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  Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies

  WHAT KIND OF ACTIVE SUPPORT does a strong white ally provide to a person of color? Over the years, people of color that I have talked with have been remarkably consistent in describing the kinds of support they need from Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice

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  Guidelines for Working with Young Men

  A FACILITATOR’S GUIDE   “Our struggle is not easy. … The truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice oneself for others in the nonviolent struggle for justice.” Cesar Chavez   YOUNG MEN’S WORK: STOPPING VIOLENCE Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Guidelines for Working with Young Women

  Introduction and Facilitator’s Guide from Young Women’s Lives: Building Self-Awareness for Life by Nell Myhand and Paul Kivel   YOUNG WOMEN’S LIVES: BUILDING SELF-AWARENESS FOR LIFE is a program for young women, ages 14-19. It is designed to celebrate and Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice, Violence Prevention, Young People

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  Healthcare

  The US healthcare system is so riddled with racism that tens of thousands of people of color die needlessly every year because of its inadequacies. Others are permanently disabled, live with remediable conditions, or suffer seriously inferior quality of life. Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice

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  How Do They Rule? The Constitution, Corporations and the Courts

  By: Paul Kivel Adapted and updated from You Call This a Democracy (2004) Members of the power elite are able to make many decisions themselves through their direct control over land and corporations, foundations, trusts, and other institutions. But their Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice, Racial Justice

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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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