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	<title>WE CAN MO! - Protect Missouri, Perserve Affirmative Action</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Missourians Reject Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=35</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greenmj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[~Out-of-State Millionaire Ward Connerly’s Anti Affirmative Action initiative fails to turn in signatures~
St. Louis, Mo. – Organizers of the so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, led by rich California political operative Ward Connerly, failed to turn in signatures today in an attempt to qualify their initiative to ban affirmative action programs in Missouri.
Signature petitions for all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Sign!</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greenmj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t Sign Anti-Affirmative Action Petition
April 19, 2008
by Marcus E. Hammond
Roving petitioners seeking signatures for the   so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative say that it seeks to end   inequalities. Here’s the truth: This petition seeks to change the state   constitution to eliminate and/or ban programs that help to level the playing  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack employs false pretenses</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greenmj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, April 20,2008
Editor, the Tribune:  By now you are likely aware of wealthy California businessman Ward Connerly, who has brought his assault on civil rights to Missouri in the form of a ballot-initiative petition.
Connerly and his supporters suggest that affirmative action should be based upon socioeconomic status, rather than race, sex, color, ethnicity or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foes Push Ballot Initiatives</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greenmj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot InitiativesCHICAGO &#8212; Sixteen months after voters in Michigan voted to kill affirmative action in the public sphere, opponents of preferences based on race and gender are pushing five more states to ban the practice.
Foes of affirmative action, which is meant to address current and historical inequities, delivered 128,744 signatures to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Wrongs</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDavis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Louis Post-Dispatch 02/24/2008
FIRST OF TWO EDITORIALS
Over the next 10 weeks at supermarkets, shopping malls and other public places, Missourians of voting age will be accosted by an army of clipboard-wielding activists seeking signatures on at least 12 initiative petitions, maybe more. Each them is aimed at placing a measure on the November ballot that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Compelling Testimonial</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=20</link>
		<comments>http://wecanmo.org/?p=20#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDavis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Save Affirmative Action, A Compelling Testimonial
The following article is a verbatim script of the testimonial offered at the WE CAN Coalition Hearing to Save Affirmative Action February 13 by Dr. Terry Jones, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Printed here with his permission.
It’s time for plain speaking–it’s time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishonest Signature Gathering?</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDavis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Coalition warns about dishonest Affirmative action signature gathering in Missouri
By Amber James For the St. Louis American, February 6, 2008

“Not only will this end diversity in the workplace and the education system, but it will set us back 40, 50, 60 years,” said Brandon Davis, director of a new coalition organized to defend affirmative action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirm Action targeted in 5 states</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDavis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Drives in 5 states target affirmative action

By Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer. January 19, 2008
DENVER &#8212; Intent on dismantling affirmative action, activists in five states have launched a coordinated drive to cut off tax dollars for programs that offer preferential treatment based on race or gender.
The campaign aims to put affirmative action bans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot Battle Intensifies</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affirmative action ballot battle intensifies as coalition fights Connerly
By Jessica Bassett Of the St. Louis American
Thursday, January 3, 2008 11:30 AM CST
Brandon Davis says the battle to protect affirmative action programs in Missouri isn’t about race, but “inequity.”
Davis, SEIU Missouri/Kansas state council political director, and his organization have linked arms with other local racial justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmative Action Provocateur</title>
		<link>http://wecanmo.org/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDavis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Affirmative Action Provocateur
By Anita F. Hill &#124; November 5, 2007
GIVEN AN increasing minority population and key locations where minorities are actually the majority, neither Republicans nor Democrats can risk alienating voters by being insensitive to gender or racial concerns. For that reason, both parties should be concerned about how Ward Connerly’s “Super Tuesday for [...]]]></description>
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