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		<title>Chilean Student Demonstrators Met With Heavy Handed Police Repression</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/chilean-student-demonstrators-met-with-heavy-handed-police-repression</link>
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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>Towards a Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/towards-a-revolutionary-anti-capitalism</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Logan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phillip Logan  As the irrationality of the neoliberal political economy takes its toll on America, the masses have begun to stir for something new. From the Tea Party to the newly created Occupy Wall Street movement, there is a foreboding sense amongst the American people that something is fundamentally wrong with the dominant social-economic order.]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-park-is-prologue</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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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>DSA and #OWS: Pluck or Luck?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/dsa-and-ows-pluck-or-luck</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/dsa-and-ows-pluck-or-luck#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID DUHALDE Rereading Maurice Isserman’s Michael Harrington biography, The Other American, I thought of the esoteric sectarian battles in the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL) during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The underlying reason for their infighting was the unspoken truth that YPSL and the Socialist Party collectively had no real affect on American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Occupy DC: The 99% Marches Forth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANDREW HOLT WILLIAMS As a resident of the DC area and a fellow YDSer, I thought I’d take the time to share a few entries about our nation’s capitol’s response to “Occupy Wall Street.” It’s still at about the same place New York was at two weeks ago, but it at least has some early [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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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>How #OccupyWallStreet is Evolving and Gaining Power</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/how-occupywallstreet-is-evolving-and-gaining-power</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/how-occupywallstreet-is-evolving-and-gaining-power#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER #OccupyWallStreet is evolving. Now in its third week, the protest movement not only continues to grow—it is maturing and becoming stronger in impressive ways. What started as a few hundred independent activists gathering for a protest on Wall Street, and a few dozen having the resolve to extend their demonstration by camping out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound and the Fury: A Critique of Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-sound-and-the-fury-a-critique-of-occupy-wallstreet</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-sound-and-the-fury-a-critique-of-occupy-wallstreet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMBER FROST and RYAN BRILES So, if you’ve been reading any alternative news outlet this week, you know about the Occupy Wall Street protest. In a nutshell, the protest is taking the form of an occupation nearby Zuccotti Park (since the police knew about the Facebook group they blocked off Wall Street) as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya and the Left</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/libya-and-the-left</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE I’ve been putting off this post, waiting for the Libyan revolution to reach some kind of decisive conclusion to its military phase. But it looks like that could take a while: the game of “Where’s Muammar” may go on for a while, and in the worst case scenario his loyalists could mount a [...]]]></description>
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