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Douglas McGill

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Twin Cities Daily Planet: Eritreans in Minnesota weigh a dream gone mad

By Douglas McGill | 08/22/08
The Eritrean government is filling up its prisons so fast it's reportedly grabbing rusty old cargo containers from Red Sea ports to handle the overflow. FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANET
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: Why I write about Ethiopia

By Douglas McGill | 08/15/08
A veteran journalist explains his interest in reporting on human rights abuses despite the torrent of scathing emails and amorphous threats.FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANET
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: A son of Minnesota returns as a worldly monk

By Douglas McGill | 08/01/08
Ajahn Chandako, also known as Jim Reynolds, returned to his home state last week to teach people how to meditate and to give a series of pithy, gently humorous talks.FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANET
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: From Oromia to Minnesota, with love and coffee

By Douglas McGill | 07/24/08
A seemingly trivial packaging switch unleashes a torrent of gratitude on the St. Paul office of fair-trade food company Equal Exchange.FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANET
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: Cell phones relay news of crimes and crisis in Ethiopia

By Douglas McGill | 07/03/08
Could a humanitarian crisis following the pattern of Darfur, Sudan, actually be unfolding in Ethiopia while capturing hardly a second of the world's collective attention?
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: Two philosophers throw journalism a lifeline

By Douglas McGill | 06/19/08
Doug McGill writes about two interlocking principles for our civic life and therefore for journalism: talking with strangers, and speaking truth to power.FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLANET
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: An Ethiopian strongman meets the Minnesota Anuak

By Douglas McGill | 06/05/08
Omot Obang Olom has been named by human rights groups as a key architect of a genocide against the African Anuak tribe of western Ethiopia.
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Twin Cities Daily Planet: A genocide planner to meet his Minnesota survivors

By Douglas McGill | 05/30/08
The impending visit of an Ethopian official named as a primary architect of a genocide in western Ethiopia has thrown the Minnesota community of an African tribe into a state of alarm and intense internal argument.FROM TWIN CITIES DAILY PLAN