Bully, a documentary by Emmy and Sundance award-winning director Lee Hirsch, is one of the most important documentaries to be recently released. It represents a movement to end the cultural and social problem of bulling within school systems across the USA.

No longer can it be shrugged off as “just kids being kids,” the universal and emotional message brought out powerfully through the pain of the film’s subjects, is essential to all audiences.

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Two Southeastern High School teens will head to San Francisco this summer after their anti-bullying video earned a top spot in a national competition.

Tyler Gregory and Scott Hannah, members of the Family Community Career Leaders of America, made an anti-bullying video as part of a project for the organization. They entered it in the National Great American No Bull Challenge, which is meant to

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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- At a press conference on Tuesday, May 22, a coalition of 17 education, religious and civil liberties groups will release new guidelines aimed at helping public schools uphold the First Amendment while combating harassment and

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THE BULLY REPORT: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will host a reception/book party for local author Jodee Blanco whose latest book, Please Stop Laughing at Me, is on the New York Times Bestseller list. Madigan has invited hundreds of Chicago’s movers & shakers to attend the event at Studio Paris on June 4.

Blanco is often referred to as “the voice of America’s bullied students” and her book reveals her personal experiences with bullying during her younger years. I think that VH-1 “Basketball Wives” bullies, Evelyn Lozada and Tami Roman, should be invited to this event.

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Bullying. Several thoughts come to mind when people hear this word. Some may view bullying as a “normal part of growing up” or “just teasing.” Some view it as a school problem — something that children face only in the school building, on the school bus or on the playground. Others may view bullying as an experience that starts and ends in elementary school. The truth is that these views are only

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ROBSTOWN -- Enough. That's the name of a new anti-bully campaign sweeping Robstown Independent School District. The campaign was created by a marketing group working with the school district to raise awareness about the issue. And, it includes an aggressive public service announcement to help get the message out. The PSA shows a kid being bullied and pushed so far he overdoses on pills and his friend

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