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		<title>Walk Out Walk On</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One friend is increasingly bored and dissatisfied with her Christian Sunday church services. Another left her job of teaching 175 high school students a year in the public school system to volunteer for three months teaching in the Palestinian West Bank. She’s now happily using her foreign language skills to work with the parents of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bradley Manning Thoreau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impossible Debt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nawal El Saadawi: Uncalled-for-boldness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I have invited people to participate in an Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle. Last month, several friends and I met to discuss Egyptian writer Nawal El-Saadawi’s 1983 Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, an account of her two months in confinement on orders of Anwar Sadat in 1981. When reading Nawal, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Amal &amp; Amal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enemy is all about erasure Tactics: derision and denial Insults and salt in the wounds When you’re a student of history It’s no surprise- That’s what the powerful do So tell them over and over and over The stories you have lived Heard, witnessed, nightmared Catch your breath Shore up your sanity And tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading The Book of Mev in Nicaragua</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would just like to take this chance to let you know how much of an impact The Book of Mev has had on me. I read it in August of 2010, eight months into my time in Nicaragua as a Jesuit Volunteer. Beginning my time there, I struggled to bridge the life I left behind with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crosses, Values, Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. “Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning at Wash U with Shahrnush Parsipur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt invited to me to an event today at Wash U. Students and people from the community met with Shahrnush Parsipur, one of the foremost writers inIran. Fatima Keshavarz translated the question and answer for 75 minutes, as people freely asked her what was on their minds. I was impressed with her presence, conscience, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right of Jim Crow to Defend Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We do not believe the flotilla is a necessary or useful effort to try to assist the people of Gaza,&#8221; [Hilary] Clinton told reporters at a news conference with the visiting foreign minister of the Philippines. &#8220;We think that it&#8217;s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke action by entering into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Hedy/By Mev/Via Mark</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dianne and I drove Hedy Epstein to the Missouri Scholars Academy in Columbia at Mizzou on Sunday, where she spoke for the 17th straight year to 300+ gifted students from across the state. She shared her experiences growing up in Nazi Germany, and then in Britain, where she went as a result of the Kindertransport [...]]]></description>
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