Dear Friend,

We are delighted to share with you a series of five animated videos to introduce our 5Ds of bystander intervention methodology, which provide people with strategies to safely intervene in harassment.

AARP, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC joined forces to produce these videos aimed at empowering a broader audience about the importance of being allies when hate and disrespect occurs. 

Over the past two years, we have seen an increase in anti-Asian hate and harassment in the US. The FBI reported a 76% increase in hate crime incidents motivated by anti-Asian bias in 2020, compared to 2019.

We were able to respond to this moment by offering our free Bystander Intervention training to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment, created in partnership with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. Now, with the animated videos, we would like to continue to make an impact and empower even more people with these easily actionable steps to address harassment. The videos are powerful, illustrative, and compelling enough to inspire viewers to step in and become allies.

Each animation describes one of Right To Be's 5Ds of Bystander Intervention: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct. The stories and characters represent every major ethnic group (Asian, Black, Latinx, Native, and White Americans) and region of the country (North, South, East, West, and Pacific Islands). The videos are provided in Cantonese, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, as well as English and Spanish.

We hope you don't miss these valuable resources and that you can share them with your community. We will never stop working to build a world free of harassment and we know you will be by our side supporting us. Thank you for your unconditional support!

For more information on the training and upcoming free public sessions, please see here.

With love, 

Right To Be, formerly Hollaback!