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		<title>actin&#8217; up at the global activism expo 2012</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2012/05/23/actin-up-at-the-global-activism-expo-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris, Aidan, and I went down to the UIC Forum back on April 28 (when I started writing this brief post) to take in the 2012 Global Activism Expo sponsored by Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ). It was an amazing event. We spent five hours there checking out nearly a hundred local non-profits, enjoying world music, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dalai lama comes to chicago</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/11/11/dalai-lama-comes-to-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We learned recently that H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public talk on non-violence at Loyola University in Chicago on April 26, 2012. Tickets are very limited, but we have sent in our request and are hopefully awaiting a response as the date nears. More information is on this event is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the magic of totoro</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/04/06/the-magic-of-totoro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family and children&#8217;s films that deliver more than clichéd and tired good-versus-evil dichotomies laden with gender role stereotypes, gratuitous violence, and the subtle hypersexualization of young girls are hard to come by. If you are as fed up with the formulaic plot driven junk churned out for children by American cinema as I am, check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a journey to ten thousand villages</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/10/09/a-journey-to-ten-thousand-villages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Scouts has started up again and this year we are focusing on the human rights unit. So far we had one meeting in which we tried to provide a little overview of what we&#8217;ve done the last two years, and then we moved on to some general information of what human rights is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>oppressor and victim, victim and murderer?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/08/20/oppressor-and-victim-victim-and-murderer/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2010/08/20/oppressor-and-victim-victim-and-murderer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paradise Now directed by Hany Abu-Assad is the kind of film that reminds one that the story we hear in western media is but one story, and an aggregate political one at that. It is not the story of individuals&#8211;of the people living in the midst of daily conflict, of occupation, oppression, and fear. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>who knew that $320 can get you a llama, a goat, chicks, and bees</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/05/24/who-knew-that-320-can-get-you-a-llama-a-goat-chicks-and-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day! Our Earth Scouts group finished up their unit on Economic Justice today earning two badges&#8211;one for the unit and a smaller one for the reading fundraiser that they have been working on for the past several months. The reading fundraiser, called Read to Feed, was part of our work to raise money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>city, culture, and chinese food</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/27/city-culture-and-chinese-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we ventured into our great city to pay a visit to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This was Aidan&#8217;s second visit to Orchestra Hall. We came for a school program on the work of Mozart, an outing organized by CAHFT (Chicago Area Homeschool Field Trips). It was good fun. &#160;The Chicago Symphony OrchestraThe conductor did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>around the world in four hours</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/27/around-the-world-in-four-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months back Aidan started as a Cloverbud with a local homeschool 4H group. And last Sunday was our first fair&#8211;the International Fair. The fair consisted of a number of South Suburban 4H groups all presenting their work for the past year on a particular country of each group&#8217;s choice. Aidan&#8217;s group had chosen Egypt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>budding social activist</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/10/budding-social-activist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m totally psyched up for our new unit in Earth Scouts, the youth group that I lead along with my friend Heidi. At first when Heidi and I decided it was time to move away from our safety net of concentrating on nature and decided to attempt this new unit of &#8220;economic justice,&#8221; I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ikigai and living to be a hundred</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/01/07/ikigai-and-living-to-be-a-hundred/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2010/01/07/ikigai-and-living-to-be-a-hundred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fine video from TED came across my desk today, and it struck a chord with me. It&#8217;s entitled How to live to be 100+ and the speaker is Dan Buettner&#8211;a National Geographic writer and explorer who studies the world&#8217;s longest-lived peoples. Dan Buettner on How to Live to Be a Hundred+ Now, I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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