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		<title>Syria. It&#8217;s not just what&#8217;s in all the media.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bjork releases new &#8220;Moon&#8221; music video</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bjork released her new single &#8220;Moon&#8221; along with a fresh music video straight from outer space. In this eccentric, performance-oriented piece, written and directed by Bjork herself, the eclectic pop star hangs out in the moon and seems to be singing to the universe. And we love it! The single was released early and is part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=617&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UpRise 2011 &#8211; London&#8217;s Anti-Racism Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UpRise is a multicultural festival in London celebrating anti-racism through poetry, debates, storytelling, art, talks and walks. The theme this year was about taking a look at &#8220;our community and our planet as Home&#8221;. As a grassroots one day event, UpRise was a colorful event spanning over 14 venues in the heart of the Dalston district [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=589&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strauss Kahn copies Clinton barefaced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his first interview since he's back in France, Strauss Kahn repeated Clinton's apology concerning the Monica Lewinsky scandal word for word. Watch the video that proves it all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=582&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Care2.com helps netizens make a difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover Care2.com. A website with a mesmerizing concept for people who wish to make a difference in the world, but maybe not all of them. Created in 1998 by Randy Paynter, Care2 is a website that makes available, &#8220;fast, easy, and free ways to make a difference everyday&#8221;, according to its motto. Care2 thereby encourages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=547&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing For Change &#8211; or how music and the web are being used to promote peace.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can music change the world? The &#8220;Playing for Change&#8221; project proves how music can unite nations. All over the world, musicians and singers express themselves in the only places that welcome them: the streets. Very few of these street artists get to be recorded, yet so many have undeniable talents. Ten years ago, a small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=500&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An exhibit about the tragic fate of tribal people in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not always a good news when your land contains a large reserve of mineral wealth, at least not in India. In &#8220;A Disappearing World&#8221;, Photographer Robert Wallis reveals how India&#8217;s most ancestral tribe struggles against both the state and big corporations to stay alive. I lived in India for 6 months and traveled around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=472&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012: why not think positive?</title>
		<link>http://challengingperceptions.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/2012atimeforchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 is approaching. Visions of the end of the world, catastrophic events, or the apocalyptic doom may immediatly come to your mind when the year 2012 is mentionned. But 2012: A time for change is a documentary that will give you a different vision of the year that is coming. Nostradamus, the Mayan prophecy, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengingperceptions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9904539&amp;post=451&amp;subd=challengingperceptions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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