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Students across Canada working with the Single Mothers' Cooperative of El Salvador

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The Student Movement in Canada is doing some interesting things in terms of changing the way students do business.

Rather than purchasing materials manufactured in sweatshops, from
profiteering enterprises in Canada, and elsewhere, students are doing
business with workers who control their workplace, keep their profits,
and set their hours.

Check out this video.

United Students Against Sweatshops Summer Conference.

Aug 8 2008 - 8:00am
Aug 10 2008 - 6:00pm
Location: 
University of Colorado at Boulder

United Students Against Sweatshops organizes two conferences every year where students from all over Canada and the US are invited. We get together to talk about social justice issues, mostly based around labor rights. This three day summer conference is an excellent opportunity for people new to USAS to come and learn about some of the campaigns that are being run to use student power to fight for human rights. See the website for more details and registration.

http://www.usascanada.org/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=20

Tips for Stressed Out Students

It's an incredibly stressful time of year for us academics, and i just want to share somethings that i've found really helpful in trying to get through the mountain of work ahead of me.

a) Breathing - long breath out through the mouth, short breath in through the nose, repeat.

b) Rolling your shoulders back - when our brains are spinning we tend to hunch over, all the stress collects in our upper body

c) Planting your feet on the ground - reach down through your toes and heals to get out of your upper body and roots yourself in your whole body  read more »

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