Britt Hart, a production intern for Not In Our Town, covered a recent event at Laney College that brought together community and police after a wave of protests in Oakland, CA following no indictment decisions in two fatal police officer killings of unarmed black men, including the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
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February 10, 2015 - 12:45pm
If we’re looking for models for community response to hate, we might start with Richard Thomas’s own high school. After their fellow student was arrested, the Oakland High School community came together to break the silence and open up conversations within their classrooms.* They collected funds for Fleischman to help with medical costs and reached out to the family. Students participated with the larger community in a “Rainbow March” that proceeded along the bus route. They brought together Thomas’ friends in a restorative circle to listen to their feelings.
February 9, 2015 - 4:00pm
Rosa Feijoo was born in Mexico City. In 1993, her eldest son, José, died of AIDS and in 1997 she started giving lectures on the prevention of HIV. In 2003 she published her first book, AIDS: A Mother's Testimony, and later on a second book, HIV/AIDS, Profound Cases: Manifestation of a Diseased Society. She now coordinates support groups for parents and friends of lesbians and gays in Mexico, and has been engaged in giving workshops for the prevention of homophobic bullying for the Secretary of Education of the State. In 2011 she was the representative of Mexico to the UNESCO meeting on Prevention of Homophobic Bullying in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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February 9, 2015 - 3:07pm
The California city of Manhattan Beach came together Friday night to support a local black family whose home was firebombed last week in an apparent hate crime.
Hundreds filled the town plaza with candles and chants of peace, sending a strong message to the suspected perpetrators that there is no place for hate in their city.
February 5, 2015 - 12:22pm
The Breaking Barriers series kicked off in Bloomington-Normal, IL in January, with the first of several forums to address problems of racism in the Twin Cities. The event was sponsored by Not In Our Town Bloomington-Normal group and the local NAACP, among others.
This first event brought out more than 100 people and included at least 50 questions posed to local law enforcement leaders. Specifically, the audience raised questions about the diversity among the four law enforcement agencies represented at the meeting. Minority representation in the local police departments is currently half or less than that of the local population.