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		<title>YDS and the Crisis of the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[trade union activism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE After countless years of whimsically hope-filled workshops about socialism’s future prospects, the Young Democratic Socialists did something different.  At our annual national outreach conference last March, former YDS Co-Chairs Peter Frase and Chris Maisano facilitated a panel on the dismal state of the democratic left.  The crisis that democratic socialists, democratic radicals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two (Bad) Campaigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concertación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduardo Frei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Senate race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE In a recent election, the complacent centrist candidate lost to a charming conservative. A right-winger had not won this elected post in decades. Many traditionally center-left voters stayed home or voted for the conservative to send a message to the political elites. While many progressives feared this misguided way to convey anger, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSA Youth Rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[YDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE According to the Chicago Tribune, 45 year-old David Abrams, a Florida-based member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is a “baby” in the socialist movement. That’s because the reporter covered DSA&#8217;s three and a half day biannual convention for only one night, before the main business of the body had even gotten underway. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Some call it socialism. I call it the Sermon on the Mount&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE I was around ten years old when my father and I arrived late to Ted Kennedy’s speech. I caught a glimpse of the senator and with his entourage waiting to enter the room as we rushed to our seats in the union hall. The light beaming from the auditorium shined on Kennedy. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches from a &#8220;Town Hall&#8221;: Where is the Left?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE Late Thursday afternoon, a staff-wide email went out to my union office. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA) would host a town hall meeting on healthcare in Chelmsford the coming Saturday morning. Recent reporting about the congressional forums across the country sparked my interest, and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to gauge the nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Michael Harrington</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/after-michael-harrington#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Harrington symposium]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE Michael Harrington died in 1989, when I was five years old.&#160; Harrington cannot be directly credited for my personal trajectory towards socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).&#160; By the time I joined the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) in 2003, Harrington seemed to me to be nothing more than a faded picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a Critical Hope</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/towards-a-critical-hope</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/towards-a-critical-hope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Obama could run. Obama ran so our children could fly… predator drones?! I came across this on Facebook.&#160; The truth and cynicism both hit me.&#160; I knew elements of the radical Left would condemn Obama without mercy. They would do this despite our knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Opinion and Fact Collide, the First Casualty is Reason</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/when-opinion-and-fact-collide-the-first-casualty-is-reason#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE I love the sayings: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts” and “to assume makes an ass out of “u” (you) and me.”&#160; These two quotes popped into my mind after reading comments on an article covering a BGSU-Firelands Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) rally against censorship.&#160; Normally, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Ballot: Making the Movement Matter, Conference Report</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/beyond-the-ballot-making-the-movement-matter-conference-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE From February 27th to March 1st YDS held its national outreach conference entitled “Beyond the Ballot: Making the Movement Matter” at the Academy of Environmental Science in New York City. The event, attended by over 150 people, focused on developing strategies for building progressive and radical social movements to push the Obama administration [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Demanding a Slice for Labor</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/demanding-a-slice-for-labor-how-we-can-reframe-the-employee-free-choice-act-debate-and-win</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/demanding-a-slice-for-labor-how-we-can-reframe-the-employee-free-choice-act-debate-and-win#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Duhalde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brandon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EFCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I luckily got an open treadmill towards my gym’s closing time. The rest were occupied, and the only available machine had a TV that was frozen on Fox. After watching my favorite Carrie Underwood song, “Jesus Take the Wheel,” covered on American Idol, I was unable to change the station and I got stuck with [...]]]></description>
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