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The upcoming visit by Chinese ambassador Zhou Wenzhong is a great opportunity to learn more about China and its place in the world. Local groups will seek to draw attention to the Chinese government’s support for brutal dictatorships abroad and its often brutal treatment of its own people. A foreshadowing of global protests that will use the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to highlight their grievances. But first, ask whether their complaints are justified, and whether their hopes for changing China are realistic … and how we can help shape Chinese government behavior. (more…)

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****** ******, a young photo-journalist, returns to Indianapolis to launch an exciting initiative — “The Burma Youth Program: Democracy 2.0″ … most exciting of all, we in Central can play an essential role in this project to help transform Burma. (more…)

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27 million people are enslaved worldwide, 50% of them are children. Slavery exists in many forms, however, theSOLDproject has found sexual explotation of children to be the most repugnant. Burdened by what they knew, a group of Hoosier twenty-somethings spent the summer of 2007 making a documentary uncovering the truth behind sex slavery in Thailand and Burma. Spring of 2008 The SOLD Project will be going on tour to call upon their generation to raise up and fight for these children’s freedom. (more…)

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Uncommon Common Ground IV will bring students together to share and learn how to overcome these challenges, as well as to celebrate the power of student voice. (more…)

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