さて、良いニュースと悪いニュースがあります。悪いニュースは、私たちが作るテクノロジーは、私たち人間のバイアスに左右されてしまうということです。
良いニュースは、私たちがこれを変えられるということです。
少しの勇気と謙虚さがあれば、人種、能力、アイデンティティ、性的指向に関係なく、すべての人に役立つユニバーサルデザインの新しいフロンティアへ次のステップを踏み出すことができるのです。
この2時間の対話型セッションでは、参加者は一緒にテクノロジーに共通するバイアスを探り、製品設計や開発の意思決定にまつわる会話に取り組みます。
UXデザインで10年の経験を持ち、ノンバイナリーを自認するデザイナー、CJ Hostetter (they/them)がワークショップを行います。
このワークショップは、対面で少人数のグループディスカッションを中心に、テクノロジーにおける偏見にまつわる個人的な苦境を掘り下げ、共有するために行われます。
Connecticut Civic Ambassadors are everyday people who care about and engage others in their communities by creating opportunities for civic participation that strengthens our state’s “Civic Health.” Civic Health is determined by how well diverse groups of residents work together and with government to solve public problems to strengthen their communities. Read more below on how you can be an agent of change in your own community by joining the team.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
Ripple Effects Mapping Tip Sheet for Evaluating Community Engagement Everyday Democracy
Community Engagement and Dialogue to Change strategies can lead to many positive changes in your community. However, direct impacts can be tough to track. Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) allows you, along with local leaders and others in your community, to assess impacts from your Dialogue to
Change efforts. It allows you to visually document the impacts your efforts have had on individuals, on your community, and on institutions and systems over time. These are tips for rolling out a Ripple Effects Mapping process:
Evaluation Guide Toolkit (Companion to Evaluating Community Engagement Guide)Everyday Democracy
Includes an Evaluation Capacity Self-Assessment Tool,
Sample Community Engagement Logic Model, Logic Model Template, Data Collection and Planning Template and Ripple Mapping Tip Sheet
The Wondertwins, "Black"- September 27th, West Hartford, CT Everyday Democracy
The Wondertwins, famed veteran hip-hop dance duo from Boston, perform their newest piece, BLACK. BLACK explores the traumatizing effects of police violence towards the black community by incorporating dance with historic and contemporary audio and video clips. Post-show dialogue will be facilitated by Everyday Democracy and the Connecticut Collaborative on Poverty, Criminal Justice and Race.
The practice of treating everyone fairly and justly regardless of age, with special consideration to the structural factors that privilege some age groups over others.
This is a brief guide developed for Stand Against Racism Day, 2019. The guide helps communities discuss immigration and how it connects to racial equity.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
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We are proud of the positive impact we've had on the lives of countless students, many of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and careers in STEM. By providing these young minds with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, we are not only changing their futures but also contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation on a broader scale.
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1. Activity on Exploring the Impact of Skin Color
(60 minutes)
This can be an emotional and uncomfortable activity. It should be used after the participants have
already worked on developing trust and taken part in other activities that explore race. The
facilitator for this activity will need a high level of skill and understanding about structural
racism.
Goals:
To illustrate the different experiences participants may have based on the color of their
skin.
To provoke thinking and dialogue about the different experiences and perceptions.
Part 1: Skin color survey (35 minutes)
1. Introduction:
This activity is meant to help us go deeper in our discussion about race. It may make some
people uncomfortable and some may think this is contrived. Remember, one of the goals is to
put the issues some people in our community are thinking about on the table. After the
activity, we will discuss your reactions, thoughts on the issue, and how it impacts our
community.
2. Ask each person to fill out all of the questions in the survey. They should answer according
to skin color only! This exercise is not about ethnicity, social status, gender, or sexual
orientation. It is solely about how they are perceived based on their skin color.
3. Participants should mark “True” for any statement that is usually true for them or if they have
never thought about it before. Write down an “False” for any statement that is rarely true.
4. After completing the survey, each person should add up and write down the number of
“True” statements.
5. Ask participants to stand up and get into numerical order from highest to lowest based on the
number of “True” statements they have.
6. Debrief the activity with the group. Give them time to think between questions. It’s okay if
there is silence for a while. Make sure they say out loud what they notice. Stay aware of how
different participants seem to be feeling.
2. Ask them to discuss the following questions:
What do you notice?
How do you feel when you look at the other end of the line?
How does this connect to what other people feel?
Part 2: Thinking about privilege (20 minutes)
After there has been a good discussion following the skin color activity, read the following
statement and ask people to react to it:
“In this society, people with light skin have advantages-or privilege-over people whose
skin is darker. This advantage is often invisible and people who benefit from it often do
not see it.”
Discuss the following questions:
What do you think of this idea?
Is it true in your experience?
Part 3: Closing (5 minutes)
Tell the participants:
There were lots of feelings of frustration, sadness, and anger today but, I want to remind you that
dialogue to change is a process. Now to get some of the feelings out into the open, I will read
some words that express the feelings that other study circle participants have told us. After each
word, raise your hand if the word is how you are feeling right now. You can raise your hand for
every word that relates to your feelings:
Frustrated
Surprised
Hopeless
Embarrassed
Guilty
Empowered
Victimized
Vindicated
Validated
Angry
3. Skin Color Survey
Directions:
1. Read each statement.
2. Write True in the box if the statement is usually true for you or if you have never thought
about the statement before.
3. Write False in the box if the statement is rarely true for you.
4. At the end of the list, add up how many statements you wrote “True.”
True/False
1. I can be around people with my skin color most of the time.
2. If I go shopping, I never think that a sales person or security guard will
follow me around because of my skin color.
3. I can turn on the television or look at the front page of the newspaper
and see many people with my skin color in a positive way.
4. School curricula and books frequently show people with my skin color.
5. I can use checks or credit cards and not worry that my skin color will
make someone think that I don’t have the money.
6. I can swear or be rude without worrying that people will think it’s
because people with my skin color have bad morals.
7. I rarely talk (or think about talking) to my child or the children in my
life about how they might be perceived because of their skin color.
8. I rarely feel like I am being asked to speak for all people with my skin
color.
9. Communities that have large numbers of people with my skin color are
considered “good” communities.
10. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the “person in charge,” I will
be facing a person with my skin color.
11. If a police officer pulls me over (or if store security stops me in the hall),
I can be sure that I haven’t been targeted because of my skin color.
12. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, and
children's magazines featuring people with my skin color.
4. 13. American history books show many people with my skin color.
14. I can get a job or get into school without worrying that people will think
I got the job or got in because of Affirmative Action.
15. I never worry that my skin color will impact the way I am treated by a
doctor or nurse.
16. I can comfortably avoid, ignore, or minimize the impact of racism on
my life.
17. I can sign up for most clubs, activities, or organizations without
worrying that I will be one of the few people with my skin color.
18. If I have a bad experience, I rarely ask myself if it had anything to do
with my skin color.
19. When I attend conferences in our field, most attendees have my skin
color.
20. I can wear casual clothes to most meetings without worrying that my
skin color will make people think that I am poor or uneducated.
Number of “True” statements:
Adapted from the Pacific Educational Group and Peggy McIntosh’s Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White
Privilege.