San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Victor Hwang speak to hate crime victims and the larger community.
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March 10, 2011 - 6:34pm
From SacBee.com: Navi Kaur, granddaughter of shooting victim Surinder Singh, said "our grandfather wore his turban proudly. Our community will continue to wear their turbans proudly... . It is not acceptable to target anyone based on their appearance, religion or color of their skin." Read more.
Elk Grove, Calif. residents of multiple faiths will come together for a prayer vigil this Friday at the intersection of East Stockton Boulevard and Geneva Point Drive, where two elderly Sikh friends were gunned down during their routine afternoon walk last Friday afternoon.
February 27, 2011 - 5:03pm
Gunn High School students sang, Lowell High School students danced, Olympia, Wash. citizens mobilized every facet of the community, and in Newark, Calif., as in Tucson, Ariz., there were angels.
Here at Not In Our Town, we highlight communities standing together to fight hate. In our 15 years of making films, we have documented a number of proactive, creative and peaceful responses to hate groups, including the Kansas hate group known as the Westboro Baptist Church (Fred Phelps' family) and white supremacist groups such as Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Movement.
February 25, 2011 - 1:10pm
Update 2/25: Lena Pyssina provided a version of this video with English subtitles here.
Local Project Kesher groups are launching nearly 20 Not In Our Town coalitions in cities across the former Soviet Union. Project Kesher unites 150 grassroots women's organizations that serve more than 6,000 women from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Israel.
The Russian cities of Kineshma, Oryol, Ryazan, Kursk, Vladikavkaz, Volograd and Balakovo have already launched multi-faith, multi-ethnic coalitions using the Not In Our Town model. This month, women leaders in two cities in the Ukraine—Dnepropetrovsk and Cherkassy—are rolling out their coalitions as well.
February 24, 2011 - 11:57am
As Black History Month nears an end, we share this profile of outstanding youth advocate, Dr. Joseph Marshall Jr. Dr. Marshall is the host of nationally syndicated radio talk show, Street Soldiers. The Street Soldiers website highlights some of Dr. Marshall's achievements during his decades of work in education and youth advocacy:
Dr. Marshall is the first person to classify youth violence as a disease, and his work has been recognized in the 2001 Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence. As Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club, he oversees the Omega Leadership Academy for academic and life skills education, the Omega Training Institute on violence prevention; and Street Soldiers Communications, which includes a nationally syndicated radio talk show.