Group items tagged program - International Comm & Culture 2009

shared by glen donnar on 26 Jul 09 - Cached

A dynamic music program is helping migrants connect to their new home
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His experiences as a migrant give him the perspective needed to work with other newcomers."There's a system, and many people get trapped in that system," he says. "They put you in a housing commission flat when you first arrive as a refugee
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I was battling a lot of things, like racism and stuff, and hip-hop helped me understand a lot of things about the government, about what happened back in Africa — it gives me more self-confidence to be here. So if I face racism I don't take it personally, I think, 'Maybe I need to educate you about some stuff.' "
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Both MCs have day jobs as youth workers and that can feed into the hip-hop workshops.
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"You've got to understand how much the media affects young people, in so many ways," says Azmarino. "For example, the African community — what happened a few years ago in Kensington was all over Channel Seven, and it made them feel like they were a gang. That's like putting oil in the fire. They're teenagers and they're already feeling all those things, and then they were getting disrespected by the whole of Melbourne."
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shared by glen donnar on 02 Aug 09 - Cached

The screening of the documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, has been the cause of controversy ever since the Chinese Government demanded that the film be withdrawn.
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MIFF refused to withdraw The 10 Conditions of Love. In response, films from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were pulled from the festival, and the MIFF website was hacked.
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including a short from leading director Jia Zhangke and a film produced by Wong Kar-wai’s Jet Tone company.
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The controversy brought a wave of local and international publicity. MIFF has been a fixture in the news pages and on the radio. The overseas coverage included mentions in The New Yorker, a live interview with CNN and coverage on the BBC. The attention, Mr Moore hopes, might have a flow-on effect, a reminder to people that this is an important festival. The festival had already become the subject of news stories when director Ken Loach withdrew his feature film, Looking for Eric, because of MIFF sponsorship by the Israeli Government.
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shared by Rika Ninomiya on 31 Jul 09 - Cached

how do we foster a sense of community for international students in the short time they are here? And in turn, how do we bridge the often unintentional divide that underpins their experiences?
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High-density housing is deliberately geared towards the international student market, at the expense of a broader mix. Orientation programs for international students and local students often run at different times. International students pay the full cost for transport, while domestic students get half-price concessions. And at some institutions, separate queues and counters even exist.
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With their proximity to Melbourne and RMIT, they give students few opportunities to venture out of their comfort zone, explore the rest of the city, and perhaps build new connections. Some have few communal spaces - not exactly conducive to interacting with life beyond the campus zone.
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"We need to understand different cultures and perspectives as part of how we do business and relate," says Mr Campbell. "So there's actually a public good in all of this."
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shared by jung moon on 07 Aug 09 - Cached

To coincide with the opening of Tomorrow City in Incheon, Federation Square will engage in a world first interactive screen broadcast with Korea. The first event will feature a program of official representation from both cities including: poetry, literature and screen-based artworks.
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shared by Yair Frid on 25 Sep 09 - Cached

The United States, France and Britain have presented "detailed evidence" to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog that "Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility," President Obama said Friday.
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Iran "is taking the international community on a dangerous path," Sarkozy said.
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U.S. and French intelligence officials have known about the facility for several months, the source said. When Iran discovered that Western nations had knowledge of the facility, it sent the letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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shared by Maria D'Amato on 08 Oct 09 - Cached

WHEN Sarah Morgan, a slenderly framed 10-year-old, came home from primary school with a McDonald's food voucher and a size 16 T-shirt that she had won in a basketball competition, her mother, a health campaigner, was livid.
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As a three-year-old, Sarah had already associated purple with chocolate.
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Martin says the standards released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority fail to regulate junk-food promotions on TV or thwart the sophisticated techniques employed by advertisers to create ''pester power'' - when children continually ask their parents for something. By restricting advertising only during low-rating children's programs, Martin says, the authority has ignored evidence that justifies action which could prevent up to one in three children from becoming obese.
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