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		<title>Death in Custody: Police Shame or &#8216;Excited Delirium&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Joel Sharples Imagine the following scenario: a police officer’s home is broken into by a gang of eleven youths, who chase him into the street and beat him to death while his watching family beg them to stop. There would be national outrage, the perpetrators would face lengthy jail sentences and the Prime Minister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/7188/</link>
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		<title>Ed Davey and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Kent was a student environmental activist alongside the newly-appointed Energy Secretary, and argues his early green consciousness gives grounds for hope.]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/ed-davey-and-me/</link>
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		<title>Aid is Aid, not a Bribe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alys Mumford Now normally I manage to resist the urge to rise to a Daily Mail article I disagree with. But for this one: &#8216;Well that&#8217;s gratitude! We give India £1bm in aid, THEY snub the UK and give France a £13bn jet contact&#8217; I&#8217;ve made an exception. The article refers to a contract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/aid-is-aid-not-a-bribe/</link>
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		<title>Politicians vs Representative Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy noun, a form of government in which the people have a voice in the exercise of power; typically through elected representatives. Origin: Greek demokratia, from demos &#8216;the people&#8217; + -kratia &#8216;power, rule&#8217; - Oxford English Dictionary Recently, I found myself sitting in the public gallery during a meeting of the City of Edinburgh Council, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/politicians-vs-representative-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Calling all students, restore the right to protest.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever differences of our oft dysfunctional, sometime self-destructive student “left” may have, it is nice to know that we also know exactly when it is time to unite and fight. Apparently some say we are divided, and perhaps the #ncafc tag on twitter is some evidence for this. However, this so called divided “left” including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/calling-all-students-restore-the-right-to-protest/</link>
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		<title>UCU votes to suspend action over pensions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) held a special conference to determine where we go next in our pensions dispute. For those who haven&#8217;t been following the intricacies of it all I&#8217;ll attempt to briefly lay out where we were going into this meeting. UCU represents academic and what&#8217;s known as academic related staff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/02/ucu-votes-to-suspend-action-over-pensions/</link>
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		<title>The Petition on Hanging shows how the Right’s Willingness to Fail allows it to Succeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read with some delight that the petition lodged by scurrilous hate-monger Paul Staines to have a debate in Parliament to ‘bring back hanging’ is set to be struck off. That’s obviously good news. Even in the blood-thirsty USA the death penalty is becoming less popular by the year. You may remember that this petition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/01/the-petition-on-hanging-shows-how-the-rights-willingness-to-fail-allows-it-to-succeed/</link>
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		<title>Time to move your money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clare Coatman Many or most of us make choices based on ethical concerns every day – whether it’s avoiding brands linked to sweat shops or opting for fairtrade coffee; but we don’t always apply this principle to where we bank and therefore what our money is used for. A new campaign is launching today: Move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/01/time-to-move-your-money/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Belfast create &#8216;The People&#8217;s Bank&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Royal Avenue, Belfast’s main city centre thoroughfare, mixes classic architecture with more obviously new arrivals. On the corner of Royal Avenue and North Street lies a grand, art deco building that used to house a branch of the Bank of Ireland and the (long-gone) Belfast Stock Exchange. Having laid silent and bare for over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/01/occupy-belfast-create-the-peoples-bank/</link>
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		<title>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo &#8211; review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning contains spoilers Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy raised the bar for crime writers the world over. Part thriller, part noir and highly political, it gave us two enduring characters who stepped away from the page and became almost three dimensional. The first is Larsson’s alter ego Michael Blomkvist. Larsson was a left-wing activist, journalist, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2012/01/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-review/</link>
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