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		<title><![CDATA[Israeli released from arrest after Gaza Strip protest]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHKELON, Israel AFP &#8212; Police on Wednesday released an Israeli they held overnight for joining international activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.  US-born Jeff Halper, who was detained when he walked across the Erez border crossing between Gaza and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[180 arrests around Indian Olympic relay zone: police]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI AFP &#8212; A total of 180 Tibetan protesters have so far been detained near the tightly-guarded Beijing Olympic torch relay route in New Delhi, police and activists said Thursday.  "We have around 170 to 180 people in custody," a senior police official told AFP.  The Tibetan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elevations CU&rsquo;s Bill Sterner Dies After Heart Attack]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Sterner, the well-respected CEO of Elevations CU and a long-time credit union activist, died following a heart attack he suffered March 28. Sterner, 66, joined the CU, then known as University of Colorado CU, in 1997 as VP and became CEO in 2000, more than doubling the size of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arise! Various ways in which indigenous people are fighting back]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zapatistas and others  No-one can accuse Mexico's indigenous activists of lacking imagination. These women from the '400 Pueblos' movement were difficult to ignore when, in May 2006, they donned masks of the then President Vicente Fox and marched naked through central Mexico to draw attention to a land conflict...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Steamroller protest outside US embassy in Vienna over GM corn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[VIENNA AFP &#8212; Around 30 environmental activists used a steamroller to crush corn outside the US embassy in Vienna Thursday to protest alleged US pressure on Austria to accept genetically modified corn.  "Greenpeace is protesting the Bush administration's threat to impose prohibitive taxes on Austrian imports if Vienna continues...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forget state House race - Farnese to take on Fumo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a week of indecision whether to run for the state House or the Senate, attorney Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. is going for the bigger prize, the Senate seat now held by Vince Fumo.A source close to the campaign said last night that Farnese will drop his run against state...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Under-fire Bahrain to present rights report to UN]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANAMA AFP &#8212; Bahrain, under fire from opposition activists over alleged abuses, said Tuesday it will present a report on the human rights situation in the country to the United Nations next month.  "The government report will be presented before February 25 ... The working team is currently sounding...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[All eyes on Gore as high noon looms for UN climate talks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NUSA DUA, Indonesia AFP &#8212; Marathon attempts to craft a new strategy to tackle the peril of climate change were in deep trouble Thursday, with UN organisers warning there was less than a day to agree a deal.  As exhausted negotiators wrangled behind closed doors, green activists on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[World must help protect vital Mekong river: activists]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK AFP &#8212; The construction of six dams along the Mekong River could displace tens of thousands of people and endanger over a thousand aquatic species, environmental groups warned Tuesday, calling for international intervention.  The planned hydropower dams on the Mekong in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia could displace tens...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vanguard answers Darfur critics]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vanguard Group said it urged four companies that operate in Sudan, where government-sponsored militias have killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions from the Darfur region, to do what they could to improve conditions there.But the nation&#0039;s third-largest mutual fund company stopped short of selling its shares in energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Only surviving founding member quits Nepali Congress Party]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KATHMANDU, Sept. 26 Kyodo  Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a popular politician and the only  surviving founding member of the Nepali Congress Party, quit the  party Wednesday, citing its decision to abandon its traditional  policy of favoring constitutional monarchy.  In a letter addressed to NCP President and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toronto film festival reflects on 1999 WTO riots in Seattle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO AFP &#8212; In a nod to activists, the Toronto film festival premiered on Sunday "Battle in Seattle," director Stuart Townsend's first film about rioting outside the 1999 World Trade Organization talks in the United States.  "The mainstream media covered it in a way that people didn't really get...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A death in Durban: activist dies after long battle against toxic waste dump]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South African environmental activist Sajida Khan sadly passed away on 12 July after a long struggle with cancer. Khan campaigned for over a decade against the Bisasar Road waste dump in Durban-one of the largest municipal dumps in the Southern Hemisphere-which she was forced to see, hear and smell every...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Activist demands Myanmar solve fuel spike]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[YANGON AFP &#8212; A prominent pro-democracy activist in Myanmar on Saturday demanded the junta tackle a surge in fuel prices, which has exacerbated the financial woes of citizens already saddled with high inflation.  "We urge authorities to solve this problem immediately," said Min Ko Naing, one of several former...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Immigrant activist to leave sanctuary to lobby Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- An illegal immigrant who took refuge in a church one year ago to escape deportation said Wednesday that she plans to leave her sanctuary soon to lobby Congress for immigration reform, even if that means risking arrest.   Elvira Arellano has said she feared being separated from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate Governance and the New Hedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5847/is_200707/ai_n23804722]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds are not "normal" institutional investors. They launch proxy fights for corporate control. Their recent successes and "wolf pack" tactics have garnered headlines, but leave us with a question: what does hedge fund activism mean for corporate governance in the United States? This Article undertakes a legal, empirical, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Activists press funds to nix big comp deals.(News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4798/is_200704/ai_n19263058]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Frank Byrt       BOSTON - Labor activists are using a Securities and Exchange  Commission rule requiring mutual fund proxy disclosure to ratchet up the  pressure on executive compensation that they consider excessive.       All too often, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SKoreans rally against trade deal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200703/ai_n18746816]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL AFP &#8212; South Korean activists staged a sit-down protest outside America's embassy in downtown Seoul Sunday over free-trade talks with the United States due to conclude with a deal by month's end.  The prospect of a deal with Washington -- which would be the biggest such accord since...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russian riot police break up anti-Kremlin rally]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia AFP &#8212; Russian riot police arrested dozens of protestors trying to hold an anti-Kremlin rally in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday, months ahead of key national elections.  Hundreds of police bundled the marchers, who were defying a ban on protests to demonstrate against the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mugabe using 'hit squads': Zimbabwe opposition leader]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is using "hit squads" to crack down on opposition politicians and activists, Movement for Democratic Change MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said in an interview published Tuesday.  Speaking to Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Tsvangirai said: "Instead of random beatings at police stations, Mugabe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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