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                    <title>Krishan's J Town</title>
                    <link>http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/emnews/videos/jtown.mp4</link>
                    
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                          <media:description><span>Let there be a new dawn of hope for Sri Lanka's Tamil people, as they vote in the presidential elections. Let Krishan's J town be a reminder of their sufferings...'engga nidii illai' </span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>Let there be a new dawn of hope for Sri Lanka's Tamil people, as they vote in the presidential elections. Let Krishan's J town be a reminder of their sufferings...'engga nidii illai' </itunes:summary>
                    <author>investigativeblog@gmail.com</author>
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                        <category>featured</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>election</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-04T05:23:19Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>The Greenbelt Reports: Trees of Life</title>
                    <link>http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/tveapfilms/videos/GBR_Trees_of_Life.wmv</link>
                    
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                          <media:description><span>Returning 18 months later to the first point on Sri Lanka the Asian Tsunami hit, we find local people busy building a coastal greenbelt. The area is also being re-greened through home gardens and organic farming.
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                    <itunes:summary>Returning 18 months later to the first point on Sri Lanka the Asian Tsunami hit, we find local people busy building a coastal greenbelt. The area is also being re-greened through home gardens and organic farming.
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                    <author>it@tveap.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>it@tveap.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Protected area management</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Ecological Restoration</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Conservation</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Home Gardens</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Water Contamination</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coastal ecosystems</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-05T05:11:45Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>The Greenbelt Reports: Mangroves Are Forever</title>
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                          <media:description><span>Shrimp farming damaged and degraded mangroves around the Kalpitiya lagoon. After the industry collapsed, the community joined hands with a conservation group to restore the mangroves, some of which is harvested. </span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>Shrimp farming damaged and degraded mangroves around the Kalpitiya lagoon. After the industry collapsed, the community joined hands with a conservation group to restore the mangroves, some of which is harvested. </itunes:summary>
                    <author>it@tveap.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>it@tveap.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Protected area management</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Regenerating</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coral Reefs</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Conservation</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coastal ecosystems</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-04T17:50:57Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>The Greenbelt Reports: Reef Relief</title>
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                          <media:description><span>Human and natural factors exert many pressures on coral reefs. A group of young divers is regenerating one damaged reef, giving nature a helping hand.
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                    <itunes:summary>Human and natural factors exert many pressures on coral reefs. A group of young divers is regenerating one damaged reef, giving nature a helping hand.
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                    <author>it@tveap.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>it@tveap.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Protected area management</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Regenerating</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coral Reefs</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>featured</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Conservation</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coastal ecosystems</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-12T02:25:10Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>The Greenbelt Reports: Saved by Sand</title>
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                          <media:description><span>While surrounding villages were devastated by the Tsunami, Paanama suffered only minor damage thanks to sand dunes on one side and thick mangroves on the other. This inspired villagers to undertake restoration and conservation activity.</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>While surrounding villages were devastated by the Tsunami, Paanama suffered only minor damage thanks to sand dunes on one side and thick mangroves on the other. This inspired villagers to undertake restoration and conservation activity.</itunes:summary>
                    <author>it@tveap.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>it@tveap.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Protected area management</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Regenerating</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coral Reefs</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Conservation</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coastal ecosystems</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-02T13:15:19Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Nothing Safe, Nothing Sacred: Reality of ADB Safeguards in Sri Lanka</title>
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                          <media:description><span>This video highlights the traumas, tragedies and tears of the people victimized by the Asia Development Bank (ADB)-funded The Southern Transport Development Project project in Sri Lanka.</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>This video highlights the traumas, tragedies and tears of the people victimized by the Asia Development Bank (ADB)-funded The Southern Transport Development Project project in Sri Lanka.</itunes:summary>
                    <author>roshaneasy@yahoo.com</author>
                    <itunes:author>roshaneasy@yahoo.com</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Srilanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>safeguard</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>ADB</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-05T23:56:56Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>I am... A child of the sea</title>
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                          <media:description><span>Lakshani, 9, has lived by the sea all her life. When she was six, the Asian Tsunami of December 2004 destroyed their beachfront house in Koralawella, Moratuwa, on Sri Lanka's western coast. More than three years later, her family is still struggling to raise their heads. Lakshani takes us through a typical day, and shares her wishes for a cleaner beach and better neighbourhood. No longer afraid of the waves, she is back being a child of the sea.</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>Lakshani, 9, has lived by the sea all her life. When she was six, the Asian Tsunami of December 2004 destroyed their beachfront house in Koralawella, Moratuwa, on Sri Lanka's western coast. More than three years later, her family is still struggling to raise their heads. Lakshani takes us through a typical day, and shares her wishes for a cleaner beach and better neighbourhood. No longer afraid of the waves, she is back being a child of the sea.</itunes:summary>
                    <author>it@tveap.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>it@tveap.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Garbage</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>SriLanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Tsunami</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Disasters</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>fisheries</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>featured</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Fishing</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Coastal</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Education</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>Children</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>resources</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-07T14:02:22Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Economy in Matara</title>
                    <link>http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/internewslanka/videos/Economy_in_Matara.wmv</link>
                    
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                          <media:description><span>Matara media house funded by internews sri lanka for develop the journalism skills for youth's in southern part of sri lanka. mainly the trainies were produced the radio programs and first time they produced the short video story about the how the current economy affect the business comunity in matara. </span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>Matara media house funded by internews sri lanka for develop the journalism skills for youth's in southern part of sri lanka. mainly the trainies were produced the radio programs and first time they produced the short video story about the how the current economy affect the business comunity in matara. </itunes:summary>
                    <author>internewslanka@internews.lk</author>
                    <itunes:author>internewslanka@internews.lk</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>matara</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>internews</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>economy</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-01-03T11:19:18Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Looking Back, Looking Forward</title>
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                          <media:description><span>A brief video documenting a vigil for peace on new years eve in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The piece includes and interview with peace campaigner and human rights activist Sunila Abeysekera.</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>A brief video documenting a vigil for peace on new years eve in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The piece includes and interview with peace campaigner and human rights activist Sunila Abeysekera.</itunes:summary>
                    <author>and@engagemedia.org</author>
                    <itunes:author>and@engagemedia.org</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>tamil</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-06T23:14:23Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Wars and Waves : Sri Lanka's internally displaced</title>
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                          <media:description><span>In Sri Lanka, a natural disaster and ongoing conflict have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.  </span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>In Sri Lanka, a natural disaster and ongoing conflict have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.  </itunes:summary>
                    <author>dan@cohre.org</author>
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                        <category>sri lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>refugee</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>featured</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>idp</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-13T05:23:32Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Extract - CIRCLES of VIOLENCE</title>
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                          <media:description><span>The following is a 5 minute extract from the doco "CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE: a return to Sri Lanka", a film that attempts to make sense of Sri Lanka.</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>The following is a 5 minute extract from the doco "CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE: a return to Sri Lanka", a film that attempts to make sense of Sri Lanka.</itunes:summary>
                    <author>sam@media.com.au</author>
                    <itunes:author>sam@media.com.au</itunes:author>
                    <pubDate>2012-05-08T03:06:04Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Circles of Violence - a return to Sri Lanka</title>
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                          <media:description><span>CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE : a return to Sri Lanka is a personal exploration that exposes the island’s dark history and tries to make sense of the deeper processes beneath the violence. Get the DVD and you'll be supporting independent media... http://culture2.org/cov/</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE : a return to Sri Lanka is a personal exploration that exposes the island’s dark history and tries to make sense of the deeper processes beneath the violence. Get the DVD and you'll be supporting independent media... http://culture2.org/cov/</itunes:summary>
                    <author>sam@media.com.au</author>
                    <itunes:author>sam@media.com.au</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>Sri Lanka</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>violence</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>peace process</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-07T23:19:19Z</pubDate>
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                    <title>Trailer - Circles of Violence</title>
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                          <media:description><span>This is a trailer of the 45 minute documentary "Circles of Violence: a return to Sri Lanka"</span></media:description>
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                    <itunes:summary>This is a trailer of the 45 minute documentary "Circles of Violence: a return to Sri Lanka"</itunes:summary>
                    <author>sam@media.com.au</author>
                    <itunes:author>sam@media.com.au</itunes:author>
                    
                        <category>JVP</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>LTTE</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>ETHNIC CONFLICT</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>SINHALESE</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>SRI LANKA</category>
                    
                    
                        <category>TAMIL</category>
                    
                    <pubDate>2012-05-07T07:21:15Z</pubDate>
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