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	<title>Onward Oregon Blog &#187; Media</title>
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	<description>Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more.</description>
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		<title>The Power of Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/the-audacity-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.D. Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of the writer’s strike, authors had triumphed against media conglomerates and raised awareness of intellectual property. The goal was securing rights for digital media, but the withering vacuum of content also signified the power wielded by the pen. 
From thefreelibrary.com:

For Thomas Jefferson, the pen truly was mightier than the sword. From his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role Models and the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.D. Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the darkest days of world history, distinguished leaders blazed a path, illuminated by truth, to guide the lost through turbulent times. Alas, the heroes of yesterday have ridden into the sunset, and who will take their place?     
Today, youth are lost in a sea of conflicting and groundless stereotypes either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent masses!  Speak now, or see your chances further diminished!</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/silent-masses-speak-now-or-see-your-chances-further-diminished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s precedent for this sort of thing to work, leading Congress to reverse the semi-autonomous agencies headed by commissioners whose only goal is ceaseless service to their corporate masters (in between corporate jobs serving the masters of the industries they supposedly regulate even more directly).
So take action!   You are all we need, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cause for hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The multiple disasters passed in Washington this week (a $700 Billion &#8220;defense&#8221; budget and a truly horrendous energy bill) are just about enough to destroy any remnant faith one might have in the whole project.
So it&#8217;s like an elixir to learn of something like this, a film series started by a group of citizen activists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regrets only, please</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equal/Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Lelo in NoPo blog entry tells a sad tale &#8211;OPB is bringing Ira Glass of &#8220;This American Life&#8221; to Portland for a fundraiser, but can&#8217;t be bothered to look hard enough to find a venue that isn&#8217;t in a homophobic right-wing church (whose membership, on the whole, likely thinks OPB is part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boycott Billboard-Supporting Businesses!</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/boycott-billboard-supporting-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to do with the litter-on-a-stick folks, the ones who promote themselves by saying that their &#8220;medium&#8221; is one that cannot be avoided, ignored, or otherwise turned off &#8212; that &#8220;medium&#8221; being, of course, the billboards that are helping make the point (as if anything was needed to make this point) that corporations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7/16 Last day to demand Net Neutrality</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/716-last-day-to-demand-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax Reform/Tax Fairness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s little time to spare if you haven&#8217;t already visited the Campaign to Save the Net and told the FCC to ensure Net Neutrality.  Without it, you are going to find that the Net you know is not the one that survives, because the Telcos will be free to start cutting deals with providers based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Congress to Boost Radio Diversity</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/ask-congress-to-boost-radio-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click this link to take part in the Free Press campaign for low power FM radio.

Do you want better radio choices in [Oregon]?
A bill was introduced in Congress last week to open up the local airwaves to more diverse, independent, Low Power FM radio stations. But the &#8220;Local Community Radio Act of 2007&#8243; (HR 2802) [...]]]></description>
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