FAIR News: Join the Pro-Human Movement This Summer
FAIR News: Join the Pro-Human Movement This Summer
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Paid Summer Internships With FAIR
UPDATE: A previous version of the graphic above incorrectly listed the internship as beginning on July 6th instead of the correct date of June 6th. We apologize for the error.
Do you value the civil rights and liberties of all individuals regardless of their skin color, ancestry, or other group identity? Are you interested in supporting and learning more about FAIR’s nonpartisan and pro-human mission and how FAIR promotes fairness, understanding, and our common humanity? Then join us this summer as a FAIR Intern!
We are seeking highly motivated and open-minded undergraduate students and recent graduates for full-time summer internships ($2,000 stipend provided). Ideal candidates will value curiosity, compassion, and courage, coupled with communication and leadership skills and a passion for FAIR’s pro-human values and vision. This internship will provide you with real-world experience in a nonpartisan, dynamic, and mission-driven organization, while also empowering you to develop resources and become ambassadors for FAIR’s mission in your own communities.
Applications are due on April 8, 2022.
Visit our summer internship page for more information.
Publish Your Writing on Our Substack
We want our FAIR Substack to be the go-to publication for people interested in sharing and reading diverse perspectives on culture and civil rights. Whether you’re a seasoned author or an amateur writer with a story to tell that contributes to our mission of promoting fairness, understanding, and humanity, we would love to receive your stories, opinions, investigations, reviews, interviews, and more!
Please submit your piece to submissions@fairforall.org
Submission guidelines:
Complete articles only (i.e. no “works in progress”).
No submissions that have already been published elsewhere.
We have no hard word count limits, but prefer submissions between 1000 and 2500 words.
In the email, please include a short personal introduction and brief (one paragraph) summary of the article.
We hope to hear from you!
FAIR Perspectives
Our guest this week is Kimi Katiti.
Kimi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. She creates visual art, music, and writing on a variety of topics and themes. She is also an avid skateboarder who devotes much of her time to advocacy and initiatives meant to empower young girls through skateboarding.
We discuss her formative years growing up in Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa before moving to the United States, her experience learning about America as a college student in Los Angeles, the ways Critical Pedagogy was infused in her coursework, the unhealthy emotional and psychological effects becoming “woke” had on her outlook and personal life, her slow transition out of that mindset, the power of forgiveness, and the value of having different lenses from which to view the world.
FAIR News Podcast
For audio versions of our FAIR News and FAIR Weekly Roundup newsletters, subscribe and listen to our FAIR News Podcast.
Why We Need Pro-Human Education
In our latest video, FAIR’s Dana Stangel-Plowe discusses the issues surrounding a new academic theory called “Culturally Responsive Education.” While intended to connect students with their educational material on a deep level, Stangel-Plowe explains how this new method achieves the opposite by assuming people who superficially look like one another must also think like one another.
[T]he idea of providing kids books that feature characters who look like them feels intuitive as a way to connect them to the material; but building curriculum around students’ skin color, ancestry, or gender raises serious questions about the very purpose of education in our diverse and pluralistic nation.
By making assumptions about what will engage students based on race or immutable traits, CRE is racist. The idea that all people who share the same group identity would also share the same interests, experiences, or beliefs is reductive and demeaning to the unique human beings in that group.
TODAY (March 10th): FAIR in Medicine Open House
TODAY (Thursday, March 10th) at 7:00p.m. CT, FAIR in Medicine will be hosting a virtual Open House event featuring special guest John Sly, Esq., a FAIR Maryland Chapter Member and lawyer representing various medical groups in Maryland. This is a great opportunity to meet and network with FAIR in Medicine Fellows and other medical professionals interested in FAIR's message.
All medical professionals are welcome!
Grassroots Training Workshops
Are you ready to be an effective advocate for pro-human values in your community? You know in your heart of hearts our common culture of fairness, understanding, and humanity requires you to be civically engaged and actively organizing and advocating in your community.
But how do you get started?
We’ve got you covered with the FAIR Grassroots Leader Training series.
Register to learn practical tools for organizing your community, how to be a more effective advocate, and ways to create positive, bottom-up change in our culture and country. The sessions include:
Grassroots Leader Session 1 | Bottom-Up Organizing
Grassroots Leader Session 2 | Finding Your Place At FAIR
Grassroots Leader Session 3 | Organizing Your Organizing
Public Speaking Training | Keeping Your Audience Captivated
Register now for the next Grassroots Leader Training series.
FAIR Wellness Webinars
Every Tuesday (the first four Tuesdays of the month) from 7:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. ET, FAIR Advisor Zander Keig will be hosting a series of FREE Wellness Webinars for FAIR members.
Register for any of the wellness webinars below.
FAIR Diversity Training
Meet FAIR Diversity: What It Means to Be Pro-Human
For all FAIR Members and volunteers. These events are typically held on the last Monday of each month.
Monday, March 28th, 7:00p.m. – 8:00p.m. EST
FAIR Chapter Events
FAIR Open House Events
TODAY (March 10th):
FAIR San Diego Open House
7:00p.m. PST, ZOOM
FAIR in Medicine Open House
8:00p.m. CST, ZOOM
FAIR Atlanta Open House
8:00p.m. EST, REGISTER
FAIR Chapter Events
TODAY (March 10th):
FAIR Ontario (613) Member Meeting
7:30p.m. EST, ZOOM
March 12th:
FAIR Oregon Meet & Greet
2:00p.m. PST, DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Twin Cities Membership Meeting
9:00a.m. CST, REGISTER
Grants Pass, OR Meet & Greet
2:00p.m. PST, REGISTER
March 15th:
FAIR Ontario - Bill 67 “Should We Worry?”
7:30p.m. EST, ZOOM
FAIR Bay Area - Ethnic Studies with Dr. Michael Harris
7:00p.m. PST, ZOOM
Please join us for a webinar on the California Department of Education’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum. Our speaker will be Dr. Michael Harris, who is one of the founders of San Francisco Voice for Israel, and serves as a lay leader in the Bay Area for StandWithUs, an Israel education organization based in Los Angeles.Over the past 2 1/2 years, Harris has been involved in the grassroots response to the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in California as well as working with activists in other states facing similar issues. This is the webinar for you if you are new to the issues surrounding ES curriculum. Dr. Harris’s talk will be followed by a lively Q & A that promises to be stimulating for all of our members.
Chapter Leader Training
March 21st:
Chapter Leader Series 1: Pro-human Approach to Inclusive Dialogue
7:00p.m. – 9:00p.m. EST,
Meeting ID: 859 8742 9884
March 23rd:
Chapter Leader Series 2: Pro-human Approach to Inclusive Leadership
7:00p.m. – 9:00p.m. EST
Meeting ID: 868 8969 6734
April 6th:
Chapter Leader Series 3: Now What? (follow-up debrief (pilot))
MUST have attended both a Series 1 AND a Series 2 training
7:00p.m. – 9:00p.m. EST
Meeting ID: 851 0018 9385
FAIR Educator Alliance
Teachers often feel isolated and alone in their schools, but FAIR is here for you! We will be holding weekly informal “happy hours” to share experiences and concerns and work on developing resources just for teachers. We’ll also be holding more formal monthly meetings to address issues based on your needs and interests.
For more information, please email educators@fairforall.org
The Zoom link to our weekly happy hour can be found here.
Join the FAIR Community
Become a FAIR volunteer or to join a FAIR chapter:
Join a Welcome to FAIR Zoom information session to learn more about our mission, or watch a previously recorded session in the Members section of www.fairforall.org.
Sign the FAIR Pledge for a common culture of fairness, understanding and humanity.
Join the FAIR community to connect and share information with other members.
Share your reviews and incident reports on our FAIR Transparency website.
"civil rights and liberties of all individuals regardless of their skin color, ancestry, or other group identity?"
A wonderful mission. However, why then did you hire corporate shill Michael Shellenberger, whose main focus is to push oil and gas drilling? The fact that you hired him seems to reveal your true motivations: not advocating "small L" liberalism but pushing the usual right-wing anti-environment agenda.
FYI, Here's some background on his industry ties and motivations: https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/the-new-denial-is-delay-at-the-breakthrough?s=r