This Week in Cause - Jim Keady of Educating For Justice

This Week in Cause with Jim Keady of Educating For Justice

On the second episode of This Week in Cause, hosts Jonathan Harris and Christina Gagnier kicked off with a discussion of the recent "Do Something Awards" and the winner, Jessica Posner. 23 year old Posner co-founded "Shining Hope for Communities," an organization dedicated to combating gender inequity and poverty in the massive African slum of Kibera. Posner worked to establish the Kibera School for Girls, the first free school in Kibera, which has helped over 5,700 residents find employment and education.

The discussion then moved to the Social Innovation Fund, a government organization established under the Edward Kennedy Serve America Act, which recently awarded grants to a variety of organizations, including The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, which focuses on improving economically disadvantaged young people's educational skills and workforce readiness.

The hosts then looked at the trailer for the documentary film "Countdown to Zero," which makes a passionate case for the total elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.

In the "Celebrities and Cause" segment of this show, the hosts looked at the work done by Sandra Bullock, which includes her donations to Haiti after that nation's devastating earthquake and her efforts to publicize clean-up in the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill.

In the "Causewash" segment, the hosts discussed Nike's "Reuse the Shoe" campaign, which claims to work towards recycling Nike shoes and turning the rubber and materials into basketball and tennis courts. Evidence indicates that most Nike shoes could be recycled but instead are dumped in landfills in Third World countries such as Indonesia.

Finally, the hosts chatted with guest Jim Keady of Educating for Justice, an organization that has fought against Nike's burning of scrap shoe rubber in Indonesia as well as its use of sweatshop labor.

@TWiCause on Twitter: http://twitter.com/twicause

Educating for Justice: http://educatingforjustice.org/

The Do Something Awards: http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards

Jessica Posner's Do Something Awards nomination video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwuJ_NwnQVM

Jane Lynch: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528331/

Social Innovation Fund grant winners announced: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/kindness/post/2010/07/social-innovati...

More about the Social Innovation Fund: http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/serveamerica/innovation.asp

Countdown to Zero Official Site: http://www.takepart.com/zero

Countdown to Zero on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572769/

"Countdown to Zero" Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mn-1LuLhrw

NYT review of "Countdown to Zero": http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/movies/23count.html

Sandra Bullock Gives $1 Million to Haiti http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/16/sandra-bullock-gives-1-mi_n_425756.html

Sandra Bullock is now a single mom: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/sandra_bullock/index.html?story=/mw...

Restore the Gulf: http://www.restorethegulf.gov/

BE THE ONE ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUO3M7MYvAI

Nike Reuse a Shoe: http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/

The Dumping and Burning of Nike Scrap Shoe Rubber: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-keady/the-dumping-and-burning-o_b_643763.html

Here's all of Jim Keady's HuffPo posts: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-keady

Team Sweat official site: http://www.teamsweat.org/

United Students Against Sweatshops: http://usas.org/

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