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		<title>Right to Protest &#8211; the fight continues</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/right-to-protest-the-fight-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Citizen Campaign Blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[government cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[london protests march 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[March for the Alternative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aspecks was in attendance this weekend as the TUC organised March for the Alternative took place in London on Saturday 26 March 2011. The number of people protesting against the Government&#8217;s cuts was somewhere between 350,000 and 700,000 depending on who you believe, but the turnout was certainly higher than expected. Indeed, the carnival like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right to Protest &#8211; An Update</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/right-to-protest-an-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Citizen Campaign Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aspecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The call for democracy is one of the common recurring themes evident in protests that stretch f rom Morocco in North West Africa to Iran in the Middle East.  Similarly common is the brutal and violent suppression of peaceful protestors; which is a daily occurrence in Libya and has been most recently evident in Bahrain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s FOKN Future</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/africas-fokn-future/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/africas-fokn-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NKAPPIAH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aspecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foin bois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irie maffia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M3nsa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mensa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wanlov]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=3128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FOKN Bois spent some time in Hungary last summer whilst on tour and collaborated with Irie Maffia Sound System(another powerful music collective who specialise in reggae, hip hop, funk and cumbia amongst other genres) to make a song called &#8220;We are the Future&#8221; which you can listen to HERE. (unfortunately embedding of the tune has been disabled) (UPDATE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uneven Global Cotton Fields&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/uneven-global-cotton-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/uneven-global-cotton-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Citizen Campaign Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aspecks printing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global citizen campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Mamas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video highlights the reason why we believe in Fair Trade. You can download the Fairtrade Foundation report &#8220;The Great Cotton Stitch-Up&#8221; here. Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, said: &#8220;This report reveals one of the greatest trade injustices of our time. Ten million farmers are locked into poverty while trade distorting subsidies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On corporate social responsibility</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/on-corporate-social-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/on-corporate-social-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NKAPPIAH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fair trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulf of mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niger delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil spills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social enterprise]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A blog post entitled Companies are not charities for The Economist magazine&#8217;s Schumpeter Blog endorses the opinion of one South African academic who believes that less developed countries cannot afford to hold multinational corporations to as high a standard of social responsibility as they would be subject to in the their richer home countries. &#8220;Ann [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/liu-xiaobo-wins-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/liu-xiaobo-wins-nobel-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Citizen Campaign Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year on after Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize continues to hit the headlines with the recipient this year being the Chinese human rights activist and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo. In what appears to be a recurring theme, Liu Xiaobo is indeed an extremely deserving winner, embodying the attributes that represent the Committee&#8217;s designated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s true size</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/africas-true-size/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/africas-true-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NKAPPIAH</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa true size]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immappancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kai Krause]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fry tweeted this picture to his 1.8 million followers on Friday: My friend Kai Krause&#8217;s Africa map updated. It&#8217;s for an http://edge.org map exhibish http://is.gd/g3rPehttp://twitpic.com/2xu4ou It&#8217;s quite a telling visualisation of the how much of a gaffe it is to generalise the entire continent of Africa as a singular country and begs so many other questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this what you call art?</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/is-this-what-you-call-art/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/is-this-what-you-call-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NKAPPIAH</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei; Tracey enim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conceptual art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damien hirst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuckism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuckist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much do you think a dead shark submerged in  and injected with embalming fluid to be preserved in a somewhat fancy fish tank should cost? How about $8m USD? Oh I forgot to mention that the art installation was created/overseen by one Damien Hirst and given the grand title of &#8220;The Physical Impossibility of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Liberties: Indefinite Detention</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/civil-liberties-indefinite-detention/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/civil-liberties-indefinite-detention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aspecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Detainees Support Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[However, all is not completely lost. The London Detainee Support Group (LDSG) help detainees to gain access to bail addresses so that they can apply for release and  make them aware of  their rights and assist them in securing legal representation. LDSG also supplies an army of volunteers who offer detainees regular emotional support and the constantly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Nuclear Energy??</title>
		<link>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/clean-nuclear-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://aspecks.com/blog/commentary/clean-nuclear-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bohemian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Rubbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thorium]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspecks.com/?p=2082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clean nuclear energy? Impossible!! What hair-brained scheme has been concocted now I wonder? Are there any potentially disastrous consequences? What new and wonderous technological development has occured and why did I not know about this sooner? These are just a few of the questions that you may be currently asking yourself having seen the title [...]]]></description>
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