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		<title>Victory! Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Resigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago, two young Egyptian activists broke a communications blackout and called us from Cairo's Liberation Square to launch an international campaign over the phone. Just minutes ago, after a 30 year dictatorship, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned.]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Refuses to Stand Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today the Egyptian activists who launched an international solidarity campaign over the phone told us Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was about to resign. “We’re just ecstatic!” they said. In the end, the reality was quite different, and the revolution goes on...]]></description>
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		<title>Abused, Exploited and Threatened: Women Making NFL T-Shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday 4 in 5 Americans will sit down on their couch, hop on a bar stool or pop open their laptop to watch the Super Bowl. But 1400 miles away in El Salvador, women are being abused, threatened and exploited as they sew Super Bowl T-Shirts sold for more than 300 times their wages.]]></description>
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		<title>Success! All Clothing Brands Associated with Bangladesh Fires Agree to Worker Demands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-December, more than two dozen people either burned, fell or suffocated to death when a preventable preventable fire broke out in an unsafe, multi-story clothing sweatshop in Bangladesh. Today, six weeks after the fire, we are pleased to announce that after 65,000 Change.org members from more than 70 countries called on all international companies sourcing from factory to take responsibility, every last one of them have finally pledged to do the right thing.]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Street Activists Launch Global Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt has been run by a dictator for 30 years. Six days ago, Egyptians said 'enough', and millions took to the streets. Over the weekend, as the government allowed phone calls for a few hours, two young pro-democracy activists started an online campaign which is taking off like wildfire. Show your support for Egyptian pro-democracy activists here!]]></description>
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		<title>Target Responds to Bangladesh Fires Campaign</title>
		<link>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/target-responds-to-bangladesh-fires-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/target-responds-to-bangladesh-fires-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we wrote that two companies - Target and Abercrombie &#038; Fitch - have refused to compensate the families of 28 workers killed in a fire while making their clothes. Last night a senior manager at Target called Change.org. Here's what she had to say.]]></description>
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		<title>Abercrombie and Target Ignore More Than 65,000 Change.org Members</title>
		<link>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/abercrombie-and-target-ignore-third-most-popular-petition-of-all-time/</link>
		<comments>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/abercrombie-and-target-ignore-third-most-popular-petition-of-all-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 65,000 people have called on Target and Abercrombie &#038; Fitch to compensate the families of 28 workers killed in a fire while making their clothes. The campaign is now the third most popular Change.org action of all time! What have the companies offered in response? Training programs.]]></description>
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		<title>Elle Whitening Campaign Hits 50,000</title>
		<link>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/elle-whitening-campaign-hits-50000/</link>
		<comments>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/elle-whitening-campaign-hits-50000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian consumers have long been inundated with ads that use prominent Bollywood actors to promote skin-lightening products. But now tens of thousands of Change.org members have told Elle publishers exactly what they think about the whitening of Indian women. This weekend the 50,000th person joined the campaign!]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Hits 600,000!</title>
		<link>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/human-rights-hits-600000-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bloggers.change.org/humanrights/?p=3772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The momentum in the Change.org Human Rights community has been incredible over the past few months, with 140,000 of us getting a South African minister to take 'corrective rape' seriously and some 40,000 of us pushing Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and the Gap to do the right thing. Early this morning, the Change.org Human Rights community hit a new milestone - 600,000 members - making it our second-largest cause!]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution of the Lawyers</title>
		<link>http://benjamin.joffe-walt.com/revolution-of-the-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Joffe-Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human rights activists have been kicking up a storm ever since the tiny Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain, a staunch US military ally, arrested 23 of their colleagues, brutally tortured them and put them on trial for treason. But a less known story of resistance has come from a more subtle, surprising part of the courtroom: the lawyers.]]></description>
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