Not In Our Town: Class Actions

Not In Our Town: Class Actions profiles students and community members in the United States (US) who are working to create positive change in the wake of racism, anti-Semitism, and the traumatic consequences of bullying. Narrated by Yul Kwon, the half-hour documentary, presented on the US Public Broadcasting system (PBS) stations in 2012, is a project of the Not In Our Town (NIOT) project.

Fifty years after James Meredith became the first black student at the segregated University of Mississippi, US, football fans resurface the chant, "The South will rise again." Student leaders confront the divisive practice, sparking a campus visit from the Ku Klux Klan, a hate group that has been active since the days of slavery in the US. New solutions are found in Lancaster, a city east of Los Angeles, California, after teen suicides in nearby towns activate the town. A middle school counselor starts an anti-bullying programme that inspires a citywide campaign. The college town of Bloomington, Indiana, shocked after a Korean student was murdered by a white supremacist a decade ago, bands together again after anti-Semitic attacks on the eve of Hanukkah, a Jewish religious celebration.