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face="Arial" color="#000080"> SWEATFREE SCHOOLS</font></b></h1> <p>The Resource Center's Youth Organizing Committee on Child Labor and Sweatshops invites you to participate in the new Minnesota <a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/youth/index.htm" target="_top"><u>Sweatfree Schools </u></a>Campaign. This campaign offers your students an opportunity to become actively engaged in efforts to end exploitative child labor and sweatshops. In the process, students also learn citizenship, research and organizing skills. </p> <p>The Minnesota Sweatfree Schools campaign believes that our schools have a responsibility to set an example for creating a more just society. This role includes not contributing to a system that profits from the exploitation of children and adults.</p> <p>The U.N. estimates that 250 million children under the age of 14 work, half of them full time.  They work in occupations that are often dangerous or harmful to their health or development. They are often work for extremely low wages. In addition, their work leaves them little or no time to attend school.  The Minnesota Sweatfree Schools Campaign believes that: <ul> <li>Child labor is wrong; children should have the opportunity to go to school.</li> <li>All workers should have the right to fair treatment, decent working conditions and a living wage.</li> </ul> <p>The campaign calls upon Minnesota schools to adopt and implement a purchasing code of conduct requiring that items of apparel, soccer balls, softballs and baseballs purchased by the school not be made in sweatshops or by child labor.</p> <p>Minnesota Sweatfree Schools invites all Minnesota schools to take simple steps toward ending child labor and sweatshop abuse and creating positive social change by:</p> <p>1)      Educating the first generation of consumers in a truly global economy about the pervasive reality of sweatshops and child labor.</p> <p>2)      Adopting and implementing the Code of Conduct for the Manufacture of Apparel and Sporting Goods.</p> <p>Organizing packets for grade school through college level are available from the Resource Center of the Americas. For more information, <a href="mailto:Educators@Americas.org" target="main">drop us a line</a>.</td> <td valign="top" width="200"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CECF9C"> <h4 align="center"><b><i><a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/Biographies_and_Mugs/Swenson_Mary.htm" target="main"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#000099"><img border="0" src="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/images/doodads/border%20blue%20200.gif" width="205" height="14"><br> </font><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#660000"> Mary</font></a> <font size="4" face="Arial" color="#660000"> Says<a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/Biographies_and_Mugs/Swenson_Mary.htm" target="main"><br> </a></font><a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/Biographies_and_Mugs/Swenson_Mary.htm" target="main"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#000099"> <img border="0" src="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/images/doodads/border%20blue%20bottom200.gif" width="205" height="14"></font></a></i></b></h4> <h4>Performance Standards Talk</h4> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.americas.org/teachers_room/performance_standards_talk.htm" target="main">Ideas </a>on how to apply our curriculum to Minnesota's Profiles of Learning standards.</font></p> <h4>HIGH SCHOOLERS TEACH CUBA on the WEB</h4> <p><font size="2">Gary Bacon, a teacher at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, CA works with young people to make serious inquiries into the world and to help create a more human-centered world. They have developed a comprehensive Web site on US Foreign Policy in the Americas: Focus on Cuba: </font><a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.la.mvla.net/LC/CubaPoli/cuba_ndx.htm" target="main"><font size="2">http://www.la.mvla.net/LC/CubaPoli/cuba_ndx.htm</font></a></p> <p><font size="2">It is designed for teachers and students and anyone wishing to become better informed on issues relative to US foreign policy. This website presents a marvelously informative program on Cuba!  The extent of in-depth research involved in this project is obvious, the graphics are excellent, and the links provide references and are a wonderful resource. It explains differing viewpoints and is clear about what the authors' conclusions are. Gary Bacon and his students deserve Kudos!</font></p> <h4>Education for Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility</h4> <p><font size="2">is a refreshing and well-presented monograph by Julie Andrizejewski and John Alessio on the crucial issue of teaching students to be responsible global citizens. In the words of the author,"the monograph critiques traditional education, challenges the narrow focus of educating students to fit into the global corporate empire, explains why we must think of citizenship in a global context, and gives some suggestions about how global citizenship might be taught."</font></p> <p><font size="2">It's on the <a href="http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0001/20011116010844/http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/glomono.html" target="main">web</a>. </font></p> <h4>Speakers on World Population Available for Your Classroom</h4> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">"World population, now over 5.9 billion people, has doubled in just the past 45 years! A billion people now live in absolute poverty, more that the population of the entire planet less than 200 years ago.  Population now increases faster than many vital renewable and non-renewable resources." World Population Balance has speakers on this topic for your classroom. Contact them at <a href="mailto:WPBdPax@tc.umn.edu" target="main">WPBdPax@tc.umn.edu</a> or (612)869-1640.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000099"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">"The textile and apparel industries are a showcase of horrors for the labor abuses sanctioned by the global free trade economy, where child labor, wage slavery and employer cruelty are legion."</font> <ul> <ul> <p><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Times New Roman">from</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><i>NO SWEAT: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers</i>,</font><br> <font face="Times New Roman">Andrew Ross, ed. 1997 .</font></font></p> </ul> </ul> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">"Most of the world's 30 to 40 million soccer balls sold each year are made in Pakistan. Children as young as 6 years old hand stitch an estimated 25% of them. These children earn approximately $1.50/day for 10 hours of work, leaving them no time for schooling."</font> <ul> <ul> <p><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Times New Roman">From</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><i>Eye to Eye: Foul Ball</i>,</font> <font face="Times New Roman">a Canadian TV documentary.</font></font></p> </ul> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div>   </td> </tr> </table>   </td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> </td></tr></table></body>