Two Important Websites on Upstanders

Please spend some time exploring these two additional websites, which were created for students:

• Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights, is a Facing History and Ourselves website that presents the remarkable stories of five Reebok Human Rights Award winners.

• Not in Our Town (NIOT.org) is a national movement that encourages and connects people who are responding to hate and working to build more inclusive communities. The story on Billings, Montana, which you looked at earlier on the Choosing to Participate website, was the original Not in Our Town story in what has become a series of many amazing case studies of individuals and groups taking a stand against hate and injustice. These stories are now accessible through the new website. (Please note that the website is still in beta form). Two particular areas in the site you may want to explore include:
  1. Not in Our Schools. Not In Our School (NIOS) is a peer-to-peer learning program that uses film and storytelling to encourage safety and inclusion.

  2. What Do You Say to, "That's So Gay"?In this excerpt from "Not In Our School: Palo Alto, CA," Gunn High School students in Roni Habib's Facing History and Ourselves class challenge the saying "That's So Gay." (4:49)

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