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	<title>Care2 Causes &#187; Civil Rights</title>
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		<title>Supreme Court Tells Arizona to Quit It With Civil Rights Infringement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s.e. smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona has become infamous across the U.S. for its prejudicial anti-immigration laws, and they&#8217;re nothing new; back in 2004, the state passed a law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship when they registered to vote. Challenges to this law finally made their way to the Supreme Court, which just issued a decision in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 People Way Dumber on Equal Pay than Miss Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Halper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal pay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lilly-ledbetter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rachel maddow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Miss Utah has been the subject of non-stop attacks for her statement during Sunday evening&#8217;s annual Miss USA beauty pageant. In case you missed it, when a judge asked Marissa Powell, “A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners yet they continue to earn less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio Thinks it Should be Legal to Fire Someone for Being Gay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThinkProgress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment non discrimination act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lgbt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marco rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual orientation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Adam Peck and Scott Keyes Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is touted as a top GOP presidential prospect in 2016, thinks it should be legal to fire someone for their sexual orientation. ThinkProgress spoke with the Florida Senator at the opening luncheon of the annual Faith and Freedom Forum on Thursday and asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26 Lawmakers Live Off Food Stamps to Protest Republican Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThinkProgress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[26 members of Congress will live off of a food stamp budget for a week to draw attention to House Republicans cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).]]></description>
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		<title>How Do Bicyclists and Pedestrians Get Equal Rights in America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Care2 Causes Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Micah Denton After concluding in Pedestrian and Cyclist Rights Are a Horse of a Different Color that non-motorized road users have a theoretically equal legal and moral right to public roads alongside cars, it’s now time to look at how this actually plays out in reality. Pedestrians are legally entitled to walk on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Major Decisions in the History of the American Flag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American flag]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flag Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 14 marks Flag Day, the Congressionally-sanctioned holiday that celebrates the United States&#8217;s primary symbol, the American flag. Historically, many laws have been established in order to pay respect to Old Glory. As a result, conflicts about the treatment of the stars and stripes have gone all the way to the highest court in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut Passes ‘Homeless Person’s Bill Of Rights’ Law</title>
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		<comments>http://www.care2.com/causes/connecticut-passes-homeless-persons-bill-of-rights-law.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThinkProgress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut is on the cusp of enacting a major new law to protect people who are homeless from discrimination.]]></description>
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		<title>Bigotry Roundup: The 5 Worst Things Said or Done Yesterday</title>
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		<comments>http://www.care2.com/causes/bigotry-roundup-the-5-worst-things-said-or-done-yesterday.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Halper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george zimmerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura ingraham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pat robertson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trayvon martin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Tuesday) was an extremely productive day for bigots around the world. Who knows what gems of ignorance we&#8217;ll see today, let alone throughout the week. For now, we can enjoy the following: 1. Jury selection in the murder trial against George Zimmerman started this week. Zimmerman is on trial for killing Trayvon Martin, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Americans are OK with Government Surveillance, Says Poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Fecke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.care2.com/causes/?p=3021116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Americans are comfortable with the National Security Agency&#8217;s data mining program, and a sizable minority think the government should have more power to monitor communications. That&#8217;s the result of a new poll by the Pew Research Center, one that points to the trouble defenders of civil liberties will have rolling back the current surveillance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Voters Are Ready For Marriage Equality</title>
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		<comments>http://www.care2.com/causes/california-voters-are-ready-for-marriage-equality.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThinkProgress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lgbt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Zack Ford At some point in the next three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and a new poll confirms that California voters are ready for full marriage equality. According to the University of Southern California and Los Angeles Times, [...]]]></description>
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