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		<title>giving thanks (#3)</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/giving-thanks-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what seems to be becoming a tradition on this blog, I&#8217;ll link you to my thoughts of Thanksgiving 2007.  It&#8217;s still meaningful, so why not let you read it as everyone thinks about giving thanks?
Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving, no matter where you may be and who you are with.
giving thanks (2007)
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		<title>if you don&#8217;t like socialism&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;then you must HATE communism, right?
I&#8217;m not going to get into the discussion now of whether or not &#8220;socialized medicine&#8221; is a good thing, and I&#8217;m certainly not going to discuss whether the current US health reform constitutes such a phrase and how I feel on the topic.
However, the comments being thrown around in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=353&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>listen up, Mr. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice op-ed from the main paper in Israel.
America, stop sucking up to Israel
Did you know the US sends nearly 3 billion dollars to Israel every year (and money to other countries, actually) for military use, while continuing to grow the national debt?  Does this seem right to you?
Check out some money numbers here: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=350&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some good Daily Show conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have 15 minutes (and a decent Internet connection), check out a good Daily show interview about the Palestinian situation.
(In two parts): Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti
Part 1
Part 2
The full interview was significantly cut down a lot for the show&#8217;s TV run (more could have been shown by cutting the &#8220;Thank You&#8221; segment), so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=339&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Peace Team co-founder gains worldwide recognition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE





MICHIGAN PEACE TEAM (MPT)’s PETER DOUGHERTY 
HONORED WITH “INTERNATIONAL GANDHI” AWARD



Lansing, Michigan; October 16, 2009: The Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation of Mumbai, India has announced that the 2009 recipient of its international award recognizing contributions to Gandhian values outside of India has been awarded to Michigan Peace Team’s Rev. C. Peter Dougherty. The prestigious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=333&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>war crimes obviously a debbie downer</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/war-crimes-obviously-a-debbie-downer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a speech on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not allow any Israelis to be prosecuted for war crimes because of their actions this past winter in the attack on Gaza.  (Full news story here: Netanyahu: No war crimes trials for Israelis)
OK, so obviously no one wants to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=327&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama gets Nobel: really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I came downstairs this morning, I was given the remote control and said I maybe wanted to check out the news: Obama getting the Nobel prize, NASA blowing up the moon, the Red Sox losing.  “Lots to catch up on,” I was told.
The NASA moon thing was weird enough, but did I hear correctly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=322&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>just take a look</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/just-take-a-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully I&#8217;ll soon not have to spend my extra time looking for a job and be able to post more regularly on here.  Until then, I&#8217;ll continue to try and do a little bit when possible.
Today, I want to show you some seriously disturbing video from the West Bank of a night of home raids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=320&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a few poems</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/a-few-poems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue to look and apply for jobs on the East Coast around in Non-Profit work in areas of Youth or Organizing or Activism or Advocacy or Volunteerism (any leads for me, please let me know!), I spend most of my writing energy doing cover letters.  I have hopes of getting a series of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=315&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>urban biking: a critique</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/urban-biking-a-critique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in my previous blog, I shared just how much I love urban biking.  Here, in part two of my writing sample, I share some of the concerns I and others have concerning bikes being on the road.  It&#8217;s good now, but how much better it could be!
Urban biking does, however, have its share of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&blog=1049335&post=312&subd=ericbjorlin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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