July 10, 2008
YES! Magazine
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| | DIY Foreign Policy Heroes
-- Global Exchange Reality Tours receive recognition as a foreign policy hero, promoting person-to-person ties and intercultural understanding abroad by taking delegations beyond the mainstream media and giving them an in-depth view of social justice issues around the world. |
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June 27, 2008
Florida Times-Union
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| | CITY SOJOURN: Power of public art on display in these 2 different cities
-- Lameda works for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization that tries to give U.S. citizens a view of people in various countries beyond the veil of politics and sensationalism. He was walking me and my fellow travelers through scenes of a sprawling mural of Venezuela's history. |
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June 04, 2008
New York Times
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| | Only Connect
-- Many affluent travelers used to consider a private villa and an after-hours museum tour the ultimate vacation — a way to seal oneself off from the world in a bubble of luxury. But as a cult of authenticity has taken hold among global nomads, the impulse to engage has replaced the desire to escape. |
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January 20, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald
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| | Viva Chavez: Venezuela is the hip new socialist utopia
-- Global Exchange, a San Francisco group that doubles as a travel agent, organised trips for almost 500 Americans last year, five times the 2003 figure, said Jojo Farrell, its Venezuela liaison worker. |
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January 14, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
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| | The Intrigue of Iran
-- It was a most unexpected welcome to Iran -- but not, as it turned out, all that unusual. During the month I spent there last fall I had similar exchanges with Iranians from all walks of life, few of them interested in discussing the animosity that has existed for so long between our two governments. |
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September 20, 2006
Napa Valley Register
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| | Why can't we help the Cuban people?
-- Impressions from a participant in a delegation of educators to Cuba, organized by Global Exchange. |
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August 14, 2006
Press Republican
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| | Local professor returns from peace delegation to Middle East
-- PLATTSBURGH — Kay Branagan went from teaching women’s studies courses one month, to traveling in a peace delegation through war-devastated areas of the Middle East the next. |
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March 26, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle
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| | Venezuela sees tourist surge
-- If President Bush's attacks on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's brand of populism are meant to sour Americans on visiting the latter's homeland, the campaign appears to have backfired. Caribbean beaches of Venezuela's Margarita Island are getting serious competition from mainland destinations that, until recently, many tourists avoided due to safety concerns. |
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March 21, 2006
New York Times
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| | Visitors Seek a Taste of Revolution in Venezuela
-- Jerome Le Guinio, 23, from France, came a year ago and works in the university's administration. He lives in Catia, a poor neighborhood where support for Mr. Chávez is solid. "The idea is to find an alternative," he said, "and if you don't find it in Venezuela, you won't find it anywhere else." |
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March 19, 2006
Asheville Citizen Times
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| | A visit to Venezuela contradicts the picture our leaders are painting
-- On Feb. 2, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez, the democratically-elected leader of Venezuela, to Adolf Hitler. Sitting in the morning sun, the sounds of life on the streets below me and thinking back on my two weeks here in Venezuela, nothing would lead me to compare this bright diverse country to Nazi Germany. |
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July 09, 2005
Santa Cruz Sentinel
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| | Human rights group stops by Watsonville
-- WATSONVILLE — Fourteen interns and staff members from the human rights group Global Exchange made a stop in Watsonville on Friday to learn about issues surrounding agriculture. |
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July 01, 2005
Common Ground
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| | Wall at the Border
-- TIJUANA, MEXICO — We walk single-file between the thick corrugated metal wall and the highway just a few feet to our left. The sky is grey and hundreds of white crosses line the fence, bearing the names of immigrants who died attempting to reach the “American Dream” on the other side. We read the names of those who did not make it. We peer through a small hole in the wall at the next line of defenses, even more fortified, towering 20-feet-high and lined with meshed wire. In between is a no-man’s-land — an eerie terrain recalling a WWI battlefield — except that this is our own backyard. Patches of grass break the sand and gravel. A row of giant concrete pillars supports stadium lights that illuminate the land by night. Thirty feet from us, a border patrol car, white with green stripes, sits quietly... waiting. |
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June 19, 2005
Philadelphia Inquirer/Knight Ridder News Service
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| | Seeing Mexico without margaritas
-- SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Mysterious, secluded and sequestered - Chiapas feels like a forgotten place. Backpackers and others not interested in glitzy beaches or teeming crowds have embraced Chiapas for years. So have people who want to mingle among the Mayans, soaking up their ages-old culture. |
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June 08, 2005
The Aggie
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| | Will bike for food
-- As a high-school student studying in France as part of a foreign exchange program, UC Davis senior Matt Nagel said he had never even heard of Lance Armstrong, much less dreamed about biking across the country. But as Nagel prepares to pedal 3,800 miles from San Francisco to Washington D.C. in June, Armstrong is now one of Nagel’s biggest sources of inspiration. |
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March 25, 2005
Houston Chronicle
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| | Ethical travel offers dose of reality
-- Not many travel-service providers arrange tours to Afghanistan these days. Or Colombia. Or Syria. Fewer still would ask their clients to pay for the privilege of meeting union leaders, visiting sweatshops, or toiling away at a farmers' cooperative. But at Global Exchange, a not-for-profit humanitarian organization based in San Francisco, they do travel a little differently. |
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February 23, 2005
Feather River Bulletin
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| | Journey to The World Social Forum
-- Reality Tours participant Ross Olmsted describes his experiences attending the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brasil. |
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February 06, 2005
KANSAS CITY STAR
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| | Agency pushes reality travel in hopes of spurring change
-- San Francisco-based agency promotes reality travel in hopes
of spurring positive international change |
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July 24, 2004
IPS News
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| | 'Reality Tourists' Go Beyond Classrooms
-- 16 Reality Tour participants become delegates in the first ever Social Forum of the Americas, held in Quito, Ecuador. |
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February 09, 2004
Tucson Citizen
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| | Enemies: A Love Story
-- Reality Tours participant Judy Carlock tells a moving story about her trip to Iran in October 2003 with Global Exchange. |
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January 16, 2004
Viva Rio
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| | Delegation From American NGO Visits Viva Bebę Program at Bangu Prison
-- Last Monday, January 5, a group of 11 students and professionals from the U.S.A., Canada and Europe – participants in a cultural exchange program organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange – visited the classrooms of the Viva Bebę Program, recently installed at the Talavera Bruce Women’s Penitentiary in Bangu. |
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January 12, 2004
VivaRio
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| | Delegation From American NGO Visits Viva Bebę Program at Bangu Prison
-- Last Monday, January 5, a group of 11 students and professionals from the U.S.A., Canada and Europe – participants in a cultural exchange program organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange – visited the classrooms of the Viva Bebę Program, recently installed at the Talavera Bruce Women’s Penitentiary in Bangu. |
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December 11, 2003
Sacramento News & Review
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| | Travels in a Complicated Cuba
-- I boarded a charter plane in Miami thinking a trip to Cuba would involve awesome beaches and a Cold War-, frozen-in-time-style society, where truths come only in black and white. Yes, simple would have been good; black-and-white would have made writing easy. |
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December 11, 2003
Sacramento News & Review
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| | Travels in a Complicated Cuba
-- I boarded a charter plane in Miami thinking a trip to Cuba would involve awesome beaches and a Cold War-, frozen-in-time-style society, where truths come only in black and white. Yes, simple would have been good; black-and-white would have made writing easy. |
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October 20, 2003
The Washington Post
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| | Watchdog Blasts U.S., Israel for Treatment of Media
-- Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused Israel and the United States Monday of unacceptable behavior toward journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Iraq. |
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October 18, 2003
Los Angeles Times
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| | Curbs on Travel to Cuba Feared
-- From her third-floor office in the weathered Mission District, Ana Perez has arranged for more than 6,000 Americans to travel legally to Cuba on education and cultural exchange tours in the last two years.
The Cuba "reality tour" program is the most successful of several operated by her San Francisco nonprofit organization, Global Exchange. But Perez said a recent Bush administration push to restrict travel to the island would cut her business to a trickle by the end of the year. |
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