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	<description>// Culture. Consciousness. Critical Thought. //</description>
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		<title>From Protest to Disruption: Frances Fox Piven on Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/from-protest-to-disruption-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/from-protest-to-disruption-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[direct action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven has spent decades writing about and participating in social movements in the United States. She was gracious enough to sit down for an interview with Chris Maisano, a writer and activist in the New York local of Democratic Socialists of America, to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests, the complex interplay between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Existential Robert Fitch</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-existential-robert-fitch</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-existential-robert-fitch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert fitch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An overflow crowd at New York&#8217;s Brecht Forum on Sept. 18 commemorated the life of the late journalist, author, scholar, educator, activist, union organizer and frequent New Politics contributor Bob Fitch, who died in March after complications from a fall. Among the speakers were Bertell Ollman, Steve Bronner, Doug Henwood, Christian Parenti, Jonathan Fitch and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Left in the Canadian Elections</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/curb-your-enthusiasm-the-left-in-the-canadian-elections</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/curb-your-enthusiasm-the-left-in-the-canadian-elections#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloc Quebecois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Party of Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Toronto Workers Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socialist Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people in the U.S., including most leftists, know next to nothing about Canadian politics. Because of this, Canada tends to be seen as some sort of social democratic paradise &#8211; a land of universal healthcare, multiculturalism, and benign stoners &#8211; instead of the complex and changing society it is in reality. In an effort [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Can Win: An Interview With Fabricio Rodriguez</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/we-can-win-an-interview-with-fabricio-rodriguez</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/we-can-win-an-interview-with-fabricio-rodriguez#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabricio Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-majority unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Security Officers Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEIU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worker centers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The right-wing offensive against public sector unions in states around the country needs to be defeated. But even if the attack is turned back, it&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t seem likely that a revival of the labor movement as we know it will necessarily follow. If a labor revival is to happen, it&#8217;s going to begin outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>2010 YDS Summer Conference Report</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/2010-yds-summer-conference-report</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/2010-yds-summer-conference-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010 Summer Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liza Featherstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peg Strobel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Democratic Socialists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[August 2010 marked the third time Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) held its Socialist Summer Retreat in bucolic Wurtsboro, NY. This gathering of 40 YDS members included new members from South Carolina, Florida, and California and veterans from established chapters at the College of Wooster (Ohio), William Paterson University (New Jersey), and Wichita State University (Kansas). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wrestling With Angels: An Interview With Stanislao Pugliese</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/wrestling-with-angels-an-interview-with-stanislao-pugliese</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/wrestling-with-angels-an-interview-with-stanislao-pugliese#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Rosselli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ignazio Silone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanislao Pugliese]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Socialists of America member Stanislao Pugliese is professor of history and Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oxford University and Harvard University. The author, editor, or translator of a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Challenging Authority: An Interview With Frances Fox Piven</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/challenging-authority-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/challenging-authority-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloward-Piven strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven is an eminent scholar of American politics and social movements at City University of New York&#8217;s Graduate Center and has long been an honorary co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, the parent organization of Young Democratic Socialists. She is the author of Poor People&#8217;s Movements, Regulating the Poor, and Challenging Authority, among [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Death of a Nation</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-death-of-a-nation</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-death-of-a-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Cockburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Henwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Harris-Lacewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Navasky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA I’m often rattled by manifestations of my own intellectual impotence.  A conversation with a professor who mentions whole genres of literature I’m unfamiliar with. An acknowledgment that I’ve been mispronouncing Die Linke and pronouncing Alexander Cockburn’s name a bit too correctly for a good year and a half. That stretch after reading Sula [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Cloward-Piven Strategy for Single Payer?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-cloward-piven-strategy-for-single-payer</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-cloward-piven-strategy-for-single-payer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloward-Piven strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Cloward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single payer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state budgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO With yesterday&#8217;s passage in the House of the Obama administration&#8217;s health care reform bill, it would seem at first glance that the movement for national, single-payer health insurance has been seriously derailed. After all, if all of the hype and adulation surrounding the bill&#8217;s passage is to be believed, the fight for universal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Henwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn-based Doug Henwood has been among the few articulate voices on what Perry Anderson likes to call &#8220;the vanquished left.&#8221; Doug has been publishing an irreplaceable newsletter, Left Business Observer, which examines politics and economics with a scientific rigor and without the moral exhortations or hyperbolic spasms of his contemporaries, since 1986.  He also hosts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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