Resources & Learning Tools

La narración y el diálogo como herramientas contra la desinformación - recursos y casos de estudio.
Countering disinformation with storytelling - resources and case studies.

Click en la imagen con bombillas para acceder estudios de caso y recursos. 
Click the image with lightbulbs to access additional resources and case studies in Spanish.

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​Empathy is a key communication and facilitation skill.
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​​Brené Brown's 3 minute video is one of our favorite resources to understand difference between empathy and sympathy.

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Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter

• Black Lives Matter organization page
• ​Amplify RJ's Restorative Justice reading list on abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization
• BlackFeminisms Reading Resources by and about Black women - by Dr. Melissa C. Brown
• BlackPast - References on African American history and the history of 1+ billion people of African ancestry around the world.​
• 13th - Film by Ava DuVernay – free on YouTube courtesy of Netflix (as of 5/24/23)
• EJI: Equal Justice Initiative - racial justice museum and memorial

Ally is a Verb

• ​Resources for white allyship - Dismantle Collective
• Teaching & Learning tools - Teaching Tolerance
• Racial Literacy - works by Dr. Stevenson, Brandeis University
• Racialized Trauma - Resmaa Menakem
• A Different Asian-American Timeline - ChangeLab
• The Ten Stages of Genocide - Genocide Watch​​
• Inclusive Language Guide (2023) - Oxfam

Anti-colonial Practice, Decolonization, and Indigenous Peoples & Cultures​

Learn about Native Land on this interactive map, and next steps from the Native Governance Center's Beyond Land Acknowledgement guide.

Did you know the Portland has a large Urban Native American population with over 380 federally recognized Tribes in the metropolitan area?

Learn with the Confluence Project about the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices, Tribal Treaty Areas, and about Native American Community in the Portland Metropolitan Area'.

Learn how the US government's Donation Land Claim Act and how that process enabled stolen land from native peoples, and watch this Land of the Yakamas video by the Yakima Nation to learn more about the consequences of environmental degradation.

Learn how predominantly Black and African slavery, labor, and exploitation that made this and related processes possible.

Learn about Indigenous peoples and cultures in aka Portland, Oregon area:

• Chinook Indian Nation
• ​Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes 
• Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
• Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
• Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
• Additional peoples of the region include Cayuse, Clackamas, Kalapuya, Klickitat, Molala, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Umpqua, Walla Walla, Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama.
  

--> Donate to the MRG Chúush Fund: Water for Warm Springs and the Warm Springs Community Action Team

Learn More About the Connection of People & Land
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• Recommended Reading List on land return, decolonization, solidarity, and more - Sogorea Te' Land Trust
• The Stories We Tell: Land Acknowledgement & Indigenous Sovereignty - Center for Story-Based Strategy
• ​How to Talk about Native Nations - Native Governance Center
• Native American Experience Reading List - First Nations Development ​
• Land Back Manifesto - LandBack
• Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit - Resource Generation
• Indigenous Resistance Homework - Catalyst Project

Toolkits & Guides

• Palestine Action Toolkit - Palestinian Feminist Collective
• Oppressive Language List (what to not say and what to say!): from the Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center at Brandeis University​
• ​Disability Language Guide ​- written by Labib Rahman and Reviewed by the Stanford Disability Initiative Board​
• LGBTQ Justice - Multnomah County Resource List

News Sources

Women's Media Center
YES! Magazine
​Reasons to Be Cheerful
​Terrain.org