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by Almirah Radio
2 weeks ago
Sooni Taraporevala at home in Mumbai (HP)
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Sooni Taraporevala grew up next to a fire temple. Fire temples, or agiaries, are Zoroastrian places of worship, off-limits to non-Parsis. Taraporevala,...
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by Luis Campos
3 weeks ago
“Finally” I thought as my friend Franco invited me to watch a soccer match with him. I had been waiting for the opportunity to watch a soccer match ever since I had first arrived in Buenos Aires and the upcoming match between the visiting Godoy Cruz...
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by The Editors
4 weeks ago
The Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence has been helping to build a state of peace in Rhode Island – reducing gang violence, coping with conflict in prison and assisting victims of crime.
Students at URI’s Harrington School...
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by Almirah Radio
5 weeks ago
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“The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of...
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by Andy Blackadar
6 weeks ago
The Choices Education Program recorded this talk at the Watson Institute to high school teachers by Jonathan Pollack, a leading expert on North Korea. The talk was in 2009, but most all is extremely relevant given the events there right now.
The...
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by Eli Wolff
7 weeks ago
The Muhammad Ali Center Athletes and Social Change Forum, held on March 29 - 30, 2013 at the Ali Center in Louisville, KY, was an engaging and productive gathering. The Forum is an innovative new conference designed to advance...
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by Bruktaweit Addis
7 weeks ago
I helped Agazh author a project proposal outlining its current progress, and its plans for the next three years. We followed the proposal structure required by HelpAge International, with the hope it may soon help fund Agazh. The project proposal...
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by The Editors
8 weeks ago
Over the next two days (Wednesday and Thursday, March 27th and 28th) we're rolling out some new features on Global Conversation! Our work will cause some intermittent site outages – we expect everything to be back to normal on Friday the 29th.
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by Guy Edwards
9 weeks ago
By Guy Edwards and Susanna Mage
Regardless of one’s position on el Comandante Hugo Chávez, the death of the Venezuelan president opens the door for a policy debate on a critical issue for Venezuela and the world’s security: climate change. As the...
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by Guy Edwards
9 weeks ago
Next year a Latin American and the Caribbean country will host the annual UN climate change negotiations or ‘COP20’ of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Rumours are circulating that Peru and Venezuela are interested in...
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by Guy Edwards
9 weeks ago
I recently spoke at an Anglo-Ecuadorian Society event at the Casa Ecuatoriana in London on Latin America and climate change. Latin America is a key battleground and laboratory for confronting climate change and decisions taken in Latin American...
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by Guy Edwards
9 weeks ago
By J. Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards
Well-worn stories of dinosaurs like the United States and India battling it out in the United Nations climate change negotiations in Doha last week continue to crowd out other, more positive stories that need...
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by Almirah Radio
9 weeks ago
Protesters stand in the waters of the Bay of Bengal in opposition to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
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Sociologist Devika Jayakumari knows she is living in an historic...
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by Eli Wolff
9 weeks ago
The Inclusive Sports Initiative has launched a petition to garner worldwide support from all athletes to pledge solidarity to one another. The petition emphasizes inclusion, equality, and dignity for all athletes. By joining forces we...
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by Almirah Radio
11 weeks ago
SPACE: Ritika Singh & Tritha Sinha
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We first made eyes with Tritha on a blustery evening at Blue Frog in Delhi. As we pushed our way through the crowds she materialized on stage -- draped in a...
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by Keith Brown
11 weeks ago
After two weeks of storm-generated church closures in Providence, services resumed this past Sunday. In keeping with their practice since 2006, as in churches around the country, the worship leaders at the First Unitarian Church of Providence read...
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by Bruktaweit Addis
12 weeks ago
Agazh
Agazh’s license expired on February 13, 2013 and the renewal process began February 14th. The Ministry of Justice Charities and Societies Agency does not begin processing license renewal applications until the current license expires and it...
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by Luis Campos
12 weeks ago
On February 12th, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that wrestling would no longer be considered a core sport of the Olympics (via olympic.org). The official announcement alluded to the possibility of wrestling no longer being a...
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by Eli Wolff
12 weeks ago
We are very pleased to announce that the video entry "Our Time Has Come" by the Endless Abilities team of Zachary Bastian, Harvey Burrell, Tripp Clemens, and Will Humphrey, has been selected as winners of the #HOWCOOLISTHAT video...
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by Dominic Mhiripiri
13 weeks ago
Amid frigid New England conditions this weekend, over 1,300 attendees from across the world braved the elements and thronged Harvard Business School venues for the 2013 Africa Business Conference.
Over 20 panels lined up academics,...
