True peace requires standing up for the human rights of all the world’s people. Let us stand up for human rights for all in the name of peace for all. – UN Secretary General António Guterres
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, A Peace of My Mind created this powerful video…
WHAT CAN YOU DO – SOCIAL JUSTICE
– Read and share “10 Tips for Interrupting Racist Comments”
– Join an ongoing social justice campaign that has meaning for you
– Learn about the activism work of Black Lives Matter Philly
– Use the free education resources at Learning for Justice – including free films on social justice issues, with youth
– Take a few minutes to recognize another persons’s dignity
– Teach your children, students, kids about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
– Sign the Petition to support the Youth Promise Act – Promise stands for Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education, and would bring funds into cities that communities would control, to fund proven best practices in prevention and intervention instead of incarceration.
– Watch TED Talk with Bryan Stevenson: “We need to talk about an injustice”
– Learn about/teach about the Sustainable Development Goals, many of which relate to equality and social justice.
RESOURCES/ARTICLES
American Friends Service Committee
– Economic Equality
– Ending Racism Resources
– Ending Mass Incarceration Resources
– Inclusion & Equality Resources
– Racism Dialogue and Reflection
#BlackLives Matter – Not a Moment But A Movement
Facebook Marketplace free resources on race and racism – Empowering Educators
Ferguson Action – Non Violent Social Change
Insight on Conflict – Peacebuilding and Peace
Learning for Justice – Fee Social Justice Classroom Resources including film kits
National Museum for African American History and Culture – Taking About Race
Off the Mat – Into the World – Yoga and Social Justice
Restorative Justice Council – Restorative Justice for people who have been victims of violent crime
Teaching Tolerance – Using Photographs To Teach Social Justice
Yes Magazine – Social Justice and Human Rights Section
Zinn Education Project – Civil Rights Movements
Educational Activities Re: Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
WHYY – Civil Rights and Human Rights
Local Peace and Social Justice Programs/Efforts/Orgs
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Black Lives Matter Philly
Bryn Mawr College
Covenant House PA – Homeless youth/trafficking
Drexel University – Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Granny Peace Brigade Philadelphia
Haverford College
Just Act – Theatre-based catalyst for community activism and personal change
Mayor’s Commission on Human Relations
MLK D.A.R.E. Coalition
My Brother’s Keeper – Philadelphia
NewCORE – Conversations On Race and Ethnicity
Racism is a Sickness photography/social change project
Saint Joseph University’s Faith-Justice Institute
Swarthmore College
Villanova University
University of Penn Social Justice Research Academy (Summer)
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/EFFORTS
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – A Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.
#BlackLivesMatter – An online forum intended to build connections between Black people and our allies to fight anti-Black racism, to spark dialogue among Black people, and to facilitate the types of connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement. Article: The Rise of #BlackLives Matter
Enough Project – Seeking to build leverage for peace and justice in Africa by helping to create real consequences for the perpetrators and facilitators of genocide and other mass atrocities.
The Peace Alliance – An alliance of organizers and advocates throughout the United States taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the centers of national discourse and policy priorities. – See more HERE.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF) – Furthers, by non-violent means, the social transformation that enables the inauguration of systems under which social and political equality and economic justice for all can be attained to ensure real and lasting peace and true freedom.