What's Your Role Re: Justice? | Behrman House Publishing

The school concert is approaching, and you know that some kids can't afford to go. You *

Contribute your allowance to the concert fund collection.

Organize a car wash fundraiser to lower the cost for everyone.

Distribute flyers to spread the word about a fundraiser your friends have organized.

Last week, hackers invaded your school's web site and uploaded inappropriate material. You *

Volunteer to attend a school board meeting and hand out leaflets that advocate an increase in the school's technology budget.

Research available software, and then meet with the principal to suggest the best firewall to buy.

Write a letter to the school newspaper, alerting students and teachers to the problem.

Your trendy new shoes tore after one week, and the store will not take them back. You *

Organize a boycott and e-mail campaign, demanding that the store raise its production standards.

Resolve never to buy products from that company again.

Sign a letter of complaint that is circulating in school, to express your outrage.

You read an article condemning child slavery on chocolate plantations in Africa. You *

Donate one week's allowance to an advocacy group that is lobbying Congress to act.

Attend a local rally organized to publicize such atrocities.

Call your local grocery store and urge the manager to stop buying chocolate products made from chocolate harvested by child slaves.

On the hottest day of the summer, you see a dog locked inside a parked car without any ventilation. After you get the dog out of the car, you *

Call friends to warn them about keeping their dogs safe.

Find the dog's owner, and then call the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to learn how to organize a "Mall Patrol."

Volunteer to put up warning flyers in stores about the issue.

The boys' teams are assigned to play on better fields than the girls' teams — again. You *

Send a letter to the coach, describing why you think that the setup is unfair.

Organize a meeting of all the teams and coaches to discuss the matter.

Agree to go with a small group to meet with the coach.

You resent the way a new reality TV show portrays a Jewish contestant. You *

Create a web site that highlights video clips of the worst examples of negative stereotyping, and then e-mail links to everyone you know.

Attend a Diversity Day rally in town.

Refuse to watch the show, and when your friends talk about it, tell them what you think.