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		<title>Libya: Real Problems, No Answers</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/libya-real-problems-no-answers</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Schulman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID MCREYNOLDS Sheila Cooper was my first indirect contact with Libya &#8212; back in the 1980&#8242;s. Sheila had great secretarial skills, she enjoyed that work, and had been the essential person to serve as back-up to Peggy Duff. (I just checked Wikipedia for Peggy &#8212; an interesting entry but a deplorable &#8220;evaluation.&#8221;) Peggy was a [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Challenging Authority: An Interview With Frances Fox Piven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloward-Piven strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social movements]]></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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		<title>March 4: National Day of Action to Defend Education</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/march-4-national-day-of-action-to-defend-education</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the coordinating committee of the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education: As people throughout the country struggle under the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, public education from pre-K to higher and adult education is threatened by budget cuts, layoffs, privatization, tuition and fee increases, and other attacks. Budget cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</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>
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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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		<title>The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER In early September 2006, Johann Hari, a columnist for the British newspaper The Independent, visited what was then an unusual gathering: a climate action camp. A village of tents had appeared in the shadow of Selby, England’s, towering Drax coal-fired power plant—one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe. Hari found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[N.W.A.&#8217;s Second Album, Track Two]</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/n-w-a-s-second-album-track-two#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Sean Monahan’s latest seems right up my alley.  As a frequent quoter of Saul Alinsky’s plea that the left should “play the game to win” and not just yell “kill the umpire” and as an ardent critic of nihilist strains of psuedo-leftism I have openly voiced similar concerns.  Concerns that have caused me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Real Death Panels</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-real-death-panels</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-real-death-panels#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=1933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[45,000 Deaths Each Year Linked to Lack of Insurance JEFF MUCKENSTURM Liberals and conservatives alike will often argue against adopting a universal, single-payer system like Canada’s for the United States because they say it will lead to rationed care. But then they will immediately defend rationing in our system by saying, “We already have a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The End of Healthcare History? Let&#8217;s Hope Not</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-end-of-healthcare-history-lets-hope-not</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-end-of-healthcare-history-lets-hope-not#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFF MUCKENSTURM There’s no doubt that mainstream liberals will gush over last night&#8217;s speech by President Obama to the joint session of Congress. But any progressive or socialist should find Obama’s speech, and his overall healthcare reform effort, as just another entry in a long list of political disasters (i.e. Afghanistan, Iraq, “don’t ask-don’t tell,” [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Prison of the &#8220;Possible&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-prison-of-the-possible</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-prison-of-the-possible#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO Michael Harrington, the founder of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and one of the foremost figures in American public life from the 1960s until his death in 1989, famously defined the political task of socialists in the United States as building a “left wing of the possible.” For Harrington, this meant “walking a [...]]]></description>
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