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	<title>Sarah J. Blige &#187; A matter of opinion</title>
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		<title>Remembrance Day Comes Early With Mass Shooting at Fort Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Major Nidal Hasan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next Wednesday, November 11th is the annual day of remembrance for soldiers who have fallen in battle, though I don&#8217;t doubt victims of yesterday&#8217;s mass shooting at the army base in Fort Hood, Texas will also be honored on Remembrance Day this year.
12 soldiers and one civilian were killed and 30 others injured when 39-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Community Targeted in American Subprime Lending Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subprime lending scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed a former Wells Fargo subprime loan officer who now works in foreclosure defense about the subprime lending scheme that made thousands homeless and allegedly targeted African Americans and other minorities.
Elizabeth Jacobson worked at Wells Fargo for nine years and was one of the top loan officers in the subprime division [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Aung San Suu Kyi, Prisoner of Conscience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military junta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political unrest]]></category>

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Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 14 of the last 20 years as a prisoner, though she has not committed any crime.
She is the pro-democracy leader of the opposition party in Burma (Myanmar), the National League of Democracy (NLD). She was arrested in 1989 by the military junta and put under house arrest, preventing her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[record temperatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetarianism]]></category>

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Dear God:
It’s hot. And I mean really hot. I’m going to Bikram’s yoga as often as I can because it’s much cooler in the studio than it is in my apartment. I can’t keep up with the laundry; I’m soaking through my clothes within 10 minutes of putting them on. Every time I try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis and Crucible for Sri Lanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 23:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[child soldiers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LTTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political unrest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began writing this article several days ago, the  Sri Lanka civil war was raging out of control with no foreseeable resolution. Then, on the afternoon of May 18, 2009, I heard a reporter for CBC radio announce the &#8220;end&#8221; of the Sri Lanka civil war, as the army had apparently killed the Tamil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gateway Project a Wolf in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 06:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Blige</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Burns Bog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[highway expansion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 26, 2009, I joined around 125 others in a three-hour trek across the Alex Fraser bridge and into Burns Bog for the annual pilgrimage to raise awareness about the effect the proposed Gateway Project would have on the community’s beloved bog. But I learned that the pilgrimage was about more than just saving a [...]]]></description>
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