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  I’m Not White I’m Jewish: Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice

  I MUST ADMIT THAT I HAD SOME HESITATION over accepting the invitation to participate in a conference on whiteness because, as an activist, I am skeptical about the usefulness of academic gatherings unless they are explicitly addressing grassroots community issues. Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice

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  Immigrants and Immigration

  Adapted from Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism, revised 4th edition, New Society, September 2017 Immigration is a racial issue. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials do not stop and interrogate white people or conduct raids to stem the flow of Read more...

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  Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence

  Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice by Paul Kivel & Allan Creighton Introduction   Welcome to the twentieth-anniversary edition of what was originally titled Helping Teens Stop Violence. Our first book presented our work Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Introduction from You Call This A Democracy?

  “In the past, Americans smugly assumed that European societies were more stratified than their own, but it now appears that the United States has surpassed all industrial societies in the extent of its family wealth inequality.” — Lisa Keister, sociologist1 Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice

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  Introduction to Making the Peace: Violence Prevention in the Classroom

  “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Introduction Violence is a powerful and evocative concept in American life. We may all agree that some things people do to one another, like Read more...

  Issue: Violence Prevention, Young People

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  Islamophobia

  On August 25, 2010, Ahmed H. Sharif, a taxi driver in New York, was attacked with a knife and slashed on the neck and face by Michael Enright. The attack occurred immediately after he had replied yes to his young Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice, Religion

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  Jewish Male Violence

  AFTER I HAD WRITTEN Men’s Work, a book on male violence, and after I had worked with incest offenders and batterers and had even said that I am never surprised to learn that any man is a batterer or child Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice

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  Land and Housing

  Land is wealth. It is the foundation for housing, the source of food, the producer of wood, minerals, oil, gas and other resources, the location of industry. The history of racism in the United States can be traced to people’s Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice

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  Man to Man

  THE LETTER BELOW IS SOMETHING I wrote to address individual men in communities that I live, work and play in because we still, all too often, assume that “our” men have it together and are safe and non-abusive in their Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice

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  Men’s Movements

  I ORIGINALLY WROTE THIS EPILOGUE 1 when the men’s movement (as it was labeled) was strong and visible and before the Promise Keepers had been organized. I have decided to leave the original section because it identifies some important questions Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice

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