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		<title>The cancer in Occupy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_cancer_of_occupy_20120206/ Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Chris Hedges The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NM Teachers: How Great is Great?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emanuele Corso &#160; Last week legislators from around the country flocked to an all-expense-paid (including travel) get-together at an exclusive island resort off the coast of Florida—the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island (http://www.truth-out.org/alec-education-academy-launches-island-resort/1328280896). The tab was picked up by ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), leaving one to wonder just what the legislators exchanged in return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Move past the status quo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TIME FOR A NEW VISION FOR OUR STATE Tim Keller Senator, SD-17 (Albuquerque) In New Mexico, times have been tough. The Land of Enchantment has been gripped by economic uncertainty for over three years now. But, after almost half a decade living year-to-year (and sometimes month-to-month), New Mexico may be turning a corner and it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Affront to Your Wallet and Your Civil Rights: Democracy-free Transportation Reinvestment Zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Steve Fischmann I just read the harmless-sounding Transportation Reinvestment Zone Act (SB 36) that is before the New Mexico State legislature.  Good transportation is important for economic development.  Given that the bill has been endorsed by the Revenue and Tax Stabilization committee it has a real chance to pass.  But there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy, but don&#8217;t invade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Steve Klinger &#160; A friend sent an article that in its discussion of the larger movement lends another perspective to the incident at Eldorado, in a Santa Fe hotel last week: Don’t Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/26-11). &#160; Harriet Barlow argues persuasively that the Occupy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration reform is more than just driver&#8217;s licenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Fischmann│ 1/25/12, 12:22 pm │ &#160; nmpolitics.net State Sen. Steve Fischmann We can continue the political soap opera over driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants or comprehensively tackle immigration issues impacting our daily lives. I’m sponsoring legislation that attempts to do the latter. I invite others to help me improve it. While Washington plays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedges: Thank you for standing up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Hedges &#160; I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” during an Occupy demonstration in front of Goldman Sachs in November. Those sentenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I went to Juárez, and it was good to be there</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 16, 2012 Commentary Mike Scanlon Rio Grande Digital (www.riograndedigital.com) Two by two, truckloads of tetocops slowly crawled the side streets and alleys, their lights flashing red and blue. They crossed Avenida 16 de Septiembre about every two blocks. They were the Juárez city police — tetocops, as some people call them in a reference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complicit lapdog media ignore Occupy the Roundhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Steve Klinger How do you try to stop a revolution? First, you ignore it. If you are the mainstream media you try to pretend the movement doesn’t exist, like KOB and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque did tonight regarding Occupy the Roundhouse (and the New Mexican, which as of 11 pm  had not one word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012:  Democracy On Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Craig Barnes Dec. 31, 2011 When I was growing up in the wheat fields of eastern Colorado in the late 1940s, the Second War had ended, my father had come home in one piece; we planted alfalfa, began building a log barn, and dug a 30-foot long asparagus patch.  In my mind, age 10, [...]]]></description>
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