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		<title>Green up your Government!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current financial crisis is an excellent opportunity to combine saving the economy with changing it for the better. It doesn&#8217;t have to cost us anything more, we just have to steer the money in the good direction. Currently most of our politicians try to use the crisis to steer away from strong climate policies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Men Spread Spoof NY Times and Proclaim End of Iraq War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Special Edition Video News Release &#8211; Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo. November 12, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Has Come! Congratulations to Barack Obama and the American People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrate an historic moment, a moment where the promise of change is made reality with the person of Barack Obama becoming the next president of the United States. Change has come to America and the world. Obama embodies his own change, and his election inspires millions of people all across the world. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIVE: Mohammed Yunnus on the VISION SUMMIT: Berlin is Worldcentre for Social Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at the Vision Summit 2008 in Berlin we celebrate some interesting developments here in Berlin, with a special guest: Mohammed Yunnus. Yunnus declares Berlin to be the world centre for Social Business. According to Yunnus, Social Businesses are founded only to suport goals that solve social and ecological problems, and not for maximizing profit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frithjof Bergmann on the VISION SUMMIT 2008: Financial Crisis is Just a Cover Up of Rising Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just jumped into a workshop at the Vision Summit with Professor Frithjof Bergmann, founder of New Work. He starts his talk with a strong statement: &#8220;the financial crisis is used to cover up what hides behind the curtains. But he believes, it is not hard to look behind the scenes and see what hides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from the VISION SUMMIT 2008 in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/berlin-blog/live-from-the-vision-summit-in-berlin.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just freshly arrived with Noel from Karmakonsum at the Vision Summit conference on Social Business in Berlin. In the first speech, professor Werner, founder of the drugstore DM, makes a strong note for a basic income for everyone. This will stimulate a new kind of economy. Everyone who did not yet get warm for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communism didn&#8217;t Work, Capitalism doesn&#8217;t Work, You Work</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/poverty-was-yesterday.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shame on me! I just missed joining Blog Action Day, where thousands of bloggers joined to write about poverty. Sitting in a funky train to Frankfurt, no time to be busy with this issue, ignoring the beggars and homeless as usual, but chatting about financial crisises and joking about the comeback Marxism instead. Jo, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inconvenient Truths in The Lowlands</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/inconvenient-truths-in-the-lowlands.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all that long ago Al Gore predicted that The Netherlands will partly disappear in the sea due to climate change. But when one looks at the actual developments in the lowland country, the message of climate change did not mobilize a strong movement to protect country and climate. In reverse, politicians who stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s organic cotton tees</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/obamas-organic-cotton-tees.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grass-routes.org/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From an early stage, US presidential candidate Barack Obama has been an object of style, and inspired artists in many different disciplines. Lately with a new clip featuring organic cotton celeb Bono and circus. As a style icon, Obama&#8217;s ready for fashion. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve seen very diverse Obama fashions, from underwear to organic cotton shirts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yes Men Prepare for US Elections</title>
		<link>http://grass-routes.org/blog/the-yes-men-prepare-for-usa-presidential-elections.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frans Prins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yes men, known for their sublime actions where they pretend to be representatives of corporations on meetings of WTO, are preparing an action targeted at the US elections with the topic of the Iraq war. To realize their action, they ask for a donation. Every donor will get a copy of their action result. [...]]]></description>
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