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• For Whom the Bell’s Palsy Tolls

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• Hold Politicians’ Feet to the Fire

  The “Step It Up” campaign is making the link between environmental crises and global warming. It’s time for politicians to do the same.

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• Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times

  On John Lennon’s birthday, peace activist and artist Yoko Ono realizes a dream they shared.

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• DN! Keeps Kids Students Awake in Class!

  ¨I teach government at high school. I have been using DN for about a year. One of my favorite in DN is ACLU files…¨

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• DN! Helps With Reading Comprehension!

  ¨The curriculum of sixth grade reading is predominantly focused on sequence, vocabulary and comprehension so I play a pre-recorded segment of DN! ten minutes a week in my classroom and then we discuss things like words they didn’t understand or on-going news stories…¨

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• Democracy Now! Introduces College Students to Media Issues

  ¨I use Democracy Now! fairly regularly now in the classroom. I teach philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino--about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. 40% of my students are first-generation college students. Many of them know very little about the media; in an intro to philosophy class 80-90% of them have not heard of PBS. I will show clips from Democracy Now! to illustrate points about what is occurring in the world…¨

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• Time Is Running Out for Brother and Sister

  Troy Anthony Davis and his sister, Martina Correia, are fighting for their lives.

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• DN! Helps teachers introduce unreported topics of the American media to Russian students!

  “I often used your transcribed interviews and reportage to illustrate and/or introduce many of the usually-unreported topics of the American (and Russian) news media to my students. Many of my students were very interested in the various subjects which your program covers. I constantly recommended the use of your site and anything it links to as high-quality info resources. The fact that your program is transcribed makes it wonderfully useful—students can listen for meaning, and they often can learn a lot from context alone.”

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