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As does not have fair trade coffee. taking care of the farmers by using the Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee," Huffnagle said.

All the coffee in Jazzman's is Rainforest Alliance certified, but each blend is not 100 percent certified. In order to receive a certification from Rainforest Alliance, the coffee blend has to contain a minimum of 30 percent of the Rainforest Alliance coffee. Only one blend from Jazzman's is made with 100 percent Rainforest Alliance coffee. Should the school be concerned with fair trade and fair labor practices? Do students care about any of these issues?

Colleen Small, a junior marketing major, thinks that they should, especially since college students are the next generation and have one of the largest disposable incomes.

"I think college students should care about it, definitely, because if not us, then who?

With a school like Cabrini, that is rooted in community service, the education of the heart and with its core values, this should definitely be an issue," Small said.

The Follett Higher Education Group, the company that runs the campus bookstore, make all their vendors sign contracts that state that their products were made according to fair labor practices. According to their "Commitment to Fairness" contract, Follett makes each vendor renew their contract annually and hires an independent worldwide accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to audit these vendors and make sure they are adhering to the contract.

"Every single item in the store is from approved vendors only. We are not going to use unfair labor contracts," Michele Kennedy, manager of the bookstore, said.

Timber and diamonds are known as conflict commodities. Conflict commodities are "goods exploited to sustain armed conflict and produced or brought to market by anarchic exploitation, criminalized transactions, and militarized production," according to a report released by the Program for International Cooperation and Conflict Resolution.

Diamonds that are being exported to other countries for jewelry are being mined in Africa and the money from the sale is going to support rebel movements in African countries, according to the same report.

Countries like Indonesia, Liberia and Cambodia are selling the rights to take their timber to certain allies in return for military assistance, according to a report released by the European based International Security Information Service.

Other students are not as motivated to take action, or they simply can't find the time. Michael Pio, a sophomore elementary education major, felt that with such busy schedules, exams, internships and jobs, college students don't have the time to be concerned with these issues.

"I wouldn't think about it until someone said something about it. There's so much going on that this is the last thing on our minds," Pio said.

For others, this and other issues are always on their minds.

"One of the most important tools is educating ourselves and our community so that we can make daily decisions in an informed way," Fox-Tully said.

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Thousands left work and school Monday, May 1 in order to protest a new immigration bill; which is currently stalled in the Senate. If passed the bill would make illegal immigrants felons and it would also put new walls on 700 miles of the 2,000-mile border.

From New York to Los Angeles, crowds of immigrants swarmed the streets in opposition to this shaky bill.

Companies all over the country felt the loss of these workers. One man interviewed by CNN said that he was likely to lose $12,000, just from that one day. Schools in the cities that participated also reported a high munber of absences.

Human sex traflick.ersarrested

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Anna Nicole wins Supreme Court case

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And that is exactly what Smith is after. She is using this chunk of change in her attempt to take as much'of the fortune from MarshaU•sson as possible.

The two have been in this battle since 1994. and an end doesn't appear in sight.

Hindus shot dead in Kashmir

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Twenty-two of the 35 were killed in the village of Thava, while the others were Shepherds seized in the Uphampur district. Survivors from the village alerted a nearby anny camp, but the militants were gone by the time they returned.

These horrific crimes came a few days before Kashmiri separatists were to meet with Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister. India has accused Singh of backing such militants in the past, but he denied all allegations.