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		<title>People&#8217;s Tech: Eye-Opening and Inspiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Vann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lauren Jansen Lauren is a junior at the University of Minnesota studying Journalism, Mass Communications, Studies in Cinema and Media Culture, and New Media Studies, and is currently a media justice intern with Main Street Project. What is media justice?  Why does it matter? This was the topic of Main Street Project’s latest People’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=639&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Goodbye to Minnesnowta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Taylor I can’t believe it’s already February and time to pack up and leave Minnesota! I’ve been working here at Main Street Project/Rural Enterprise Center for 5 months as part of my Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, and it feels like just yesterday that it was still warm enough to head out to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=627&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NOT Neutrality for the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Vann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Renderos Yesterday the FCC voted in favor of adopting Chairman Julius Genachowski&#8217;s proposed order on Net Neutrality. The proposal would implement some core principles for wireline broadband (i.e. cable and DSL) around transparency of information, and would restrict the blocking of lawful content on the Internet. It also prohibits unreasonable discrimination. Some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=623&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Broadband Policy Group sends a message to the FCC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Vann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the Rural Broadband Policy Group, Main Street Project signed onto a letter from 18 organizations sent to the FCC this week. Click here to view a copy of the letter and see a full list of endorsers. Or read the following summary written by Edyael Casaperala from the Center for Rural Strategies, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=618&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to the FCC from Main Street Project: Protect rural communities, not corporations &#8211; Implement strong open Internet protections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Download letter as PDF) An open Internet means access to health care, small business development, full employment, and quality education. Rural America needs strong open Internet protections to ensure that the legacy of corporate interests do not trump those of working families and everyday Internet users. Over the past century, industrial agriculture changed the face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=607&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media and Racial Justice at the Facing Race Conference 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniellemkali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Applied Research Center’s (ARC) 2010 Facing Race Conference in Chicago, Illinois, September 23-25 was a great gathering of national racial justice leaders, educators, organizers, journalists such as Melissa Harris-Perry, Van Jones, Tim Wise and Rinku Sen the Executive Director of ARC. At a time when many of us feel frustrated with where policies and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=603&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The FCC hears a million voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Vann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that some broadband aspects would be reclassified as Title II Universal Services. After earlier indications that he might do just the opposite, this was good news for rural communities, and low-income and communities of color. It means the FCC is reclaiming its authority to protect the Internet and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=572&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes We Won&#8217;t?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevenrenderos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amalia Deloney and Steven Renderos wrote this post. It may make it to a few other blogs, too. We had high apple pie, up in the sky hopes for the promise of an open Internet. Why were communities of color and the poor so happy? Because the key to the Obama Administration&#8217;s success in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=563&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples Green Jobs Coalition</title>
		<link>http://mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/indigenous-peoples-green-jobs-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevenrenderos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently hosted a Placestories training with the Indigenous People&#8217;s Green Jobs Coalition.  They developed six powerful stories that will be displayed at their May 5th Community Forum on Green Jobs.  Here are some pictures of the training.  To view the stories click here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=552&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural America a winner in Health Insurance Reform</title>
		<link>http://mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/rural-america-a-winner-in-health-insurance-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niel Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt about it, rural America is going to get a boost from the health insurance reform measures passed by Congress over the weekend. Regardless of what happens to the additional changes proposed by the House, the basic framework is now the law of the land and begins to move health care in a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mymainstreetnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4060394&amp;post=547&amp;subd=mymainstreetnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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