Cheering for changes
Pomona High School students form Community Action Team
By Mark Petix, Staff Writer
POMONA - More often than she'd like, Principal Marilyn Ghirelli sees Pomona High School as a city of
strangers, 1,700-plus students self-segregated by race,
culture and neighborhood alliances...
Pomona CAT ready for Action!
Members of the Pomona zerohour Campus Action Team gave up their weekend and took to the
mountains of Lake Arrowhead from December 1st through December 3rd. The retreat was
designed in order to train CAT members to become Peer Trainers under the Anti-Defamation
League's A World of Difference Program. CAT Members want to see Human Relations improve
at Pomona High and have committed themselves to train all of their peers so that there's
more understanding and appreciation of diversity at their school. The ADL's trainers
were impressed with how sophisticated the students were already with regards to Human
Relations issues and the knowledge that they gained will only strengthen their ability
to spread peace at P-High. CAT members who were trained have already come up with a
set of activities that they'll implement for the rest of the year beginnning with
training their fellow CAT members who couldn't be there. Make sure to check this
website to see all the wonderful activities that the CAT has planned.
Pomona CAT members "Mix It Up!"
The Pomona Campus Action Team members made the national "Mix It Up Day" the kickoff of their Zerohour effort.
CAT members designed and implemented activities that would help "break down borders" between social groups on campus.
Members of the team who planned and implemented the activity were really excited about how many people they got to
participate in games to get to know people better like the "people scavenger hunt." Sporting their zerohour shirts
and letting other students know that they want "No haters Here!" in Pomona High, the organizers and the participants
enjoyed a lunch time in which the social boundaries in school were blurred. Great job Pomona CAT! Mix it up Day
is a national day of action sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center intended to help students break down social
barriers in schools across the country.
Cultural Awareness Program:
On November 2, 2006 Gardena High School ’s MECHA, BSA and Pacific Islander clubs
will mount a lunchtime cultural awareness program featuring a performance
by Aztec dancers. The program will focus on sharing black, Latino and Asian
family traditions and honoring family members who have passed on.
Civil Rights television series returns to PBS on Monday,
October 02, 2006
