Posted by Malia Everette in Environment & Sustainability, Fair Trade, Indigenous Rights, Latin America, Trip Participant Stories on 3rd February, 2012 | No Comments
Reality Tours is celebrating ten years of a rich educational programs in Ecuador that critically examine pressing social and ecological issues affecting communities from the Andes to the Amazon. Past participant, Paul Prew shares his insights today.
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Posted by Malia Everette in Asia, Citizen Diplomacy, Trip Participant Stories on 30th January, 2012 | No Comments
This International Women’s Day Global Exchange commemorates our 10 Year Anniversary of building people-to-people ties in Afghanistan. We honor a decade of relationship building, friendship and learning while we recommitting ourselves to work for peace.
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Posted by Malia Everette in Caribbean, Latin America, Trip Participant Stories on 7th December, 2011 | 1 Comment
For the past two years photographer and chair of Foothill College’s photography department, Ron Herman, has customized two Reality Tours delegations to Cuba. Learn more about his artistic example of building “people to people ties” with the arts community in Cuba and how making a difference inspired joint photography exhibits in the US & Cuba.
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Posted by Leslie Balog in Caribbean, Trip Participant Stories on 24th November, 2011 | 2 Comments
This Thanksgiving, we at Global Exchange are giving thanks to our members, supporters and leaders in our movement for social, economic and political justice. We are thankful to all of you who have traveled on a Reality Tour – you met the people, learned the facts and you make a difference. One person in particular, we wish to thank: Bill Patterson. Find out why.
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Posted by Malia Everette in Asia, Trip Participant Stories on 8th November, 2011 | No Comments
As many of us here at Global Exchange witness and support the nonviolent direct action protests in the US and around the world, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tar Sands Movement taking on the Keystone XL pipeline, the living philosophical teachings of Gandhi are remembered. These teachings are shared and taught by his grandson Dr. Arun Gandhi during the Gandhian Legacy Reality Tour and you are invited to join our annual Gandhian Legacy tour which is lead by Arun himself.
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Posted by Malia Everette in Citizen Diplomacy, Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 20th October, 2011 | No Comments
Ken Yale, Reality Tours Palestine & Israel Past Participant, shares his reflections on exactly the kind of transformative experience that keeps us here at Reality Tours ever motivated to continue our work to have you “Meet the People, Learn the Facts, and Make a Difference”!
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Posted by Malia Everette in Asia, Human trafficking, Trip Participant Stories on 14th October, 2011 | 4 Comments
Last summer I was fortunate enough to join the Stop Human Trafficking delegation to Cambodia where I shared a room and countless hours of conversations and contemplation with Lori Lindgren Voit. Today she graciously shares her impressions with us.
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Asia, Trip Participant Stories on 29th August, 2011 | 3 Comments
Jeremy Jimenez, a seasoned traveler tells it like it is–to travel on a Reality Tour trip to North Korea. Follow along as he takes us through a vast array of topics, from the country’s military first policy and rotating ping pong to gender stratification and the classic Confucion respect for the elderly.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Asia, Trip Participant Stories on 15th July, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s the final installment in a 4-part series written by Sophia Michelen, a Global Exchange Reality Tours participant who was on the delegation to North Korea last September 2010. A first-generation American, Sophia Michelen has had a passion for travel and photography from a young age. In this series, Sophia shares reflections abut her experiences in North Korea.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Asia, Trip Participant Stories on 14th July, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s the third post in a series written by Sophia Michelen, a Global Exchange Reality Tours participant who was on the delegation to North Korea last September 2010. A first-generation American, Sophia Michelen has had a passion for travel and photography from a young age. In this 4-part series, she reflects on her experiences in North Korea.
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