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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: NY Gov Admits He&#8217;ll Have To Tax Rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle over New York&#8217;s budget is ongoing, but in the space of a couple of months, the governor has moved from saying the &#8220;millionaire tax&#8221; is off the table to saying that it it is &#8220;probably going to be part of the solution.&#8221; The natives in New York City are definitely restless. Seniors have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Wiretap&#8217;s Youth Victories 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I bring you stories of hope from Wiretap magazine&#8217;s year-end issue, including the Student/Farmworker Alliance victory with CIW in bringing Burger King and Subway to improve wages and working conditions.Here&#8217;s some highlights from the Wiretap list: Burger King and Subway joined McDonald&#8217;s, Taco Bell, and Whole Foods in agreeing to improve wages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: More Cracks In Pro-Israel Media Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Certainly most of what we in America hear and see about Israel&#8217;s current offensive in Gaza is the usual &#8220;Poor little Israel can do no wrong&#8221; PR blitz.  However, the alternative media is becoming bolder in presenting the truth.  And thanks to the Internet, we have more access to foreign media.  With any luck, Israel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Communities Say No To Nuclear Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a piece of good election news that didn&#8217;t make most newscasts: In the Chicago-area, racially mixed communities of Oak Park, Berwyn and Riverside, voters approved by well over two-to-one a referendum asking that &#8220;our elected officials in Illinois take steps to phase out nuclear power in the state, replacing it with renewable sources such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Utah Student Saves Wilderness From Drilling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve no doubt heard of the Bush plan to &#8220;drill, baby, drill&#8221; near Moab and other wilderness areas in Utah.  One clever student got in the way. Democracy Now had the exclusive story just before Christmas. The student, Tim De Christopher, waltzed into the auction held by the Bureau of Land Management last Friday to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Workers Occupy Factory, Win Demands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen this since the 30&#8242;s,&#8221; said one observer.  Ah, but now, you can expect to see a lot more of it, as laid-off workers at Chicago&#8217;s Republic Windows and Doors occupied their shut-down factory, tapped into simmering anger about the bailout of the banks, and won the severance they were owed. 200 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Honoring Terkel and Makeba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It always seems that near the end of the year, there are more obituaries, more times when you turn on the radio and hear a certain artist over and over and think &#8220;Oh no&#8230;&#8221;  Here are two giants who really made a mark: Studs Terkel and Miriam Makeba. Chicago being one of my hometowns, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News:  Teens Learn Their Rights Vis-a-Vis Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fine New York newsletter City Limits describes a seminar at the Door, a youth center in downtown Manhattan, about your rights under the Constitution. City Limits  says, &#8220;First offered over the summer, a seminar called “Surviving the Streets: Know Your Rights” has returned by popular demand from students who want to learn about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: Schools Feed Kids Local Produce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the &#8220;tuna surprise&#8221; and other awful choices in the school cafeteria.  Nowadays, I understand it could even be McDonald&#8217;s.   There is a movement afoot, however, to see that kids in school get tasty and nutritious local produce.  The Wall St. Journal had a nice article recently about this phenomenon.  Apparently 18 states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good News: &#8220;Erase Hate&#8221; Campaign Engages Youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Matthew Shepard Foundation has an ambitious goal for its new &#8220;Erase Hate&#8221; campaign: to equip a million people with tools to raise their voices, and use their talents, against hate. They plan to work in schools, workplaces, and communities, with a special emphasis on youth. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be taught/Before it&#8217;s too late/Before you [...]]]></description>
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