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		<title>2013 A lucky year for Kurth Lampe</title>
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		<title>To follow our Kurth Lampe&#8217;s Democratic National Convention adventures www.facebook.com/kurthlampe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kevin Lampe tonight 7:00pm on NBC5.1 The Talk with Marion Brooks discussing Congressman Akin and his disgusting  comments about rape victims</title>
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		<title>Kitty Kurth &amp; Kevin Lampe discuss USA Presidential Politics at Prime PR Stockholm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Lampe</dc:creator>
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		<title>Kevin Lampe Speaks At Berghs School of Communications in Stockholm</title>
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		<title>Swedish Newspaper Columnist on Recent Kurth Lampe presentation in Stockholm,</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tråkig politisk twitterifiering Publicerad 2012-06-15 00:05 (Published 2012-06-15 00:05)  Signerat – Erik Helmerson. (Signed &#8211; Erik Helmerson.) Förkorta, förenkla, förvanska. (Shorten, simplify, distort.) Den politiska debatten har nya inslag som gör den perfekt för Twitterformatet 140 tecken. (The political debate has new features which make &#8230; <a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/swedish-newspaper-columnist-on-recent-kurth-lampe-presentation-in-stockholm">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Förkorta, förenkla, förvanska. (Shorten, simplify, distort.) Den politiska debatten har nya inslag som gör den perfekt för Twitterformatet 140 tecken. (The political debate has new features which make it perfect for Twitter format of 140 characters.)</p>
<p><strong>Det känns som att</strong> sitta mitt i ett avsnitt av tv-serien &#8220;Vita huset&#8221;. (It feels like sitting in the middle of an episode of the TV series &#8220;West Wing&#8221;.)Kampanjspecialisterna Kitty Kurth och Kevin Lampe talar på rapp amerikansk engelska, kallar presidenten vid förnamn, diskuterar vilka hemsidor som har bäst koll på de stater som kommer att avgöra det kommande valet; man kan se dem föra exakt samma diskussion gående sida vid sida i en korridor med var sin rykande kaffemugg i händerna.(Campaign specialists Kitty Kurth and Kevin Lampe speaks to rap American English, call the president by their first names, discusses what websites have the best track of the states that will decide the upcoming election: you can see them bring the exact same discussion going side by side in a corridor each with a steaming mug of coffee in his hands.)</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Vi serveras ett par portioner ohöljd beundran: &#8220;Barack är alltid den smartaste killen i rummet&#8221; och en hel del sköna anekdoter. (We served a couple of servings of undisguised admiration: &#8220;Barack is always the smartest guy in the room&#8221; and a lot of wonderful anecdotes.) Inte minst om vicepresidenten Joe Biden som framställs som Obamas torped. (Not least of Vice President Joe Biden made that Obama&#8217;s hit man.) Vill man få fram ett kontroversiellt, svårsmält budskap, som ja till gayäktenskap, skickar man fram Biden vars roll är att bli angripen och slå tillbaka. (If you want to get a controversial, hard to digest message, yes gayäktenskap, you send out Biden, whose role is to be attacked and fight back.) Sedan kommer Obama och är sval, analytisk och presidentlik. (Then, Obama is cool, analytical and presidentlik.)</p>
<p><strong>Så berättar Kitty Kurth</strong> om den kommande valstrategin. (So says Kitty Kurth about the upcoming valstrategin.) Allt handlar om enkelhet. (It&#8217;s all about simplicity.) Väljarna behöver få tre simpla budskap, mer klarar de inte av. (Voters need to get three simple messages, more they are unable.)Jo Biden – vem annars? (Jo Biden &#8211; who else?) – lyckades till och med sammanfatta kampanjen i två budskap: &#8220;General Motors lever och Usama bin Ladin är död&#8221;. (- Managed to summarize the campaign of two messages: &#8220;General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Överhuvudtaget tycks väljaren vara en ganska korkad och lättdistraherad person. (On the whole, seem to switch to be a pretty dumb and easily distracted person.) Man får inte säga &#8220;riskkapitalbolag&#8221;, för det fattar han eller hon inte – säg Baine i stället, namnet på bolaget som gjorde Mitt Romney förmögen, så framträder omedelbart den önskvärda bilden av roffarkapitalistisk ondska. (One should not say &#8220;venture capital&#8221;, because it makes him or her &#8211; say Baine, instead, the name of the company that made Mitt Romney wealthy, as will appear immediately after the desired image of the greedy capitalist evil.)</p>
<p>Det här är förstås inget som är unikt för USA. (This is obviously not unique to the United States.) I den svenska politiken ser vi också hur budskapen förenklas, förkortas och kokas ner. (In the Swedish policy, we also see how messages are simplified, shortened and boiled down.) Och om motståndaren använder ett enda felaktigt eller oförsiktigt ord är det just det ordet man angriper, även om sammanhanget säger något annat. (And if the opponent uses a single, incorrect or careless word, it is precisely the word to attack, even if the context dictates otherwise.)</p>
<p><strong>Socialdemokraternas</strong> bostadspolitiske talesperson Veronica Palm twittrade loss i helgen. (The Social Democrats&#8217; housing policy spokesperson Veronica Palm tweeted away this weekend.) Ämnet var Ekots lördagsintervju med Fredrik Reinfeldt. (The topic was the echo Saturday interview with Fredrik Reinfeldt.) Vad statsministern sa gjorde henne &#8220;djupt oroad&#8221;. (What the prime minister said made her &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221;.) &#8221;Han försvarar sitt &#8216;etiska svenskar&#8230;&#8217; (&#8220;He defends his &#8216;ethical Swedes &#8230;&#8217;) med gammal SD-retorik&#8221;, skrev Palm. (with old SD rhetoric, &#8220;wrote Palm.) (Hon menade &#8220;etniskt födda svenskar&#8221;, vilket var Reinfeldts ordval.) ((She meant &#8220;ethnically-born Swedes,&#8221; which was Reinfeldt&#8217;s choice of words.))</p>
<p>Hon fortsatte: &#8220;Det blir värre och värre. Ett språkbruk vi inte är vana vid (&#8230;) Han pratar om &#8216;flödet&#8217; som kommer till Sverige.&#8221; (She continued: &#8220;It gets worse and worse. A language we are not accustomed to (&#8230;) He talks about the &#8216;flow&#8217; that comes to Sweden.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Att Fredrik Reinfeldt inledde resonemanget med att medge att det kanske varit bättre att säga &#8220;inrikes födda svenskar&#8221; nämnde inte Palm. (Fredrik Reinfeldt began reasoning to admit that it might have been better to say &#8220;native-born Swedes&#8221; did not mention Palm.) Inte heller att hans tal om &#8220;flödet&#8221; – som om det ordet vore något förgripligt i sig – följdes av markeringen att han inte ville stänga dörren till Sverige. (Nor that his talk about &#8220;flow&#8221; &#8211; as if that word would be somewhat cursed in itself &#8211; was followed by the selection that he would not close the door to Sweden.) Bara användandet av ordet &#8220;flödet&#8221; lyftes fram som belägg för att Reinfeldt antingen var anfäktad av rasism eller att han cyniskt och mot bättre vetande sprang med den stora håven efter rasistiska väljare. (Just using the word &#8220;flow&#8221; was presented as evidence that Reinfeldt was either beset by racism or that he cynically and vexatious ran with the big landing net after racist voters.)</p>
<p><strong>Statsministerns ordval</strong> var ogenomtänkt, men det han försökte säga är viktigt. (The prime minister&#8217;s choice of words was ill, but that he was trying to say is important.) Nu blev följden att han direkt hamnade i förklaringsträsket snarare än att berätta vad han vill göra åt integrationsproblemen. (Now it was the result that he immediately got into the swamp explanation rather than telling what he would do about the integration problems.) Och, som Kitty Kurth uttryckte saken: &#8220;Den som måste förklara sig har redan börjat förlora&#8221;. (And, as Kitty Kurth put it: &#8220;Anyone who has to explain himself has already begun to lose.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Kanske är det så att i dag då partierna blir mer och mer lika, triangulerar ut varandra och slåss om samma väljare, börjar deras företrädare ge upp tanken på att man kan vinna val med komplicerade resonemang. (Perhaps it is that today, when the parties are becoming more and more alike, triangulerar each other and fighting over the same voters, begin their representatives give up the idea that you can win elections with complex reasoning.) Det är ingen slump att ordmärkandet och förenklingarna går hand i hand med Twitters framväxt. (It is no coincidence that ordmärkandet and simplifications go hand in hand with Twitter&#8217;s emergence.) Det budskap som inte går att framföra – eller såga – på 140 tecken blir för komplicerat. (The message can not convey &#8211; or saw &#8211; in 140 characters gets too complicated.) &#8221;Twitterstorm&#8221; har blivit rubrikord och anses mycket besvärande för den debattör som drabbas. (&#8220;Twitter Storm&#8221; has become CATCH-WORD and is considered a great inconvenience to the debater who suffer.)</p>
<p><strong>Frågan är vem eller</strong> vad som driver på utvecklingen. (The question is who or what is driving this trend.) Är det politikerna? (Is it the politicians?) Deras kampanjstaber? (Their campaign staffs?) Journalisterna? (The journalists?) Eller har verkligen väljarna själva plötsligt blivit så intresserade av krångliga semantiska diskussioner om eventuellt felvalda småord? (Or really the voters themselves suddenly become so interested in the complexity of semantic discussions about possibly felvalda small words?) Har den tidigare trögrörliga valboskapen blivit så lättskrämd att den hamnar i sken så fort det åskmullrar en komplicerad tanke i närheten?(Did the previous sticky voting cattle become so timid that it hits the track as soon as it åskmullrar a complicated mind around?)</p>
<p>Jag tycker att twitterifieringen av politiken är trist och är övertygad om att väljarna är smartare än vad politikerna tror. (I think twitterifieringen of politics is boring and is confident that the voters are smarter than politicians think.)</p>
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		<title>Obama har ett vapen som motståndarna inte rår på</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Den usla amerikanska ekonomin kommer inte att fälla president Barack Obama. (The poor American economy will not trap President Barack Obama.) Obama har tvärtom ett vapen som utmanaren Mitt Romney inte rår på, enligt den demokratiska politiska strategen Kitty Kurth. (Obama, on the contrary a &#8230; <a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/obama-har-ett-vapen-som-motstandarna-inte-rar-pa">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Den usla amerikanska ekonomin kommer inte att fälla president Barack Obama. (The poor American economy will not trap President Barack Obama.) Obama har tvärtom ett vapen som utmanaren Mitt Romney inte rår på, enligt den demokratiska politiska strategen Kitty Kurth. (Obama, on the contrary a weapon as the challenger Mitt Romney can not beat, according to the Democratic political strategist Kitty Kurth.) Och hon vet hur presidenten ska använda det för att vinna. (And she knows how the president will use it to win.)</div>
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<p><strong>Det är ett</strong> slags etablerad sanning i amerikansk politik att ingen sittande president blir återvald om arbetslösheten är över 8 procent. (It is a kind of established truth in American politics that no sitting president being re-elected if unemployment is above 8 percent.) Med en så svag ekonomi letar väljarna syndabockar och då förvandlas presidentens styrka att han redan sitter i Vita huset till en belastning. (With such a weak economy are voters scapegoats and then turned the president prove that he is already sitting in the White House to a load.)</p>
<p><strong>Den demokratiska konsulten</strong> och politiska strategen Kitty Kurth håller inte med. (Democratic consultant and political strategist Kitty Kurth disagrees.) Och hon har varit med så länge i amerikansk politik att hon borde veta. (And she has been around for so long in American politics that she should know.) När hon talade på ett seminarium anordnat av Prime PR på måndagen konstaterade Prime-konsulten Niklas Nordström att Kitty Kurth var aktiv redan när Barack Obama gick under namnet Barry. (When she spoke at a seminar organized by Prime PR on Monday said Prime consultant Niklas Nordström Kitty Kurth was already active when Obama was called Barry.)</p>
<p><strong>”I en kampanj </strong>jag jobbade med, för en politiker i Illinois, hade vi en ung frivillig vid namn Barack Obama”, berättade hon. (&#8220;In a campaign I worked on, for a politician in Illinois, we had a young volunteer named Barack Obama,&#8221; she said.)</p>
<p><strong>Just nu är</strong> hon bland annat rådgivare åt vicepresidenten Joe Biden, även om hon gör klart att hon aldrig uttalar sig å Vita husets vägnar. (Right now she is among other things, an advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, even if she makes it clear that she never speak on behalf of the White House.)</p>
<p><strong>Kitty Kurth tror</strong> inte att den usla ekonomin avgör i det kommande valet. (Kitty Kurth do not think the bad economy will determine in the coming election.) Avgörande blir istället en mycket mer mänsklig känsla. (Crucial is instead a much more human feeling.)</p>
<p><strong>”I en av</strong> de smartaste opinionsundersökningar som har gjorts frågade man väljare varför de röstat på en viss kandidat. (&#8220;In one of the smartest opinion polls that have been asked voters why they voted for a particular candidate.) Det visade sig att mer än 70 procent röstade på den person de gillade bäst”, säger hon. (It turned out that more than 70 percent voted for the person they liked best, &#8220;she says.)</p>
<p><strong>Här kommer Barack</strong> Obamas kanske viktigaste styrka mot republikanen Mitt Romney - vid sidan att vara president. (Here is Barack Obama&#8217;s most important strength against Republican Mitt Romney &#8211; besides being president.)</p>
<p><strong>”Mitt Romney har</strong> ett problem i det att han inte har lika lätt att knyta an till människor. (&#8220;Mitt Romney has a problem in that he is not as easy to bond with humans.) Han kan inte som Obama fylla en arena med 40.000 människor och få folksamlingen att koka”, säger Kitty Kurth.(He may not like Obama filling a stadium with 40,000 people and get the crowd to cook, &#8220;said Kitty Kurth.)</p>
<p><strong>Hennes kollega och</strong> tillika man Kevin Lampe fyller i att det för en politisk konsult är mycket lättare att jobba med en kandidat som har politiska problem men som är lätt att gilla. (Her colleague and also to Kevin Lampe fills in that for a political consultant&#8217;s much easier to work with a candidate who has political problems, but that is easy to like.)</p>
<p><strong>”Politiken kan du</strong> göra något åt, men det är mycket svårare att ändra någons personlighet”, säger han. (&#8220;Politics can do something about, but it is much harder to change someone&#8217;s personality,&#8221; he says.)</p>
<p><strong>Det här syns</strong> ganska tydligt i opinionsmätningarna. (This can be seen quite clearly in the polls.) När man bara frågar vem väljarna ska rösta på är det mer eller mindre dött lopp mellan Obama och Romney. (When you just ask who the voters should vote for it is more or less a dead heat between Obama and Romney.) Men på frågan vem väljarna gillar mest som person leder Obama med 8-10 procentenheter. (But on the question of whom voters like the most as a person leads Obama by 8-10 percentage points.)</p>
<p><strong>”Jag tror att</strong> det i slutändan kommer att avgöra valet, inte ekonomin. (&#8220;I think it ultimately will decide the election, not the economy.) Fram till partikonventen i höst kommer mätningarna att peka på ett allt tuffare race, men sedan kommer Obama förhoppningsvis att ta ledningen”, säger Kitty Kurth. (Until partikonventen this fall, the measurements point to an increasingly tough race, but then Obama hoped to take the lead, &#8220;said Kitty Kurth.)</p>
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		<title>RWANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER TO INAUGURATE PEACE &amp; LOVE  PAUL RUSESABAGINA TO KICK OFF PEACE &amp; LOVE FESTIVAL</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Lampe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rusesabagina is the man whose story is told in the film Hotel Rwanda (2004), which depicts the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when nearly 1 million people were brutally slaughtered. He was reputed to have saved lives of more than 1200 &#8230; <a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/rwandan-human-rights-leader-to-inaugurate-peace-love-paul-rusesabagina-to-kick-off-peace-love-festival">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.hrrfoundation.org/">Paul Rusesabagina</a> is the man whose story is told in the film Hotel Rwanda (2004), which depicts the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when nearly 1 million people were brutally slaughtered. He was reputed to have saved lives of more than 1200 Tutsis and Hutus, and</p>
<div id="attachment_228" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Paul-R.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-228" title="Paul R" src="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Paul-R-300x177.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="177" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hotel Rwanda&#39;s Hero Paul Rusesabagina</p></div>
<p>still continues to fight for human rights. This summer he will inaugurate the <a href="http://peaceandlove.se/en/">Peace and Love Festival</a> in Borlange, Sweden with an introductory talk on June 26. The Peace &amp; Love Festival is in progress June 26 &#8211; 30, 2012. This year&#8217;s theme is A New World. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the most brutal atrocities of humanity in modern times.</p>
<p>The West and the UN received massive criticism afterwards for not doing anything even though they saw clear signs of the escalation of violence in Rwanda, which eventually led to the killing of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.</p>
<p>Paul Rusesabagina was hotel manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in the capital, Kigali. He took over after its European executives fled the country when the violence began to escalate. He saved both Hutus and Tutsis and through his diplomacy and contacts, all of the more than 1200 people who were living at the hotel survived.</p>
<div id="attachment_229" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 255px"><a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/peace-love.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-229" title="peace &amp;love" src="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/peace-love.png" alt="" width="245" height="220" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Peace &amp; Love Festival 2012</p></div>
<p>“Sweden is the country that one of my heroes, Raoul Wallenberg, comes from. Although my intentions were never to become a new Wallenberg or Elie Wiesel, I am deeply honored and humbled to be compared with them. They set examples for each individual. I am an ordinary man who listened to my conscience and tried to do the right thing. Coming to Peace &amp; Love in the year, which is also a centennial year for Wallenberg, feels like the right thing to do,” said Paul Rusesabagina.</p>
<p>“I think we can create peace on a personal level and I&#8217;m sure the organizers of the Peace &amp; Love share that belief. I am honored to launch this year&#8217;s festival and try to help to lead the way to a New World,”continued Rusesabagina.</p>
<p>Paul started the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation in 2005 to give a voice to victims of genocide and support peaceful actions in Rwanda and worldwide. Paul&#8217;s autobiography An Ordinary Man appeared in 2006. Paul has won several international awards for his efforts.</p>
<p><strong>Read more about Paul Rusesabagina: </strong><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina</a><br />
<a href="http://wallenberg.umich.edu/rusesabag.html">http://wallenberg.umich.edu/rusesabag.html</a><br />
<a href="http://hrrfoundation.org/">http://hrrfoundation.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>From the movie Hotel Rwanda (2004):</strong><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/j2vMvyQeb1U">http://youtu.be/j2vMvyQeb1U</a></p>
<p><strong>Newscast from Rwanda 1994:</strong><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/ZWuB8ir4VeI">http://youtu.be/ZWuB8ir4VeI</a></p>
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		<title>‎Mileydi Fougstedt is a dynamic human rights leader and a dear friend. Please read this interview and learn more about Cuba and the need for freedom.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Lampe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mileydi Fougstedt was born in Havana, Cuba in 1970, She studied up to high school and then left her studies. She came to Sweden in 1989, when she met a Swedish man in Havana and she don&#8217;t want to get &#8230; <a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/%e2%80%8emileydi-fougstedt-is-a-dymanic-human-rights-leader-and-a-dear-friend-please-read-this-interview-and-learn-more-about-cuba-and-the-need-for-freedom">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mileydi Fougstedt was born in Havana, Cuba in 1970, She studied up to high school and then left her studies.</p>
<div id="attachment_222" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mileydi-castro.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-222" title="mileydi castro" src="http://www.kurthlampe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mileydi-castro-300x229.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="229" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Left: former President of Cuba Fidel Castro. Right: Mileydi Fougstedt - Human Rights Activist and a Democrat living in exile in Sweden from Cuba</p></div>
<p>She came to Sweden in 1989, when she met a Swedish man in Havana and she don&#8217;t want to get him involved.</p>
<p>At the beginning she seek for some kind of organization that was working for democracy promotion in Cuba but there were very few Cubans here and the cold war was still going on, so for most of them was (very) difficult to believe that change could be possible and even more difficult to be able to trust each other.</p>
<p>Many years past before she got involved in the struggle for democracy, at first she did it anonymously because she wanted to be able to go home and visit the family.</p>
<p>After being to Cuba in 2007 and she thought, this is enough, this system must be changed and then she started to work openly, then after the &#8220;elections&#8221; in Cuba 2008 she was invited to comment on Swedish TV and then she was let know that she would not be welcome any more&#8230;</p>
<p>Mileydi continued working with the magazine and eventually she was offered a full time position as editor. They have different projects with the independent press and the independent libraries which work with both children and adults. Her dream is to start a project helping women to empowerment, especially in terms of education (entrepreneurship) and getting involved in political issues.</p>
<p>read more <a href="http://theoslotimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=4158:cuban-were-clever-in-dealing-guantanamo-bay-with-us-says-mileydi-fougstedt-from-cuba&amp;catid=168:ex-interviews&amp;Itemid=714" target="_blank">here</a></p>
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