Workshop and Activity Stand up for tolerance!

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Workshop and Activity
Stand up for tolerance!
A project of JAK Hesse and Lower-Saxony
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Activism against group-related hostility

• Reason
• Learn the lesson from history
• Commemorate the victims of war and tyranny
• Education for peace and international
  understanding

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Activism against group-related hostility

• Measures
• Intercultural workcamps and youth encounters
• Museum visits and seminars in our youth groups
• Planing and excercising innovative projects for
  tolerance and international understanding
• Seminars and project days at schools
• Participation at peace ralleys and events

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Activism against right-wing extremism

• Reasons
• Events of right-wing extremists on our war
  cemeteries, which are looked after by the German
  Wargraves Comission
• Problematic public image of our organisation due
  to similar rituals on Remembrance Day
  (Volkstrauertag) and due to our name

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Activism against right-wing extremism

• Measures
• House ban for right-wing extremists on our war
  grave cemeteries
• Expulsion of right-wing extremists from our
  organisation
• Inclusion of young people for organizing
  Remembrance Day
• Seminars and workshops against right-wing
  extremism and group-related hostility at schools
  and youth organisations
• Activities at peace ralleys (Hamburg and
  Magdeburg), federal state events (Hesse,
  Lower-Saxony) and trade fairs

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The Photo Activity
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The Photo Activity

• Our Goals
• To call attention to everyday racism and
  discrimination
• To raise awareness of discrimination in
  everydays language and to prevent this (This is
  gay!/ Retard!/ Dont be a Jew!)
• To call for civil courage