Behind the Swoosh (sweatshops)

"The Internationale"

Occupy and MFE Videos

Occupy Links 

OccupyHomes Videos 

Occupy in the news
                       13 Occupy Homes Protestors Arrested
                       Occupy Homes Claims Abandoned Home
                       OccupyMN Helps Save Home from Foreclosure

OccupyMN Pictures 

Some Video and Pictures

Slavery Footprint

How many labor slaves do you have working for you?

Protests

Occupy

OccupyMN


OccupyDC


OccupyWallStreet

OccupyThePorts

OccupyOakland

OccupySeattle

Use the various Occupy Websites to figure out what has been happening in the movement.

What has happened locally in the last 2 weeks? 

What has happened on the East Coast in the last 2 weeks (Specifically K Street)?

What has happened on the West Coast in the last 2 weeks (Specifically the ports)?

Why were these actions the target of the movement (Tents in public spaces, foreclosed houses, K Street, ports)?

What are the demands of Occupiers? What do they want? Why are they doing this?

Do you get the impression the movement is organized or disorganized?

Why?

What are the benefits of being organized?

What are the benefits of looking disorganized (grassroots)?

Where were you this summer?

 The Bachmann/Boehner Benefit protest

The Wellsfargo Protest

Or the CTUL Fundraiser

Shut Down RISE UP!

Did you check out the President?

 Were you left out? 

1) 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back 

2) What about a game?   

There are always ways to get involved, there are already groups out there that you can join. You don't have to be the leader at first, just get involved.  When you are around people who are committed to changing the world, it changes you -for the better. 

Story of Stuff

TV about Stuff (On the Education channels only)

 Shows about getting a LOT of stuff

Storage Wars


Hoarders

Extreme Couponing


Stuff

Shows about how our stuff is made

How Stuff Works


Modern Marvels


Shows about the hobby of collecting stuff

Pawn Stars

American Pickers

Antiques Roadshow

Shows About the Job of getting/making our stuff

Dirty Jobs

Deadliest Catch

American Chopper

American Logger

Gold Rush Alaska

Sweat Shops

Behind the Swoosh

What are Sweatshops? 

Brands that use Sweatshops

Sweatshop Free! 

Apple Admits to using Child Labor

Apple Factories Poison Workers

Apple Workers Commit Suicide -bring attention to working conditions

Apple Workers fight back, get Settlement  

MORE MORE MORE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/wearable-collections-clothing-recycling_n_866839.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/huffpost-greatest-person-david-auerbach_n_869354.html

http://noimpactproject.org/educators-middle-high-school-environment-curriculum-html/

http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/home.html
http://www.onearth.org/article/radical-simplicity


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZjZw2BeG0&feature=feedu

http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html

http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

http://www.preserveproducts.com/recycling/index.html


http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/solid-waste/


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/earth-2100-final-century-of-civilization/


endciv


http://www.laborrights.org/sites/default/files/publications-and-resources/sweatshop_hall_shame_2010.pdf

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/


http://www.thecorporation.com/

behind the swoosh


http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/minneapolis-the-green-scare-using-terrorism-laws-to-silence-political-activists/916/

http://www.worldchanging.com/


http://www.laborrights.org/


http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/section.cfm?topic=16


http://affluenza.org/

http://onthecommons.org/

http://retailanarchy.com/

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/extreme-couponing

http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

http://www.lesblank.com/more/TeaFilm.html

collapse

food inc

climate of change

tapped

blue gold

dirt!

america the beautiful

the greatest movie ever sold

cradle to cradle design

transforming apartment

no impact man

tattoo advertisements

consumer protections

Questions:

A) What do you personally need for a day? Week?  a year? 10 years? Your life?

(record the stuff and people that come to mind in order)

What about as a small community?  -are the needs different? in what way?

B) What do you want in your future house? What will it look like? What does society expect it to look like?

C) When you spend time with friends or family, how much of that time is spent focused on stuff? Which stuff? Is there a difference between kinds of things?  Can some stuff be a good for conversation/play?

D) Is more better? Is growth good? 

E) Is having more choice better?

F) Does freedom mean freedom to buy?

G) What is the hidden cost of cheap goods?

H) Is organic better? Is local better? Is vegetarian better? Is seasonal food better?  is Humane treatment important?

I ) What is in your room?

J) How much do you waste in a day?

K) What is recyclable, reusable, reducible, avoidable?  What can be recycled in Minneapolis?

L) How do we keep civilization alive? Is it possible? Is civilization good?

M) Where is your stuff from? Technology, clothes, food, other stuff? 

N) Where are the materials to our stuff from?  How do we get them?

O) Can you make a toaster?

P) How many of the shows/commercials on tv are about stuff?

Q) Who are your “Joneses?”

R) What does the middle class look like?

S) Does stuff, require more stuff?

T) What are the working conditions like to make our stuff?

U) What does the process of making stuff do to the environment?

V) What is garbage? What is the impact of trash?

W) What is the Story of stuff?

X) What is affluenza?

Y) What is the commons? Is the tragedy of the commons real?

Z) What is green?

1) Are we working too hard? What would happen if we didn’t work so hard?

2) Are there better ways to distribute impacts?

3) What could we do instead producing and consuming stuff?

4) How does our system impact our health, relationships, environment, community, values, others

5) What is important to “quality of life?”

6) What is the role of corporations, Financial institutions and governments?

7) Is there a difference between systematic violence and protester violence?

8) What is a farmers market?

9) What can we make?

10) What is life like without negative impact? How do we do it?

11) What is the role of design in making products? How can design be used to make things better?

12) What is the role of bio-mimicry? how can we use it to make things better?

13) What is life like without advertising?

14) How could we make the school waste free?

15) How could we make recycling work at school? at home?

16) What is the role of a citizen vs a consumer?

17) What can we cut out of our lives?

18) What can we add to make our lives better?

19) What is externalizing costs?

20) Where is away?

21) Is mass productivity good?

22) Is unemployment real?

23) Capitalism? Socialism? Communism? Anarchy? Consumerism?

24) Technology?

25) Pollution?

26) What is fair? free? prosperity? human rights? is disparity necessary/inevitable?

27) How do we avoid collapse? is it possible?

28) Overpopulation?

29) Consumer protections?

30) what do you need in your space ship? To survive? To start over?

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