Jul
22
Posted on July 22, 2011
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By Leigha Hinds

Today began at 8:00 am as a typical Etgar 36 day with sitting on the bus heading to a new city. As we approached New York City, we watched Keeping the Faith to introduce us to the life of New York.  In …

Jul
21
Posted on July 21, 2011
Filed Under: Cleveland, Summer 2011
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By Brett Horowitz

One bright and shining morning on July 20, Etgar 36 woke up to intense amounts of heat and humidity in Ohio. After the usual hotel breakfast we began our trek to Kent State University where we met with Alan Canfora. Alan was …

Jul
20
Posted on July 20, 2011
Filed Under: Chicago, Summer 2011
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By Ilana Engel

This morning we woke up to another sweltering hot day in the Windy City – making many of us wonder how Chicago got its chilly nickname. We began the day with an early meeting with Cook County Commissioner Gainer – an articulate …

Jul
19
Posted on July 19, 2011
Filed Under: Chicago, Summer 2011
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By Jaime Kaiser

Glad to be reunited with our bus and driver Robert, we set off for our first full day in the city of Chicago! Our first stop was the Medill school of Journalism at Northwestern University where we met with Dean Levine. He …

Jul
17
Posted on July 17, 2011
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By Cole Mantell

For many of us today this is the last full day that we will be spending together as some of us will be going home after 22 days. We started our day in Haight Ashbury which was the scene of the counter-cultural …

Jul
17
Posted on July 17, 2011
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By Noa Allen

We started off the day at the San Francisco public library for a meeting, meet a very inspiring man named Leon Veal. He was illiterate until he was 44. He sent us the message that we have the power to change the …

Jul
15
Posted on July 15, 2011
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By Danielle Gordon

Today we left the hotel and departed for the beautiful drive up the California coast to the cool weather in San Francisco. We stopped for lunch in Santa Barbara which was really cool, just looking at the shops and walking around. Then …

Jul
14
Posted on July 14, 2011
Filed Under: Los Angeles, Summer 2011
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By Ben De Toledo

This morning started with a drive to downtown LA where we met with Michael Stryer, a co-founder of the New Teachers Union of Los Angeles, and a history teacher at Fairfax High School. The meeting started with Michael asking us to

Jul
13
Posted on July 13, 2011
Filed Under: Los Angeles, Summer 2011
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By Steven Aranyi

Yesterday started with a nice bus drive of a few hours  to brunch. We stopped at a restaurant called Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner. The food was really good, and there was a gift shop with a lot of retro stuff and some

Jul
12
Posted on July 12, 2011
Filed Under: Las Vegas, Summer 2011
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By Matt Appel

 Sometimes crises can end up actually benefitting people. That is exactly what happened to us today when our plan to listen to a representative from the Culinary Workers’ Union backfired. Instead, we got to see first-hand the training of hotel employees at …

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