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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>Nurses, PDA, and MoveOn join forces: Tax Wall Street/Heal America Campaign (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/08/30/nurses-pda-and-moveon-join-forces-tax-wall-streetheal-america-campaign-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), MoveOn.org, and local nurses are joining forces here in Tucson and nationwide to tell Congress that we are fed up with their coddling Wall Street, their failed 30-year experiment with trickle down economics, and their blatant disregard for Main Street America. In a pre-Labor Day demonstration on Thursday, September 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress: Where are the jobs? (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/08/10/congress-where-are-the-jobs-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At yesterday&#8217;s northwest Tucson town hall Arizona Senator John McCain got an earful from progressives, conservatives, and other Southern Arizonans who are &#8220;mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.&#8221; McCain tried to use the forum to push right-wing talking points&#8211; focusing on blaming President Obama for everything and pushing the idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty, unemployment, unions, the &#8216;beast&#8217; &#8230; and you</title>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/?p=810</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/?p=789</guid>
		<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>&#8216;The false debate on the debt&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/16/the-false-debate-on-the-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/16/the-false-debate-on-the-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an awesome commentary on the national debt debate from The Nation&#8230; In the ever-so-smug company of the rich and powerful it is a given that there is never to be any expression of remorse or other acknowledgment of the pain they have inflicted on the lesser mortals they so cavalierly plunder. It’s convenient [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/14/us-house-to-vote-on-peoples-budget-on-april-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/?p=675</guid>
		<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>America: Do you want the &#8216;people&#8217;s budget&#8217; or the military-industrial complex&#8217;s budget?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/12/america-do-you-want-the-peoples-budget-or-the-military-industrial-complexs-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress sort of put the 2011 budget to bed last Friday with an 11th hour deal that forestalled a federal government shutdown. Teapublicans had a laundry list of progressive legislation that they wanted to completely defund or dramatically reduce: Head Start (which helps poor children be prepared to enter school) and public education, in general, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of capitalism? Survey shows American citizens&#8217; support waning</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2011/04/11/the-death-of-capitalism-survey-shows-american-citizens-support-waning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the sleeping giant of the American electorate awakening to the destruction of our country by greedy corporatists? Well, maybe. A new poll released by a Toronto company shows that Americans&#8217; enthusiasm for capitalism has dropped from 80% in 2002 to 59% in 2010. Since 2002, Globescan has been asking the question &#8220;Is the free [...]]]></description>
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