United to End Racism Workshops Offered at United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa, August 29 - September 1, 2001
DAILY
Healing the Damage Caused by Racism
Freeing ourselves from
the hurts we carry from experiences of racism. Participants will be
introduced to methods of using each other in pairs to overcome the
mental and emotional harm done by racism.
Individual workshops will be held
for people in the following constituencies: Africans,
African-Descendants, Asians, Arabs, Indigenous People, Mestizos/Mestizas
(in Spanish and in English), and Palestinians.
29 AUGUST
The Role of Youth in Ending Racism
This workshop will focus on how youth can use paired listening and
emotional release to free themselves from the effects of both racism and
youth oppression.
Men Targeted by Racism
This workshop examines the
particular hurts targeted at men by racism and explores ways in which
they can recover by the use of each others' support, caring, and
attention.
30 AUGUST
The Intersection of Racism and Anti-Jewish
Oppression
This workshop will address the intersection of
racism and the oppression of Jews, the work necessary for Jews and
people targeted by racism to become allies, and the tools needed to do
this work.
Pueblos Indigenas Liberandonos de los Efectos del Racismo
Este taller se hablará sobre las formas en que el racismo ha lastimado a
los pueblos Indígenas y se practicará y dará más información sobre como
utilizar las herramientas de Re-evaluation Counseling.
31 AUGUST
The Role of White People in Ending Racism
White people can stop being racist and can recover from
the corruption of their lives caused by society conditioning them to be
agents of racist oppression.
Steps Toward a Rational Resolution to the Conflict between the
Palestinian and Israeli Peoples
This workshop, led by a Palestinian and an Israeli, will offer a perspective and a set of tools for
eliminating racism and anti-Jewish oppression in order to address the conflict and reach a just solution.
1 SEPTEMBER
Racism Compounded by Sexism
Participants will explore ways
of healing from the particular hurts resulting from racism with sexism,
through working in pairs to share our stories.
Ending Racism in Education
This workshop will focus on how educational institutions transmit racism and how all people can use
Re-evaluation Counseling to develop alliances to eliminate racism within education.
Colonized Peoples Healing the Damage Caused by Racism
This workshop, led by a colonized woman, addresses the specific effects of colonialism and offers ways to heal from it.
SUPPORT GROUPS OFFERED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK
Support groups give participants the
opportunity to undo the stress and damage caused by racism, by taking turns
listening to one another about their experiences of racism and of fighting
racism.
PANEL SPEAK-OUTS HELD DAILY
Panelists from
several NGOs will have short turns to share their experiences of
racism. After the panelists speak, members of the audience (and
panelists) will pair up and take turns listening to each other about
their own experiences of racism, so that everyone has a chance to tell
his or her own story.