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		<title>Just Twenty-three Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author and the names in the following article have been changed due to security reasons. Twenty–three days is the amount of time that I spent in an Israeli jail. Twenty-three days seems like a small part of a person’s life, but it was enough time to change the rest of mine. I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republican Primary: Garbage In/Garbage Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL HIRSCH In his appreciation of the late Lucio Magri, the Italian Marxist and founder of the exemplary Il Manifesto newspaper, Perry Anderson tells the story in the most recent New Left Review of the trashing a young Magri took from Italian Communist Party elder Enrico Berlinguer for a speech Magri wrote that bordered on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chilean Student Demonstrators Met With Heavy Handed Police Repression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIAD AZAR December 22nd 2011 Since the recent change in leadership of the FECH (Federacion de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile) the student mobilizations that have been engaging in the struggle for a free and quality education since May have been in limbo. Some see the election of Gabriel Boric as a move further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing New Under the Sun: Music and Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RYAN BRILES Protests and protest music are usually considered to be the provinces of the young. It’s usually assumed that young, impressionable college students read a few books, take some liberal arts classes, and then become starry eyed idealists for four years. The assumption usually also holds that that pure, undefiled idealism shatters under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Uncommon Struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMAR AYOUB This article is part of an on-going agreement between An-Najah University and The Activist, based on a series of articles by Palestinian University students. In 2000, after the failure of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Ariel Sharon with a large military escort entered Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. His visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold the Beef: An Open Letter to Dan La Botz on DSA and the Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE Dear Dan, What gives? As a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), I am puzzled and disheartened by your criticisms of our organization in your article “Occupy the Democratic Party? No Way!” Obviously, the Democrats have shifted far to the right since the 1970s. You noted correctly that Nixon governed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Park is Prologue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO When I interviewed Frances Fox Piven on the Occupy Wall Street protests last month, she offered a piece of wisdom born of decades of exemplary commitment to popular struggles: It’s also true that when I say I think we may be on the cusp, at the beginning of a another period of social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Riots, Revolution, and Diversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RYAN BRILES By this point, most people in America are familiar with the trials and tribulations of embattled former Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno. Paterno is one of the most important coaches in college football history, but now his record marred with a huge, glaring loss. One of Paterno’s assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILLIP LOGAN Am I a patient or a customer? Consumer or citizen? Entrepreneur or untouchable? Free markets or democracy? It seems that in today&#8217;s America, hope is on a tightrope and the clouds are becoming thicker and darker by the hour. As politicians continue to wrestle for control of the empire, flaunting their ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YDS Endorses Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Young Democratic Socialists endorse the Occupy Wall Street movement and its demand for justice. We join the demonstrators in taking a stand against corporate power and neoliberal politicians. These protests have been condemned in the press as class warfare, but in the words of a protestor on Wall Street, &#8220;they only call it class [...]]]></description>
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