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Exercise 1.1

• How Is Higher Education Related to Democracy?

Exercise 1.3 What’s the Connection Between College Students and Sweatshops?

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

Exercise 1.4 Worried About the Increasingly High Cost of Tuition?

• Higher Ed Not Debt

Exercise 1.5 Are Workers on Your Campus Paid Enough to Be Self-Sufficient?

• 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

Suggestions for Specific Actions

• 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”