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		<title>Wondering how to raise $50k for Energy Justice Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Coal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustration by Linda Zacks from Orion Magazine for Ted Nace&#8217;s article on Energy Justice Network, &#8220;Stopping Coal in It&#8217;s Tracks.&#8221; ~Can you spare $10? (Or more, if you have it&#8230;) I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to provide financial support to Energy Justice Network. Thjs shoe-string operation hosts the No New Coal Plants list which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3418&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End Mountaintop Removal Day of Action: October 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Robin Markle of the &#8220;We need 86 Mountains Because&#8230;&#8221; project in Philly 9/11/09 The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is questioning 79 of the Army Corps of Engineers permits for mountain top removal mining in WV, KY, OH and TN. Questioning, but not cancelling. I&#8217;m glad the EPA has taken this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3416&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Electric Co-ops All So Different?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo taken by Joseph Robers on September 10 on his way to work. The Old Dominion Electric Cooperative argues it is different than commercial utilities because it adheres to the &#8220;Seven Cooperative Principles,&#8221; the last of which is Concern for Community—While focusing on members needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3415&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I have here in my hand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/i-have-here-in-my-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[politics of fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This cartoon by Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) is from the 2000 Library of Congress exhibit and appeared in the May 7, 1954 Washington Post. Dendron resident Thomas Byrd waved a petition before Town Council September 14, saying he had 190 supporters for the plant, according to Smithfield Times&#8216;s Jim Tuttle (email) reports in his September [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3414&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Bauer: &quot;Oh, baby. Boom or bust.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/grace-bauer-oh-baby-boom-or-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover of the Fall 2009 issue of Prairie Schooner. ~ I&#8217;ve know poet Grace Bauer (email, some of her poems) back from the time when she taught at Virginia Tech along side others such as Ed Falco, David Graham and Jeff Mann. Since 1994, she&#8217;s been at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she has stepped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3413&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google, does this really look like a spam blog to you?</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/google-does-this-really-look-like-a-spam-blog-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Don&#8217;t know the original source of this illustration, but it comes from Wilson Library Reserve and Periodicals at the University of Minnesota Libraries.) ~ Thanks to all of you who emailed or posted comment of moral support and advice via email and facebook. Don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s coincidental, but Google unlocked The Writing Corner today, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=3412&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Ellsberg: 40 years later</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/daniel-ellsberg-40-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poster for Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith&#8217;s documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America, which had its first theatrical showing today. ~ Daniel Ellsberg had been making copies nights since 10/1/1969&#8212;7,000 pages, a few at a time&#8211; month after month, on a slow XEROX machine at a small advertising firm owned by a friend of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=2685&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing the Public Option</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/parsing-the-public-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cartoon by Daryl Cagle reprinted by permission. In his August 30 blog post, &#8220;How to Draw an Ugly Health Plan and Make it Pretty,&#8221; Cagle (a supporter of single player&#8211;be it public or private) writes he came up with the cartoon to &#8220;comment on the speculation that the Democrats would use sentiment about Teddy Kennedy’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=2684&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Sutton sucumbs to cancer at 68</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/crystal-sutton-sucumbs-to-cancer-at-68/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo of Crystal Sutton, the inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, at the time of a reception in her honor on June 12, 2007 on the ocassion of her donation of her papers to Almanance Community College in Graham, North Carolina (just east of Burlington&#8211;for info on the collection email Sheila Street.) At the age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethelbert, Coal Country&#8217;s VA Premiere, and Contra Poster, WHEW</title>
		<link>http://bethwellington.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/ethelbert-coal-countrys-va-premiere-and-contra-poster-whew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover of my friend Ethelbert Miller&#8217;s second memoir, which he read from tonight at Volume II Bookstore at University Mall in Blacksburg. Then on to catch the crowd who had just seen Coal Country, including friends such as Marian, Anita, Betty (the new Mountain Justice Blacksburg faculty advisor) Clark, David, Kathy and Gary Selvage and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethwellington.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2627072&amp;post=2681&amp;subd=bethwellington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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