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		<title>Cal Berkeley Democrats: Official Response to Berkeley College Republicans’ “Increase Diversity Bake Sale”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we affirm that every student has the right to free speech at UC Berkeley, the tactics the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) used in their demonstration against the EAVP-sponsored phonebank in support of SB 185 were offensive and misguided. These tactics violated the ideals of respectful political dialogue that many students on this campus, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/09/30/cal-berkeley-democrats-official-response-to-berkeley-college-republicans%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cincrease-diversity-bake-sale%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Elections Have Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Standard and Poor’s (S&#38;P), downgraded America’s credit rating from AAA to AA+. While this may not seem like a substantial change, and the long-term financial fallout has yet to be realized, it is important to note one thing: elections have consequences. November 2010 was a tough month to be a Democrat. Just two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/08/12/elections-have-consequences/</link>
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		<title>Redrawing Northern California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 28, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission issued its final draft maps of California&#8217;s congressional and state legislature districts. A result of 2008&#8242;s Proposition 11 and 2010&#8242;s Proposition 20, the maps undid the 2001 bipartisan gerrymander and created districts respecting communities of interest and county lines (at least more than the previous version). The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/08/01/redrawing-northern-california/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Call it the Democratic Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 27, one day before California’s Democratic legislators and Governor Jerry Brown announced they had reached a deal on the state budget, Grover Norquist, the President of Americans for Tax Reform, appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Norquist’s group is best known for their “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” in which candidates for public office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/06/30/dont-call-it-the-democratic-budget/</link>
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		<title>Keeping Cal and California Blue: Cal Berkeley Democrats Win California College Democrats Chapter of the Year Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mia Hodge (415) 302-6073 communications@caldems.com KEEPING CAL AND CALIFORNIA BLUE: Cal Berkeley Democrats Win California College Democrats Chapter of the Year Award After two previous nominations, 4500 telephone calls, and 6000 home visits, the Cal Berkeley Democrats have earned the recognition of the California Young Democrats 2011 College Chapter of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/06/02/keeping-cal-and-california-blue-cal-berkeley-democrats-win-california-college-democrats-chapter-of-the-year-award/</link>
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		<title>Attack Palin and Bachmann for their terrible ideas, not their gender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently while watching &#8220;Hardball&#8221; with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, a story disturbed me. The anchor was delving into the GOP candidates for President in 2012, and specifically talking about Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann&#8217;s intentions to run for President. To be clear, I dislike the two candidates a great deal, and both (if elected) will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/06/01/attack-palin-and-bachmann-for-their-terrible-ideas-not-their-gender/</link>
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		<title>Appointed Board Positions &#8211; Applications are closed!</title>
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		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/04/26/appointed-board-positions/</link>
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		<title>Why I am a Feminist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Uriarte For the past couple of weeks several events in my daily life have reaffirmed my strong beliefs in fairness and justice towards women, particularly those who are most disadvantaged. It first started with a visit from a human rights activist to my Political Science seminar on the same topic. Her first question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/04/17/why-i-am-a-feminist/</link>
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		<title>You Don’t Need the Boss, the Boss Needs You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, I stood in the rain on the steps of the state capitol in Sacramento with thousands of students and workers to protest further deep cuts to California’s beleaguered public infrastructure. Last Saturday, over 85,000 people marched in Madison, Wisconsin in support of the basic rights of workers to collectively bargain. What these actions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/03/18/you-don%e2%80%99t-need-the-boss-the-boss-needs-you/</link>
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		<title>But Really, America is Not Broke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Michael Moore made a speech to protestors in Wisconsin which was published as an editorial in the Huffington Post under the title &#8220;America is Not Broke.&#8221; The idea that America is not, in fact, broke has come as a surprise to many. Don&#8217;t we have a giant federal budget deficit? Aren&#8217;t state governments (including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caldems.com/2011/03/10/but-really-america-is-not-broke/</link>
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