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	<description>// Culture. Consciousness. Critical Thought. //</description>
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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[All 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 share my [...]]]></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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Schwartz]]></category>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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>Discourses on the Nature of Society under Capitalism and Socialism I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Logan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx Socialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of an inquiry on the nature of civil and social participation in capitalist society and what dialogues are necessary to bring the subject of socialism back into the mainstream ]]></description>
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		<title>So How Come No One Noticed Hip-Hop’s First Publicly Out Lesbian?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/so-how-come-no-one-noticed-hip-hop%e2%80%99s-first-publicly-out-lesbian</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/so-how-come-no-one-noticed-hip-hop%e2%80%99s-first-publicly-out-lesbian#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMBER A&#8217;LEE FROST Of all the beefs in hip-hop, there’s none so steeped in leftist politics as the white feminists versus their perception of hip-hop culture. The most recent public statements against hip-hop have been made by some of the most prominent white, self-identified feminists in the entertainment business. For example, earlier this year, actress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Park is Prologue</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-park-is-prologue</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-park-is-prologue#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rosa Luxemburg]]></category>
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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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