YAC Meeting: Nov. 11th Preparing for MLK Day

How are Human Rights and the Dream connected?


Special thanks to Joan Korenblit, Respect Diversity Foundation for sending the Youth for Human Rights videos. She stated, "They are powerful and thought provoking. They touch on thirty human rights. My plan for Nov. 19 was to share some of these videos (see below) – launch into a discussion. Perhaps come up with more human rights – and create a collaborative HAIKU from the discussion.

You might want to have a kiosk at the MLK event to show them
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/born-free-and-equal.html



MORE VIDEOS
1. We Are All Born Free & Equal
2. Don’t Discriminate
3. The Right to Life
4. No Slavery
5. No Torture
6. You Have Rights No Matter Where You Go
7. We’re All Equal Before the Law
8. Your Human Rights Are Protected by Law
9. No Unfair Detainment
10. The Right to Trial
11. We’re Always Innocent Till Proven Guilty
13. Freedom to Move
13. Freedom to Move
14. The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live
15. Right to a Nationality
16. Marriage and Family
17. The Right to Your Own Things
18. Freedom of Thought
19. Freedom of Expression
20. The Right to Public Assembly
21. The Right to Democracy
22. Social Security
23. Workers’ Rights
24. The Right to Play
25. Food and Shelter for All
26. The Right to Education
27. Copyright
28. A Fair and Free World
29. Responsibility
30. No One Can Take Away Your Human Rights

POSSIBLE SPEAKERS FOR WEEK BEFORE MLK DAY
Possible Speakers for MLK Week

1. Razi Hashmii, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK)
rhashmi@cair.com Direct: 405-415-6851 Cell: 405-248-5853 (Moved.)

2. Cheryl Steele csauthor1@cox.net 286-0981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxuZ76Api0U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr.+cheryl+steele+A+Mouse+in+Gods+House&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr.+cheryl+steele+2007&aq=f

3. Roshini Nambiar, spiritual leader of the Vedic Temple 833-6107
roshininambiar@gmail.com (I learned that Roshini will be working.)

4. Angela Monson, OKC School Board Chairman angela_monson@ouhsc.edu C= 314-9613 w= 271-2390

5. John Mkize MAVOVO@aol.com 330-3982
Helped negotiate apartheid in South Africa (colorful)

6. Albert Gray Eagle imaginativz@yahoo.com 720-939-2056

7. Boston Snowdon (situs@cox.net)

8. Gloria Pollard dr_gloriap@hotmail.com 771-3316

9. Joyce Henderson Wmgeraldjoyce@aol.com 478-1049

10. I mentioned Elizabeth Muller as the dance choreographer. Her style is very peaceful. Possibly too “flowery” for your students. I don’t know. Her contact info is: elizmuller@mac.com 630-0895.

11. I’ve sent an e-mail to Beatrice Johnson, coordinator of Reading to End Racism (RER) for the YWCA, suggesting that she and her volunteers participate in an RER event at Service Night . Feel free to contact her at bjohnston@ywcaokc.org, 249-5863. The contact info for Beatrice Johnson is below. She said she’d like to have volunteers with Reading to End Racism lead story telling and discussion groups for a family night event at Casady.

Beatrice Johnston, Sr. Director, Racial Justice and Economic Empowerment
YWCA Oklahoma City, McFarland Branch, 1701 N. Martin Luther King Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73111, Phone: (405) 424-4623, Fax: (405) 424-4625
www.ywcaokc.org

12.REGARDING WALK THE WORLD 2011
This afternoon at the UNA-OKC meeting, Juliet Abdeyawad, an OSU student on the board of directors, agreed to make a hanging art collage of photos of events promoted by UNA-OKC. This collage will be showcased at the Respect Diversity Symbol Exhibit. She’ll also create a power-point presentation to show at the April luncheon. Therefore, we would appreciate it if you would forward photos from the 2010 Walk the World event. This is a great way to promote Walk the World 2011.
Contact info: Juliet Abdeyawad, 405/762-0374, jabde878@gmail.com.
P.S. We’d like for a representative to (again) share information about Walk the World at the next luncheon.

Joan Korenblit, Executive Director, Respect Diversity Foundation,
www.respectdiversity.org, 405/359-0369


An example of Service-Learning project in the curriculum for Veterans

In recognition of Veterans Day, we here at the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse would like to spotlight just some of the great work that students are performing on behalf of our veterans. Voicing Experiences Through Service (VETS) is a multi-year, multi-state project funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and housed at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington. VETS supports young people ages 14 to 21 as they build relationships with veterans and collaboratively record oral histories of their service. These histories are then submitted to the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. You can read more about VETS in our service-learning success stories: http://servicelearning.org/success_stories/k-12-sector/voicing-experiences-through-service-vets

Last year, students from Creekwood Middle School and other schools in the Humble Independent School District in Texas took on a World War I-themed service-learning project. Inspired by the story of Frank Buckles, the last surviving WWI veteran in the U.S., students learned about the war in their classes, and raised funds to help restore and rededicate the WWI monument in Washington, D.C. You can learn more about the project in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVJGE46gNY

For resources and ideas for service-learning projects that honor veterans in your community, please see our Veterans page on the NSLC website: http://servicelearning.org/topic/veterans

Please let us know about service-learning projects that you’ve taken part in to honor and assist veterans! Email us at nslc@etr.org.

Regards,

Erin Lee, MLIS
Public Services Librarian
866-245-7278 x240
erin.lee@etr.org

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