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dalai lama comes to chicago

November 11th, 2011
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We learned recently that H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public talk on non-violence at Loyola University in Chicago on April 26, 2012. Tickets are very limited, but we have sent in our request and are hopefully awaiting a response as the date nears. More information is on this event is [...]

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the magic of totoro

April 6th, 2011
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Family and children’s films that deliver more than clichéd and tired good-versus-evil dichotomies laden with gender role stereotypes, gratuitous violence, and the subtle hypersexualization of young girls are hard to come by. If you are as fed up with the formulaic plot driven junk churned out for children by American cinema as I am, check [...]

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a journey to ten thousand villages

October 9th, 2010
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Earth Scouts has started up again and this year we are focusing on the human rights unit. So far we had one meeting in which we tried to provide a little overview of what we’ve done the last two years, and then we moved on to some general information of what human rights is all [...]

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