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Reality Tours – A Different Way of Travel

“One of the original innovators in responsible tourism, Global Exchange’s Reality Tours, runs customizable trips to over 40 locations around the world including many countries rarely visited by tourists such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Cuba, Palestine and North Korea. Global Exchange is a unique tourism provider because it is first and foremost an international human rights organization. By contextualizing the images often portrayed in the US media for its participants, Reality Tours is able to shine a light on US foreign policy, and the continuing ramifications of that policy over decades in a multitude of locations. Reality Tours promotes peace through citizen diplomacy, delegations which create personal engagements while traveling – real people and their personal stories, not just statistics.”

Reality Tours – A Different Way of Travel via Chelsea Souter – Triple Pundit

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Global Exchange Open House – October 6th, 6pm at the Global Exchange Office in San Francisco – FREE EVENT

OPEN  H O U S E
Thursday October 6th, 6pm
Global Exchange Office
2017 Mission St.
2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA  94110 (16th Mission St. Bart) (map)
Free event with Latin refreshments, specialty cocktails, games and prizes, prize drawing and music by
the Típica Cubana band, Los Soneros de Acero
RSVP on Facebook

Support Global Exchange
Buy Your Prize Drawing Tickets Today
Deadline for online purchases is end of day Wednesday Oct 5!

Come celebrate 23 years of activism and social change with Global Exchange!!!

Since our founding in 1988, we have been furthering the cause of peace and justice, incubating
innovative grassroots campaigns and building people-to-people ties.
Help support our work by purchasing your Prize Drawing Tickets Today.
(need not be present to win). $10/each or 6/$50.

This year’s prize drawing is better than ever! From dining with a co-founder to traveling abroad,
Global Exchange advances human rights and builds people-to-people ties, through our events and
campaigns.

This year we are also highlighting our Cuba Reality Tours, and hosting a prize drawing for
$1000 discount of off our Cuba Reality Tour (or another tour of your choosing). In 1989 we launched
our first Cuba RT, called “Cuba at a Crossroads.” Over the next 22 years we have continued to organize
trips that have become known as “the best New Year’s Eve party you’ll ever go to.”

This year’s December 27, 2011-January 5, 2012 trips are:

**when traveling to Cuba, some restrictions may apply

Also, great gifts and prizes Friend organizations— Anna BaltzerNational Organizer with the US
Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Arab Cultural and Community Center,  Bi-Rite MarketCanaan
Fair Trade
City Lights BooksCIIS Public Programs & PerformancesHard FrenchMiddle East
Children’s Alliance
United States Palestinian Community NetworkSF MoMaW.S. Badger & Company
and more.

Plus special door prizes, including two full season passes to San Francisco’s Live Queer Theatre,
Rhinoceros Theatre, and two tickets to Ana Hurra, by playwright Valantina Abu Oqsa.

Enjoy refreshing specialty cocktails—Viva Cubana Mojito and a Tequila Green Economy, as well as wine
from Cline Cellars, Beer provided by Drink Me magazine and the Uptown. Delicious Cuban and Latin food
provided by Work of Art Catering and Rainbow Grocery Cooperative.

Open House Program:

6:00 Self-guided Office Tours
6:20 Welcome by GX founders
7:00 Greetings and Program Updates by GX staff
7:30 Music and Dancing
8:30 PRIZE DRAWING!!!

For more information, please contact event coordinator at: allison@globalexchange.org or 415.575.5543

Global Exchange would like to thank the following sponsors:

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In Cuba, Yes, but Only With a Purpose

“A hot June sun glared over the Arroyo Arenas organic vegetable garden at the edge of Havana where Ms. Slezak, a 68-year-old retired social worker from Long Island, and 16 other Americans were visiting as part of a “food sovereignty” program organized by Global Exchange, a human rights organization, and Food First, a policy institute.”

In Cuba, Yes, but Only With a Purpose via Victoria Burnett – NY Times

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