October 07, 2009 Planet Green
	Make Traveling Meaningful with Reality Tours from Global Exchange -- We often write about how to make your travels greener, but even if you do everything to reduce your carbon footprint, are you still getting a dose of the bigger world while on your expeditions? It's one thing to tour green hotspots in cities like London, and another to really see the world in a green way. That's where Reality Tours from Global Exchange comes in.
August 24, 2009 The Huntsville Times
	To make peace, work with foe -- After the retired librarian finished reading "Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories," she decided she wanted to see the situation with her own eyes, which was made possible through Global Exchange's Reality Tours.
July 02, 2009 Boston Herald
	Despite new film, TV show renewal, the Hub is No. 1 in Dushku’s heart -- Hollywood star, Eliza Dushku recently traveled to Uganda with Global Exchange and mentions her eye-opening experience meeting with former child soldiers.
May 21, 2009 TC Palm
	Treasure Coast attorney says trip convinced him Cubans ready for embargo's end -- Michael Edwards of Palm City visited the island nation on a week-long cultural exchange trip in late April along with several other attorneys.
February 22, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle
	Iranians are friendly, the land spectacular -- I traveled with nine people on a trip sponsored by Global Exchange. We had opportunities to meet one-on-one with locals in the arts and education.
November 23, 2008 Charleston.net
	Nation, U.S. can find understanding -- As our plane was about to touch down in Tehran, Iran, a metropolis of 17 million people in the shadow of the Elburz Mountains, the crew announced that it was time for all women to cover their heads with scarves (hijabs) and to don their shapeless raincoat-like outer garments (manteaus). Women could not leave the plane without these dress modifications.
November 07, 2008 USA Today
	In Iran, open arms, rich history await intrepid Westerners -- Amid one of the world's most demonized regimes and bewildering societies, they will be greeted with two constants: "Welcome to Iran!" and smiles as wide as a cloudless desert sky.
September 24, 2008 Marin Independent Journal
	Journey into the heart of darkness -- Earlier this month - thanks to Global Exchange in San Francisco - I finally made it to North Korea.
July 10, 2008 YES! Magazine
	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.
June 27, 2008 Florida Times-Union
	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.
June 04, 2008 New York Times
	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.
January 20, 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald
	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.
January 14, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle
	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.
September 20, 2006 Napa Valley Register
	Why can't we help the Cuban people? -- Impressions from a participant in a delegation of educators to Cuba, organized by Global Exchange.
August 14, 2006 Press Republican
	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.
March 26, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle
	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.
March 21, 2006 New York Times
	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."
March 19, 2006 Asheville Citizen Times
	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.
July 09, 2005 Santa Cruz Sentinel
	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.
July 01, 2005 Common Ground
	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.
June 19, 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer/Knight Ridder News Service
	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.
June 08, 2005 The Aggie
	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.
March 25, 2005 Houston Chronicle
	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.
February 23, 2005 Feather River Bulletin
	Journey to The World Social Forum -- Reality Tours participant Ross Olmsted describes his experiences attending the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brasil.
February 06, 2005 KANSAS CITY STAR
	Agency pushes reality travel in hopes of spurring change -- San Francisco-based agency promotes reality travel in hopes of spurring positive international change
July 24, 2004 IPS News
	'Reality Tourists' Go Beyond Classrooms -- 16 Reality Tour participants become delegates in the first ever Social Forum of the Americas, held in Quito, Ecuador.
February 09, 2004 Tucson Citizen
	Enemies: A Love Story -- Reality Tours participant Judy Carlock tells a moving story about her trip to Iran in October 2003 with Global Exchange.
January 16, 2004 Viva Rio
	Delegation From American NGO Visits Viva Bebê 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 Bebê Program, recently installed at the Talavera Bruce Women’s Penitentiary in Bangu.
January 12, 2004 VivaRio
	Delegation From American NGO Visits Viva Bebê 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 Bebê Program, recently installed at the Talavera Bruce Women’s Penitentiary in Bangu.
December 11, 2003 Sacramento News & Review
	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.

• Political Passages: Bored With Sand and Sun? Try One of the Growing Number of Hands-on Tours to the World's Trouble Spots -- Newsweek International, May 26, 2003

• Greetings from Zapatista land -- Time Magazine, September 3, 2001