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ENVIRONMENT: Turning Junk Mail Into Art
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Like everyone else, Barbara Hashimoto hated the junk mail coming in through the door. Until she decided one day that it could be transformed into art, and lessons about the environment.
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MEXICO: Underwater Museum to Protect Coral Reefs
By Verónica Díaz Favela*
MEXICO CITY - Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean - the first of 400 figures that will comprise the world's largest underwater museum.
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BRAZIL: Olympics in Rio – 'Happiness' Trumps Wealth and Technology
By Mario Osava *
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil has "the happiest and most creative" people in the world, and deserved this opportunity, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in Copenhagen, celebrating Friday's election of Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games.
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MEXICO: Black Minority Invisible in Bicentennial Plans
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Mexico has big plans for celebrating its 200th anniversary of independence from Spain next year. But Mexicans of African descent are as invisible in those plans as they are in everyday life.
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JAPAN: Buddhist Priests Use Pop Culture to Win Back Faithful
By Catherine Makino and Naoyuki Ogi
TOKYO - Hip hop. Fashion. Zen café. Animation.
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CHILE: Preserving the Kaweshkar Language – In the Nick of Time
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Sound files containing recordings of spoken Kaweshkar - a nearly extinct indigenous language of southern Chile – have been put together thanks to the work of ethnolinguist Óscar Aguilera and anthropologist José Tonko, and donated to national and foreign institutions with the aim of preserving the culture of one of Chile’s nine native groups.
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Q&A: Secrecy, Lies, Power and the Pentagon Papers
Bill Berkowitz interviews filmmaker RICK GOLDSMITH
OAKLAND, California - A little over 38 years ago, when Daniel Ellsberg released the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times and other newspapers, it set off one of the 20th century's most important battles over government secrecy and freedom of the press.
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ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.
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CUBA: Peace Concert Bridges Borders and Differences
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - Although it was the target of threats from radical Cuban exiles and the focus of controversy and opinion polls from the moment it was announced, Colombian musician Juanes' idea of staging his "Peace without Borders" concert in Cuba proved a success at promoting understanding, in spite of differences.
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US-CUBA: Five Decades of an Admittedly Failed Policy
By Charles Davis
WASHINGTON - U.S. citizens of Cuban descent are once again free to travel to Cuba and send an unlimited amount of money to their relatives on the island, but for the most part U.S. policy toward the communist nation hasn't changed under President Barack Obama.
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MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's "genetic and cultural" connection to "Mother Africa," to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford - symbolic of the country's "veiled racism" at an international festival organised to combat it.
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ARGENTINA: In Children's Art, the Sky's Not Always Blue
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - The young students taught by Maruca, who has been giving free painting classes to children in a town in Argentina's pampas for the last 50 years, have won more than 1,000 international prizes for their artwork.
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BRAZIL: Art is the Best Education
Analysis by Mario Osava *
RIO DE JANEIRO - A broad range of projects in Brazil are using ballet and folk dances, classical and popular music, theatre, circus arts, capoeira - an Afro-Brazilian combination of dance and martial arts - fashion, visual arts and the audiovisual media to reach disadvantaged and at-risk children.
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EDUCATION-BRAZIL: Public Schools Fend Off Invasion of New Ideas
By Mario Osava
ARAÇUAI, Brazil - Two non-governmental initiatives managed to penetrate the walls around public education in Brazil, temporarily assuming responsibility for the administration of schools where they left their seeds planted. But ultimately they discovered how resistant the school system is to innovation.
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MIDEAST: To Rap Is to Resist
By Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY - In a backstreet open-air café in Gaza late at night, Khaled Harara from the Black Unit Band starts to talk about rap.
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