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                    <title>TIGblogs - Marian Douglas-Ungaro's TIGBlog</title> 
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                    <description>What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe?</description> 
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                    <title>Malik Rahim's Dec 6 New Orleans congressional race!</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/532607</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[We just want to quickly alert readers and volunteers to Malik Rahim's campaign and the Vote Malik website. Please go there and contribute a bit of your time, talent and, for eligible donors, some cash! Every little bit helps. After...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:11:00 EST</pubDate> 
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                    <title>BBC snubs Cynthia McKinney: U.S. third-party candidates</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/524719</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[The election may be over yet BBC has forever altered my perception of it as a relatively balanced source of international news. I was watching BBC TV News last Monday evening, Nov 3, as the announcer chirpily announced there actually...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:11:00 EST</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Greens' McKinney and Clemente: Helping us learn to overcome</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/515611</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[This will be one of my last blog posts before Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. Borrowing from our sisters over at Document the Silence blog (on violence against women of colour), I feel the need to quote my Caribbean-American lesbian sister,...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:11:00 EST</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Is OSCE (closely) monitoring the U.S. election?</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/497329</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[With less than a month to go, I'd really like to know whether or not my former colleagues of the OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - have a plan in place (on invitation of the U.S....]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:10:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Afghanistan: British commander says "we're not going to win" war against Taliban</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/495371</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Barely a week ago the Taliban took credit for murdering Afghanistan's top woman police officer, Lieutenant Colonel Malalai Kakar, head of the police department's crimes against women division in the city of Kandahar. Now a Reuters article quotes a British...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:10:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Euro view of U.S./global crisis from Jean-Michel Quatrepoint</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/495545</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Do Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher now get the last laugh? Chancellor Angela Merkel says her government will not let Germany's vast Hypo Real Estate become the latest European enterprise to dissolve into financial oblivion. Almost simultaneously, via France24 News,...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:10:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Understatement by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Reps</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/494073</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA["... I don't think we've invested well... in the last few years..." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (daughter of late mayor of Baltimore, Maryland; multimillionaire; Democratic congresswoman, 8th Congressional district, California - San Francisco) on the current state of U.S....]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:10:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Coping with public fear: "Bailouts only add to sense of panic," O'Grady, The Independent (London)</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/490935</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[We're reading Sean O'Grady's article in today's Independent: "... no amount of taxpayer money, no vote in Congress or the Commons and no speech by a president or prime minister can now fully restore the confidence that has been drained...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Brazil: Afrodescendant Land Claims go to ILO</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/487289</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[With assistance from Australia-based COHRE, Afrobrazilians being evicted from their ancestral lands are taking their case to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). More later...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/486489</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Global crisis: Congress was warned in 2000 of predatory loans</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/483329</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Thanks to my sister for sharing news of veteran U.S. legal aid attorney William Brennan and his testimony in Congress on 24 May 2000. So Congress had first-hand knowledge of what was going on from an attorney helping elderly, often...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>India's Shame: Anti-minority atrocities in Orissa</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/482847</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[All of Indian society, India's diaspora (particularly in the West), the national government and its diplomats in Washington and elsewhere, and anyone anywhere in the world who professes to admire or emulate India really must take action to stop the...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Seeking Our Families in White folks' wills amp; slavery records</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/469615</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Below, in sharp relief, are details of the constant, intimate and deeply disturbing interaction of U.S. "business" and "commerce" with Black American genealogy and history, and our ongoing attempts to save, locate, help and protect ourselves and each other (including...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:09:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Hurricane Gustav: Evacuation Priority</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/467631</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[We're tracking Hurricane Gustav which many say could be worse than Hurricane Katrina almost exactly three years ago. New Orleans is now under a mandatory evacuation order, this time around providing bus transport for its residents without cars. Gustav has...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Katrina: 29 ways you can help @ katrinaaction.org</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/466645</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Katrina Information Network has a list of 29 things you can do right now to assist the displaced and victimised citizens of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. They have some beautiful New Orleans local music on their site....]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Greens' Rosa Clemente on WAMU.org Radio, 26 Aug</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/464113</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney's running mate Rosa Clemente did a very informative interview earlier today with Kojo Nnamdi of WAMU-fm (part of American University). Great interview, Rosa. You can hear it online here. It seemed a bit strange...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>To Mr. Zogby: Cynthia McKinney's a candidate, too</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/458129</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[By email, James Zogby's polling firm sent me their latest survey asking about my 2008 election intentions. The survey asked whether I plan to vote, for whom I've voted in the past, and for whom I may vote in the...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>August 7, 1998: Julian Bartley and many other lives</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/450509</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I will never forget that August 7, 1998 was a Friday. In Croatia I finished a report for work. My colleague-friend Melinda and I had taken a day of leave and arrived on Croatia's beautiful, rocky, pine-scented Dalmatian coast to...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:08:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Global warming and our collective meat-eating ways</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/442359</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Have you heard about Gidon Eschel and Pamela Martin's report on meat-eating and global warming? It's online here as a PDF file. Happy reading!]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>"Why does Barack Obama hate my family?", Counterpunch</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/424355</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA["... I'm not claiming to know the story behind the picture of Obama and his father at the airport, but I suspect that joint custody between Hawaii, Indonesia, Massachusetts, Kansas, New York, Illinois and Africa would have been tough. ..."...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>McKinney and Clemente Chosen by U.S. Green Party</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/421181</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[The Green Party of the United States has voted former Georgia Member of Congress Cynthia McKinney as its 2008 and first woman and woman of colour presidential nominee. McKinney carried her historic political quest to the next level, asking New...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Darfur: ICC Now Breathing down Sudan's neck</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/417741</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[Reuters is reporting the International Criminal Court, or ICC, could soon issue arrest warrants for Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other senior Sudan government officials. Doesn't the Arab League have a central role to play in all this? The...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Ralph Bunche, edited by Beverly Lindsay</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/416517</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[When I think of Ralph Bunche I remember the first time I saw the small sculpted bust of him in the U.N. conference center in Geneva. I also remember meeting his beautiful daughter, Joan, twelve years ago during the dedication...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Ingrid Betancourt Freed in Colombia</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/400449</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[French and U.S. media report the military rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt along with three persons identified as U.S. State Department military contractors, and several Colombian military. Betancourt and her campaign manager, Clara Rojas (released several months ago), were...]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>Habitat for fishies?</title> 
                    <link>http://MarianD.tigblog.org/post/400451</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[More than 40 NYC subway cars have been retired, submerged and 're-purposed' as a unique refuge for aquatic life off Virginia's coast:]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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