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		<title>#occupywallstreet vs Avaaz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many people at Avaaz saw the irony of their email calling on people to sign a petition in solidarity with protesters on Wall Street. Adbusters, who put out the original call for #occupywallstreet back in July, are vocal critics of &#8216;clicktivism&#8216;, the derogatory term for the growing industry of organisations (like Avaaz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/10/09/occupywallstreet-vs-avaaz/</link>
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		<title>Hell yeah!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane and Josh are free!]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/09/21/hell-yeah/</link>
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		<title>Hands Off My Tips!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UK restaurant owners can legally steal tips &#8211; and they do. Besides all the other things that regularly wind me up (planetary injustice, border controls etc) there is a more local issue that is seriously beginning to piss me off: tips. Or rather, stolen tips. Yep, that&#8217;s right. My tips in restaurants are being stolen. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/08/25/hands-off-my-tips/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday Shane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m fasting for my mate Shane, who is 29 today. Together with friends across the world, I&#8217;m protesting Shane and Josh&#8217;s detention in Iran&#8217;s notorious jail for political prisoners, Evin. Shane was captured in a cross-border raid by Iranian forces while in Kurdistan in Northern Iraq in 2009, along with another of my friends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/07/13/happy-birthday-shane/</link>
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		<title>Robert Fisk: Why on earth is Iran holding Shane Bauer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Shane Bauer is still in an Iranian prison, nearly two years after being snatched by Iranian forces while in Iraq, is an outrage. It&#8217;s also a heavy blow to all of us who think &#8211; perhaps naively &#8211; that working for justice provides its own support and protection. But most of all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/05/07/robert-fisk-why-on-earth-is-iran-holding-shane-bauer/</link>
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		<title>The undemocratic invasion of Libya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh the bloody irony. While the fighter jets of the US, UK and France drop bombs on Libya in the name of freedom and democracy, few are bothering to point out the undemocratic process that sent them there. At a national level the situation is pretty dire. Last night, after a debate in the UK [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/03/22/the-undemocratic-invasion-of-libya/</link>
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		<title>Twitter does not a revolution make</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished an updated version of solidari.tv. Check it out, use it to share media, organise and act. Because that&#8217;s what media is good for, informing us and arming us. But it means nothing unless we turn that into action. That&#8217;s the hard bit. What&#8217;s been happening in Tunisia is not the result of Wikileaks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/01/16/twitter-does-not-a-revolution-make/</link>
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		<title>Borders divide us but frontiers unite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get over the cheesy voiceover and suppress your cynicism for 3 minutes. This is what it&#8217;s all about.]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2011/01/13/borders-divide-us-but-frontiers-unite/</link>
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		<title>Solidari.tv and mashing up protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your political perspective, few can dispute that there are interesting happenings on the streets at the moment. Lots are talking about the role that social media (particularly Twitter) is having to play in mobilising people in ways that weren&#8217;t possible before. While I agree with that main argument, I think social media could be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/12/12/solidari-tv-and-mashing-up-protest/</link>
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		<title>Chevron gives us the middle finger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Greenpeace UK Last week, hidden under piles of news about wikileaks and student uprisings was a pretty shocking story about Chevron&#8217;s oil spill response plan for its drilling in the North Sea. It&#8217;s a worrying read, with lots about their repeated computer crashes when trying to model spill scenarios. Perhaps we shouldn&#8217;t expect anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/12/12/chevron-gives-us-the-middle-finger/</link>
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