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		<title>Report Proves that Human Rights can help causes in the U.S.</title>
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I don&#8217;t normally like to mix work and play, but in this case the two overlap. My organization, the U.S. Human Rights Fund, just released a very tight volume of case studies about human rights victories in the U.S. The stories are inspiring and offer practical tips about how to integrate human rights into your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/03/11/case-studies-human-rights-ushumanrightsfund/</link>
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		<title>Best Translated Book Award Ceremony</title>
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Free food and drinks. World class fiction. What&#8217;s not to like?
&#8211;Deji Olukotun
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		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/03/10/best-translated-book-award-ceremony/</link>
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		<title>Baltimore Workers Seek Justice Thru Theater</title>
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The United Workers Association is a leading grassroots organization that utilizes human rights to improve working conditions for workers in the Baltimore Area. They recently secured a major victory for day laborers and workers at the Camden Yards Baseball Stadium.
The UWA launched a series of workshops called Justice Theater in conjunction with Nommo Theatre. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/03/02/united-workers-justice-theate/</link>
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		<title>Avatar Book Has Nothing to Do With Activism</title>
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Millions have seen and loved the film Avatar. I personally did not like it very much, for a number of reasons. Regardless, I noticed the film&#8217;s social justice undertones in which a group of indigenous people overcomes the oppression of corporate greed and mercenary fire power.
There was plenty of room for a thoughtful, derivative work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/03/01/avatar-book-has-nothing-to-do-with-activism/</link>
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		<title>New Book Celebrates Mixed Race Children</title>
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A new book that celebrates mixed race children will be released on March 17 by Chronicle books. As a person of mixed race, I am often surprised at how rarely the topic is directly discussed. If so &#8212; especially in the U.S. &#8212; it is frequently tainted by legacies of Jim Crow and the slave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/03/01/new-book-celebrates-mixed-race-children/</link>
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		<title>Using Storytelling to Heal Trauma</title>
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OperationSafe, a humanitarian organization, has created a story entitled &#8220;Pete&#8217;s Adventure&#8221; to help children recover from trauma. The story features 3-D animation and is translated into various languages. OperationSafe will soon be taking the story to Haiti.  
I can&#8217;t figure out if OperationSafe is a charity, a faith based group, or a private organization. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/02/22/using-storytelling-to-heal-trauma/</link>
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		<title>Best Translated Fiction Awards</title>
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The commonly touted figure is that less than 3 percent of foreign language books are translated into English. I&#8217;m not sure where that figure comes from. It&#8217;s become something of a legend. But the rate is definitely small. Some people believe this is market driven &#8212; that Americans are happy consuming quality books by their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/02/17/best-translated-fiction-awards/</link>
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		<title>Olympics and Human Rights</title>
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The Olympics are not just a place for athletes to explore the limits of human physicality, they are also a multibillion dollar entertainment industry. The &#8216;purity&#8217; of the games &#8212; ensured through amateur requirements, drug testing &#8212; can&#8217;t hide the fact that it&#8217;s still entertainment content streaming through our media. 
I have played sports my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/02/12/olympics-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<title>A Soccer Soap to Resolve Conflict</title>
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A new television drama about soccer will premiere in Kenya in May 2010. The Team will use the lens of soccer to help address the conflicts that erupted after the 2007-2008 election race between Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, in which over 1,000 people were killed and more than 300,000 driven from their homes. (The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/02/12/a-soccer-soap-to-resolve-conflict/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Kerry Bystrom, scholar of Human Rights and Creativity</title>
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Because it is unpredictable how any book or press release will affect any person, as a teacher I try to teach that the way we read can also affect how we interact with the world. We need to think about what was said as well as how things were said. Learning how to read things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dejiridoo.com/blog1/2010/02/03/interview-kerry-bystrom-human-rights-and-creativity/</link>
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