PEOPLE AGAINST INTOLERANCE
What Can I Do?
We all need to do our part in ending social intolerance in the U.S. and the world. Simple diaglogue can help a great deal. Just talk about it. Talk about the problem, the solution, your experiences. Sharing with others helps them understand who we are as individuals and how we feel. With understanding comes familiarity and eventually the diminishment of fear and ignorance, which are two of the main problems of social intolerance.
Contents
Home
Understanding Intolerance
Effects of Intolerance
What Can I Do?
Helpful Links
Tolerance.org
www.tolerance.org
Volunteer Match
www.volunteermatch.org
Anti-Defamation League
www.adl.org
Hate Crime Publications
A free resource. PDF files
www.ncjrs.org
The most important things you can do.
From Tolerance.org
10 Ways To Fight Hate
Act
Pick up the phone. Call friends and colleagues. Host a small meeting. Stand up in church. Suggest some action. Sign a petition. Attend a
vigil. Lead a prayer. Pick up a paint brush to cover graffiti. Use the skills and means you have. A San Diego musician wrote a song about the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay student in Laramie, Wyoning, and sold the CDs to raise money for anti-hate groups. A Montana T-shirt shop printed up a shirt with a tolerance message. In Idaho, a plant manager bused employees to a rally denouncing white supremacists. When a cross was burned in the yard of a single mother of Portuguese descent in Rushville Missouri, one person picked up the phone and called a friend. Then she called the victim. Then she called a ministerial alliance and asked to be put on the agenda. The upshot was a gathering of 300 people, a speech by the mayer, news accounts of the rally, and the formation of a unity committee within the church alliance.
Be Politically Active
Know where your lawmakers stand on civil rights legislation.
By monitoring what bills and legislations are key to this issue and making ourselves heard all over the country, we can make a difference.
For a complete up to date list of bills and legislation click here...
To find the local, congressional, or state officials who represent you and your communtiy
click here...
To find how your elected officials are voting
click here...
Speak Up
You, too, have  First Amendment rights. Hate must be exposed and denounced. Buy and ad. Help news organizations achieve balance and depth. Do not debate hate mongers in conflict-driven talk shows. Goodness has a First Amendment right, too. We urge you to denounce hate groups and hate crimes, and spread the truth about hate's threat to a pluralistic society. An informed community is the best defense against hate. More...
Simple Ideas for Promoting Tolerance from Tolerance.org
For yourself
Shop at ethnic grocery stores and specialty markets. Get to know the owners. Ask about their family histories.
Participate in a diversity program.
Speak up when you hear slurs. Let people know that bias speech is always unacceptable.
Imagine what your life might be like if you were a person of another race, gender or sexual orientation. How might "today" have been different?
Read a book or watch a movie about another culture.
For your community
Establish an ecumenical alliance. Bring people of diverse faiths together for retreats, workshops or potluck dinners. Be welcoming to agnostics and atheists, too.
Make sure that anti-discrimination protection in your community extends to gay and lesbian people.
Give copies of our Intelligence Report to law enforcement agencies in your community. Do officers receive training about hate groups, hate crimes and domestic terrorism?
Start a monthly "diversity roundtable" to discuss critical issues facing your community. Establish an equity forum.
Make copies of the Declaration of Tolerance encourage others to sign the pledge, and return it to:
The National Campaign for Tolerance
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
More...
Intolerance-A Search For Answers
What is intolerance?

This is hard to define. It is not hate or prejudice, but both stem from intolerance.
I decided to do a basic inquiry; definitions.

^ Intolerance: an unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions and beliefs.
^ Prejudice: preconcieved opinion that is not based on reason or experience. Unjust behavior formed on such a basis.
^ Hate: intense hostility and aversion usually derived from fear, anger, or a sense of injury.

These definitions are different, but prejudice and hate seem to come from "the refusal to recognize and respect differences in opinions and beliefs."
More....
Know Yourself
Brain shows unconscious prejudices:
July 17, 2003 -- Harvard University
You may not think you are prejudiced against other races, gays, or overweight people, but your brain activity could tell a different story.

A brain area involved with fear flashes more actively when white college students are exposed to subliminal views of black versus white faces. The students didn't actually "see" the faces, which
which were sandwiched between two patterns they viewed while undergoing brain scans. But they had a clear, deep-brain reaction to them.

The same type of bias shows up in Web site tests taken by hundreds of thousands of other people. They reveal unconscious prejudice against the elderly, gays, women, the obese, and a wide range of other groups. More...
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