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	<title>What’s Possible: The Tides Blog &#187; Civic Participation</title>
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		<title>Tides Applauds Cecilia Muñoz&#039;s appointment as Director of the Domestic Policy Council</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/11/cecilia-munoz-white-house-director-domestic-policy-council/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2012/01/11/cecilia-munoz-white-house-director-domestic-policy-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tides congratulates civil rights and immigrants' rights advocate Cecilia Muñoz on being named the new White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council by President Obama. This historic announcement marks Muñoz as the first Latina in the position, as well as the highest ranking Latina in the White House. "I am delighted that President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XL Victory as Keystone XL Pipeline is Delayed</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/11/10/xl-victory-as-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/11/10/xl-victory-as-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hadar Susskind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Department announced this afternoon that a decision on the proposed pipeline from Canada to Texas, known as Keystone XL, would be delayed until 2013. Reversing what was once seen as inevitable approval for the project, this is a major victory for those concerned with protecting our environment and combating climate change. Many Tides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tides Returns to Washington, DC</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/17/tides-returns-to-washington-dc/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/17/tides-returns-to-washington-dc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tides</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic Participation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hadar Susskind]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tides.org/?p=3058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed my first week as Vice President of Tides. As I prepared to take on this new role, I received warm welcomes from Tides staff, partners, clients, and others involved in the work of this amazing organization.  But far more important than the welcome I received at Tides, is the welcome that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Support the #OccupyWallStreet Movement</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Racial Equity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people's movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tides.org/?p=3035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Zinn Education Project has been promoting the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in actively shaping history for years. I can only imagine how the 99 percent movement will be taught in years to come. #OccupyWallStreet is clearly a people’s movement. There is a minimal presence of organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining Self in a Life of Institution - Banned Books Week Essay Contest Winner</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/30/sustaining-self-in-a-life-of-institution-banned-books-week-essay-contest-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/30/sustaining-self-in-a-life-of-institution-banned-books-week-essay-contest-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harris Kornstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic Participation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shared Workspace & Nonprofit Real Estate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tides.org/?p=2967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: Congratulations to Gemma Baumer, the winner of the Thoreau Center for Sustainability's Student Essay Contest, sponsored by the Whole Earth Library.  The contest is a commemoration of Banned Books Week and is held in conjunction with The Bay School of San Francisco. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserve Democracy: Expand the Vote, Don’t Restrict It</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/14/preserve-democracy-expand-the-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/14/preserve-democracy-expand-the-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>guest author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic Participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advancement Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans von Spakovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judith Browne-Dianis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Levitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koch Brothers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voter ID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter identification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tides.org/?p=2909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This guest post comes from Judith Browne-Dianis, Co-Director of the Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1999. Attacks on Democracy went on trial last Thursday at a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcasting Opportunity: How Community Radio Powers Social Change</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/12/broadcasting-opportunity-community-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/09/12/broadcasting-opportunity-community-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>guest author</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[community radio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prometheus Radio Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tides.org/?p=2889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This post comes from Danielle Chynoweth, Director of Planning at the Prometheus Radio Project, based in Philadelphia. Ninety percent of Americans use radio at least once a week, making it the most common point of connection today.  And thanks to the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, groups will soon have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London&#039;s Burning: Who&#039;s Responsible?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/08/18/londons-burning-whos-responsible/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/08/18/londons-burning-whos-responsible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clare Ramsaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[looting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seamus Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tariq Jahan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Basically we nearly died!" was my niece Roxana’s Facebook status. It was accompanied by a few seconds of video she’d taken with her phone, showing a group of young men hurling objects and up-ending a car. I heard Roxana’s voice rising in pitch: "They’re going to torch it!" I watched the video in horror but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melissa Bradley Talks Gender Equity at the Aspen Ideas Festival</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/07/26/melissa-bradley-talks-gender-equity-aspen-ideas-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/07/26/melissa-bradley-talks-gender-equity-aspen-ideas-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Tides’ 2011 focus on Gender Equity, CEO Melissa Bradley recently spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival on a panel entitled Women on the Rise: Why Invest in America's Women? The panel focused on women’s roles in the economy and workforce, and how changes in policy and culture are needed to improve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support the Social Safety Net, Preserve Charitable Deductions</title>
		<link>http://blog.tides.org/2011/07/22/support-the-social-safety-net-preserve-charitable-deductions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tides.org/2011/07/22/support-the-social-safety-net-preserve-charitable-deductions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tides</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic Participation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nonprofit Management & Infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tides CEO Melissa Bradley recently signed on to a letter initiated by our colleagues at Independent Sector, and signed by leaders from the nation's leading foundations and non-profit organizations, urging President Obama and Congress to preserve the tax incentives for charitable giving.  As our elected officials in Washington discuss reductions in spending to lower the [...]]]></description>
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