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LETTER WRITING Letter writing is one way to take action on justice issues. Click here for congressional e-mail addresses. For information on how to write an appropriate letter of protest click here. PROTESTS Organizing peaceful protests is a tried and true avenue for working towards a just world. Protest organizers must be well informed of the issues surrounding the justice situation and must communicate opening and clearly with protest participants. Protesting can takes many forms - marches, sit-ins, prayer vigils, rallys, etc. The taking action links below might help in considering how to organize a protest.
JUSTICE SITE LINKS
Anti-Slavery: http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/antislavery/childlabour.htm Anti-slavery is an excellent organization that works to end modern human slavery. We conceive of slavery as having existed only during the Civil War period in America. However, there are up to 27 million human slaves in our world today. That’s about double the entire number of African slaves trafficked to our country during the entire trans-Atlantic slave period, from about 1500-1860. For more information on the issue of modern human slavery, see this National Geographic website: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/online_extra.html Energy efficiency site: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/everyday/greenhouse/index.html This interactive site walks you through each room of a home to explain energy efficient measures around the house. How many resources do you consume? http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp This site offers a quiz to measure your “ecological footprint,” which is a gauge of the amount of resources we consume in our daily activities. US Catholic Bishops/Domestic Poverty http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/povfacts.shtml The links on this site provide numerous facts on domestic poverty. Very handy. Too Much http://www.cipa-apex.org/toomuch/inequality.html Too Much offers a weekly e-mail that details social inequality. This particular site outlines the wealth gap in America. You can sign-up for the weekly e-mails via this website.
http://www.cipa-apex.org/toomuch/quiz.html This site offers a web-quiz that deals with the distribution of wealth and income in America Oxfam classroom lesson plans http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/globciti/activities_key2.htm Outlines a variety of classroom activities for explaining global citizenship themes. United for a Fair Economy http://www.teachingeconomics.org/content/index.php?topic=tenchairs This (UFE) site offers another good classroom activity for helping students to understand the distribution of wealth in America. UFE has its own website, too, with a variety of information on this topic. They, too, offer regular, informative e-mail messages for which you can sign-up on their website Bureau of Labor Statistics This website provides links to a number of government agencies that can provide with information on darn near any topic.
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