WHAT CAN YOU DO - SOCIAL JUSTICE
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
- Read and share "10 Tips for Interrupting Racist Comments"
- Join an ongoing social justice campaign that has meaning for you
- Get involved in the Civic Collation to Save Lives, which supports gun violence prevention
- Learn about the activism work of Black Lives Matter Philly
-Know your Rights - Mass Deportation
-Learn about and use the resources (including on-line community conversations) of the Coalition for Racial Equity and Social Justice
- Use the free education resources at Learning for Justice - including free films on social justice issues, with youth
-Join one of the campaigns of Power Interfaith
- Take a few minutes to recognize another persons’s dignity
- Teach your children, students, kids about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 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.
- Learn about NewCORE – Conversations On Race and Ethnicity
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, A Peace of My Mind created this powerful video...
RESOURCES/ARTICLES
What is social justice and how is the UN making it a reality?
The Price of Cruelty - mass Deportation Agenda
American Friends Service Committee - Ending Mass Incarceration Resources
Facebook Marketplace free resources on race and racism - Empowering Educators
Insight on Conflict – Peacebuilding and Peace
National Museum for African American History and Culture - Taking About Race
Restorative Justice Council - Restorative Justice for people who have been victims of violent crime
Zinn Education Project - Civil Rights Movements
Educational Activities Re: Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
PBS – Civil Rights and Human Rights
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.