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    <description>Before 2004, no state allowed same-sex marriage. Today, it's legal in 12 states and the District of Columbia. If you want to see how political progress is made, look to the local level.</description>        
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    <description>A super-sized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health and citizens’ rights. Here’s why we shouldn’t let it pass without a fight.</description>        
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    <title>From the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence</title>        
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    <description>Beneath mainstream culture runs a current of domination, individualism, and exclusion that is harming our children. We assume this is normal—but is it really?</description>        
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    <description>Oil companies—and many of our political leaders—see melting sea ice as an opportunity to drill deeper. Fortunately, you don’t have to occupy an Arctic drilling platform to join the growing movement of people who are putting themselves on the line for our planet’s future.</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Kumi Naidoo</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election</title>        
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    <description>It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.</description>        
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    <title>Creating Change is the People’s Job</title>        
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    <description>We—not just the president—have to be the agents of change in our society. How do we extend our electoral organizing beyond the elections?</description>        
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    <title>Now, Let’s Occupy the Ballot</title>        
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    <description>During election season, all eyes turn to politics. How do we ensure that the interests of the 99 percent are represented in the halls of power?</description>        
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    <title>Change Now, Vote Later</title>        
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    <description>Political answers will come when we build a network of solidarity and action that pushes on all fronts for a true democracy.</description>        
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    <title>Prevent a Tar Sands Disaster</title>        
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    <description>Why developing the tarsands has been called "world's most destructive project."</description>        
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    <description>We can all agree that we've got deficit and spending problems. But where do we go from here?</description>        
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    <description>Why anyone who believes that under-30 Americans aren’t tuned in to the future and ready to act is fooling themselves. </description>        
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    <title>Legal Pros Say No to Citizens United</title>        
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    <description>Experts call for Constitutional amendment to take back democracy from corporations.
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    <description>How the cap-and-cash-back bill can clear a deadlocked Senate–and make most Americans better off.</description>        
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    <description>The national coordinator of the US Social Forum, Adrienne Maree Brown offers her brief, heartfelt list of reasons to come to Detroit to participate in the 2010 USSF.</description>        
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    <title>Financial Transactions Tax: A Little Tax on the Big Casino</title>        
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    <description>The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimates that an FTT of only one-half of one percent would generate at least $60 billion to $100 billion dollars in the United States alone.</description>        
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