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    <updated>2012-04-24T21:00:08Z</updated>
    
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    <title>Kony</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2012/04/kony.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1802</id>

    <published>2012-04-24T20:59:35Z</published>
    <updated>2012-04-24T21:00:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Where to send people when they ask what alternatives to Kony 2012 there are....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Where to <a href="http://makingsenseofkony.org/">send people</a> when they ask what alternatives to Kony 2012 there are. ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>OWS</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2012/03/ows.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1789</id>

    <published>2012-03-23T02:37:52Z</published>
    <updated>2012-03-22T02:38:59Z</updated>

    <summary>Al Jazeera English has a 25 minute documentary on the rise of #OWS....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Al Jazeera English has a 25 minute documentary on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4VLYGfGDZg&amp;list=UUNye-wNBqNL5ZzHSJj3l8Bg&amp;index=7&amp;feature=plpp_video">the rise of #OWS</a>. ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Trayvon</title>
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    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1788</id>

    <published>2012-03-22T02:37:08Z</published>
    <updated>2012-03-22T02:37:40Z</updated>

    <summary>100 years of Trayvon Martin....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
    </author>
    
    
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        <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.powernsoul.com/2012/03/did-you-hear-what-they-said-100-years-of-trayvon-martin/">100 years</a> of Trayvon Martin. ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2012/02/scholars-and-writers-urge-reform.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1780</id>

    <published>2012-02-20T16:11:24Z</published>
    <updated>2012-02-20T16:15:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Scholars and writers urge reform of anti-dissent law in Thailand....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Kaveh Landsverk</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=644</uri>
    </author>
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[<a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/3025?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prachataienglish+%28Prachatai+in+English%29">Scholars and writers urge reform</a> of anti-dissent law in Thailand.]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2012/02/law-for-the-people-vs.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1779</id>

    <published>2012-02-20T16:04:35Z</published>
    <updated>2012-02-20T16:16:52Z</updated>

    <summary>&quot;Law for the People&quot; vs. Monarchic &quot;Land of Smiles.&quot;...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Kaveh Landsverk</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=644</uri>
    </author>
    
    
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        <![CDATA["Law for the People" vs. Monarchic "<a href="http://web1.iseas.edu.sg/?p=6808">Land of Smiles</a>."]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Occupy the Academy Columbia Panel to Consider Politics of Open Access</title>
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    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1778</id>

    <published>2012-02-19T18:41:20Z</published>
    <updated>2012-02-19T18:44:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Occupy the Academy panel at Columbia to consider politics of open access, February 28th, noon....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Micki McGee</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=33</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<a href="http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2012/20120216_access_to_research_panel.html">Occupy the Academy panel at Columbia</a> to consider politics of open access, February 28th, noon.<br />]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Media Fields Journal - Issue 4: Scale</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2012/02/media-fields-journal---issue-4-scale.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1777</id>

    <published>2012-02-17T13:43:50Z</published>
    <updated>2012-02-17T13:45:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Issue 4 of Media Fields is out, with lots of essays on scale...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Anna McCarthy</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=12</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Issue 4 of <a href="http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/">Media Fields</a> is out, with lots of essays on <font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1.953125em; ">scale</font><br /><br />]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The other side of freedom - Opinion - Al Jazeera English</title>
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    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2012:/the_skim//13.1773</id>

    <published>2012-02-08T21:14:08Z</published>
    <updated>2012-02-08T21:15:42Z</updated>

    <summary>The other side of freedom...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Michael Ralph</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=10</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[The other side of <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201227122836909776.html">freedom</a><br />]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Saudi billionaire Alwaleed Bin Talal Invests $300 Million In Twitter</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/12/saudi-billionaire-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-300-million-in-twitter.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1755</id>

    <published>2011-12-19T17:16:37Z</published>
    <updated>2011-12-19T17:19:39Z</updated>

    <summary>Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invests $300 million in Twitter, though at the time of this announcement &quot;it wasn&apos;t clear how much of Twitter the prince will control.&quot;...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Michael Ralph</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=10</uri>
    </author>
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invests <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/alwaleed-bin-talal-twitter_n_1157205.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&amp;utm_campaign=121911&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=NewsEntry&amp;utm_term=Daily%20Brief">$300 million</a> in Twitter, though at the time of this announcement "it wasn't clear how much of Twitter the prince will control." ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Salon</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/12/salon.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1738</id>

    <published>2011-12-02T04:52:49Z</published>
    <updated>2011-12-02T04:54:53Z</updated>

    <summary>&quot;There is no reason to believe that these abrogations of popular sovereignty cannot be sustained for a very long time with the tactical application of force.&quot; Africa? Latin America? No, Western Europe and the U.S.....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
    </author>
    
    
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        <![CDATA["There is no reason to believe that these abrogations of popular 
sovereignty cannot be sustained for a very long time with the tactical 
application of force." Africa? Latin America? No, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/is_the_financial_crisis_now_permanent/">Western Europe and the U.S.</a>. ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>#meme</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/11/meme.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1735</id>

    <published>2011-11-30T17:23:48Z</published>
    <updated>2011-11-30T17:27:13Z</updated>

    <summary>When will the &quot;meme&quot; meme die?...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
    </author>
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[When will the "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/media/the-branding-of-the-occupy-movement.html?_r=1&amp;scp=4&amp;sq=meme&amp;st=cse">meme</a>" meme <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2005.00305.x/abstract;jsessionid=DC1BB8E70C7904A70796B788E1ABC807.d01t01">die</a>? ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Neoliberal reform in Greece</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/11/neoliberal-reform-in-greece.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1732</id>

    <published>2011-11-29T15:37:37Z</published>
    <updated>2011-11-29T15:40:19Z</updated>

    <summary>There is nothing wrong with higher education in Greece that a little less democracy couldn&apos;t solve, according to an international committee that included the chancellors of University of California-Davis and New York University....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
    </author>
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with higher education in Greece that <a href="http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/linda-katehi-and-the-neoliberal-reform-of-greek-higher-education/">a little less democracy</a> couldn't solve, according to an international committee that included the chancellors of University of California-Davis and New York University. ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>UC Davis</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/11/uc-davis.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1729</id>

    <published>2011-11-21T19:55:32Z</published>
    <updated>2011-11-21T19:56:37Z</updated>

    <summary>When did &quot;health and safety&quot; become a euphemism for &quot;shock and awe&quot;?...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Tavia Nyong&apos;o</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=3</uri>
    </author>
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/">
        <![CDATA[When did "<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/20/4068892/uc-davis-chancellor-linda-katehis.html">health and safety</a>" become a euphemism for "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/why-i-feel-bad-for-the-pepper-spraying-policeman-lt-john-pike/248772/">shock and awe</a>"? ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/10/great-aerial-footage-of-ows.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1721</id>

    <published>2011-10-28T02:50:58Z</published>
    <updated>2011-10-31T05:19:24Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Great aerial footage of #OWS action in solidarity with #OccupyOakland&nbsp;...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Micki McGee</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=33</uri>
    </author>
    
    
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        <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nokilling.org/Occupy_Wall_Street_Surveillance/">Great aerial footage</a> of #OWS action in solidarity with #OccupyOakland&nbsp;<br />]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/the_skim/2011/10/brown-university-faculty-issues-statement.php" />
    <id>tag:www.socialtextjournal.org,2011:/the_skim//13.1715</id>

    <published>2011-10-20T00:08:55Z</published>
    <updated>2011-10-20T00:09:43Z</updated>

    <summary>Brown University faculty issues statement of support for Occupy Providence...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Kaveh Landsverk</name>
        <uri>http://www.socialtextjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;blog_id=13&amp;id=644</uri>
    </author>
    
    
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        <![CDATA[<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/brown-occupy-teach-in/home/faculty-statement-10-14-2011">Brown University faculty issues statement of support for Occupy Providence</a>]]>
        
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