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		<title>Stars come out for Wirikuta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[REAL DE CATORCE - A lineup of popular artists from Mexico City, part of a team that has been supporting the defense of Wirikuta with periodic concerts and events, culminated a high-voltage...<br/>
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		<title>Real de Catorce awaits historic pilgrimage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[REAL DE CATORCE, San Luis Potosi, Mexico - A quiet but excited buzz hums through the streets of this normally sleepy ghost town turned tourist attraction. Hotels that languished for months are filled...<br/>
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		<title>Bring on the butterflies: Hope, change and Mayan dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Much has been written about this turning of the ages; and no place on Earth is more fascinated with the Mayan prophecies than Mexico, birthplace of the Mayan calendar that ends this year. To me, it's...<br/>
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		<title>Vision Council: Call of the Deer ushers in a new era</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TEMICTLA, Mexico State, Mexico – It began with a rainbow and ended with a spiral that represented life itself. The eleventh Vision Council, Call of the Deer, was spun from poetry and passion, woven...<br/>
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		<title>Mexico City to Huicholes: “You are not alone”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY - Led by a vanguard of more than 250 Wixarika elders, women, men and children in their colorful traditional dress, a colorful river of marchers filled the grand Reforma Avenue of Mexico...<br/>
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		<title>Organic Nicaragua: On the road with Común Tierra</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Even with a grave economic situation and violent history, we found Nicaragua’s population really open and friendly, with clear and strong political opinions and self-esteem. This year is an election...<br/>
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		<title>Losing mangrove forests in El Salvador to climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rising sea levels are endangering a unique ecosystem along El Salvador's coastline.<br/>
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		<title>The Butterfly Effect: Julia Butterfly Hill in Magis Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Julia "Butterfly" Hill, the legendary activist who lived for two years in a thousand-year-old redwood tree to keep Pacific Lumber from cutting it down, continues promoting environmental commitment...<br/>
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		<title>Esquire Latin America: Huicholes prepare for battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the Huicholes, the region known as Wirikuta, in North-Central Mexico, is sacred; for a Canadian company it is the base of its next great mining project. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the village...<br/>
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		<title>Permacyclists kick off Journey #2: Latin America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Barnett</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[She was a corporate lawyer from Brussels; he was a sociologist from New York. Neither of them was happy with their chosen profession, and after a great deal of soul searching, they decided to do what...<br/>
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