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Cuba and The End To Apartheid in South Africa
In the late 1960’s and early 70’s the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was at a turning point. Decades of peaceful demonstration had resulted in increased political repression and violence from the state of South Africa, culminating in a…
Lost in Translation
Last night our neighborhood had a power outage that lasted for about 2 hours. Becca and I walked through our back alleyways in the pitch black, looking into homes lit by candles. Mostly everyone was sitting on their porch talking across the alley to their neighbors. Kids were running and…
A World Without The Police
On more than one occasion Becca and I have walked up to a jam packed restaurant in Saigon and craned our necks for a table. I live by the rule that if I see a bunch of locals eating somewhere, I should probably eat there too. Every time we’ve done this there hasn’t been an open…