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Marketplace goes to Mali to look at the reality of surviving on a dollar a day
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A great collection of audio interviews with Zimbabwean activists from our friends at Kubatana
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CSM quotes Elijah Zarwan and some prominent Egyptian bloggers in a story about Abdel Moneim Mahmoud and the reasons he’s being held by Egyptian authorities
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Can’t get the press to cover important issues in rural China? Hire a muckraker – reporters for hire are willing to take risks that state-sponsored journalists won’t take on
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Interesting academic paper sees measurable bias in fouls called on African-American basketball players by white refs – up to 2.5-4.5% change in fouls per game between all black versus all white ref squads
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My wife’s transcript of a talk by Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, a remarkable organization that protects Palestinians human rights – including the rights to farm their land – in Israel
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Ndesanjo launches a project in Greensboro, NC to help youth create their own media, starting by letting them record hiphop
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Al Jazeera producer Howaida Taha is sentenced to six months in prison by an Egyptian court for producing a documentary which addresses torture by Egyptian police, and which used reconstructions of torture techniques