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	<title>Progressive Democrats of America Blog &#187; equal rights</title>
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		<title>Fade to White</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2010/02/fade-to-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[y ISHMAEL REED &#124; NYT Op-Ed Contributor    
Oakland, Calif.
 JUDGING from the mail I&#8217;ve received, the conversations I&#8217;ve had and all that I&#8217;ve read, the responses to &#8220;Precious: Based on the Novel ...]]></description>
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		<title>LT. Dan Choi Takes &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; Directly To Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/06/lt-dan-choi-takes-dont-ask-dont-tell-directly-to-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/06/lt-dan-choi-takes-dont-ask-dont-tell-directly-to-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GLBT equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By:  Linda Milazzo PDA Blog Contributor
(Last) Wednesday evening, in an act of daring befitting a West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq, recently discharged New York National Guard Lieutenant Daniel Choi defied the orders ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Senate leader dares conservatives to push for Constitutional Convention</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/04/iowa-senate-leader-dares-conservatives-to-push-for-constitutional-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/04/iowa-senate-leader-dares-conservatives-to-push-for-constitutional-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by desmoinesdem &#124; MyDD
Iowa Senate Majority leader Mike Gronstal is on a tear this week. On Monday he rejected Republican efforts to bring a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the Senate floor. Read his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Cesar Chavez!</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/04/happy-birthday-cesar-chavez/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/04/happy-birthday-cesar-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equal Pay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Swanson &#124; AfterDowningStreet
No, he&#8217;s NOT the president of Venezuela. 
Yes, he was the man who popularized the slogan &#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221; Only he said &#8220;Si&#8217; se puede!&#8221; 
Cesar Chavez, American young people should ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the anti-LGBT television special!</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/02/stop-the-anti-lgbt-television-special/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/02/stop-the-anti-lgbt-television-special/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Human Rights Campaign! &#124; Click HERE for more Information!
The ultra-conservative American Family Association (AFA) plans to air a &#8220;one-hour national special&#8221; with showings this week, decrying the &#8220;radical homosexual agenda.&#8221;
The program uses lies ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another brutal year for liberty</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/01/another-brutal-year-for-liberty/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2009/01/another-brutal-year-for-liberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Buchan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008: The Year That Was 
By Glenn Greenwald &#124; Salon.com
Jan. 1, 2009 
Befitting an administration that has spent eight years obliterating America&#8217;s core political values, its final year in power &#8212; 2008 &#8212; was yet ...]]></description>
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		<title>When Uncle Harry brings up Prop 8 . . .</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/when-uncle-harry-brings-up-prop-8/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/when-uncle-harry-brings-up-prop-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike hersh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anthony D. Romero &#124; Executive Director ACLU 
This Thanksgiving we are reflecting on what family means to us. For those of us at the ACLU and many people across the country, that will bring ...]]></description>
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		<title>The People&#8217;s Choice</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/the-peoples-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/the-peoples-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike hersh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subject to Debate
by Katha Pollitt &#124; The Nation
Something else remarkable happened on election day: voters rejected all
three anti-abortion measures on the ballot. In socially conservative
South Dakota, voters said no to an abortion ban with narrow ...]]></description>
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		<title>On the Fight for Marriage Equality in California</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/on-the-fight-for-marriage-equality-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/11/on-the-fight-for-marriage-equality-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayne Stahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jayne Lyn Stahl
I&#8217;m as upset about the outcome of Proposition 8 as anyone else is, but I don&#8217;t think that it is the signature issue of our times.
The President-elect&#8217;s plans for what to do ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Triple Whammy of Bigotry in the 2008 Election</title>
		<link>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/09/the-triple-whammy-of-bigotry-in-the-2008-election/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pdamerica.org/2008/09/the-triple-whammy-of-bigotry-in-the-2008-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike hersh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since a black man was lynched in America, but the Rove Gang’s getting the crowd ginned up for another one and the town’s on edge.
by William John Cox &#124; thevoters.org
The last ...]]></description>
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