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Brazil - Level 4: Do Not Travel
Do not travel to Brazil due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution in Brazil due to crime. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory.

Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

Brazillian BDS activists to teach on antisemitism at World Social Forum
This year?s summit, which will be online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first time that activists from the BDS movement are using the summit to teach about antisemitism.
Publ.Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:49:00 GMT

GUEST COLUMN: We\'re teaching the wrong lessons about racism
The images from Cedar Falls high schoolers? social media would shock me if I hadn?t grown up with the same things: A pizza with the ?N word? spelled out in ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:30:00 GMT

MASSEY: Way Down South in Brazil, Part 2
Last week we talked about the exodus of Southern Americans to the country of Brazil. We looked at how the American migration had helped bring Brazil from the shadows of ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:00:00 GMT

A Georgia teacher\'s obituary pleaded for mask wearing. At a school board meeting, 3 officials refused.
In the wake of three teacher deaths from COVID-19 in Cobb County, Georgia, school board officials refused to wear face masks at a board meeting.
Publ.Date : Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:19:00 GMT

Happy to Be Home in Brazil, Dreaming of New York
This is my second semester at Columbia, but back in the fall, instead of going to New York, I returned to my hometown of São Paulo in Brazil, and almost haven?t left my house since. We are not under ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 Jan 2021 06:24:00 GMT

Why This Marine Veteran Is Training Brazil?s Next Generation of BASE Jumpers
Scotty Bob Morgan is world-renowned for his BASE jumps, but his latest adventure has taken him to the Southern Hemisphere to instruct the next great jumpers.
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2021 05:00:00 GMT

Finnish Scientists Seek Brazil for Coronavirus Vaccine Partnership
Amid concerns that Brazil will interrupt the vaccination campaign for lack of doses, researchers from two universities in Finland sought the Brazilian government to sign a partnership for the ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:50:00 GMT

Israel boycott activists to teach on anti-Semitism at international social justice summit
(JTA) ? Promoters of boycotts against Israel in Brazil will teach about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at an international social justice summit with a history of Jew-hatred.
Publ.Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:25:00 GMT

Project 2021, part 6: High Point family from Brazil reimagines the American Dream amid the pandemic
There seems to not be anyone who truly knew how long the COVID-19 pandemic would last ? not even the health care world. So, you can forgive Flavia Nazareth for how she saw it. For the last seven ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:42:00 GMT

Coronavirus live: UK lecturers threaten teaching boycott; struggle to quash Sydney cluster
Health worker among latest diagnosed with Covid-19 in NSW; Brazil records 61,567 new cases. Follow the latest updates live ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 16 Jan 2021 23:19:00 GMT

Chicago teachers vote to teach from home, defying district
CHICAGO (AP) ? The Chicago Teachers Union said Sunday that its members voted to defy an order to return to the classroom over concerns about COVID-19, setting up a showdown with district officials ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:10:00 GMT

MASSEY: Way Down South in Brazil
Following the American Civil War, the South lay in ruins. Life would never be the same for most of the population. Many in the family were killed, and starvation from ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:00:00 GMT

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