Workshop and Activity Stand up for tolerance!

A project of JAK Hesse and Lower-Saxony

Activism against group-related hostility

Reason:• Learn the lesson from history

• Commemorate the victims of war and tyranny

• Education for peace and international understanding

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

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

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

Activism against right-wing extremism

The Photo Activity

Our Goals:• To call attention to everyday racism and discrimination

• To raise awareness of discrimination in everyday‘s language and to prevent this („This is gay!“/ „Retard!“/ „Don‘t be a Jew!“)

• To call for civil courage

The Photo Activity