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	<title>Politics, Re-Spun</title>
	
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		<title>GroupThink ReSpun: On US Police Forces Operating in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GroupThink ReSpun</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We have decided that &#8220;GroupThink ReSpun&#8221; will be the name of the process whereby various of the Politics, Re-Spun crew collaborate on editorializing about a current event. Enjoy the poetry of the term! So apparently, the RCMP wants to ease into allowing US agents to operate freely in Canada: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/rcmp-ease-canadians-idea-u-agents-canada-201905380.html 1. Do you want to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Casseroles Night in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Davey</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the evening. It&#8217;s 8pm. Dinner has been cleared away, the children have finished their homework. What is a family to do? Take to the streets, of course. Pots and wooden spoons in hand, the family all gathers in the street. They exchange pleasant conversation with their neighbours, who are carrying a colander and a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Casseroles Continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 22:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a beautiful video: People who read this page, also read:The Landslide Election Victory That Isn&#8217;tQuebec: Art, Manifestation, &#038; ProtestA cacerolazo in Montreal?The Right to Seek Refuge in Canada: The Implications of Bill C-31Quebec&#8217;s Minister of Justice on civil disobedience: &#8220;it&#8217;s synonymous with vandalism&#8221; May 22, 2012 -- A cacerolazo in Montreal? (0)May 22, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Women’s Rights in Bosnia: An Interview with Aleksandra Petrić</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jasmin Mujanović</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the 1990s, Bosnia-Herzegovina became synonymous with the horrific violence, ethnic cleansing and genocide which characterized the country’s experience within the broader dissolution of the Yugoslav state. In particular, the systematic rape and sexual violence of Bosnian women during the course of the war has continued to remain pertinent both in international legal affairs and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Book Review: “The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 01:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jasmin Mujanović</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The touchstone for many of the struggles currently enveloping us—from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement to the events in the Quebec—is the question of how far our conception of democracy extends and especially as it relates to the economic (dis)organization our respective societies and the world as a whole. A new generation of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A cacerolazo in Montreal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There have been a huge amount of reports on Twitter of people grabbing pots and pans and heading to the streets to bang them around and make noise in Montreal. While it&#8217;s impossible to immediately compare the student fees protest with the Argentine economic collapse, it is perhaps poetic that the same mode of protest [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec: Art, Manifestation, &amp; Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Watching the Quebec student protests over the past few weeks has been kind of amazing, especially from the Vancouver viewpoint.  While the protests have been going on for more than three months &#8211; today is the 100th day of protests &#8211; they have not really been intensely covered in the English media until the Quebec [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec’s Minister of Justice on civil disobedience: “it’s synonymous with vandalism”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Per Radio Canada reporter Julie Dufresne, the Minister of Justice of Quebec has decided that civil disobedience is merely a synonym for vandalism. His quote:  «la désobéissance civile, c&#8217;est un beau mot pour dire vandalisme» In English: &#8220;Civil disobedience,&#8221; that&#8217;s a nice way to say &#8220;vandalism.&#8221; People who read this page, also read:Shout Out Against [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How Dare You Drones Resist?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prontzos</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is truly stunning to see how the elites react when people dare speak out against &#8220;austerity&#8221; &#8211; that is, to squeeze even more profits out of workers, students, and citizens in general. Almost as appalling is the way that the corporate media (and often the CBC) follow the party line. Consider these two recent [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec singer Ariane Moffat releases single against Bill 78</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Via OpenFileMontreal: Quebec singer Ariane Moffat has released a song, entitled &#8220;Jeudi 17 mai 2012&#8243;, which is targeted squarely at the Charest government&#8217;s emergency law Bill 78. Chanteuse québécoise Ariane Moffat a lancé une chanson, &#8220;jeudi 17 mai 2012.&#8221; Cette chanson est contre la Loi 78, enactée en réponse des manifestations contre l&#8217;hausse de scolarité. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Key measures of Quebec’s Bill 78 Anti-Protest Law (Updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Quebec&#8217;s anti-protest law Bill 78 passed into law yesterday, and I understand that it has received Royal Assent. Notably, the law did not stop protests last night. The law was designed to put an end to the ongoing #manifencours protests in Montreal and environs, but it also goes considerably farther &#8211; it applies to any [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>“Please be kind enough to let us know the number of plainclothes officers who will infiltrate our event so we can order the appropriate catering.” – Gatineau Chamber of Commerce on Bill 78</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hot off the Twitter presses, courtesy of @NieDesrochers of Radio Canada, comes this letter from the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce: NOTICE OF A GATHERING OF MORE THAN 10 PEOPLE The letter is a notice to the Gatineau police force, pursuant to the Special Law that the Quebec Government has quickly passed to block student protests. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec Law Seeks to End Student Strikes, Prohibit Protests with 10+ People Without Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tonight in the Assemblée Nationale, Quebec Premier Jean Charest is pushing through a law that would seek to end the Quebec student protests (the #GGI, or the #manifencours). The law would prohibit &#8220;demonstrations&#8221; in a &#8220;venue accessible by the public&#8221; unless the organizers of the demonstration had provided at least eight hours written notice to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We Must Force the Politicians to Go Post-Carbon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Elliott-Buckley</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We need to leave the tarsands oil in the ground. We need an increasing carbon tax. We need to stop subsidizing carbon energy producers. We need public money invested in post-carbon energy. We need to do it now. I say all this, as does this NASA physicist: The science of the situation is clear — [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Balkan Voices: Anti-Austerity Protests in Montenegro Heat Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributors</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Translation and contextual information by Konstantin Kilibarda Montenegro has been ruled by the same political party, the Democratic Party of Socialist (DPS), for the past 23 years. Along with the government of Belarus, Montenegro has the dubious distinction of being the only country in Europe that hasn&#8217;t seen a change in government since 1989. In the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pride for the Maple Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Davey</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s such an Alan Moore thing to say, but people shouldn&#8217;t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. We should be proud of students in Quebec for rejecting Charest&#8217;s offer. Here&#8217;s what I find interesting as a parent: We often strive to teach our children discernment. We try [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How To Resolve The Transit Fare Evasion Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imtiaz Popat</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom is bringing in new legislation to crack down on fare evaders, allowing collection agencies to go after people who don’t buy tickets. If Lekstrom really wants to deal with fare evasion, then he needs to realize why people don’t pay the transit fares. If people can’t afford to buy a transit [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>School employers seek to force BCTF members to volunteer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin harding</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is kind of amazing - the BC Public Schools Employers&#8217; Association (the arms-length thing the government created to manage negotiations with the BCTF) is going to the LRB to try to have the withdrawal by teachers from voluntary activities declared illegal. Uhh, what? So the BC government thinks that not volunteering is illegal? What&#8217;s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec Students and a Maple Spring</title>
		<link>http://politicsrespun.org/2012/05/4663/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=4663</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Elliott-Buckley</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What do you think about the student strike in Quebec? What do you think of the Manifesto for a Maple Spring? Some of the Politics, Re-Spun crew explore it from each of our perspectives: 1. Are people naive to expect the Quebec tuition protesters to be the leaders of a Maple Spring to expand the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More Worker Bashing in BC, with Squishy Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Elliott-Buckley</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Below is a recent tweet from a new worker/NDP/union attack Twitter i.d. talking about how awful unionized workers are. Read it, then let&#8217;s de-spin it for sanity: Average salary in BC $44k, average teacher salary $70k bced.gov.bc.ca/reporting #Underpaid #Overworked #Lies #BCPoli #BCNDP #BCTF via Twitter / @NotBCNDP: Average salary in BC $44k, &#8230;. Firstly, teachers [...]]]></content:encoded>
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