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		<title>Peace activist Medea Benjamin on drone warfare (video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, war is a messy business– all that blood, sweat, and tears– not to mention danger, death, destruction, dismembered bodies, human suffering, nightmares, guilt, wasted taxpayer dollars, mounting deficit spending… you know the drill. (Pun intended.) In recent years, the US military-industrial complex has made war less messy and less dangerous, at least for a select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Occupy Tucson Day 1: Peace, justice, protest, and music (videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupation of Tucson (and dozens of other cities, including Phoenix) began yesterday, October 15, 2011. Early in the day, as many as 500 people came to Armory Park, south of downtown, to protest corporate control of the US government, to demand an end to our corrupt corporate-financed election system, to advocate for jobs, healthcare, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Priorities Network asks: What are your priorities?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/09/27/new-priorities-network-asks-what-are-your-priorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Priorities Network, Tucson Chapter is meeting on Wednesday, September 28. Here is the meeting information. What are your priorities? War and militarism, or education, healthcare, and social programs? It&#8217;s time to act! Join us Wednesday 12:00 NOON to 1 pm Sandino Center, 1050 S. Verdugo Ave (directions below) New Priorities Network nationally was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hey, Jon Kyl, where are the jobs?&#8217; Kyl&#8217;s staff huddles in office while protesters call out their boss (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/09/03/hey-jon-kyl-where-are-the-jobs-kyls-staff-huddles-in-office-while-protesters-call-out-their-boss-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 25 stalwarts representing National Nurses United, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and MoveOn.org braved 108 degree temperatures to protest outside of US Senator Jon Kyl&#8217;s suburban Tucson office on September 1, 2011. The lcoal demonstration was part of a national movement to encourage Congress to think about Main Street&#8211; rather than Wall Street&#8211; when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty, unemployment, unions, the &#8216;beast&#8217; &#8230; and you</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/08/06/poverty-unemployment-unions-the-beast-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Michael Moore, the beginning of the end was 30 years ago yesterday. On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers who had defied his back-to-work order. They had been on strike only two days. From Michael Moore&#8217;s The Day the Middle Class Died. From time to time, someone under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the 46th anniversary of Medicare, Republicans attack our &#8216;Great Society&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/07/27/on-the-46th-anniversary-of-medicare-republicans-attack-our-great-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s highly ironic that the current social and political battle over our nation&#8217;s debt and deficit is occurring this week with the 46th anniversary of the signing of Social Security Act of 1965 on Saturday, July 30. After a long political battle dating from Harry Truman&#8217;s presidency to Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s, Johnson signed this legislation creating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MoveOn urges members to take debt ceiling battle to the streets and to Congressional Offices</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/07/26/moveon-urges-members-to-take-the-debt-ceiling-battle-to-the-streets-and-to-congressional-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MoveOn.org is calling on us&#8211; all of us&#8211; to visit our Congressional representatives&#8217; offices today, July 26, at noon and tell them to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Don&#8217;t let extremist Teapublicans destroy our economy and our country&#8217;s social safety net&#8211; as they play chicken with President Obama and the world financial markets over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giffords&#8217; deficit reduction town hall features right-wing talking points (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/07/02/giffords-deficit-reduction-town-hall-features-right-wing-talking-points-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The featured speakers at a recent deficit reduction town hall in Tucson&#8211; David Walker from the Comeback America Initiative and Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition&#8211; were well-versed in how bad the US economy is, the dangers of out-of-control spending, revisionist history on how we got here, and the right-wing solutions for fixing our financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US House to vote on People&#8217;s Budget on April 15 (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/14/us-house-to-vote-on-peoples-budget-on-april-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The People&#8217;s Budget&#8211; proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus earlier this week&#8211; will be heard on the floor of the US House of Representatives on Friday, April 15. Republican budget proposals balance the budget on the backs of the working people, children, and the poor by destroying Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. The People&#8217;s Budget creates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the US on the verge of class warfare?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the US on the verge of class warfare? Or in the thick of it? Check out this excerpt from an excellent Blog for Arizona article by the AZ Blue Meanie. Mr. President, America does not negotiate with hostage takers and extortionists I have come to the conclusion that all the news reporting and commentary [...]]]></description>
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