Action Options in the Social Sphere

• View, and then share the links and ideas, from the following website: http://www.opensourceactivism.com/ideas_menu.html
• Download a PDF that tells which sweatshop-companies to avoid. http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/guideDownload-Donate.cfm?source=WDSS38&trk=SSGUIDEHOME
• Join, participate in, and offer financial support to non-profit or NGO (non-governmental organizations) that are involved in the protection and rights of women and children.
  
• Demand that your church preaches on social justice issues: children's rights, women's equality, economic rights, dignity of the person.
  
• Become an activist. Start a specific campaign. For example, get ads for "Escort Services" out of your mainstream local newspapers and phone books. Find out the travel agencies that pander to sex tourists and move to have them prosecuted under the law. Join the WalMart Watch:http://walmartwatch.com/
• Purchase FAIR TRADE products for this holiday giving season.
• http://store.gxonlinestore.org/index.html
• Sweatshop Free Items: http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/actionplan.html
• Coffee: http://www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/listft.cfm
• Apparel/ clothing: http://www.nosweatapparel.com/
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· Include youth participation in every stage of developing your strategies, both as resources and partners.

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· Understand how trafficking fits within the realm of social justice and learn what is happening near you. Receive a free e-newsletter, Stop Trafficking. Go to: http://homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/index.html

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· Be a responsible shopper: http://www.responsibleshopper.org/

· Find out what the retail companies are doing: http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/scorecard.cfm

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Do you have additional ideas? Why not email your suggestions or links to be considered for inclusion on this website? Email: S. Patrice Colletti, SDS

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