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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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One of their programs is the Reality Tours, where they bring groups of individuals to regions to look at the social justice issues and other pressing issues, that really color the experience and the culture of a place. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia."

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

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Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. That was happening as a result of a pernicious rumor, which is floated, essentially, by the traditional healers there, and in other places. It was a book called In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World.

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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. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well. I remember that the letter was signed with five thumbprints of five illiterate women.

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