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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

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Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action. Celebrating Women was book number two. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. And the little girls do exactly that.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. When you hear something like that, I think you begin to get a sense of the power that women actually have to collectively mobilize.

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