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Youth Action Network Manuals!

Fire It Up! (Youth Action Manual)

Looking for specific information and advice on getting your group up and going? You can find all the chapters of Fire It Up! Contact us at YAN if you would like to order a copy of Fire It Up! Note: Currently we can only offer the bound manual at cost. (Approx. $5)

Download the full manual. (3.8 MB) pdf

Click here for individual items in manual.

Keep it Real (Media Literacy Manual)

Keep It Real is a manual for teachers and students who want to bring issues of Hip Hop, commodification and gender into the classroom.

It is a program in media literacy that aims to involve students in their own education and in the world in which they are consumers, activists, and artists. It aims to address different aspects of the Hip Hop lifestyle, from clothes to values to music to spoken word to graffiti, from a variety of perspectives. It helps students link visible, everyday aspects of Hip Hop culture to bigger issues in history, health, human rights, language, and sociology. It connects ideas in music videos to current events in the news.

Its activities and suggestions are designed for student-teacher/facilitator partnerships and purposely open-ended to trigger discussion and debate. They can be adapted and integrated into a high school curriculum, training session or workshop.

Click here to download the manual. (1.33 MB) pdf

Anti-Oppression Kit

Click here to download the anti-oppression kit. doc

Anti-Racism

Anti-Oppression Organizing Tools

Anti-Racist Strategies for White Student Radicals

Shinin’ the Lite on White, Part One: White Privilege

Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Finding Colours of Resistance

Racialicious — A blog about race and pop culture

Canadian Race Relations Foundation Glossary pdf

Decolonizing Anti-Racism

The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Anti-Semitism Part of All Our Movements

Gender and Sexuality

When Calling Me Your Beautiful Sister Isn’t Enough

Men, Masculinities, and Gender Politics

On the Road to Healing: A Booklet for Men Against Sexism pdf

Bending the Mold: an Action Kit for Transgender Youth pdf

One Umbrella, Many People: Diversity Within the LGBT Communities pdf

Human Rights

Amnesty International Youth Action Toolkit

Environment

Saving the Planet 101 pdf

Environmental Youth Alliance Organizational Development Manuals

Measure your Ecological Footprint

First Nations Youth

Redwire Magazine Archives