How Is Higher Education Related to Democracy?

“Outside the Lines “Cowboys Clothing Controversy”
Worker Rights Consortium
The Anti-Sweatshop Movement USAS website
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Green America’s Responsible Shopper

The Self-Sufficiency Scale at the “Self-Sufficiency Standard”
Living Wage calculator
Living Wage Overview
United Students Against Sweatshops overview of campaigns for Campus Worker Justice

Establish your own campus group to fight sweatshops. Go to Free the Children and United Students Against Sweatshops to learn how to form a local group to combat sweatshops.
Go to your representatives’ and senators’ websites (you can find them at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov).
“Waging Until the End - The Living Wage Campaign at the University of Virginia”
“Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at CAL”

One conservative media source (such as WorldNetDaily or Intellectual Conservative or Free Republic) and one liberal source (such as Salon or The Nation online or ZNet or Mother Jones).

“Changing the Climate Story: Competing Narratives in U.S. Television News” and “The View from Crater Lake: A First-Hand Account Communicating Climate Change in a National Park.”

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

WorldNetDaily
Intellectual Conservative
Free Republic
Salon
The Nation online
ZNet
Mother Jones

“Changing the Climate Story: Competing Narratives in U.S. Television News”
“The View from Crater Lake: A First-Hand Account Communicating Climate Change in a National Park”

American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
AWCNET, in order to get tips on how to write a letter to the editor.

“Are Hate Crime Laws Necessary?”
“DOJ Downplays Expectation for Hate Crimes Law”
“Sikh Temple Shooting Stuns Congregation, Country”

“Overspent”
‘What Would Jesus Buy?’
Produce a fact sheet to help argue your case with information you can find at New Dream

Public Agenda

“Op-Ed: 'Frugal Chic' Shouldn't Be For Everyone”

Public Agenda

Go to the Web site www.publicagenda.org and click on “Issue Guides” and then on “Environment.”

“All Cultures Are Not Equal”

Extra Credit: Read “The Youth Vote: Young and Powerful” from Rock the Vote.

A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present(New York: HarperCollins 2003)—your school library should have a copy

Young Voters, Once Buoyed By Obama, Turn Away”

Campus Compact pledge
American Democracy Project

“As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes”
“Air pollution Could Cecome China’s Biggest Health Threat, Expert Warns”
Check out the picture of how pollution created in China spreads eastward across the globe at Visible Earth (click on the JPEG link below the photo to get an enlarged view)

My Footprint
Earth Watch

“Food Banks See drop in Donations”
End Hunger Network
Why Hunger
Feeding America
For tips on how to run a meeting, you can look here on page 4

Can “Global Warming’s Six Americas” become a melting pot for meaningful action?
 Student Environmental Action Coalition
Pew Climate

Go to The New York Times’ “Economic Crisis and Market Upheavals”

Who’s Rich

Justice in the Air
Dumping in Dixie: TVA sends toxic coal ash to poor black communities in Georgia and Alabama

Extra Credit: Go to the website for Feeding America

U.S. Census

Go to http://www.followthemoney.org

State of World Population 2010

Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQJrz-aDfI&feature=related and go to http://www.fairtradetownsusa.org

The Revival of Public Religion in Politics
Education Funding
ACLU
Pew Forum

United for a Fair Economy
Money, Money, Money
“Where Have All the Voters Gone?”
IAF

Read “Better Lives for Mexicans Cuts Allure of Going North”

Library of Congress’s Country Studies

In Professor’s Model, Diversity = Productivity

Beautiful Game Turned Ugly: Racism in Europe's Soccer Arenas

The Legacy of the ‘Little Rock Nine’

A More Perfect Union

 “11 Facts About Environmental Racism”
“Silent Discrimination: Issues of Environmental Justice”
 “Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: The Factory on the Hill”

League of United Latin American Citizens
American Indian Movement

Read at least one of the research reports at the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
Go to the It Gets Better Project and watch at least three of the It Gets Better Videos.

“If being a man means having body hair and sweating, why are the sexy guys in ads immune to both?”

A Gathering Storm
A Gaythering Storm

Instead of going to The White House Project
Go to the Center for American Women and Politics

The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Women’s Empowerment
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Read “Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’” and watch the “Single and Unequal” video that accompanies it. Then, answer the following question in a two- to three-page paper.

National Organization of Working Women
Free the Children
The Power of a Girl
Go to and read “Nelly Furtado: Supporting Girls Education.” Then, go to Free the Children  and help raise the money to adopt a village!
Human Rights Watch
Center for American Women and Politics

Hope’s Boy,’ a Memoir of Childhood in Foster Care

WTO History Project

Read “Ikea’s U.S. Factory Churns Out Unhappy Workers” and write a two- to three-page paper

Poor? Pay Up!

U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor’ Mass Layoff Statistics

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Review the information on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Students and Exchange Visitors web page
Go to Free the Children’s website
After browsing through it, read the information provided on child labor
Check out the resources
For example, the city of Bangor, Maine, passed legislation stating, “All clothes available on local store shelves should be made according to established international standards of ethical production.”
For more information about the campaign, go to the USAS website

See a transcript of the Constitution of the United States
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe. 2000

Listen to “Diverse Marseille Spared in French Riots” read “Should France Count Its Minority Population?”

Listen to the following stories:
“Hijab Bridges Faith and Fashion for US Muslim Women”
“A Tale of Two U.S. Muslim Women: To Cover or Not?”
“Debating the Burqa: Sarkozy Proposes Ban”

House.gov
Bread for the World’s Campaign to End Hunger
Interfaith Worker Justice’s Campaign Against Wage Theft
MAZON’s Fight to Combat Hunger
Catholic Relief Services’ Efforts to Fight AIDS in Africa
Human Capital and Poverty

You can find local non-profit organizations in your area by using World Hunger Year’s (WHY) Grassroots Resources Directory.
Project 12.1 Civic Engagement and Higher Education: Civic Engagement Exercise
You can find a great guide to help you with putting together and delivering your speech at Trascript Public and How To Write a Speech

On the following Websites you can find some excellent resources compiled by other student groups that will help you to write letters, organize meetings, and gain all of the tools you need to work for your issue:
Campus Activism
The Task Force
The Star
Fire It Up