Conflict+Diamonds+May+7-11

1. Read this article: http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/diamonds.html Choose 10 points from this that connect to the movie, Blood Diamond. Put in your journal section of Wiki.

2. Read the following on Fair Trade Coffee. How is the situation around fair trade coffee and blood diamonds dimilar? Choose 5 points and put in Wiki. http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/faq.html

3. Choose diamonds or coffee and write a letter to your MP about Canada's role in perpetuating these trades.

Pointers:

i) Summarize the situation. Be specific. ii) What are your concerns? be specific? iii) What do you want done? iv) How do you suggest we go about doing it at a) the international b) national and c) local levels?