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Ways To Combat Prejudice In The Community

• Establish a Human Rights Commission and a Community Watch Group in your city/town.
• Organize a local multicultural committee that serves as an umbrella organization for groups that raise awareness about prejudice and provide support for cultural events, holiday programs or community efforts that promote intergroup harmony.
• Volunteer to serve on one of these organization committees and work to support their initiatives.
• Petition government officials to issue a proclamation making your city/town a prejudice-free zone
• Plan a community-wide Walk/Run against Hate in which sponsored participants would donate all monies pledged to an anti-bias or other human rights organization.
• Become aware of your town's demographics and compare it to others around the state to better understand the diversity in your community.
• Hold a city-wide Human Rights Day. Contact reps of Reebok Human Rights board, Amnesty International, ADL, and other human rights organiztions to participate.
• Build a community float that promotes understanding and respect for the diversity of your community and march in local and state parades. Contact parade officals to make sure that groups of all different backgrounds are invited to march.
• Suggest to your local newspaper that it devote a corner of the editorial page each month to at least one opinion relating to anti-prejudice and pro-diversity themes.
• Meet with school and community librarians and local bookstores to discuss ways to highlight literature that is representative of all cultures and sexual orientations.
• Compile a citizen's directory of the businesses and community organizations that exist to support diverse groups in the community.
• Research your community's involement in struggles for civil rights throughtout history( abbolition, the civil rights movement, the women's rights and gay right's movements,etc.) and create an exhibit for the local library/town hall
• Discuss alternative accessiblity routes such as ramps, stairs, and elevators in your community and invite speakers into your school and community groups to talk about such initiatives.
• Make sure your public facilities accommodate the needs of all residents
• Collect traditional family recipes from local residents for a community cookbook. Solicit ads to support the cost of reproducing and distributing the book as part of a welcome wagon program for new residents.
• Organize a city-wide Hoops For Harmony basketball tournament with proceeds from ticket sales going to a local non-profit organization that promotes awareness of and respect for diversity
• Hold a Paint-Out Day to eliminate graffiti that promotes bigotry, culminating with a potluck supper
• Brainstorm 100 more ways to make your community a prejudice- free zone (Email us if you think of any I'll post'em. Peace)

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