Resource
Centre
This online resource
centre lists both existing educational materials and organizations
across Canada with a focus on anti-racism. If you aren't already
involved, we hope this list will help you to connect to an organization
and engage yourself in combating racism!
**(Please consult the french version for more ressources
and organizations)
Educational
Materials
The following is a
list of educational materials that were analysed by YFAR participants
during the regional forums, as
well as other useful resources.
** (Please consult the french
version for more ressources)
Title: Y-files:
the ultimate youth resource guide
Organization: The Students Commission and others
Language: English
Location: Tel: (416) 652-2273, or e-mail:
yfiles_guide@hotmail.com
Title: 101 Tools for Tolerance: Simple Ideas for Promoting
Equity and Celebrating Diversity
Organization: Southern Poverty Law Center
Language: English
Location: http://www.splcenter.org/
Title:Classroom Exercises (various research papers, book
lists, and activities)
Organization: Artists Against Racism
Language: English
Location: http://www.artistsagainstracism.com/AARMain.cfm?page=Homework
Title: We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: white teachers,
multiracial schools
Organization: Teachers College Press
Language: English
Location: http://www.teacherscollegepress.com/multicultural_studies.html
Title: Many Threads: Weaving a Country Teacher's Guide
Organization: Pacific Educational Press
Language: English
Location: http://www.pep.educ.ubc.ca/anti.html
Title:Curriculum
Documents (various documents and activities which are added
to the secondary school curriculum)
Organization: Toronto District School Board (TDSB)
Language: English
Location: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/instruction/areasofstudy/equitypages.html
Title:Equality Today Curriculum Guides (a means of educating
through writing, reading, and conversing)
Organization: Equality Today/Young Peoples' Press (YPP)
Language: English
Location: http://www.equalitytoday.org/cguides.html
Title: Prejudice and Racism - a short lesson
Organization: Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee
Language: English
Location: http://sl.lakeheadu.ca/~slarc/arc_h.html
Title:So Long as the Sun Rises and the River Flows: land
& treaty rights workshop booklet (blanket exercise) Organization:
Aboriginal Rights Coalition
Language: English and French
Location: Tel: (613) 235-9956, or email: arc@istar.ca
Title: Racism. Stop It! Teacher's Guide - Secondary Level
Teacher's Guide
Organization: March 21 Campaign, Department of Canadian
Heritage - Multiculturalism Branch
Language: English and French
Contact: 1-888-MARCH21
Location: http://www.pch.gc.ca/march-21-mars/outreach/index_f.shtml
Title:Teach Me To Thunder: A Training Manual for
Anti-Racism Trainers
Organization: Canadian Labour Congress
Language: English
Location: http://www.clc-ctc.ca
Title: Ten Ways To Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Organization: Southern Poverty Law Center
Language: English
Location: http://www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-index.html
Title: The Whole World…My World: Racism and Youth
Organization: UNA-Canada
Language: English and French
Contact: UNAC, or email: info@unac.org
Title: World History of Racism In Minutes
Organization: Tim McCaskell, Toronto Board of Education
Language: English
Contact: (416) 397-3345
Organizations
The following are a
sample of youth driven or youth focused organizations
working towards the elimination of racism. This is certainly
not an exhaustive list. It is just meant to give you an idea
of what is out there. (They are divided by regions.)
**(Please consult the french version
for more organizations)
1-)
National Organizations
The Students Commission
- The Students Commission has created a pro-active forum
for youth to direct public policy. Their voices have been heard;
National Reports are presented to the Prime Minister, the Governor
General, cabinet ministers, provincial premiers and business,
education, community and labour leaders across Canada. Among
their activities in anti-racism, the Students Commission have
developed workshop materials for the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism.
Site Internet: www.tgmag.ca
The Canadian Race Relations Foundation - The Foundation's
office is located in the City of Toronto but its activities
are national in scope. The Canadian Race Relations Foundation
aims to help bring about a more harmonious Canada that acknowledges
its racist past, recognizes the pervasiveness of racism today,
and is committed to creating a future in which all Canadians
are treated equitably and fairly. They have a youth component
that consists in part of a website, e-race-it! They have also
engaged in many initiatives that have a youth focus, such as
Youth Against Racism.
E-mail: info@crr.ca
Website: http://www.crr.ca/eraceit/
Canadian Council for Multicultural and Intercultural Education
(CCMIE) - CCMIE is a nongovernmental national organization
composed of provincial and territorial multicultural associations,
councils, and teachers organizations representing the cultural,
linguistic, and regional diversities in Canadian society. Among
its main objectives, the CCMIE seeks community support in preparing
youth to participate fully in Canadian society. CCMIE attempts
to fulfill this objective through different youth projects and
initiatives.
E-mail: national_office@ccmie.ca
Website: www.ccmie.com/
League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada - B'nai
Brith Canada brings Jewish men and women together in fellowship
to serve the Jewish community through combating anti-Semitism,
bigotry and racism in Canada and abroad, through carrying out
and supporting activities which ensure the security and survival
of the State of Israel and Jewish communities worldwide, through
various volunteer activities, cultivation of leadership, charitable
work, advocacy, and through government relations
Website: http://www.bnaibrith.ca
Muslim Students Association (MSA) -MSA seeks to promote
the beliefs and teachings of Islam through the study of the
Holy Quran and the traditions of Prophet Muhammed. MSA also
provides a platform for all Muslims to come together and practice
their beliefs while disseminating correct information about
Islam to the non-Muslim community.
E-mail: info@msa-natl.org
Website: http://www.msa-natl.org/
2-) Western Region
The Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society (CAERS)
- The Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society
is a frontline anti-racism organization, established in British
Columbia, that provides a variety of different services. Among
these, CAERS offers anti-racism workshops and training in non-violent
solutions to racism and hate group activity. It also provides
workshops on cross-cultural, equity and diversity issues and
institutional change. CAERS has a strong youth component to
many of its programmes and initiatives.
Website: www.antiracist.com/youth
Committee of the Elimination of Racism through Education
(CERTE) - CERTE is a group of high school students from
Edmonton, Alberta who promote respect, acceptance, and equality
among and within all cultures. Their goal is to raise public
awareness about the origins and consequences of racism and,
most importantly, to encourage today's youth to have an optimistic
attitude towards the elimination of racial discrimination.
E-mail: dsanhueza@myrealbox.com
Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations (NAARR) - NAARR's
mission is to pursue the goals of eliminating racism. NAARR's
individual and organization members seek to eliminate racial
discrimination. They encourage children, youth and adults to
respect people of all colours, races and creeds.
E-mail: naarr@compusmart.ab.ca
Website: http://www.naarr.org
The Millwoods Multicultural Council Foundation (MMCF) -
The mission of MMCF is to enhance awareness of diverse cultural
values, promote understanding, interaction, partnership, and
goodwill among people of Mill Woods in particular, and Edmonton
in general, for a better living environment. The MMCF works
closely with youth through Rainbow - a multicultural youth magazine
- and the Multicultural Youth Circle.
E-mail: mmcf@incentre.net
Website: www.incentre.net/mmcf
3-) Central Region
African Canadian Legal Clinic - ACLC is a not-for-profit
organization which was officially opened in October 1994 to
address systemic racism and racial discrimination in Ontario
through a test case litigation strategy. In addition, a significant
part of the work of ACLC is to monitor legislative changes,
regulatory, administrative and judicial developments, and to
engage in advocacy and legal education aimed at eliminating
racism (anti-Black racism in particular).
Website: http://www.aclc.net/
Colours of Resistance (COR) - COR is a grassroots network
of people who actively work to develop multiracial, anti-racist
politics in the movement against global capitalism. Colours
of Resistance is both a thinktank and an actiontank, linking
global issues with those in our own communities, and providing
and sharing support, ideas, and strategies across borders. Our
collective work includes but is not limited to producing a zine,
a website, and published articles; sharing ideas through an
email discussion list; and facilitating workshops and events.
E-mail:colours@tao.ca
Website: www.tao.ca/~colours
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) - The SALCO
is a non-profit organization seeking to establish a legal clinic
to respond to the needs of low-income South Asians in Toronto.
Salco was formed in 1999 by lawyers and activists of South Asian
descent, in response to concerns by South Asian agencies that
the legal needs of South Asians in Toronto were not being adequately
met by existing legal clinics.
Website: http://www.salc.bizhosting.com/
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC) - The
SWC is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated
to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance
and understanding through community involvement, educational
outreach and social action. The Center confronts important contemporary
issues including racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and genocide.
With a membership of over 400,000 families, the Center is headquartered
in Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, Toronto, Miami,
Jerusalem, Paris and Buenos Aires.
Website: www.wiesenthal.com/
4-) Atlantic Region
Multiculturalism
Association of Nova Scotia (Youth Against Racism) - Youth
Against Racism's Train the Trainer Initiative started in 1996,
and has been supported by schools across Nova Scotia. This is
a youth run project; students receive anti-racism and leadership
training. The Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia (MANS)
recognized the need for youth to talk to youth about racism.
This organization has been in existence since 1975, and has
spearheaded a number of multicultural and diversity related
projects. MANS was the driving force behind Bill 9, the Act
to Promote and Preserve Multiculturalism in Nova Scotia.
E-mail: multicul@fox.nstn.ca
Website: www.mans.ns.ca
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia - The Black Cultural
Centre for Nova Scotia organizes activities to raise awareness
of black history from a local and global perspective. They offer
an interactive type of outreach through their website, and promote
the many events that happen at the Black Cultural Centre on
a regular basis.
E-mail: mail@bccns.com
Website:www.bccns.com/
Students Together Against Racism (STAR) - STAR is a group
formed mainly of high school students from the Moncton area
in New Brunswick. Over the years, this group of young people
has been extremely efficient in addressing racism issues in
their school, but also in their community.
Phone: 506-856-3470
Fax: 506-856-3313
Pride of Race, Unity and Dignity Through Education Inc.
- This organization is dedicated to the full participation of
the Black Community in the social, cultural and economic fabric
of mainstream New Brunswick life. This is to be achieved through
a public education programme, which focuses on the historical
contributions of the Black Community in New Brunswick, and by
a self education programme, which emphasizes dedicated personal
service and leadership in meeting current needs in the community,
and in preparing our youth for the challenges which they must
face in the future.
E-mail: prudeinc@nbnet.nb.ca
Website: http://www.sjfn.nb.ca/prude/
Prince Edward Island Multicultural Council - The Multicultural
Council promotes understanding and harmonious relations among
all people on the Island. They carry out activities and programmes
of a multicultural nature which promote, preserve, share, develop,
and advance our cultural heritage. The Council conducts workshops
and conferences on racism, does community education, and has
standing committees (e.g. Employment Equity).
E-mail: peimc@isn.net
Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association - Formed
in 1968, the Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association
has been active in promoting human rights in the province of
Newfoundland and Labrador for almost 30 years. Their mandate
is to promote, extend, and defend human rights within Newfoundland
and Labrador, as well as to promote international human rights
issues within the province. E-mail: nlhra@nf.sympatico.ca
Website: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/nlhra/
5-)
Northern Region and Aboriginal Youth Groups
The National Inuit
Youth Council - The mission of NIYC is to benefit all Inuit
youth through the strength of their voice and action. Furthermore,
they commit to work with their elders and other partners in
the preservation and strengthening of the Inuit language(s)
and culture, and provide opportunities for young Inuit to attain
their dreams and visions.
Phone: (613) 238-8181
Website: http://216.191.232.181/itcyouth/abonat.html
Aboriginal Youth Network (AYN) - AYN was brought about
due to the social and health issues that Aboriginal youth face
due to the break down of Aboriginal culture in Canada. With
this website, we are attempting to unite youth and bring cultural
identity to youth across the country. Phone: 1-866-459-1058
Website: www.ayn.ca/
Native Friendship Centers - Native Friendship Centers
strive to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal Peoples
in an urban environment by supporting self-determined activities
which encourage equal access to, and participation in, Canadian
society; and which respect and strengthen the increasing emphasis
on Aboriginal cultural distinctiveness.
E-mail: nafcgen@nafc-aboriginal.com
Website: http://www.nafc-aboriginal.com/
Aboriginal Youth Council - The mission statement of AYC
is to: create positive change for Friendship Centre youth through
inclusion, empowerment, and culture by increasing communication,
offering training and development opportunities, increasing
youth involvement in the Friendship Centre movement, facilitating
the development of youth leaders, providing awareness on issues
facing urban Aboriginal youth, and preserving and promoting
their culture and heritage.
Website: http://www.auysop.com/ayc/ayc.html
Native Women's Association of the NWT - This organization
provides training and education programmes for native women
in the Western Arctic, so that they can function more effectively
in areas that affect their lives on an economic, social, educational,
emotional, cultural, and political level.
Phone: 1-867-873-3152
Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee - In acknowledging
the existence of racism, people of Sioux Lookout have formed
the anti-racism committee so that everyone may learn to work
and live together, respecting and celebrating our differences,
in order to develop a just community where the future will be
better for all.
Website: http://sl.lakeheadu.ca/~slarc/arc_h.html
