Resources And Readings

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Fair Trade

Oxfam International                                                    www.maketradefair.com

Transfair USA                                                            www.transfairusa.org

The Fairtrade Foundation                                            www.fairtrade.org/uk

Fairtrade Federation                                                   www.fairtradefederation.com

Fairtrade Resource Network                                        www.fairtraderesource.org

 

The Conscious Consumer: Promoting Economic Justice through Fair Trade by Rose Benz Ericson

Coffee with Pleasure Laure Waridel

Social Responsibility in the Global Market: Fair Trade of Cultural Products by Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson

Fair Trade: Market Driven Ethical Consumption by Alex Nicholls and Charlotte Opal

Mugged: Poverty in your Cup by Charis Gresser and Sophia Tickell**

 

GLBT Advocacy

Human Rights Campaign                               www.hrc.org

GLBT Historical Society                                www.glbthistory.org

Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights         www.center4civilrights.org

National Center for Lesbian Rights                 www.nclrights.org

American Civil Liberties Union                       www.aclu.com

 

Everyday Activism: A Handbook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People and their Allies by Michael R. Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan

A Desired Past: A Short History of Same Sex Love in America by Leila J. Rupp

Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights by Eric Marcus

 

Hunger And Poverty

The ONE Campaign                                   www.one.org

The Hunger Site                                         www.thehungersite.com

Hunger Web                                               http://nutrition.tufts.edu/academic/hungerweb/

The Hunger Project                                     www.thp.org

Action Against Hunger                                 www.actionagainsthunger.org

CARE                                                         www.careusa.org

Tarrant Area Food Bank                               www.tafb.org

Bread for the World                                     www.bread.org

 

World Hunger by Liz Young

Ending Hunger in our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization by C. Ford Runge

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time by Jeffry Sachs

Inequality Matters: The Growing Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences edited by James Lardener

 

Human Rights

Human Rights Watch                                                 www.hrw.org

Amnesty International                                                www.amnesty.org

The Universal Declaration of    Human Rights              http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/

 United Nations: Human Rights                                   http://www.un.org/rights/

The Human Rights Blog                                             www.humanrightsblog.org

 

International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly

Universal Human Rights in Theory and in Practice by Jack Donnelly

Globalization and Human Rights by Alison Brysk

The Philosophy of Human Rights by Patrick Hayden

Peace And Non-Violence

Non-Violence.org                                            www.nonviolence.org

United for Peace and Justice                          www.unitedforpeace.org

Americans for Peace Now                              www.peacenow.org

Antiwar                                                         www.antiwar.com

Peace Action                                                www.peace-action.org

International Peace Bureau                            www.ipb.org

 

The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace by Howard Zinn

I’d Rather Teach Peace by Colman McCarthy

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall

Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History by Elise Boulding

Life In Sudan And Darfur

Human Rights Watch                  http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=darfur

UNICEF                                      http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_darfuroverview.html

Invisible Children                         www.invisiblechildren.com

International Crisis Group            http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3060&l=1

Save Darfur                                www.safedarfur.org

 

The Journey of the Lost Boys: A Story of Courage, Faith and the Sheer Determination to Survive by a Group of Young Boys Called "The Lost Boys of Sudan" by Joan Hecht

The State of the World’s Refugees: Human Displacement in the New Millennium by The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier

Ethnic Conflict by Stefan Wolff

Workers Rights

Workers Rights Consortium                             www.workersrights.org

American Rights at Work                                www.americanrightsatwork.org

OSHA – Workers’ Rights                               www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/index.html

AFL-CIO                                                      www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/workersrights

 

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart by Liza Featherstone

Workers’ Rights as Human Rights by James A. Gross

Your Workplace Rights and How to Make the Most of them: An Employee’s Guide by Robert J. Gregory

The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich