Tour for Humanity an eye opener for students (Baytoday.ca Article)

A group of about 20 students packed into the Tour for Humanity bus which was making a tour stop in North Bay today.  

Students at Ecole secondaire Odyssee were the first ones to take into the seminar which described the ten stages of genocide in a visual workshop called “The Global Perspective.”  

The workshop used the tragic holocaust story during World War II and how the anger and hate towards the Jewish people evolved as it’s prime example.   

“We go through the ten stages (of genocide) one by one and at the end comes almost the most important part which is what they can do about it because the very first stage is classification, us vs them,” said Daniella Lurion, Tour for Humanity coordinator.   

“That’s behaviour that we see every day, we see it in schools, we see it in communities. It’s putting people in boxes and judging someone else for who they are and that’s sort of the bottom line is to understand that this isn’t something that’s happening way back when, or somewhere else, it’s something that happens all the time.”  

Tony Leblanc was one of the students who took part. The 17-year-old was shocked to hear the sheer numbers killed in the holocaust. 

“It’s important that every student realized the situations because it’s almost common that because this happened in the past, it can be easily forgotten or that happened in the past so don’t worry about it, and it’s always been said if you don’t study history, you are doomed to repeat it,” said Leblanc.  

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Tour for Humanity ‘eye-opening’ (The Nugget Article)

Whether it’s hate-mongering, genocide or “Holocaust revisionism,” young people are the key to making the world safer for future generations.

That was the message Daniella Lurion delivered to students of Ecole Secondaire Publique Odyssee Monday as part of the Tour for Humanity visit in North Bay.

This is the second time the tour has visited Odyssee. The educational initiative is presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies and is designed to inspire and empower students to make themselves heard and take action against hate.

Lurion, who has been with the initiative for almost three years, said the most effective way to stop the hatred is to step in at the first stage, where individuals, groups or governments try to classify people as “us versus them.”

“The world is at a turning point,” Lurion said, and young people who are educated and informed are the biggest hope to defeat hatred.

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School kids in North Bay getting a face first look at what apathy towards hate can do (CogecoTV North Bay)

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Local high school students learning to raise voice and make a difference (100.5 Kiss Article)

The Tour for Humanity is stopping in North Bay to educate local high school students to stand up against hate crimes.

The mobile classroom is stopping at four local high school with a message to stop spreading hate.

Tour coordinator, Daniella Lurion says through the Tour for Humanity, students are being taught a variety of subjects including workshops on hate crimes like the genocide in World War 2 and the Canadian Residential School system.

‘This isn’t happening that’s happening way back when or somewhere else, it’s happening all the time.  It’s in Canada, around the world, and our own backyards. We see people being discriminated against from all walks of life and that’s the commonality.”

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