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		<title>Endangered Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last ten days, three of the blogs I have followed &#8211; and kept listed at the bottom of the left column on my other site &#8211; have been crippled or deleted by service providers. There seems to be a sudden, worldwide effort to implement dramatic suppression of internet freedom. It appears that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Through The Bering Strait</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaskan Enterprise sits broadside to the modest wind, sunshine pouring in through the windows of the bridge. We are off the coast of Kotzebue, making an unscheduled stop to pick up crucial sampling equipment that was shipped overnight from Seattle, to replace a faulty, fundamental component of the research effort. A semi-rigid dinghy was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Spills and Climate Change: Unintended Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As oil continues to gush from the wounded earth&#8217;s crust under the Gulf of Mexico, I&#8217;ve begun thinking about how the tragic oil spill reflects a more general truth. Pundits and the public try to assign blame for the catastrophe,  while nobody acknowledges that the problem is simply too big and pervasive for humans to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>tripping home</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=403</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wake light rising house sparrows jabbering in the verdant shadows like mexican abuelitas comparing travesties of past husbands and walk seven blocks past sleepy store openings and snorting buses and past a flatbed truck unloading its gristly pile of half-cows already swarming with flies into the market I cross to a chocolate factory for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Zapatistas</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=305</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Otra Campaña]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Cristobal is a hub of political activity in southern Mexico. Many non-profits are based in the town, working for all kinds of causes. The Zapatista rebellion of 1994 was directly felt in San Cristobal and the surrounding region spreading eastwards to the Lacondon forests. Although the Zapatista army is demobilized, it has catalyzed a vibrant [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash birds. . . and deforestation</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a bus winding along the serpintine road from Palenque to San Cristobal de las Casas, I remembered what one of our Bacalar hosts had said, such a long time ago. She had been living in Bacalar for four years, leading wildlife and birding tours, and only recently had added great-tailed grackle to her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Decibel Challenges</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The balcony shakes slightly from the throbbing bass of the music that fills the plaza. We are in the  Hostel Zocalo on the central plaza of Mérida. The colossal, old, old cathedral sticks above the verdant trees, two black vultures court overhead, and social flycatchers congregate above the hundreds of kids and parents watching an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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