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Sierra Leone youth have a voice on WeOwnTV
With Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars performing tonight at Rockland’s Strand Theatre, we shine a light on WeOwnTV. The organization was co-founded in 2009 by Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars musician...
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Witmer’s ‘Little Flowers’ for Invisible Children
With gifted singer-songwriter Denison Witmer performing tonight at Maine’s Kennebunk Coffeehouse, we bring you a somewhat dated, slightly out-of-sync, but no-less-relevant video. Set to Witmer’s song...
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Burma elections go on without Suu Kyi, NLD
Today, as the United States continues to process the ground-shifting changes of Tuesday’s polls, Burma held its first national election in 20 years. While 29 million were eligible to vote, concerns...
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Clooney, Prendergast tell Sudan’s story on NBC
Tonight’s edition of NBC’s “Dateline” brings its national audience to Southern Sudan, where citizens are nearly one month away from a historic vote that could mean independence from the north,...
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Sudanese of Maine mark Dr. King Day
(UPDATE on Jan. 18) Video coverage of the event by Portland’s NBC affiliate WCSH 6 has been added. Members of Maine’s Sudanese immigrant community will speak about their experiences during “From My...
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UMA hosts ‘Stopping Genocide in Sudan,’ Feb. 9
Speaker and advocate, El-Fadel Arbab will present “Saying ‘Never Again’ is Never Enough: Stopping Genocide in Darfur,” at noon on Wed., Feb. 9, at the Michael Klahr Holocaust Education Resource Center...
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PBS airs ‘Pushing the Elephant,’ 10 p.m. tonight
How do we begin to understand the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has taken 5.4 million lives since 1998?* For filmmakers Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, it begins with the...
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Best Foreign Film, ‘In a Better Word,’ premieres
For those of you passionate about refugee issues, you may remember flashes of a fictional Kenyan refugee camp during the teaser of Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. I immediately...
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Rwanda genocide is marked; Ocampo Six at ICC
Three of the six Kenyans accused of inflaming the violence that left more than 1,000 people dead during post-election violence in early 2008 appeared today before the International Criminal Court...
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Voices of Hunger Strike call for action, solidarity
With the most recent Darfur Fast for Life just wrapping up, we wanted to bring you statements from those who fasted in front of the White House You can view interviews, one representing each hour of...
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