For those interested in helping to end sweatshops and child labor:
Just came across this page when doing research for something else:
http://www.CoopAmerica.org/mcorpact.htm
There is an End Sweatshops Consumer Action Request and at the bottom of the
page you can e-mail to get more information about sweatshops, child labor and
corporate responsibility. Here is the what is listed at the bottom:
Labor Responsibility, Co-Op America
1612 K St. NW, Ste 600
Washington, DC 20006
(202)872-5307; fax (202)331-8166;
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For information about a Progessive Democratic Agenda which involves these
issues, please e-mail me - Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 27 08:41:38 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:40:12 -0500
From: Judith Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Population - a new synthesis
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ed Kothiringer/Maureen Press-Merkur wrote:
>
> Hi all --
>
> Just wanted to kick in my 2 cents worth on this one - - -
>
> Population in the underdeveloped countries can (and has) dropped
> dramatically when women are given access to education. This can be seen in
> a number of small, rural villages in India. (One of my anthro professors
> put her money where her beliefs are, and sends children from one village to
> school each year).
>
> The second point to consider is that women in these same countries are
> having many children often due to economic considerations. As the
> environment worsens, women have to walk farther to collect water, wood, and
> other necesseties. This means they need more hands (quite literally) at home
> to perform chores they themselves would otherwise be engaged in.
>
> A vicious circle, chasing its own tail. . .
>
> Small experiments have taken place (again, in rural villages in India).
> With a combination of education for both boys and girls, work to
> rehabilitate the environment and put into place truly sustainable practices,
> along with working towards village self-sufficiency (and un-tying itself
> from the World Bank and IMF), birth rates fall, and quality of life rises
> (and fewer female infants die).
>
> A synthesis is indeed what is needed.
>
> Maureen
> What Maureen's anthro professor is advocating seems so smart. Small
scale projects that will preserve the village support system and change
the culture in small increments so that there is not the alienation and
displacement to the huge urban areas which is the result of too many so
-called development projects. Birth control, education for all,
enviornmental repair, sustainable economic development, all these belong
together to make life in the villages manageable and OK for all, women
and men and children. In fact, I wish for the last two elements of this
prescription for my own area of Appalachia, where indutrialization has
run rampaant and destroyed the quality of life for many, forcing
migration to cities. Now welfare reform will bring on the same kinds of
pressures to move to cities. Have you all thought about the effect of
welfare reform on the environemnt. I would be interested to hear from
you on that. Judith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 28 17:58:26 1997
for
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 19:56:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Constance Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ECOFEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call For Papers (fwd)
A call for papers around feminism, science and technology....
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Constance L. Russell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Curriculum, Learning & Teaching
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 CANADA
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>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>"Let me count the ways: essays on Canadian feminist activism around issues
>of science and technology"
>
>Edited by Marilyn Mac Donald; intended publication date, Spring, 1999.
>
>This collection is intended as an exploration of the feminist approaches
>developed in taking action around particular aspects of science and
>technology. The essays are also expected to focus on Canadian examples,
>nationally and/or internationally.
>
>The book will be organized around the twelve strategic objectives of the
>1995 "Platform for Action", including:
>
> education and training employment and economy
> peace and armed conflict environment
> media girl child
> violence against women poverty
> health power and decision making
> institutional mechanisms human rights
>
>Essays should be first-person explorations (about 5 000 to 7 000 words in
>length) of the process of activism, and of identifying and working within
>and/or outside of the boundaries of the natural and applied sciences. That
>is, each essay should address the following:
>
> 1. science&technology at issue: what scientific/technical knowledge
>was considered problematic and why;
> 2. feminist analysis: from what sources was a feminist analysis of
>this issue derived; in what way(s) did academic WS contribute (or not) to
>that analysis;
> 3. learning from the past: what are the successes, failures,
>alternatives and so on for the particular issue; how might things have been
>done differently?
>
>To submit a proposal, send an abstract (250 words maximum, plus a title and
>an indication of which of the 12 objectives applies) by January 6, 1998, to:
>
> Marilyn Mac Donald
> Dept. of Women's Studies
> Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6
> (604) 291-5688 (office); 291-5518 (fax)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail)
>
>Please note that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are presently on
>strike, and may still be so by the end of December.
>
>Once proposals are accepted, a form letter will be sent to all potential
>contributors, outlining all the selected names, addresses, titles and
>abstracts, and providing a style sheet and other information about numbers
>of copies etc. Completed essays will be due on May 15, 1998.
>
>
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