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	<title>Tikkun Daily Blog &#187; Valerie Elverton-Dixon</title>
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	<description>A Voice for Tikkun Olam (healing the world)</description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Please Go to See &#8220;Red Tails&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/01/23/please-go-to-see-red-tails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw "Red Tails", it reminded me of the humiliations that our elders suffered, and it reminded me that every generation has to continue to fight stereotypes that seek to distort the history of a people, deny the dignity of a people, and poison the body politic with on-going racially charged rhetoric.  It is a politics of distraction.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: The Call to be Faithful</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/01/13/the-call-to-be-faithful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bain Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prathia Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans will hold a debate on King Day.  Perhaps they will honor King with a vigorous debate about the benefits and the dangers of capitalism, including vulture capitalism.
At the end of the day, Gov. Perry, Speaker Gingrich and all of us ought to know to what moral principle, to what transcendent ideal, we will be faithful even if we are not successful.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Mitt Romney, American Civil Religion and a Strategy of Lies</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/01/03/mitt-romney-american-civil-religion-and-a-strategy-of-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/01/03/mitt-romney-american-civil-religion-and-a-strategy-of-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American exceptionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with the civil religion is that its transcendence is not transcendent enough. Its moral horizons are limited to the short-term interests of the nation as perceived by flawed individuals working within a deeply flawed political/economy. And when a politician stands up and proclaims his love for the country while loading his stump speeches with lies upon lies, that moral horizon has dwindled down to the puny size of one politicians' political ambitions.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Santa Angry About Poverty and Worried About Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/12/24/santa-angry-about-poverty-and-worried-about-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/12/24/santa-angry-about-poverty-and-worried-about-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy--Wealth & Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wildfires in the arctic regions are increasing because the ground is warmer and dryer.  So, in the midst of his busiest season of the year, Santa followed the work at the conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa very carefully. He reasons that no matter the state of development, every nation in the world will have to understand the truth of climate change and adjust their political economies to these new realities.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: On the Death of Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/12/16/on-the-death-of-christopher-hitchens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/12/16/on-the-death-of-christopher-hitchens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens is dead, and the party that is life on this earthly dimension continues.  But, it does not continue without him.  His work, his courage and his example live. And that will have to suffice to comfort those of us who will miss him.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Halloween</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/31/halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/31/halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The wall that we think we build between life and death, between good and evil, dissolves into mist on All Hallows Eve. And the shadow of death looms large over us reminding us of our earthly mortality and our complicated selves. We wear the masks that reveal our internal Otherness. We costume ourselves in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Winter is Coming: On the Occupation of #OWS</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/31/winter-is-coming-on-the-occupation-of-ows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/31/winter-is-coming-on-the-occupation-of-ows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy--Wealth & Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Movement has the potential to change the American political landscape to the benefit of the 99 per cent rather than for only the 1 per cent.  But, such will require more than a willingness to sleep in the cold and the snow.  It will require the vocation, the job, the occupation of solid political work and an occupation of worship space to have the spiritual wherewithal to continue the struggle for the long time that it will take to make the changes the Occupiers want to see.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: On the Death of Muammar el-Qaddafi</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/20/on-the-death-of-muammar-el-qaddafi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/20/on-the-death-of-muammar-el-qaddafi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar el-Qaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qaddafi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am always sad when these monsters who made their mark on the world through violence dies because I remember that someone has lost h/er husband, father, brother, or son.  I hope and pray that the violence that killed them does not lead to even more retaliatory violence.]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: Peace Day 2011 and Two Executions</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/09/29/peace-day-2011-and-two-executions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/09/29/peace-day-2011-and-two-executions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-Violent Communication (NVC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avinu Makleinu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are times in life when a soul needs to hear Barbra Streisand singing &#8220;Avinu Malkeinu.&#8221; It needs to hear Verdi&#8217;s Requiem. It needs to hear John Coltrane&#8217;s saxophone screaming A Love Supreme. Peace Day 2011 was such a day. Peace Day, the UN International Day of Peace and Global Ceasefire falls on September 21 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Elverton-Dixon: The No New Taxes Pledge and Alexander Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/08/16/the-no-new-taxes-pledge-and-alexander-hamilton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/08/16/the-no-new-taxes-pledge-and-alexander-hamilton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Elverton-Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The TEA Party philosophy of new new taxes is not consistent with the founder if claims to honor.]]></description>
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