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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Matter where you Live</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/it-doesnt-matter-where-you-live</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen-year-old Hadiyah Pendelton, who had just recently been in Washington DC performing at President Obama’s inauguration, was fatally shot on January 29th in Chicago. Sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray was fatally shot seven times by plainclothes police officers in Brooklyn on March 9th. On March 12th, a gunman targeting her father fatally shot 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins 5 times in Chicago. Also March 12th, a thirteen-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded while walking to school in East Oakland, California. This is a fraction of the gun violence that affects children in the United States. 
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		<title>Right-Wing Apocalypticism gains Traction</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/right-wing-apocalypticism-gains-traction</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/right-wing-apocalypticism-gains-traction#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY DANIEL HANSON The most recent pulse of right- wing paranoia since Obama’s election has churned up some thoroughly nasty sediment in the river of mainstream political discourse. More specifically, the wave of pro-gun reaction in the wake of Sandy Hook and other mass shootings, rhetoric equating gun ownership with the maintenance of personal security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Radical Approach to Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-radical-approach-to-immigration-reform</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-radical-approach-to-immigration-reform#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MATTHEW SCHREPFER Congress is gearing up for another attempt at comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform. After the disaster of the 2012 election, ongoing demographic shifts may actually pressure Republicans to pass it this time, although a bet on Republicans’ rationality or instinct for self-preservation hasn’t been a winning one recently. A lot could be said about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black America Burning</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/black-america-burning</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/black-america-burning#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year of 2012 represents many things to many people. In the recent weeks it is being hailed as the year that the minority-majority spoke up, a victory for ‘Liberal America’. Contrarily, for many of us who are skeptical of the so-called post-racial America, it is the year Black America burned.]]></description>
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		<title>The End of White Politics?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-end-of-white-politics</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Logan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election night was many things to many Americans. For some, it was making history again. For others, it was redemption; redemption from a perceived taint on the American way of life. Unfortunately for the latter, victory went to the waves of history.]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Bureaucracy:  On Sandy and the State</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-beauty-of-bureaucracy-on-sandy-and-the-state</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-beauty-of-bureaucracy-on-sandy-and-the-state#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My particular corner of New York City escaped the hurricane mostly unscathed, despite an agonizing thirty hours without Internet access. Even so, I have been reflecting a lot recently, like many people, on how we respond to natural disasters and what that says about us as a society.]]></description>
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		<title>A Socialist Feminist Perspective on the Gender Pay Gap</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-socialist-feminist-perspective-on-the-gender-pay-gap</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-socialist-feminist-perspective-on-the-gender-pay-gap#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender Pay Gap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of pay equity, obscured by Mitt Romney’s “binders of women” remark in the recent presidential candidates’ debate, remains critical to American families, two-parent and female-headed households alike. Given that women will likely decide the outcome of the presidential election on November 6th, perhaps it is important to explore the issue from a socialist-feminist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women 2012</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/women-2012</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/women-2012#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 US Presidential election was a landmark election for women; with Hillary Clinton’s historical run for the Democratic nomination, Sarah Palin’s breakthrough Republican Vice Presidential nomination, Michelle Obama’s active role in her husband’s campaign, the overall tone for women politics has changed drastically. ]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Islamic Fundamentalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/thoughts-on-islamic-fundamentalism</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, a wave of anti-US protests and violence has swept through parts of the Arab world, ostensibly in response to the US film “The Innocence of Muslims.” Cities including Gaza, Cairo, and most notably Benghazi, Libya- where the US ambassador and three others were murdered by a violent mob- have seen the brunt of the violence.]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond November</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/beyond-november</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/beyond-november#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL HIRSCH &#038; JASON SCHULMAN Marx wrote in The Civil War in France that every few years workers got to decide which members of the ruling class were to misrepresent them. How right he was. And is. That is uncontestable. What’s at issue are the implications. What politics is necessary in a formal democracy where [...]]]></description>
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