Legal Commentary

Textbook Buying as a Political Act

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Law students thinking of buying their textbooks online might want to consider this way of doing a bit of social activism at the same time:

California College Democrats launched Textbooks for Change, an innovative program that leverages the Amazon Associates Program, and thousands of student textbook purchases, into cash for California’s Courage Campaign and their ongoing efforts to repeal Prop 8.  By simply using the link on Textbooks for Change as the portal to Amazon and buying textbooks through the online merchant, approximately 7% of the purchase price goes to support ongoing efforts for marriage equality in California.

Of course, this only works if you support marriage equality….

Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).