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July/August 2001
Chris Dodge Utne Reader 
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According to an article on 'toxic tourism' in Orion Afield ( Spring 2001), activist groups like San Francisco–based Global Exchange now conduct reality tours to open people’s eyes to social and environmental problems right under their noses. Lead your own such tour on a smaller scale by showing visitors the garbage burner or chemical plant that poses problems in your community.

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Wherever you live—city, suburb, town, or country—make your tours wild and true. Dare to be counterintuitive. Talk with strangers. And relate your own tales. ('Here’s where I washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant that served lutefisk and lefse each December at the working class bar next door.') Your personal stories will be more lively than markers and monuments.

Chris Dodge is Utne Reader's librarian.

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