Breaking White Silence and Stepping up your Work for Racial Justice

You have resources to leverage for racial justice! 1. Money—direct donations, hosting house parties 2. Time—support work, administration, research, filing 3. Skills—fundraising, web-based, outreach, childcare, writing, music, art, carpentry 4. Connections—to journalists, politicians, decision-makers, funders 5. Space—providing space in your Read more... Read More

Bus Riders Union

Recognized nationally for its historic civil rights Consent Decree and signature creative tactics, the Bus Riders Union is a multiracial dynamo of 200 active members, 3,000 dues-paying members, and 50,000 supporters on the buses of Los Angeles. The BRU has Read more... Read More

Catalyst Project

The Catalyst Project enables activists and organizers to work collectively against racism and toward liberation by building alliances and developing leadership. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Catalyst Project is committed to deepening antiracist work in white communities Read more... Read More

Causa Just / Just Cause

We are Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC), a multi-racial, grassroots organization building community leadership to achieve justice for low-income San Francisco and Oakland residents.  Read more... Read More

Christian Hegemony Project

One of the longest-standing systems of institutionalized power in the United States is the dominant western form of Christianity that came to power when the Romans made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. Christian Read more... Read More

Cost of Having a Ruling Class – Checklist

Adapted from Paul Kivel’s You Call This a Democracy? (2004) The following checklist can also be used as a group exercise. Do you know of anyone, including yourself…? • who currently has, or who has died from cancer? • who Read more... Read More

Courageous Currents podcast: Shadow of the Cross with Paul Kivel

Courageous Currents host, Pastor Lyvonne Proverbs, interviews Paul Kivel on Christian Hegemony—how dominant Christianity impacts our beliefs, behaviors, domestic and foreign policy and how Christians can participate in challenging this institution of power, wealth and deep-seated culture dominance. More resources Read more... Read More

Creating Family

Objectives Young men will be able to: acknowledge the diversity of families in the world describe qualities of both caring and unsupportive families describe the kind of family they want to create identify the positive and negative pressures to have Read more... Read More

Creating Relationships

The following exercise has been adapted from Paul Kivel’s books Young Men’s Work and Young Women’s Lives.  Download the pdf by clicking the link below. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available Read more... Read More

Cultural Appropriation

From Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel The sense of entitlement white people are socialized to have leads directly to cultural appropriation: taking traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture Read more... Read More