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This summer, she plans to research her Social Studies thesis on the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement on maquiladoras, low-wage multinational factories in Mexico. But the bulk of her summer will be spent at Goldman Sachs, where she worked last summer. Two years ago, her mother was injured in a hit-and-run car accident, and needs surgery on her dislocated eye she cannot afford. Hernandez wants to chip...
...Fair-trade coffee, which is often also organic and shade-grown, strives to give growers in developing nations a living wage. Coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, after oil. But many coffee farmers live in abject poverty. Simply to meet production costs, they need to be paid 80˘ per lb., but the market rate is about 50˘. That translates into less than 12˘ an hour for the workers who pick and process the beans. Companies that are fair-trade certified buy coffee directly from farmers at set prices that allow them to pay their workers a living...
...members of Congress and Senators who voted last fall to allow George Bush to use force against Iraq, only one had a child serving in the enlisted ranks of the military. Would Congress and the American public be so eager to wage war if everyone's son and daughter might be called to fight? Charles Rangel, the veteran Democratic Congressman from New York, doesn't think so. Complaining that the military's all-volunteer force has left the risks of combat largely to minorities and the poor, who are more likely to join the military for a better job, Rangel...
...Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) cannot tell us enough about the global AIDS crisis, or how evil companies like Coca-Cola are not providing comprehensive health coverage to their African employees. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) blasts Harvard for not paying its janitors a “living wage,” despite concessions from the administration...
...self-confidence. Insecurity about our own intellectualism, more than a desire to whine, drives us to support activist organizations that fight for “enlightened” social causes. We become part of the intellectual elite that cares about things like AIDS in Africa and the living wage, and we thrive on the mystique...