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July 28 - Vote for New Steering Committee Members
MARK YOUR CALENDARS - TUESDAY, JULY 28
On Tuesday, July 28th, HRE USA members will receive in their inbox a link to HRE USA's 2020 Ballot to vote for two new members of our Steering Committee - the governing body of HRE USA, overseeing strategy, direction, and policy. You can learn more about the committee and its current members here.
To be sure you get the ballot, please check your "Spam" folder. If you find our email there, please click "Not Spam" or “Not Junk,” and add info@hreusa.org to your "safe list" - this will help future messages get through.
Happy Voting!
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• 2020 Ballot
• Awards & Grants
• Reopen Schools Safely
• Support the Breathe Act
• The Conscious Kid
• Journal on Humane Ed.
• Anti-Bias Book Talks
• Course-Use of Deadly Force
• Voter Registration Grants
• USHRN Racism Report
• Youth Human Rights Lab
• Tactical Mapping Course
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Extended Deadline for Human Rights Education Awards & Grants
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Do you have an idea to advance human rights education in the United States? Need support? Applications are now being accepted for 2020 Flowers Fund Grants of up to $1000.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
>> Learn more
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Recognize an individual or an organization that has made a significant contribution to Human Rights Education by nominating them for the 2020 Edward O’Brien HRE Awards.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
>> Learn more
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Reopening America's Schools & Campuses Safety & Equitably
EVENT DETAILS:
When: Tuesday, July 28
Time: 4:00 pm PT, 7:00 pm ET
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE
Description:
How and when our schools and campuses reopen is one the most important decisions our leaders can make right now.
Unfortunately, some politicians are pushing for them to fully reopen even as COVID-19 infection rates rise in their area and without proper safety plans or supplies in place. At the same time, key to returning safely is at least $175 billion in federal education funding, which is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate.
Join NEA for a special town hall for a conversation about what we can do as educators, parents, and community members to advocate for going back to school safely and equitably.
>> Learn more and RSVP
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Support the Breathe Act
The BREATHE Act is the modern-day Civil Rights Act that we deserve. The Act offers a radical reimagining of public safety, community care, and how we spend money as a society. We bring 4 simple ideas to the table:
- Divest federal resources from incarceration and policing.
- Invest in new, non-punitive, non-carceral approaches to community safety that lead states to shrink their criminal-legal systems and center the protection of Black lives—including Black mothers, Black trans people, and Black women.
- Allocate new money to build healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities.
- Hold political leaders to their promises and enhance the self-determination of all Black communities
Get to know and share out the 17 demands by Black Lives Matter that address COVID-19's disproportionate effect on black and brown communities. Study and support the Breathe Act authored and organized by the Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives and over 150 organizations.
>> Learn more and take action
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The Conscious Kid
The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization dedicated to equity and promoting healthy racial identity development in youth. They support organizations, families, and educators in taking action to disrupt racism in young children. They equip parents and educators with tools they can use to support racial identity development, critical literacy, and equitable practices in their homes and classrooms. The Conscious Kid is an exceptional resource for teachers across the country who are aspiring to build more inclusive classrooms by including books that affirm diverse identities.
The Conscious Kid was recently asked by Google to curate a list of teacher-facing reading materials as well as evaluation criteria to consider when bringing new resources into the classroom. Suggested by grade level, these resources are intended to help facilitate important conversations about racism, equity, and belonging. The Conscious Kid’s selections are informed by intersectional race-centered approaches including Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Media Literacy, which examine representation in the content, as well as the power dynamics behind the ownership, production, and creation of it.
>> Learn more
>> Bookshop
>> Resource: Books to Build Inclusive Classrooms
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International Journal of Humane Education 
The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Humane Education (IJHE) is now available from the Humane Education Coalition through their new parent organization, the Academy of Prosocial Learning!
As the first peer-reviewed journal of its kind, IJHE strives to build a scholarly community, expand a collective knowledge base, and validate the quality of research within all sectors of humane education. The first issue of IJHE includes scholar-practitioner articles and an invitational essay on various aspects of humane education in practice and theory.
>> Read the first issue
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Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk Series
 
Teaching for Change has just launched a new series entitled, Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk. The series is a collection of short videos that give caregivers, parents, and educators the tools to evaluate children’s books using an anti-racist and anti-bias lens.
In Freedom Reads, associate director of Teaching for Change, Allyson Criner Brown, spends ten minutes examining a different children’s book, offering a synopsis, relevant resources, and four to five key points from an anti-bias, critical literacy perspective.
“In years of working with parents, caregivers, and educators, we’ve seen that taking a deep dive into children’s books is one of the best ways to teach adults how to apply an anti-bias, anti-racist lens to books and other children’s media,” says Criner Brown.
Designed with parents in mind, Freedom Reads intends to take viewers on an extended journey through some of the best anti-bias and anti-racist books out there. The series appears on Teaching for Change’s YouTube channel and Social Justice Books website.
>> Learn more and watch episodes
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Free Course on Use of Deadly Force by Police in the U.S.
Police violence is a human rights crisis. We must step up to protect our communities across the U.S. against excessive use of force. In order to promote action against police violence in the United States, Amnesty International USA has developed a FREE micro-learning course on the use of deadly force by police in the U.S. By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Define the Use of Force and articulate under which circumstances authorities are allowed to use it
- Understand how racist and discriminatory ideology has shaped the history of policing in the USA
- Outline how U.S. police use excessive force and describe how it threatens human rights
- Take action by organizing and mobilizing your community to support systemic reform of USA policing to end racism and stop human rights violations
>> Start course
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Fund a Voter Registration Drive With a Grant from TT
 To help encourage voters to register in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, TT is offering grants ranging from $500-$2,000 for educators in these states. These funds support school community members and students to host voter registration drives at their schools and in their communities.
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2020>> Learn more and apply
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USHRN Report to Special Rapporteur on Racism and COVID-19
The US Human Rights Network submitted a report to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism's call: Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance. The report focuses on the US context with 3 parts: 1) anti-Semitism, 2) anti-Asian racism, and 3) anti-Black racism including the effects of the coronavirus on Indigenous Peoples and Pacific Islanders.
>> Read report
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Human Rights Education Liaison - HRW Student Task Force
The Human Rights Watch Student Taskforce (HRW STF) in Souther California seeks a highly qualified Human Rights Education (“HRE”) Liaison to create digital human rights education programming and toolkits in support of the Student Task Force’s annual campaigns.
HRW STF is looking for an innovative, creative thinker with a deep understanding of human rights education and experience with high school-age youth. The candidate should have strong project management skills and be detail-oriented. This is an opportunity to help expand HRW’s human rights education advocacy efforts and mobilize the next generation of human rights advocates on the most pressing human rights issues of the day. The position is based in the Los Angeles office and reports to the Senior Director for Southern California.
The HRE Liaison will collaborate daily with STF colleagues as well as external vendors and the expanding network of high school stakeholders.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 7, 2020
>> Learn more and apply
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Human Rights Learning Lab for Young People
 EVENT DETAILS:
When: Fridays, July 30, August 7-22
Time: 12:00 pm PT, 2:00 pm CT, 3:00 pm ET
Length: 75-90 minutes per session
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE
Description:
As we shelter in place join Amnesty International for Friday’s in July-August as we explore human rights through interactive learning activities designed for grade levels 3rd-8th.
Children have often been told that they are the future, that they will solve the world’s problems, innovate solutions, and be “the leaders of tomorrow.” But why does it have to be tomorrow?
Now, more than ever is the time to speak to young people about universal human rights. We know children are brave, powerful, and inquisitive. The human rights learning lab will tailor age-appropriate learning through activities that will focus on:
- Introducing basic concepts focused on teaching “what are human rights?”
- Observing human rights in your community and today’s world
- Storytelling
- What you can do!
Participants will receive a “Human Rights Hero Certificate of Recognition” from Amnesty International. For more information please contact jestrada@aiusa.org
>> Learn more and RSVP
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Tactical Mapping Tool Webinar
EVENT DETAILS:
When: Friday, July 30
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost: FREE
Description:
New Tactics in Human Rights invites you to register for the Tactical Mapping Tool (TMT) webinar. This time the intro and intermediate webinars have been combined.
The TMT allows activists to work collaboratively on a secure platform to build their map and a database of key actors, assess where those actors sit on a spectrum from ally to opponent, and track and plan direct action. Centered around the idea of mapping the relationships that emanate from a human rights abuse, the Tactical Mapping Tool is intended to assist activists in better understanding and assessing power dynamics and the impact that targeted action would have on individuals and their relationships. The TMT uses New Tactics’ Five Steps to Strategic Effective Method, which helps activists to be more strategic and effective in their advocacy work, as a foundation of the web tool.
This User Webinar will cover an introduction to New Tactics in Human Rights, our Strategic Effectiveness Method, and the Tactical Mapping Tool. The webinar will also delve into a discussion on the features of the Tactical Mapping Tool and provide guidance on how to use the TMT to get more from your planning and organizing. More details will be provided upon acceptance to the webinar.
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Human Rights Educators USA is a national network that strives to promote human dignity, justice, and peace by cultivating an expansive, vibrant base of support for Human Rights Education in the United States. >> Learn more
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