Other organisations preventing racism--
- Rock Against Racism (UK)
- All Together Now (Australia)
- One People's Project (US)
- European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
Rock Against Racism (otherwise known as RAR) is a campaign set up in the United Kingdom in 1976. The organisation involved pop, punk, rock, and reggae musicians performing with an anti-racism theme. It was founded by Red Saunders and Roger Huddle. According to Huddle, 'it remained just an idea until August 1976,' when Eric Clapton made a drunken statement at a concert. Clapton told the crowd that England was over-crowded and that they should vote to stop Britain from becoming 'a black colony'. He also told them that Britain should 'get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out,' and then repeatedly shouted the National Front slogan 'Keep Britain White!'.
Afterwards, Huddle and Saunders replied by writing Clapton a letter about how racism is wrong. At the end of the letter, they called for people to help form a movement called Rock Against Racism, and they report that they received hundreds of replies. Clapton later said that his remark was just a joke, and that he did not know anything about politics at the time. This organisation links to the line of inquiry "how people choose to come together to make a difference", because they all thought racism was an issue and they found the organisation from coming together with their mutual desire to help.
All Together Now
All Together Now is an Australian Organisation which promotes the prevention of racism in Australia. It is the only national organisation to focus mainly on stopping racism. They are supported by a volunteer Board of Directors and a volunteer Management Committee, as well as having over twenty business partnerships and supporters. These include Adobe, Microsoft and Shoot to Kill. All Together Now has started many campaigns, including 'One Parramatta' and 'Give Racism the Finger'. They encourage you to help by giving them donations and volunteering. They are well aware of any racism going on in the world, and even have a small blog on their website with news concerning racism.
All Together Now likes to include people in the community to help out. The organisation sometimes selects random people to share their opinions on racism. The award-winning project 'One Parramatta' surveyed lots of people for feedback, and there was even an episode of One Parramatta in the cinema. The project was branded "good perspective", "thought-provoking", "very good concept", "challenging and genuine". This organisation links to the line of inquiry "what makes a group of people effective", because with all these volunteers, a group of people who are passionate about the same thing will make a group effective since everyone wants the same thing.
One People's Project is an organisation found in 2000, to monitor racist individuals and groups in the US. It originated from a protest against a Nationalist Movement on July the 4th, 2000. Originally, it was named One People's Coalition, with Jenkins as their spokesperson. The organisation researched and published information about the Nationalist Movement's awards ceremony, ending up with the cancellation of the event. They started to broaden their focus and started to target other racist groups. By now, One People's Project has published phone numbers, home addresses and workplace addresses of racist individuals. Although they receive criticism and negative comments due to this, they defend their reasoning and are still going. One People's Project have interfered with many racist events taking place, and have had lawsuits filed against them. They started in Jersey, New York, but now get involved all over America. This organisation links to the line of inquiry "how communities can have different needs", because obviously some areas have more racism issues to deal with than others.
European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) is the Council of Europe's independent organisation that specialises in combating racism, discrimination, intolerance and more. They decided to start ECRI in 1993. ECRI is made up of 47 experts, one from each of the CoE member states. 28 of them are from the European Union. They go around different states to investigate and later publish their findings on their website. It is the continent's leading human rights organisation. They have launched campaigns on issues like child protection and online hate speech. They promote human rights through international conventions. This links to the line of inquiry we created: "an inquiry into: how people with different strengths can solve an issue if they work together." All of the 47 representatives have different strengths and control over their different states, meaning their message and help will be more widespread.
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