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Looking to give back to the community by donating your time or cash? Visit DoGood.ajc.com today. Log on to ajc.com from your mobile device and download the new ajc mobile icon for Blackberry users. Enter for a chance to win special promotions from the AJC. Lighting of Macy's Great Tree Singer/songwriter Jewel and Tony Award-winning Broadway star Heather Headley appear onstage as part of this Thanksgiving tradition. MACY'S GREAT TREE AJC Movie Reviews On the big screen Find showtimes and reviews - or write your own review - for this week's new films, including "Australia," "Four Christmases," "Milk," "Transporter 3" and "Ashes of Time Redux." Find all theaters and showtimes AJC Dining Review Porter Beer Bar Behind the name, AJC reviewer Meridith Ford Goldman says, is "a young couple with a culinary résumé that most people in the restaurant business don't acquire until they are much older; some never at all." Magical Nights of Lights 'Santa's Wonderland' Stone Mountain Christmas Looking for an auto dealer? Look here first. www.ajccars.com Browse and buy great gifts from the AJC! Find photos, pages, cartoons and fine art and more at ajcstore.com On stage: Arash, Bi-Annual Open Mic Shootout XXIX, The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller, Anthony Hamilton, Corey Smith, ASO Superpops: Cirque de la Symphonie. Art exhibits: Dave Taylor, metal sculpture More than 35 whimsical animal figures created with metal scraps and found objects from the Asheville artist. Weather Channel Atlanta marathon and half-marathon An Atlanta Thanksgiving Day tradition. The 26.2-mile course is a loop. Martinis & Imax Live music, martinis, a wine bar, dinner selections and Imax presentations Help Military Dogs Egon, a retired military working dog, will be on hand in Kennesaw to kick off an effort to collect items for dogs deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.  'A Christmas Carol' Ebenezer Scrooge, a stone-hearted Victorian accountant and penny pincher, learns the meaning of compassion after he is visited on Christmas Eve by four spirits. 'Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum' Thirty-five works from a 1,300-year period starting in A.D. 300. Look ahead: Children's Christmas Parade Features marching bands, clowns, costumed dogs, antique cars, dance groups, floats, cheerleaders, giant balloons and Santa Claus. More A-List events Browse and buy great gifts from the AJC! Find photos, pages, cartoons and fine art and more at ajcstore.com Find books on Atlanta and Southern history, Mike Luckovich posters and other great gift ideas when you shop at ajcstore.com * Copyright © 2008, The AtlantaJournal-Constitution. This news, information and advertising message is brought to you by Atlanta Journal Constitution, 72 Marietta St., N. W., Atlanta,GA 30303. This information is for personal use only and is not available for redistribution. This email was sent to: fpac.rangola@blogger.com Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you wish to remove your e-mail address from future mailings, please visit the subscription center. Manage your profile by visiting our profile center. If you have a question or concern about AJC e-mail newsletters, please visit our customer care site: http://www.ajc.com/newsletters To receive the latest Atlanta News and Sports Get The Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivered! Subscribe Today!			BEST BETS! Through-Sun, Jan. 4   Holiday Ice Skating Fri, Nov. 28  'Santaland Diaries' Sat, Nov. 29 Winter Wonder Slam Tour Sponsored by Restaurants Movies Nightlife Tickets on Sale Weather

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While Some of Us Are Hoping for Change, Others Are Literally Starving for It By Chris Hedges, Truthdig The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country have grown by at least 30 percent since the summer. Read more »   Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attacks, Strokes and Breast Cancer? By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Americans are continually bombarded with messages that death and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different. Read more »   No Thanks to Thanksgiving By Robert Jensen, AlterNet Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers. Read more »   How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Unlike Sarah Palin, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table. Read more »   America Out of Work By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan. Read more »   Virtual Sex: How Online Games Changed Our Culture By Damon Brown, Feral House Games like Second Life let you to live your fantasy as a pimp, prostitute or pirate, knight, dominatrix, or any other self-created design you see fit. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Reclaiming Thanksgiving By Nathan Havey, Meet the Bloggers Celebrating local, sustainable food this holiday. Read more »   Shock Jock Michael Savage's Big Gay Apocalypse By Eli, Firedoglake I have this theory that Michael Savage's primary purpose in life is to make Rush Limbaugh look tolerant and sane. Read more »   Obama Addresses Worries That There Isn't Enough 'Change' in His Cabinet Picks By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly "Understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost: it comes from me." Read more »

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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Secondhand toys shouldn't mean sacrificing safety
			Cash-strapped shoppers looking for bargains this holiday season may turn to thrift stores and online sellers for deals on secondhand toys and other gifts. But consumer safety advocates warn that buyers should be cautious when considering such items because they might have been recalled or banned for dangerous defects or toxic materials.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		Air Force chaplain followed conscience The Rev. John Painter's desire to serve abroad pulled gently at his conscience, then grew strong and clear when the Air Force Chaplain Service called in June. Painter, who is a chaplain at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, voluntarily deployed Sept. 5 to Ali Air Base in southern Iraq. He will forego Thanksgiving and Christmas, and his two children will turn a year older before he returns home in January 2009. Volunteers replacing Christmas production scenery SUMMERVILLE â€" A few pieces of Christmas were stolen from Nick Frasher's driveway this week. Five painted panels for Crossroads Community Church's annual production, "When Love Came Down," had been stored in a utility trailer at Frasher's house. As a creative arts minister, he has spent months working with volunteers to create backgrounds for the production with a cast of more than 70 people. For the jobless, Christmas turns a little blue They had envisioned a different holiday season. But after being laid off, some of the dozens of people filing for jobless benefits Wednesday at the Employment Security Commission said that their holiday gift-giving would reflect their reduced circumstances. "No ring, no fancy jewelry for her, and no big loud stereo system for me. We don't have Christmas any more because of lack of funds," said Esau Simmons, 27. He said that he was recently laid off, at least temporarily, from his $12.75 per hour job making automobile steering gears after two years with his employer. Beach redbay trees in jeopardy Among the live oak and palmetto, redbay trees usually don't get much notice. Until now. "They're dying all up and down here," said Roy Baylor, pointing both ways along Arctic Avenue on Folly Beach. "These trees saved our house during (Hurricane) Hugo," Kelly King said sadly as she looks up at the browned leaves of the big tree in her front yard a few streets back.
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			Port service Officer Harriett Parson asked everyone driving into the State Ports Authority's Columbus Street Terminal on Wednesday the same question: Do you have TWIC? And though every worker who needs access to port facilities must have the federal Transportation Worker Identification Credential by Monday, Parson heard varied responses on the final business day before that deadline.
		Back to basics: 'Retro' toys a hit NEW YORK â€" Counting dollars this holiday season, Tom De Santes wants to avoid buying high-priced technology gadgets as gifts for his two sons. Instead, he is going to buy the boys, ages 6 and 7, a classic from his own childhood: Lincoln Logs. Banker says he'll discuss pay GREENVILLE â€" A prominent retired Upstate-based banker whose departing pay has been questioned by the governor and at least one South Carolina congressman doesn't want to be an obstacle to his former company getting federal bailout funds, his attorney said. Business Briefs Steve & Barry's plans to close all of its stores After months of struggling to stay afloat, Steve & Barry's has announced the liquidation of its 173 remaining stores across the U.S., including one in the Charleston region.
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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Our rivalry is tame by comparison
			The South Carolina-Clemson football rivalry is a good one. I've been around it all my life and people in the Palmetto State have a lot of fun fussing over the Gamecocks and the Tigers. But, by comparison, it's a rather tame, respectable event.
		Fordham doing it all for Timberland One week he intercepts a screen pass from his defensive end position, returning it 22 yards for a touchdown in a playoff victory over Bishop England. Wando's Glover finds a reason to smile It was only an exhibition, but it helped ease Christina Glover's emotions. A week after her team came up short in the state championship match against Byrnes, Glover was able to smile after being named the MVP of the North-South game. SEC vs. Big 12 seems pretty even on paper COLUMBIA â€" In the summer months, there was a lot of preening and posturing in this part of the country about the SEC. Some said it very well could be the best conference in the history of college football. Time to pick the awards It's that time of year again. It's time to pick the players of the year and the coach of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Dear Friends, Global Exchange Reality Tours have helped thousands connect firsthand with other peoples and cultures, and to return home with a deeper understanding, a sense of empowerment, and the tools to affect change. We would like to share with you some examples of upcoming delegations, and enthusiastically invite you to join us in the powerful and transformative experience that is a GX Reality Tour. In this newsletter we would like to highlight some very exciting upcoming delegations, including our January trip to Brazil and the World Social Forum. Founded in 2001, the WSF serves as a central point for dialogue and connection between an incredibly diverse range of groups and movements working for a more just and equitable globalization. Since its first annual meeting, the WSF has been held in Brazil, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Venezuela and Mali, and has grown in size and scope to reflect the tremendous energy and power held by increasingly interconnected and unified forces working for social, economic and environmental justice worldwide. This year, the WSF returns to its point of origin, Brazil, where tens of thousands of peace and justice advocates from around the world will gather to envision a better world, and to work actively for its realization. To learn about an exciting opportunity to join Global Exchange's delegation to the World Social Forum in the Amazon, please read on. In this month's newsletter you will find: Information on some exciting upcoming Reality Tours delegations: Brazil: World Social Forum in the Amazon India: Globalization & Socio-Economic Alternatives Afghanistan: Women Making Change A personal account of the World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya by Kirsten Moller, co-founder of Global Exchange Invitation to Donate to Reality Tours Scholarship Fund    ****   Brazil: World Social Forum in the Amazon January 24, 2009 - February 06, 2009 Cost: $1,600 As 2009 draws close, tens of thousands of peace and justice advocates from around the world are preparing to journey to the Brazilian Amazonian city of Belem to participate in the rapidly growing international gathering known as the World Social Forum (WSF).  Since 2001, the WSF has united peace activists, environmentalists, fair trade champions, advocates of indigenous, worker's and women's rights, and many others in global solidarity. Serving as a laboratory for new ideas and visioning toward the emergence of a just and equitable globalization, this forum encourages dialogue across socio-cultural, economic and political borders. Join Global Exchange's delegation to WSF 2009 to explore the forum's possibility and momentum and its complex and dynamic backdrop that is contemporary Brazilian society. The delegation will participate in the official activities of the World Social Forum between January 27-February 1st, and spend the remainder of the time exploring the region, looking at rural communities, innovative development projects and meeting with indigenous activists. "Global Exchange's Reality Tours offer participants a window into contemporary Brazil through a human rights and social justice framework," says Latin America Program Coordinator Sneh Rao.  "It provides U.S. citizens the opportunity to connect with their Brazilian allies and together brainstorm visions toward a more just and sustainable world." Since the 2002 election of the liberal Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the second largest economy in the Western Hemisphere has been seen as a center of hope and potential for participatory democracy and regional integration. Reality Tours offers a trip filled with profundity and contradiction that other tourists never see. While destructive agricultural practices and land policies plague the lowlands and roads spider through the Amazon, the Landless Movement continues to face ongoing repression. Meanwhile, the pulse of Brazil beats on as favela communities organize themselves, capoeira artists dance and fight, escolas de samba beat out batucadas, and entire cities strive for sustainability. For more information or to enroll in this delegation, please contact Sneh.   ****   India: Globalization & Socio-Economic Alternatives March 03, 2009 - March 17, 2009 Cost: $2,550  Join Global Exchange on an exciting tour of Northern India focused on the work that people-based economics projects, non-profits, and community based organizations are doing to create upward mobility and social justice in India's rapidly developing civil society. Exposing participants to both the sophistication of Indian urban life and the dynamism of Indians living in rural areas, this tour will provide valuable insight into the social workings of this complex society and the tools and models being used to struggle for prosperity and equality. Incredibly rich in historical and architectural sites, delegates will have the opportunity to seamlessly combine their own exploration of modern India's social landscape with a journey through Northern India's stunning literal landscapes and most fascinating and beautiful cultural works and sites of interests. Delegates will have the opportunity to visit major religious, cultural and historic sites such as the Raj Ghat (Mahatma Gandhi's memorial and cremation ground), the Gandhi National Museum, the Jama Masjid (the Universal Mosque), the Qutab Minar (the Emperor Humayun's tomb), and the Taj Mahal. Participants wil take the Shatabdi Express train north to Dehra Dun to spend a few days at the Dr. Vandana Shiva Centre, and meet with Dr. Shiva, one of the pioneers of people-based economic and social models. Also, we will travel to the state of Rajasthan where we will visit the lake city of Udaipur (known as the Venice of India), take a tour of important cultural sites, and spend a day with Aajeevika, a group working to coordinate urban and rual poverty alleviation projects. In Delhi, delegates will visit with groups and organizations including a project working with street children with women and children from slum communities. Throughout the trip, participants will have opportunity to engage in lively discussion about India's political history, present, and future directions. For more information about this delegation, please contact Alessandro.   ****   Afghanistan: Women Making Change March 02, 2009 - March 11, 2009 Cost: $1,750  Join Global Exchange, in partnership with Afghans4Tomorrow on a women's delegation to Kabul, Afghanistan and bear witness to the self-generated transformation of women's roles in Afghan society. After three decades of warfare, Afghanistan continues to strive towards reconstruction, despite waning support for the UN-backed government and the threat of Taliban insurgency. Within this challenging environment, Afghan women are taking reconstruction into their own hands. On this tour you will experience first-hand the inspirational work of Afghan grassroots organizations, engaging directly with many of the women leading the drive for change. Specifically, participants will explore the current political landscape and the challenges facing grassroots organizations in reconciling a history of conflict with today's needs and threats. Highlights of this delegation will include meetings with women's literacy, microfinance and fair trade organizations, visits to public and community centers bringing relief and service to the Kabul community, and first hand engagement with women's groups striving to improve the lives of widows, refugees, and victims of conflict. Delegates will also be offered the unique opportunity to tour Kabul's cultural and historic sites, such as the tomb of King Nader Shah, Darulaman Palace, the National Archives, and the Ashiana Art Gallery. This trip to Afghanistan is the opportunity of a lifetime to see the challenges that Afghan women are facing, to hear their stories first-hand, and to learn from them how we can support their efforts. For more information or to join this delegation, please contact Sanaz.   ****     World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya: A Firsthand Account By Kirsten Moller, Co-Founder of Global Exchange  Last year I had the pleasure of attending my second World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of Global Exchange's delegation. It was an incredible and invigorating experience. Imagine sitting in a room discussing how to protect our natural heritage and diversity by creating seed banks, with farmers from India, Mozambique, Brazil, India and Mexico and then moving into another workshop looking at cultural responses to violence against women and children organized by women from Somalia. At the WSF there are hundreds of workshops, talks by leading intellectual leaders, dynamic music and arts events organized by youth groups, and delicious food from all over the globe. The WSF is such a vibrant and stimulating event that truly it can be a little overwhelming at first. Being with Global Exchange's delegation helped me to orient and navigate the events of the forum. Our delegation also had a week on site in Kenya before the forum began, which allowed us to get oriented within the country, to begin understanding what it meant to host the forum, and to be ready to absorb the tremendous wealth of international grassroots organizing. It was a humbling and inspiring experience! The grassroots movement is truly international and is built on the stories and struggles of people all over the world who want to share and join together in a truly inclusive movement to create positive change. I can think of few better opportunities to connect with this unifying movement, to become educated about the struggles that are inextricably bound to our own, and to experience the profound solidarity of the global justice movement than participating in the World Social Forum.   ****   DONATE TODAY TO THE REALITY TOURS SCHOLARSHIP FUND   Have you participated in a past Reality Tour and returned home feeling inspired and energized to be an active agent for change in our world? Did a Reality Tour deepen your understanding of the importance of creating people to people ties across geographical, cultural, and economic borders? If so, we would like to invite you to share this experience by donating to the Reality Tours Scholarship Fund. Since many youth and people from low-income communities find it difficult to afford our delegations, Reality Tours works to maintain a Scholarship Fund as a way of extending this transformative opportunity to a larger population. The purpose of the Scholarship Program is not only a means to help support these communities, but also to ensure greater diversity and mutual learning within each Reality Tour group. The Fund is sustained by benefits events and donations from previous Reality Tour Participants, like you. Every penny counts. Your contributions go to ensure that young and economically disadvantaged individuals continue experiencing these empowering delegations. All donations are also tax-deductible as we are a certified 501(c)(3) Non Profit! To donate please send checks made out to "Global Exchange: Reality Tours Scholarship Fund", to: Global Exchange 2017 Mission St, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94110   Thank you for your care and support!	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