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The Safe Zone Ally program offers training in how to be a proactive ally for groups that encounter barriers due to the way society views and treats them.
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What is a Safe Zone Ally?
The Safe Zone Ally Program is a network of faculty and staff who are visibly supportive of groups of people on campus that are often marginalized. A Safe Zone Ally is a campus employee who has participated in the LAVC Culturally Inclusive online training, attended Safe Zone Ally workshops, and agreed to be an Ally.
Participants at the Safe Zone training workshop will learn about topics and terminology, receive resources and referral info, interact with panels of students, and discuss ways of being an Ally. After attending, participants may choose to sign a contract promising to be a “safe space”, and receive a Safe Zone Ally placard and button to display. Those who have attended a Safe Zone Ally Training may choose to further their knowledge by attending continued trainings to learn about additional marginalized groups and earn badges as they progress.
How Can I Become a Safe Zone Ally?
Step One:
Culturally Inclusive Training – This self-paced online Canvas course is facilitated by Sally Raskoff and Tiffany Lanoix. You can do this course at your own pace, starting and stopping when convenient. This course carries five hours of flex for faculty.
To register in the Cultural Inclusiveness training, you can self-enroll in this Canvas course.
If you do not have a Canvas account, please follow this easy process to get an account.
Once you complete this online course, you are eligible to do a Safe Zone Ally training!
Step Two:
Once you have completed the Culturally Inclusive Training, register to attend Safe Zone Ally Workshops throughout the year.
Most Safe Zone Ally workshops are two hours and will provide training specific to one of our student groups. Watch for information regarding these upcoming workshops in the Monday PD Blast email.
Safe Zone Ally Workshops include:
For more information on what an ally is, check out this 3.5 minute video from @chescaleigh
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Quick-Talks are 30 minute sessions designed to bring us together (virtually) to discuss a variety of topics around antiracism. Each conversation will address a topic through an article, podcast, or video.
Participants will read the article or view the video on their own, and then join the conversation.
These Quick Talk sessions are an easy way to keep the talking, sharing, and learning moving forward.Be sure to check the weekly PD Blast for links to read, watch, or listen to the prompt for the next Quick Talk.
Upcoming Quick Talks
Wednesday, October 27 from 1:00pm to 1:30 Topic: Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? Prompts: Video- John Oliver Tackles the Importance of Black Hair Article-Ijeoma Oluo has the conversation she's been dreading with her mom Register through the Vision Resource Center
Wednesday, November 17 from 2:30pm to 3:00 Topic: Just Mercy, LAVC One Book One College Prompt: Author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson: Ted Talk Register through the Vision Resource Center
Thursday, December 9 from 2:00 to 2:30 Topic: LA's Residential Segregation Prompt: Article-How LA Residential Segregation Helped Divide America (LA Times) Register through the Vision Resource Center
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Failure to act is an act of racism
This page of resources is to support the goal of the LAVC community to continue learning about how we and the college can be more effectively actively anti-racist. This list is organized by types of information and is ever-changing. Refer back often as new resources will be added. Contact ProfDev with any suggestions for additional resources.
When you do a specific action, either off these lists or from another source, be sure to put what you learn into practice within the next 3 months and let others know about it.
Start with the LAVC CALL TO ACTION
Watch the Presentation and Panel Discussion video
Check out the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion LAVC page.
Actions – do, read, view, Listen, & learn!
“Racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people.” -- Ibram X. Kendi
Vote! Support voter registration drives!
Support Black-Owned Restaurants and Businesses
Support the California Assembly Constutional Amendment (ACA) 5 to repeal Proposition 209.
"A Questioning Frame of Mind: A commitment to being antiracist manifests in our choices. When we encounter interpersonal racism, whether obvious or covert, there are ways to respond and interrupt it. Asking questions is a powerful tool to seek clarity or offer a new perspective. Below are some suggestions to use in conversations when racist behavior occurs:
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Offer an alternative perspective: “Have you ever considered __________.”
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Speak your truth: “I don’t see it the way you do. I see it as __________.”
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Find common ground: “We don’t agree on __________ but we can agree on __________.”
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Give yourself the time and space you need: “Could we revisit the conversation about __________ tomorrow.”
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Set boundaries. “Please do not say __________ again to me or around me.
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” — Angela Y. Davis
Books
- How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram Kendhi. (Soon to be part of the PD BUILD media series book group.
- AntiRacist Baby, Ibram Kendhi (A Children’s book)
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
- Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
- So You Want to Talk About Race?, Ijeoma Oluo
Articles
- Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests – New Yorker interview with Bryan Stevenson, civil rights lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson is author of the memoir, Just Mercy.
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
- Your Black Colleague Might Look Like They’re Okay - Chances Are They’re Not by Danielle Cadet. This viral article was published at Refinery29, where Cadet is a vice president and managing editor.
- America Is On Fire – a message from Emerson College president, Dr. Lee Pelton
- Social Justice in Science Class – Marilyn Vogel, Teaching Tolerance, April 2019.
- A Call to Action for White Educators Who Seek to be Anti-Racist, PBS, June 2020
- What it Means to be Anti-Racist, Anna North, June 2020
- Reimagining the Role of the Police, Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director, June 2020
- Why white silence is deafening — and deadly, Salon
- Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge, LA Times.
- How to respond to “riots never solve anything!" SLTA...
- For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies, Sojourner
- How to take action online in the wake of George Floyd’s death, i-D
- Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life, Teen Vogue
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Films
- Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 - this documentary was filmed in response to the acquittals of the officers charged with the beating of Rodney King trial - available on Netflix
- Just Mercy, streaming for free during the month of June - available YouTube, iTunes, Amazon Prime Video & Google Play
- 13th – this documentary explores the history of race and the US criminal justice system – available on YouTube and Netflix
- I’m Not Your Negro - this visual essay explores racism through the stories of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr - available on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video
- When They See Us – Netflix
- Dear White People – Netflix
Videos
- Systemic Racism Explained, Alex Sequa, 4 minutes
- Let’s get to the root of racial injustice, Megan Ming Francis, 19 minutes
- Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, 20 minutes
- The Origin of Race in the USA, Danielle Bainbridge, Origin of Everything, PBS
- 25 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity with Students, New York Times
- The Danger of a Single Story, TED Talk with Chimamanda Adichie
- How do I make sure I’m not raising the next Amy Cooper?,- Embrace Race
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the fist step. We will faily when we fail to try. - Rosa Parks
Podcasts
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.” W.E.B. du Bois
Academic Resources
Interdisciplinary
Anthropology
Sociology
History
Psychology