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Everybody Gains

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This activity looks at privilege and at the costs and benefits of sharing our privilege with others. Participants reflect on their own privileges and look at situations where privilege has or could be shared to think about privilege in a new way.… Read more

Combating Racism

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This activity uses a questionnaire to take stock of participants’ actions to combat racism. This then leads into some brainstorming and a discussion about actions, both individual and communal, that can be taken to fight racism. Favorite… Read more

Racist Assumptions

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This activity involves the reading of a story about a racist incident, and then the discussion of the story. From this, participants are encouraged to think about their own negative attitudes towards people of color and analyze them. Favorite… Read more

Powerful People

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This is a writing and discussion activity looking at power as it plays out between people. It asks about the power that people have over others, and about the responsibilities and opportunities of holding such power. Favorite… Read more

Be a Man!

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This activity shows how boys are trained to be men. It uses role-play to highlight how men have learned to be perpetrators of sexism through the generational recycling of lessons about who men are and what they should be. Favorite… Read more

Taking Stock

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This activity involves participants selecting a community institution and taking stock of the institutional racism at that institution. It’s an advanced activity that involves interviewing community members and thinking deeply about how complex racism within an institution can be. Favorite… Read more

Intro to Grassroots Organizing

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Intended Audience: High School youth chapter members or smaller chapter leadership core. For new or emerging High School youth chapters. Level of difficulty: Introductory Curriculum (1 hour each, divided into two 30 min sessions – lunch, or afterschool): To define organizing To examine the differences between organizing, service and advocacy Favorite… Read more

Bombs and Budgets: Tools for Reclaiming Communities from Militarism

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If you plan to use this curriculum, shoot us a quick e-mail at Ali@warresisters.org. To mark the now decade-long US-led “Global War on Terror,” The War Resisters League and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative have created an interactive, popular eduction-style workshop that explores how organizing against federal military spending relates to and can forward local campaigns for economic justice, as well as how the past decade of war has effected Afghans and what they are doing in response.… Read more