All Together Now is a major supporter of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s campaign to promote the prevention of racism in Australia.

We welcome the government’s National Anti-Racism Strategy, and are a key supporter of both the strategy and the accompanying campaign Racism. It Stops With Me.

In summary, All Together Now believes the National Anti-Racism Strategy should:

The One Parramatta project, funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, provides young people with information about how to speak up when they witness racism in the community and encourages them to reflect on their behaviour towards people of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

We’ll be filming for Episode 3 of the One Parramatta project on Thursday 16 August in Church Street mall from 5pm. Come and talk to us about what you think about racism!

Episode 2 will be released on Thursday 23 August at Parramatta Events Cinema and online. This episode focusses on multicultural Parramatta. We took these pics while filming Episode 2 at the Barramatta family fun day celebrating NAIDOC week:

The One Parramatta project, funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, provides young people with information about how to speak up when they witness racism in the community and encourages them to reflect on their behaviour towards people of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

The ‘One Parramatta’ project seeks to address interpersonal racism in the Parramatta

Over four weeks in May & June 2011, The Body Shop customers were asked to Give Racism The Finger. During that time we collected 50,706 fingerprints in 83 stores across Australia. The Body Shop initiated conversations with 300,000 customers during the campaign.

Thanks to Jennifer Kulas for taking this pic 🙂