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Fall 2004
Making Harrison County Safe and Civil for All Our Neighbors
Members of Community Unity continue to do research and conceptualize our program previously known as the "No-Hate Zone" campaign. First, although we will continue to supply "No-Hate Zone" signs, similar groups in other communities suggest that it might be more effective to define the campaign with the goal we want rather than with the intolerance we hope to eliminate. So, we are plumbing our creative depths for a new program name and hope that we will be ready to announce one soon.
One of our efforts right now is the collection of hate crime or "bias incident" anecdotes. Here is a way for us to discover what problems children and adults face in Harrison County because of their race, ethnic background, sexual preference, religion, disability, etc. With our database of these stories, we can work with the authorities in our community on these social concerns.
If you have a hate crime or bias incident story that you are willing to share with us, please email it to Allen Lopp, the program coordinator, at ajlopp@hotmail.com. Allen Lopp can be reached also by phone at (812) 952-2100. The specifics will be removed from the story so that individuals cannot be identified, but the essence of the story will remain intact, and all identities will be handled in strict confidence.
Web sites to check out:
Kids Space - "of kids, by kids, for kids" - Stories, costumes, music and more from all over the world. Folk tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and more.
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Country overviews, real life stories and statistics from more than 180 countries around the world. Selected web resources for teachers who work with their students on media projects-TV, radio, newspapers, online, or other. Television programs and broadcast-quality videos for educational outreach.
Voices of Youth - Interviews, games and discussions on subjects of urgent interest to the world's youth.
Young Leaders - Spotlights young leaders from all over the world. There is also a link to Digital Diaries, " first-person/eyewitness accounts by young people from around the world."
The Seattle Times - Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement Timeline, study guides, Black History Month crossword, lesson resources on the conflicts in the Middle East, text and audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches, and much more!
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Spotlight on:
Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan
"It has all the trappings of a great action adventure story - hundreds of people running through the forest, dodging bullets, battling wild animals, foraging for food. The caveat to this new comic book series: it's not fiction. 'Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan' features the real life tales of the young children forced from their villages in the late 1980s during the Sudanese civil war, as told by four of the refugees themselvesÂ…. The first comic book was piloted this year at St. Patrick's Catholic School in Dallas. The boys, along with editor Susan Clark, publisher James Disco and artist Michael Friedman personally introduced the book to two classes of seventh graders, who had a chance to hear firsthand accounts of the war and help the artist illustrate the stories."
- Kimberly Abbott, senior communications associate at http://InterAction.org, American Council for Voluntary International Action
One of our efforts right now is the collection of hate crime or "bias incident" anecdotes. Here is a way for us to discover what problems children and adults face in Harrison County because of their race, ethnic background, sexual preference, religion, disability, etc. With our database of these stories, we can work with the authorities in our community on these social concerns.
If you have a hate crime or bias incident story that you are willing to share with us, please email it to Allen Lopp, the program coordinator, at ajlopp@hotmail.com. Allen Lopp can be reached also by phone at (812) 952-2100. The specifics will be removed from the story so that individuals cannot be identified, but the essence of the story will remain intact, and all identities will be handled in strict confidence.
Web sites to check out:
Kids Space - "of kids, by kids, for kids" - Stories, costumes, music and more from all over the world. Folk tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and more.
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Country overviews, real life stories and statistics from more than 180 countries around the world. Selected web resources for teachers who work with their students on media projects-TV, radio, newspapers, online, or other. Television programs and broadcast-quality videos for educational outreach.
Voices of Youth - Interviews, games and discussions on subjects of urgent interest to the world's youth.
Young Leaders - Spotlights young leaders from all over the world. There is also a link to Digital Diaries, " first-person/eyewitness accounts by young people from around the world."
The Seattle Times - Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement Timeline, study guides, Black History Month crossword, lesson resources on the conflicts in the Middle East, text and audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches, and much more!
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Spotlight on:
Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan
"It has all the trappings of a great action adventure story - hundreds of people running through the forest, dodging bullets, battling wild animals, foraging for food. The caveat to this new comic book series: it's not fiction. 'Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan' features the real life tales of the young children forced from their villages in the late 1980s during the Sudanese civil war, as told by four of the refugees themselvesÂ…. The first comic book was piloted this year at St. Patrick's Catholic School in Dallas. The boys, along with editor Susan Clark, publisher James Disco and artist Michael Friedman personally introduced the book to two classes of seventh graders, who had a chance to hear firsthand accounts of the war and help the artist illustrate the stories."
- Kimberly Abbott, senior communications associate at http://InterAction.org, American Council for Voluntary International Action