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		<title>Dhow Countries Music Academy, Zanzibar</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2011/10/dhow-academy-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-four hours in Zanzibar. What's a person to do? Following up on a contact, I go visit the Dhow Countries Music Academy ... and am amazed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pity the Poor Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent cuts in government support for students is causing enormous dismay on Rwandan university campuses, and exposed cracks in the Kagame government's post-genocide reconciliation efforts.]]></description>
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		<title>Central American Gangs</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/09/central-american-gangs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young gang violence is endemic in the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, and its tentacles have spread north. Some would say the process has worked in reverse fashion -- as GPM correspondent Victoria Fenner reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian Rappers</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/09/palestinian-rappers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian rap is only about a decade old, but it has spread through out Israel, Palestine, and now to Lebanon. The rappers look to Tupac Shakur and the socially conscious rappers, and reject the gangsta image so popular in the west. Correspondent Reese Erlich reports from Beirut.]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers For Mapaki</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/07/teachers-for-mapaki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Activism & Solidarity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We humans need to feed our minds, as well as our bodies. Here’s a story from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia-based journalist Norma Jean MacPhee, about how education is being used to promote peace in a village in Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The people of Mapaki are hungry for knowledge—and eager to bridge the chasm created by a decade of civil war.]]></description>
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		<title>Suchitoto-Stratford Theatre Project</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/07/suchitoto-stratford-theatre-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1940s and 50s, journalist Tom Patterson became convinced that Shakespeare could help revitalize his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. Today, Suchitoto, El Salvador hopes to begin a culturally-driven economic revitalization that will build on Tom Patterson's legacy through a novel partnership with Stratford.]]></description>
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		<title>Fringe Education</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/06/fringe-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rural-urban migration is a twentieth century phenomenon. Faced by numerous obstacles, poor farmers have always set off to the nearest big city in search of income. Opportunities are often a dream. Families break up, violence, alcoholism, and drug abuse are rampant ... racism and discrimination too. In the end, migrants often forsake their most valuable card – their own traditions. GPM correspondent Jen Moore sends us this story, from the margins of a large Bolivian city.]]></description>
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		<title>Buduburam</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/06/buduburam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when a refugee camp turns into a permanent community? Buduburam -- home to hundreds of Liberians -- is one such human settlement in the Ghanean capital of Accra.]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivians With Disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/06/bolivians-with-disabilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The development of rights for disabled people in industrialized countries like Canada, Germany, Japan and the U.S. is one of the more encouraging trends of the past twenty or thirty years – a sign of inclusiveness in this age of division and disparity. Imagine what it’s like to be a disabled person in a country like ... Bolivia.]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Literacy in Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/03/digital-literacy-in-cambodia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who speak and write non-Latin languages, being able to type on a 'standard' computer keyboard is a major barrier to digital democracy. In Cambodia, this problem has been solved and communities are now experimenting with wireless communication.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Punto J</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/03/punto-j/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if -- during our teen years -- we each had to write a sex advice column? ]]></description>
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		<title>Romeo &amp; Juliet in Palestine</title>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2008/11/romeo-juliet-in-palestine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2008/11/romeo-juliet-in-palestine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To comprehend the obstacles that need to be overcome if peace and justice are to be achieved in the Middle East, one must spend time in the West Bank and Gaza, listening to Palestinians describe their hardships. The Israeli occupation is particularly egregious for youth, who -- like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet -- feel seriously misunderstood. ]]></description>
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