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Choosing to Participate

This section focuses on how understanding the past can connect with the issues of today. Contemporary stories show how history is made every day by ordinary human beings. Students begin to understand that they also have the power to change the course of history through their own individual actions. They explore what it means to be a citizen in a democracy, to exercise ones rights and responsibilities in the service of a more humane and compassionate world.
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Yuri Kochiyama: A Passion for Justice

58 minutes

Source: Women Make Movies

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Youth Venture

Youth Venture's mission is to help young people participate in addressing social needs. Their website provides guidance about how to start a "Youth Venture" aimed at improving communities at the local and global level.

Youth Venture's mission is to help young people participate in addressing social needs. Their website provides guidance about how to start a "Youth Venture" aimed at improving communities at the local and global level.

 

 Facing Today July 12, 2010
Youth Activism Project
The Youth Activism Project is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to improve the civic engagement of young people. The website includes many resources to help youth get involved in addressing the needs of communities on a local, national and global level including a list of strategies, descriptions of successful youth activism projects, and a guide for adult-sponsors.
 Facing Today July 7, 2009
Young People Who Rock
(CNN) Anchor Nicole Lapin interviews young people under 30 who are making a difference in communities. "Young people who rock," is a blog that has a new interview every Friday with someone who is choosing to participate.
 Facing Today April 23, 2008
Would You Save A Drowning Girl?
In the editorial, "Would you let this girl drown?" New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof uses the hypothetical situation of a drowning girl to illustrate how the international community, and individuals in general, are more likely to go out of their way to save one person than to alleviate the suffering of many.
 Facing Today July 15, 2009
Worse Than War

115 minutes
Source: PBS Video

Based on the book by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War documents Goldhagen’s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, including Rwanda, Guatemala, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Ukraine. He speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid workers, and journalists, all with the purpose of explaining and understanding the critical features of genocide and how to finally stop it.

 Library Resource April 27, 2010
World Humanitarian Day Facing Today August 19, 2009
Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust

70 minutes

Source: Facing History and Ourselves

Vera Laska examines the roles women played in resistance activities and conditions they faced in concentration camps. This tape is part of the Elements of Time series.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Woman Rescued After Train Track Fall
The news story, "Woman Rescued After Train Track Fall," describes a situation in the Boston subway (the "T") where two men risked their lives to save a woman they didn't know who fell onto the tracks, inches from the electric third rail.
 Facing Today October 2, 2008
Win a Trip with Nicholas Kristof

In his New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof recently announced that he is taking applications for his fourth annual 2010 “win-a-trip” contest.

 Facing Today December 14, 2009
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