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  <updated>2008-06-15T20:34:04-04:00</updated>
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    <title>Direct Action Derails Wilderness Auction</title>
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    <published>2008-12-29T23:14:02-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-12-29T23:14:02-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>amberglow</name>
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    <category term="Environmental Apocalypse" />
    <category term="Department of Why Can&#039;t We Do That?" />
    <category term="auction" />
    <category term="big oil" />
    <category term="BLM" />
    <category term="Bush" />
    <category term="creative protest" />
    <category term="direct action" />
    <category term="Drilling" />
    <category term="environment" />
    <category term="gas" />
    <category term="privatizing" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/posing_as_a_bidder_utah_student">Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction</a> of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil &amp; Gas Drilling --</p>
<blockquote><p>... While many environmental groups launched campaigns to oppose the sale of the land, one student in Salt Lake City attempted to block the sale by disrupting the auction itself. Twenty-seven-year-old Tim DeChristopher posed as a potential bidder and bid hundreds of thousands of dollars on parcels of the land, driving up prices and winning some 22,000 acres for himself, without any intention of paying for them.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Today&#039;s single payer post: Mike Stark goes to AHIP</title>
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    <published>2008-07-14T16:01:30-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-14T16:01:30-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>DCblogger</name>
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    <category term="In Sickness and In Health" />
    <category term="AHIP" />
    <category term="citizen action" />
    <category term="direct action" />
    <category term="health insurance" />
    <category term="Mike Stark" />
    <category term="single payer" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/14/15188/0541/709/551524">Target: Insurance companies and their lobbyists</a>. Pretty funny.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Today&#039;s single payer post: call to action</title>
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    <published>2008-06-15T20:34:04-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-15T20:34:04-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>DCblogger</name>
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    <category term="In Sickness and In Health" />
    <category term="direct action" />
    <category term="healthcare" />
    <category term="HR 676" />
    <category term="Rite Aid" />
    <category term="single payer" />
    <category term="Wendy&#039;s" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6370">Want to force congress to enact HR 676? Go after Republiklan party contributors.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Want to force congress to enact HR 676?</p>
<p>Go after Republiklan party contributors who shut citizens out of the legislative process.</p>
<p>Call Republican contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies at 800 325 3737 and tell the person that you want the Rite Aid CEO to get the congress and the President to enact HR 676 single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place the drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of the cost of drugs with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you won't buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid. ...</p>
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