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    <title>Pamela Comstock Proposes "Smart Solutions for Shoppers" as a Way to End Homelessness</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Pamela Comstock Proposes "Smart Solutions for Shoppers" as a Way to End Homelessness</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[A study session on homelessness was held by the Santa Cruz City Council on April 30, 2013. When given a chance to speak at the end of the session, new council member Pamela Comstock explained that funding for homeless services comes from increasing the tax base, and that to help the homeless, the council should focus on "smart solutions for shoppers."]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T23:07:26Z</dc:date>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/24/18737319.php</link>
    <title>Crooked Corrupt Contractor Who Allowed Racist Incidents At SFO Given New Contract by MTA</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Crooked Corrupt Contractor Who Allowed Racist Incidents At SFO Given New Contract by MTA</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Crooked Corrupt Ron Tudor who is linked to Richard Blum, Diane Feinstein's husband and the UBC president McCarron was awarded a contract by the SF MTA board for the new subway despite a record of OSHA violations and allowing racist incidents on previous jobs.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T22:13:28Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:subject>Labor &amp; Workers</dc:subject>
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    <title>british guy was former christian</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>british guy was former christian</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[christian sacrificial religion]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T21:08:07Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>strat</dc:creator>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/24/18737310.php</link>
    <title>Delta Protection Commission Opposes Peripheral Tunnels!</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Delta Protection Commission Opposes Peripheral Tunnels!</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[The Delta Protection Commission voted 9-2 on May 24 to oppose the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels as currently drafted. This is a huge victory for Delta advocates, fish, the environment and the people of California. 

The construction of the twin tunnels would hasten the extinction of Sacramento River chinook salmon, Delta and longfin smelt and other fish species and take large areas of Delta farmland, among the most fertile on the planet, out of production in order to continue irrigating toxic land farmed by corporate agribusiness interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

I applaud Restore the Delta (RTD) Executive Director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla and board member Bill Jennings, also Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, for successfully urging the Delta Protection Commission to pursue a more cost-effective and sustainable water plan than building the proposed peripheral tunnels at the DPC meeting.

To read the Environmental Water Caucus reduced exports plan, go to: http://www.ewccalifornia.org/reports/REDUCEDEXPORTSPLAN.pdf  

Photo of Sacramento River at Rio Vista by Dan Bacher.

Below is the Restore the Delta press release:]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T18:19:19Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Dan Bacher</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>
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    <dc:subject>Environment &amp; Forest Defense</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Government &amp; Elections</dc:subject>
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    <title>U.S. Backed "Free Syria Army" Commander Openly Promises GENOCIDE</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>U.S. Backed "Free Syria Army" Commander Openly Promises GENOCIDE</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Photo: Ghost town of Tawergha, Libya where 30,000 black Africans were "cleansed" by U.S. backed "rebels" after taking power with U.S. military aid and air strikes. [Photo: BBC]]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T16:50:06Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Steven Argue</dc:creator>
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    <title>Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Syria]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T07:05:20Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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    <title>The Shortwave Report 05/24/13 Listen Globally!</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>The Shortwave Report 05/24/13 Listen Globally!</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and NHK World Radio Japan.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T00:18:56Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Dan Roberts</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>International</dc:subject>
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    <title>Israeli Pillar of Cloud War Crimes</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Israeli Pillar of Cloud War Crimes</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Israel]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T19:25:03Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Palestine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Health and Safety Gaps in Safe Drinking and Clean Water Acts</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Health and Safety Gaps in Safe Drinking and Clean Water Acts</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Since 1978 the State has received on average $600 million to $800 million annually for clean water programs that are administered by the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board)  through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.  EPA officials estimate California needs $39 billion in capital improvements through 2026 for water systems to continue providing safe drinking water to the public.  Instead, Gov. Brown is pushing a $14 billion twin tunnel project to ship relatively clean Sacramento River water around the beleaguered Delta estuary to western San Joaquin Valley mega-farms and Southern California development interests.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T18:20:35Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>by Patrick Porgans and Lloyd G. Carter</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>
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    <dc:subject>Environment &amp; Forest Defense</dc:subject>
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    <title>Happy Kids Day 2013 - A Multi-Cultural Festival</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Happy Kids Day 2013 - A Multi-Cultural Festival</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[A multi-cultural festival dedicated exclusively to families and children with activities, games, performances, and international delicacies. Over 100 tents sponsored by community organizations for children of all ages and nationalities, including cultural exhibits by various Embassies.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T17:48:01Z</dc:date>
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    <title>His Holiness talks peace, love and compassion in Louisville</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dharamshala: -His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet met with Vietnamese Buddhists, middle and high school students and the top official in Louisville, before ending his two week US tour.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T17:08:25Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Elisabeth The Tibet Post International</dc:creator>
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    <title>INVASIVE SPECIES</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>INVASIVE SPECIES</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[For the past 15 years, San Francisco's Mission District has undergone phases of real estate gentrification that came with each new technology boom. With information technology being the latest impetus, San Francisco has, on the street corners of certain neighbourhoods, new condominium towers being built. With the construction of new condos come upper-middle class newcomers, who can afford the high rents. In the process, local businesses have closed their doors, families, people with disabilities and illnesses &amp; art spaces are evicted, using the Ellis Act. The following poem was originally inspired by the first signs of real estate gentrification in Oakland, but could easily be applied to San Francisco's neighbourhoods right now. Before we step into action to save homes, the first step is awareness of their potential loss.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T16:55:15Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Dee Allen.</dc:creator>
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    <title>Chinese espionage against Tibet community exposed</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Chinese espionage against Tibet community exposed</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Dharamshala: - A terror plot to poison two Tibetan youths - Tashi Gyaltsen@Tashi Dhondup and Karma Yeshi@Tashi by Chinese Security Agencies aimed at spreading chaos and terror in the Tibetan community was uncovered.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T16:52:36Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Yeshe Choesang, The Tibet Post International</dc:creator>
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    <title>A Tibetan adhesive for India-China relations?</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>A Tibetan adhesive for India-China relations?</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Mumbai: - On May 19, 2013, Li Keqiang, the newly elected Premier (Prime Minister) of China landed in New Delhi, India, to hold talks with the Indian leadership.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T16:38:36Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>R.K., Outlook Tibet</dc:creator>
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    <title>SF Demo Supervisor Avalos Apologizes To Zionists For Criticizing Israel's Crimes</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>SF Demo Supervisor Avalos Apologizes To Zionists For Criticizing Israel's Crimes</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[SF Demo Supervisor apologized to SF Zionists for criticizing Israeli war crimes but is still under attack]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T16:27:20Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:subject>City of San Francisco</dc:subject>
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    <dc:subject>Palestine</dc:subject>
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    <title>UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T16:26:25Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Iraq Today: America's Imperial Legacy</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Iraq Today: America's Imperial Legacy</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Iraq]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T07:44:40Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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    <title>Mission Creep Toward Full-Scale War on Syria</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Mission Creep Toward Full-Scale War on Syria</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Syria]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T07:10:20Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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    <title>Interview with SC Clean Team founder TJ Magallanes</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Interview with SC Clean Team founder TJ Magallanes</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Fourth generation Santa Cruzan TJ Magallanes knows all to well about groupthink, bullying and the problems that can develop when one expresses their thoughts within a community group. He has run several Santa Cruz community oriented Facebook pages, which have enjoyed various levels of success...and failure. He has tapped into the power of social media, and has used it to enact positive changes within our community. He started Santa Cruz's own Clean Team in response to piles of needles and tons of garbage being found in the caves at Cowells Beach. After struggling with city officials to get them to clean up the mess, TJ organized a group of people and rid the beach of almost 3 tons of garbage. The Clean Team was born! 

The original goal of TJ's Clean Team was to both document, and pressure city officials to dedicate resources to clean up various litter-intensive hot spots around Santa Cruz. It has since morphed into something quite different.  As you'll soon see, no good deed goes unpunished, and at least partly due to harassment, TJ is currently laying low out of state. Friends, I'd like to introduce you to TJ, founder of the original Clean Team!]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Cleaning the Team</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Police State</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay Area</dc:subject>
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    <title>This Week in Palestine, May 17th, 2013</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>This Week in Palestine, May 17th, 2013</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 11th to the 17th 2013.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T04:52:14Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-23T04:52:14Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>IMEMC</dc:creator>
    <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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    <dc:subject>International</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Palestine</dc:subject>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/22/18737235.php</link>
    <title>The Full Moon Friday Night Reveals A Real Gambler Playing With Your Life!</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>The Full Moon Friday Night Reveals A Real Gambler Playing With Your Life!</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Friday night the full moon will be opposite the Sun and several planets, and it will be like a rolling bowling ball hitting our lifesyle.  Will you suffer a "strike" or will the ball roll past your life?]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T01:46:13Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Cris Ericson</dc:creator>
    <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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    <dc:subject>Arts + Action</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay Area</dc:subject>
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    <title>Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety --An interview with author Shawn Griffith</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety --An interview with author Shawn Griffith</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy. The author, Shawn Griffith, was released last year from Florida's prison system at the age of 41, after spending most of his life, almost 24 years, behind bars, including seven in solitary confinement. Facing the US PrisonProblem 2.3 Million Strong: An Ex-Con's View of the Mistakes and the Solution was self-published just months after Griffith was released from what is the third largest state prison system in the US, after California and Texas.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T00:35:35Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Angola 3 News</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Police State</dc:subject>
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    <title>Soul Food Festival 2013</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Soul Food Festival 2013</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[WWW.AAACCCSTOCKTON.ORG
JOIN US FOR GREAT FOOD AND LIVE MUSIC AT WEBER POINT EVENT CENTER STOCKTO CA
SOUL FOOD FESTIVAL]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>FREEDA</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Central Valley</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Independent Media</dc:subject>
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    <title>Damage control. City entangled in CalDesal's advocacy and lobbying activities</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Damage control. City entangled in CalDesal's advocacy and lobbying activities</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Last week, the City of Santa Cruz issued the unusual news release entitled "Santa Cruz Water Director Key to Non-Profit CalDesal Success.  Bill Kocher Named Vice-President of the Board."  The PR piece appears designed as a damage control tactic to both reframe and obfuscate the city's role as a prominent member of the CalDesal advocacy and lobbying organization. [Attachment: City issued news release extolling the key contributions of Bill "Desal or Die" Kocher makes towards advancing the activities of the lobbyist firm known as CalDesal]]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T21:16:12Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-22T21:16:12Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>Paul Gratz</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Environment &amp; Forest Defense</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Government &amp; Elections</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay Area</dc:subject>
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    <title>Espionage Act</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Espionage Act</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T17:03:15Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-22T17:03:15Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>Ted Rudow III, MA</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Police State</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>U.S.</dc:subject>
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    <title>Global-warming debate shouldn't exclude role of livestock</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Global-warming debate shouldn't exclude role of livestock</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Regardless of what the actual total of livestock contribution to global warming, it is part of the problem and we ignore it at our collective peril.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T16:57:16Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-22T16:57:16Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>Systemic Disorder</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>Environment &amp; Forest Defense</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>U.S.</dc:subject>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/22/18737204.php</link>
    <title>AFSCME3299 &amp; CWA UPTE9119 UC Workers Strike At UCSF-Stop The Attacks On Patients &amp; Workers</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>AFSCME3299 &amp; CWA UPTE9119 UC Workers Strike At UCSF-Stop The Attacks On Patients &amp; Workers</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Thousands of UC hospital workers struck against concession demands by the CEO's and UC Regents. Striking workers at UCSF talked about the issues they face the the fight to protect UC patients and their conditions and benefits.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T16:44:06Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Labor Video Project</dc:creator>
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    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>City of San Francisco</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Education &amp; Student Activism</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Health, Housing, and Public Services</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Labor &amp; Workers</dc:subject>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/22/18737195.php</link>
    <title>Syrian foes move towards talks but fighting rages</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Syrian foes move towards talks but fighting rages</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Syria's opposition and the government of President Bashar al-Assad seem to be preparing to take part in an international peace conference against a background of some of the worst fighting this year.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T08:45:20Z</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Dominic Evans</dc:creator>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/21/18737193.php</link>
    <title>Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Syria]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T06:59:47Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-22T06:59:47Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
    <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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    <dc:subject>Anti-War and Militarism</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>International</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Palestine</dc:subject>
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    <link>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/21/18737191.php</link>
    <title>March and Rally Held at SF State Despite Police Harassment of Students</title>
    <dcterms:alternative>March and Rally Held at SF State Despite Police Harassment of Students</dcterms:alternative>
    <description><![CDATA[Police are not able to intimidate group of students and their supporters from holding rally and march at SF State campus against the brutal beating of their friends by SFPD last week.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-22T04:16:36Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:modified>2013-05-22T04:16:36Z</dcterms:modified>
    <dc:creator>Bay Waters</dc:creator>
    <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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    <dc:subject>City of San Francisco</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Global Justice and Anti-Capitalism</dc:subject>
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