AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
10 steps to becoming an ally to an 'other'.
Fear has been characterized as false evidence appearing real. When we come face to face with a hungry tiger, the fear we feel is legitimate and gets us to move out of harm's way. But when our fear is the result of people's differences, or "isms," that same feeling becomes a roadblock.
Those "isms" include racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, classism, and gender oppression and ethno-religious oppression.
Overcoming one's fear of the "isms" is the first step in becoming an effective ally, said Mounira Morris, Marcella Runell and Michelle Van Ess at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference held in Washington, D.C. in March.
Morris is the director of diversity affairs at Allegheny College PA. Runell is a graduate student in social justice education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Van-Ess is the assistant director of student activities/programming at Fordham University NY.
Definitions of ally
From a grammar standpoint, the word "ally" is both a verb and a noun. Definitions include uniting and forming a connection between or taking on something.
Ally can also mean a sovereign or state associated with another by a treaty or league. And it can reflect privilege when taken to mean "one that is associated with another as a helper."
- Social justice focus of NCC festival.
- Newspaper article from: Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT) March 31, 2006 700+ words
...keynote address, "Education and Social Justice," will begin at 6 p.m. in...professor, said education and social justice is the theme of the event, and...A Dialogue About the U.S. Patriot Act," "Architectural Styles of...
- The influence of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on hip hop: "... success and...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Turner, Richard Brent July 1, 2004 700+ words
...in their ability to relate the social justice issues of black America to the...by the war on terrorism, the Patriot Act, and racial profiling? First...to the values of democracy and social justice. King and Malcolm X never achieved...
- Patriot Act renewal urged; Bush lobbies for provisions.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 10, 2005 700+ words
...Congress to renew provisions of the USA Patriot Act that expire at the end of the year and...neither should the protections of the Patriot Act," Mr. Bush told state troopers at...Sixteen critical provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire," he said...
- GOP, Democrats Bank on Patriot Act as Key Issue.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 7, 2004 700+ words
...a bill that would roll back the USA Patriot Act, insisting that the new surveillance...constantly hit with questions about the Patriot Act whenever he goes home to his district...speeches last fall in defense of the Patriot Act, only to be criticized for using public...
- University of Oregon Forum Examines Reach of Patriot Act.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 25, 2002 700+ words
...a forum Thursday night that the USA Patriot Act dramatically violates constitutionally...to the forum, which was organized by Patriot Act opponents, in a University of Oregon...of speakers sounding the alarm on the Patriot Act. An overreaching executive branch had...
- Bush decries bail for terror suspects; Expansion of Patriot Act urged.(NATION)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 21, 2004 700+ words
...terrorists as part of an expansion of the Patriot Act and challenged critics of the law to...enforcement powers and defended the original Patriot Act, which is set to expire in 2005. He...he told Mr. Bush onstage. "The Patriot Act is a law; the Patriot Act has the ...
- Preserving the Patriot Act.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 13, 2005 700+ words
...Congress will determine if the U.S.A. Patriot Act - the most important domestic security...That would be particularly true if the Patriot Act's most vociferous critics on the Left...the United States. In reality, the Patriot Act is an eminently sensible overhaul of...
- Patriot Act up for renewal, but law's effectiveness unclear.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) April 4, 2005 700+ words
...Alberto Gonzales' campaign to renew the Patriot Act does not belong to an al-Qaida-trained...s arrest was an example of how "the Patriot Act was used to protect the lives and liberties...mail records almost as fast without the Patriot Act. "It's absurd," said Bill Maynard...
