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		<title>Solidarity Compromised: Dispatches from SEIU&#8217;s War on Reformers</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/solidarity-compromised-a-dispatch-from-seius-trial-against-california-reformers</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[california]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NUHW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEIU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARL FINAMORE The quiet decorum of a court room is a far cry from a union hall. But in San Francisco, it is precisely in a federal court where an extremely crucial and unprecedented debate is taking place that may fundamentally alter how much democratic control members exercise over local union chapters. The 1.8 million-member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond “Charlie Brown”</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/beyond-charlie-brown#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROBERT FITCH Anyone who watched Rich Trumka’s performance January 29th on Bill Moyers’Journal has got to be impressed by his impersonation of Charlie Brown.  The newly selected AFL-CIO chief won’t let organized labor’s repeated legislative, organizing and political failures keep him from pursuing the same discredited strategies – any more than Charlie Brown would give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Zinn: In the American Grain</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/howard-zinn-in-the-american-grain</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/howard-zinn-in-the-american-grain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SCOTT McLEMEE Howard Zinn &#8212; whose A People’s History of the United States, first published by Harper &#38; Row in 1980, has sold some two million copies &#8212; died last week at the age of 87. His passing has inspired numerous tributes to his role in bringing a radical, pacifist perspective on American history to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen: Protesters, Media and Capital</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/copenhagen-protesters-the-media-and-capital</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/copenhagen-protesters-the-media-and-capital#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; JAMES TURLEY As is the norm for any major gathering of world leaders, the COP-15 talks in Copenhagen over the global warming crisis have been accompanied by a whole series of protests. First, there were the protests outside Denmark, which saw thousands marching at events like the ‘blue wave’ demonstrations in London and Glasgow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy’s sins against labor</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/kennedys-sins-against-labor</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/kennedys-sins-against-labor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve early]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[STEVE EARLY I was raised, like most Irish-Catholics, not to speak ill of the dead—at least while the wake is still underway. Of course, the affliction known as “Irish Alzheimers” exerts a powerful tug in the opposite direction. Forgetting everything except the grudges keeps you focused on those parts of a departed politician’s legacy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip-hop and neoliberalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/hip-hop-and-neoliberalism</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/hip-hop-and-neoliberalism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neoliberalism. rap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MARK FISHER Both rap and neoliberalism are 30 years old: 1979, the year that Margaret Thatcher was elected, was also the year when the Sugarhill Gang had the first bona fide hip-hop hit with “Rapper’s Delight”. At the time, few anticipated either the impact that neoliberalism and hip-hop would have, or the way in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beltway Consensus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dog Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red-baiting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GLENN GREENWALD The prevailing Beltway wisdom has now ossified that the problem with the health care debate is that those hardened Leftist ideologues cling childishly and petulantly to their little &#34;public option&#34; fetish and their refusal to give it up is jeopardizing enactment of a reform bill.&#160; Just see The Washington Post Editorial Page, Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question Over Iran</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-question-over-iran</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-question-over-iran#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MIKE ELY There is a self-deceptive politics (among some leftists) that seeks to prettify all kinds of reactionary forces that (for one reason or another) are in opposition to U.S. imperialism — including Islamic reactionaries, Kim Jung Il, “hardline” revisionists of the Li Peng and Eric Honecker type and so on. And in the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Party</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-pirate-party</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-pirate-party#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swedish Pirate Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GLAU MONTGOMERY The Internet could be considered the new face of socialism. The vast dissemination of information, often through individuals working with individuals, provides the chance to break the “final nexus” of capitalism, namely, self-interest. File-sharing and peer-to-peer networking are put in place simply for people to enjoy the artistic work of another, often in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrat Tasini to announce for U.S. Senate seat</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/democrat-tasini-to-announce-for-us-senate-seat</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/democrat-tasini-to-announce-for-us-senate-seat#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DAN JANISON Newsday Democratic labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who ran in a primary against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006, plans Thursday to announce a challenge to Clinton’s successor, Kirsten Gillibrand. “I believe in primaries,” Tasini, 53, said yesterday Wednesday. “We are not anointing someone. This is not a monarchy&#8230; There should be vigorous competition [...]]]></description>
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