We have selected our 5 Victorian participants! They are:
Jemma Mathers from Ballarat, Emmanuel Majok from Richmond, Dat Doe from Melbourne, Kate Ashton from Melbourne and Tyrone Bean Melbourne.
In the first training session, we explored the ideas around “Our world, our choice/One planet, one people” which was facilitated by High Resolves. Part of their facilitation included studying “individual & collective identity” all based on the research conducted by National Geographic, which states that ” 99.9% of your DNA is the same as any other human’s”. Human genetic diversity comes from 0.1% difference in DNA.
We also introduced South African history, through watching a documentary called “Wrong side of the bus”. “Wrong side of the bus” is a doco about a South African/Jewish Prof Sidney and his son, Aaron Bloch. Sidney was 15 years old when the apartheid system was introduced in South Africa. The doco explores the degree of responsibility of the “bystander” in the face of terrible events. If people fail to intervene against injustice and the oppression of others, are they in some ways guilty of colluding with the perpetrator?
In our second session, we will be looking at the impact that racism has on victims, perpetrators and bystanders. We will seek to find authentic answers to the question, “What can you do at 15/16/17 years, to change the world” in relation to issues around race and multiculturalism.
