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		<title>Openness</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2009-08-31T17:37:33Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story causes me to ask, can we have a free and democratic society when you can not see the face of your fellow citizen? The implications in this story are more than individual freedom of expression or religion.
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		<title>The not voting option</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-10-18T16:11:29Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s an option and no, it&#8217;s not unchristian. Here is a view that many have endorsed in the Mennonite Weekly Review,
Elections give us the illusion of choice, but the choices usually are options offered by the “oligarchies,” options shaped by lobbyists and bankrolled by corporations. Candidates make promises but then have no power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed is good</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-09-28T11:11:49Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous line delivered by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street is now haunting us. As the New York Times reports, &#8220;A world of big egos. A world where people love to roll the dice with borrowed money. A world of tightwire trading, propelled by computers..&#8221; is coming to an end.
Maybe lost virtues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a jungle out there&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-09-10T15:46:32Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[and Palin is armed. Well, what can I say. I find it very difficult right now to find interesting things on the web to comment on. America is in full throttle political mode. I try to stay out of this but, I can&#8217;t help myself. Here is another eye-opening piece from Camille Paglia, my favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boycotting the Olympics</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-08-07T16:04:40Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the world has chosen to reward China with the international attention of the Olympics is one of the outrages of the year. This is the first time an authoritarian government has hosted the games.  While the Chinese government is guilty of systematic human rights violations including religious oppression, mandatory abortions, economic rape of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about time!</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-06-26T15:18:58Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging lately because frankly the media noise has been so loud that it&#8217;s hard to figure out what&#8217;s important and what&#8217;s just noise. Well, I think this is important.  After years in office this is the strongest statement by US Secretary of State Rice regarding violence against women worldwide. Here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s solidarity</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-02-24T14:40:15Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of American history women&#8217;s solidarity, the way women identified with each other, was grounded in the fact that all women were either mothers or potential mothers. This solidarity drove women&#8217;s political and social involvement outside the home. After the reproduction revolution of the twentieth century, women&#8217;s solidarity has become significantly eroded. Now, motherhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A job an American won&#8217;t take</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-01-29T11:34:57Z</link>
		<comments>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-01-29T11:34:57Z#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this story about the abuse of a domestic servant. This a why we need to know who is in the country. We can&#8217;t protect people we don&#8217;t know are here. Women, I suspect, are more hidden than the day laborers standing on the street corner.
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		<title>Identity politics</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-01-24T19:26:46Z</link>
		<comments>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2008-01-24T19:26:46Z#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it race, gender, class or religion that will persuade you to vote for a particular candidate? Oprah Winfrey, the queen of  women&#8217;s empowerment is learning a hard lesson.  See this story (apparently this link is off line right now, here is another.)of the tough time Oprah is having with her audience. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the stuff</title>
		<link>http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-11-17T19:09:29Z</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian Calles Barger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Time magazine featured a story about China&#8217;s up and coming me generation. These are the young people who are profiting from China&#8217;s new market economy. Reading the article they sound like any educated and affluent person in the West. They like good food, travel, fashion, and consumer culture. They also demonstrate a complete disengagement [...]]]></description>
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