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		<title>Peace activist Medea Benjamin on drone warfare (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/08/11/peace-activist-medea-benjamin-on-drone-warfare-video/</link>
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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>UA student &#8216;housing&#8217;: Maxi-dorm developers rush to make big bucks</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/05/27/ua-student-housing-maxi-dorm-developers-rush-to-make-big-bucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 22:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Daily Star&#8217;s banner headline on Sunday was &#8220;Luxury for students&#8221;.  The article by Carli Broseau focused on a run-down (no pun intended) of the development that is in full swing or being planned in and around downtown Tucson and The University of Arizona. For a few years now, UA officials have been predicting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the debate: Should Arizona adopt the open primary system? (poll)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/04/26/join-the-debate-should-arizona-adopt-the-open-primary-system-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years of gerrymandering and cronyism have left Arizona with one of the most ideologically conservative, Teapublican Legislatures in the country. Instead of balancing the budget and funding programs (like education) that will help Arizonans succeed, they waste time grandstanding on extremist issues. For years, disgruntled Arizonans have been voicing their dissatisfaction with politics as usual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money = Choice</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/04/18/money-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/?p=1054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of dating myself&#8230; I remember the days when the only place a young, sinlgle woman could buy affordable birth control pills&#8211; without being judged or lectured&#8211; was Planned Parenthood. I remember riding the Columbus city bus for an hour and a half each way to go to the near east side clinic&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Day of Action draws 1000 workers: Unions keep the pressure on AZ Legislators (video, poll)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/03/06/afl-cio-day-of-action-draws-1000-workers-unions-keep-the-pressure-on-az-legislators-video-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s AFL-CIO Day of Action at the State Capitol was a resounding success. Approximately 1000 workers came to Phoenix to express their displeasure with our state&#8217;s Republican-controlled government and the six anti-worker bills still alive in the Legislature. From the Huffington Post&#8230; The statewide AFL-CIO called for a Day of Action on March 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the eve of Super Tuesday: John Nichols critiques the Republican Presidential race (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/03/05/on-the-eve-of-super-tuesday-john-nichols-critiques-the-republican-presidential-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Newt Gingrich really looking for his fourth wife on the campaign trail? Check out The Nation&#8217;s John Nichols&#8217; humorous critique of the Republican Presidential candidates. Nichols spoke last week in Tucson.]]></description>
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		<title>Four buses of Tucson unionists go State Capitol for Day of Action</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/03/01/four-buses-of-tucson-unionists-go-state-capitol-for-day-of-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/?p=1046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I originally reported on the AFL-CIO Day of Action, I said four bus-loads of unionists were going to the Capitol to lobby Legislators and demonstrate against the anti-labor bills. Correction: that&#8217;s four buses just from Tucson. Additional bus-loads will be arriving from other Arizona cities. As they loaded the buses, one participant told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 1 Day of Action: Will Arizona unions rise up?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/02/29/march-1-day-of-action-will-arizona-unions-rise-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona AFL-CIO has organized a Day of Action for March 1. Four bus-loads of union members and supporters are descending upon the state capitol in Phoenix on Thursday. But will this Thursday be Arizona&#8217;s &#8220;Wisconsin moment&#8221; or will union members politely wander the halls of the Legislature and ask the wingnuts  legislators to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right to fire: Why do nurses need a union? (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/02/29/right-to-fire-why-do-nurses-need-a-union-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are nurses leaving the bedside? Here&#8217;s an explanation from loneprotestor&#8230; Several nurses met at breakfast the other day, and we discovered we had more than our profession and activism in common. For those who had worked at Banner Health, an alarming trend emerged: Banner seems to have a policy of firing for a trifle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy ALEC: Protest corporate control in Tucson and worldwide, tomorrow Feb. 29 (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/02/28/occupy-alec-protest-corporate-control-in-tucson-and-worldwide-tomorrow-feb-29-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it time to finally say, &#8220;I&#8217;m mad as hell and not going to take this anymore?&#8221; The Arizona Legislature (and other Republican-led Legislatures around the country) are attacking the citizens with anti-work bills and anti-student bills. Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich and Congressional Republicans are attacking women, immigrants, gays and Lesbians, [...]]]></description>
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