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    <title>Student News Action Network</title>
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    <description>The Student News Action Network takes the concept of the school newspaper beyond school walls and the confines of print media, allowing students to work collaboratively on a global level to create an interactive, multimedia-rich student-driven online newspaper.</description>
    <copyright>2012 2010 Washington Internation School and TakingITGlobal</copyright>
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    <pubDate>May 17, 2012 6:50:03 PM America/Toronto</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Haiti, Two Years Later]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:38:36 America/Toronto</pubDate>
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	Two years ago, on the 12th of January, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake. With a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, it was the largest earthquake that had hit the region in 200 years. According to the Haitian gover...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Power of Music]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:36:34 America/Toronto</pubDate>
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	A 17-year-old Burmese rapper shares her story as a victim of bullying and her struggle to conform. However her inner strength takes her forward. 

	Su Let Yee feels that the best moments in her life are when she is performing her raps and...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Small Island, Big Problem]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:31:51 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[
	With a rise in attacks by Somali pirates in the Lamu archipelago off the northern coast of Kenya come serious implications for locals, hotel and home owners and tourists alike. 
	
	According to Rocky Hitchcock, a Senior Security Advisor and expe...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anna Hazare: Voice of India]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:58:31 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[	      “The country did not get actual freedom even after 64 years of independence... The same looting, same corruption, same rowdyism still exist. If Jan Lokpal Bill is not brought in the Monsoon Session then I will continue my fast beyond 21...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dollar Breakdown]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:53:16 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[	    In 2004 US economists said, “A weak dollar isn’t always bad, and is sometimes done on purpose. It makes our exported goods cheaper, which can create jobs.” Today, in 2011, the same issue exists, but on a much larger scale. Unemployment...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs: “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:46:33 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[
	 Steve Jobs the founder of Apple, Pixar, and NeXT passed away on October 5, 2011.  
	     Abandoned by his biological parents, Jobs lived with foster caretakers who took the responsibility of providing him with a promising future. However, ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Access Denied]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:42 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[
In this award-winning film, Sophia Pink reminds us that free Internet access has been systematically denied by governments world wide, through blocking of websites, limited access, and by the intimidation of users. As more and more governments clam...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Out of Site, Out of Mind]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:21:50 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[
Just over a year ago, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, and high school student Walden Davis created this film to call attention to the cholera crisis in the country. With its powerful simplicity, "Out of Site, Out of Mind" won for Best An...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sharing our Humanity-the ZIS Global Issues Network Summit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:21:15 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[
	

	BY: Christina Ocampo & Annalea Maurer

	“All we are saying is give peace a chance”- John Lennon. The evening of November 25th and all day November 26th was a busy time for the GIN Club at Zurich international School; the GIN club held ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rotten Bananas: Forgotten Events in Chiquita and United Fruit's History With Guatemala]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:35:36 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ In 1934, under Jorge Ubico Casteñada, a vagrancy law was commissioned in Guatemala forcing 150 eight hour days of farming on all workers as a minimum. It provided seemingly endless labor to enrich American landowners and started something in Guatem...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A look at Occupy DC]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:26:58 America/Toronto</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Noda’s Appointment Sparks Questions]]></title>
      <link>http://newsaction.tigweb.org/article/new-prime-minister-election-sparks-questions-in-japan</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:55:22 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[TOKYO, JAPAN--The election of a new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in late August has left citizens questioning the stability and priorities of the government.  
The lack of stability in the nation’s previous leadership has diminished Japanese peop...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Island's Reflection]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:07:13 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2011, the film “You Are the Apple of My Eye” caused an immense sensation on the island of Taiwan. The storyline is based on a real-life romance the author experienced when he was in high school. Back then, the protagonist’s lif...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The effects of the drug trade on Mexico]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:14:41 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the years, a lot of drug gangs that have existed for many decades have started a drug war near the border of Mexico. For a project on The Americas, I came up with the question: “How does the Drug War in Mexico affect its economy?” When I sta...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spanish Socialists Sunken]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:44:06 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[November 20th this year marked the worst election result for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) since the transition to Democracy in Spain, which was marked by Franco’s death on November 20th 1975. The election result, however, was not a su...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Queensland passes same sex civil union legislation]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:01:29 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[After four hours of debate the verdict has finally been passed; same sex couples in Queensland are now allowed to have legally recognised civil unions. The Civil Partnerships Bill was passed in state parliament at 11.10pm yesterday, with 47 MPs votin...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fighting River Blindness in Africa [VIDEO]]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:55:22 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[

The image shows a black fly with the Onchocerciasis parasite emerging from its antenna. The disease is transmitted by fly bites. According to the World Health Organization, Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is the second leading cause of blindn...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brazilians in Japan]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:39:42 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Henry is a 21-year-old Brazilian from Sao Paulo who moved to Shizuoka, Japan with his parents at the age of 15. Approximately two hours away from Tokyo, Shizuoka is a town that is heavily populated with Brazilians. At the age of 15, Henry dropped out...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Face of a Generation]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:48:19 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Every product we buy bears the face of its creator, in its unique brand mark or logo. Although Steve Jobs passed away due to pancreatic cancer at age 56, his face lives on with us. The co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs is the protagonist of an exciting...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Share Your Stories, Share Your World]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:07:33 America/Toronto</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Students, make your voices heard! The youth perspectives and experiences are underrepresented in the media, so we must create our own media. All we need is a point of view, a medium, and a story. 
Young people have shared their insights, opinions an...]]></description>
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