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FILM: Challenging 500 Years of Globalisation
By Lucy Komisar
NEW YORK - To end poverty, you have to know how it began - with globalisation. No, not the 20th century variety engendered by multinationals and their friends at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They just codified practices that kept developing countries poor.
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ARGENTINA: 'Grandma, Will You Read to Me?'
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - "Moving," "rewarding," "therapeutic" are some of the terms used to describe their volunteer work by some of the women taking part in the Storytelling Grandmothers Programme aimed at awakening a love of reading among youngsters from poor families in Argentina.
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CHILE: Women in Arms
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The official version of Chilean history renders women’s political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, "Chilenas en armas" (Chilean Women in Arms).
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ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something".
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CHILE: Fashion Finds Green Style
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - Young Chilean designers are turning their creative energy to recycling, natural fibres and working with disadvantaged groups as they produce clothing and accessories - but it is an effort that is not free of tensions.
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PORTUGAL: Bible Is "A Catalogue of Cruelties," Says Saramago
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as "a manual of bad morals," and a "catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature."
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FILM: The Man Is Steel, the Tank Is Only Iron
By Matteo Fracassi
NEW YORK - "War is not made by heroes or Hollywood studs," says director Samuel Maoz. "War is mostly made by young and inexperienced guys. Children that are sent to go after and kill the ones they used to play with. That's what this really is about."
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Q&A: Africans Won’t Just Be on Receiving End of Arts and Culture
Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MIKE VAN GRAAN, playwright and activist
CAPE TOWN - Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to increasingly confront the unequal relations in North-South cultural and artistic exchanges.
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EL SALVADOR: An Indigenous Language That Refuses to Die
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - "Yek shiajfikan" reads a sign hanging above the gate of the "Dr. Mario Calvo Marroquín" elementary school in the Salvadoran town of Izalco, welcoming pupils in Nawat, the language that was spoken by the area’s native communities.
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Q&A : The Desire To Be An Outsider
Moses Magadza interviews MEMORY CHIRERE about the legacy of writer Dambudzo Marechera
WINDHOEK - "The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation." - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger
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ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.
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ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
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MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
By Mildred Pineda
CARACAS - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
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CUBA: Restoring Historic Santiago for Its People
By Patricia Grogg
SANTIAGO DE CUBA - Even with her house practically in ruins, Isabel García wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. She’d rather stay where she knows that no matter what corner she turns she’ll always be able to gaze out into the blue sea or raise her eyes up to the green mountains that shelter her beloved city of Santiago, in eastern Cuba.
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CUBA: There Are No Tough Guys; It’s Tough To Be a Guy
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - It has been three years since he separated from his second wife and realised he did not have a home to return to. Although he has always been able to count on a helping hand from one friend or another, and his children help him out now and then, Humberto Martínez spends most nights sleeping on a park bench in the Cuban capital.
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