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		<title>Gay Marriage &#8211; A Supreme Issue</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/05/gay-marriage-a-supreme-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prop 8]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full marriage equality will not be achieved without the vote of five justices of the United States Supreme Court. A Mitt Romney presidency could delay that for a generation. Two major cases are currently winding their way through the federal appeals process with more to come. A high court decision on California’s Prop 8 could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Anniversary Blog</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/05/third-anniversary-blog-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t write letters anymore or keep a diary.  Instead, I post on my blog once or twice a week. Along with millions of others, I publicize my thoughts and invite everyone and anyone in the world to read what I write. If you’re a niche blogger like me, it’s exciting to discover that someone in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California &#8211; Blue, Green and Broke</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/05/california-blue-green-and-broke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m glad to live in a state where political discussion is not driven by reactionaries. But just across the Colorado River, conservative crusades against immigrant workers and family planning dominate debate.  Two weeks after defending SB 1070’s racial profiling in the Supreme Court, Arizona cuts off state funds to Planned Parenthood. The right wing agenda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Controls the Ball</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/05/obama-controls-the-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cliches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fumble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knockout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you hate sports analogies applied to politics stop reading now. Or bear with me as I unload some of the most obvious clichés “right off the bat.” On Obama’s aggressive start and early lead in the 2012 election, it’s apparent that campaign operatives are looking for an early “knockout” of their opponent. Determined to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney’s Common Sense for the Common Man</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/romney%e2%80%99s-common-sense-for-the-common-man/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/romney%e2%80%99s-common-sense-for-the-common-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[card check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right-to-work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Click “Labor” on Romney’s official website to see how Mitt intends to peel off working-class voters including union members: Titled “Free Enterprise, Free Choice, Free Speech,” and acknowledging that “unions have made extraordinarily important contributions to American society” the reader is then warned that “today, the effects of unionization have changed in ways that need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Book Review Review</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/la-book-review-review/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/la-book-review-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[east-coast intellectuals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[literary elite]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the LA Times Book Review in the 1990s made me proud to be a Southern Californian. Under former editor Steve Wasserman (now an author’s agent), the Sunday section was gaining stature among the literary elite and was even being favorably compared to the legendary New York Times Book Review. I’m not going to waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last of the Bohemians</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/last-of-the-bohemians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drop-outs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junkies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revolutionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice Beach]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I moved to Los Angeles 30 years ago, Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach looked like a hippie parody.  It had a counter-cultural veneer, but didn’t rate as an authentic bohemian hot spot. Contrast, for example, with New York’s East Village with its revolutionaries, junkies, artists and various iconoclasts living side-by-side. The weekend spectacle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Happy Now?</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/are-we-happy-now/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/are-we-happy-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Togo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world happiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though we edge out Costa Ricans, according to the recently-released U.N. World Happiness Report, Americans are not quite as content as our friends in Ireland. In fact, we don’t even make the top 10. Predictably, Nordic people lead the pack, with Denmark, Finland and Norway winning gold, silver and bronze. Our northern neighbors in Canada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Campaign Timeline</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/presidential-campaign-timeline/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/presidential-campaign-timeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegitimate president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undecideds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter id]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[APRIL The nomination is settled and radical conservatives stop pummeling republican “elites”  MAY Romney becomes more disciplined, learns to stay “on message” while ramping up his savage attacks on the president JUNE Democrats’ misgivings about Obama evaporate as republican constituencies become increasingly hysterical about America&#8217;s “illegitimate” president JULY Barack’s unflappable persona &#8211; he never flinches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Mergers &#8211; Actors Lead the Way</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/union-mergers-actors-lead-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/04/union-mergers-actors-lead-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change-to-win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sag - aftra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unite here]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=3126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the biggest obstacles to union survival or revival are antiquated organizational structures. The recent merger of two Hollywood unions &#8211; The Screen Actors Guild [SAG] and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists [AFTRA] &#8211; is a sensible response to changing workplace conditions. Many of the consolidations of the past several years involve [...]]]></description>
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