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		<title>Iron County Residents Concerned About Land Lease to Mining Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kemble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 6, 2013  by Rebecca Kemble The Iron County Citizens Forum held a public meeting at the Oma Town Hall last night to learn about County Forest Law and the Iron County option to lease contract with Gogebic Taconite (GTac), a newly formed company with plans for a large mountain top removal iron mine in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12273&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Terry Daulton opens the Iron County Citizens Forum meeting at the Oma Town Hall.</media:title>
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		<title>Public School Advocates Say No to School Voucher Expansion</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/22/public-school-advocates-say-no-to-school-voucher-expansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 02:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kemble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 22, 2013  by Rebecca Kemble Earlier today a group of legislators and public school advocates delivered a wagon load of petitions to Governor Scott Walker and the Co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee urging them to remove school voucher expansion plans from the 2013-2015 state budget. They also called on the Joint Finance Committee [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12251&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rep. Janet Ringhand (D-Janesville) and Rep. Sondy Pope (D-Middleton) with a wagon full of 16,809 signatures.</media:title>
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		<title>Rep. Kaufert Backs Down on Threat to Lac du Flambeau Community and Cultural Center</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/22/rep-kaufert-backs-down-on-threat-to-lac-du-flambeau-community-and-cultural-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kemble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 22, 2013  by Rebecca Kemble During today&#8217;s meeting of the Wisconsin Building Commission, Rep. Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah) agreed to not pursue reconsideration of a $250,000 grant from the Commission to the Lac du Flambeau tribe for construction of a community and cultural center. On March 26, 2013, Rep. Kaufert accused the Lac du Flambeau tribe [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12236&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama&#8217;s Address to the Wisconsin State Legislature</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/21/12227/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 05:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wcmcoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 20, 2013  by Rebecca Kemble and Leslie Amsterdam The following is a transcript of the speech given by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature on May 14, 2013. Click here for a link to the video: According to my own experience to stand a little [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12227&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">HH the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tensin Gyatso. Photo by Leslie Amsterdam</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Visitors in the public gallery stand for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Photo by Rebecca Kemble</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">While some GOP legislators paid attention to the Dalai Lama, Rep Kleefisch played with his phone and Rep Tranel slept. Photo by Leslie Amsterdam</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">HH the Dalai Lama after blessing Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Bill Kramer. Photo by Leslie Amsterdam</media:title>
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		<title>Minnesota Becomes 12th State to Support Marriage Equality</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/14/minnesota-becomes-12th-state-to-support-marriage-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara With</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 14, 2013 by Barbara With Amidst overflowing crowds singing, drumming and chanting in and around the capitol, yesterday the Minnesota voted to extend equal rights of marriage to all people, regardless of gender. Minnesota now becomes the 12th state in the nation to support Marriage Equality.  The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. D. Scott [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12198&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Anti-marriage equality groups took to the steps of the Minnesota Capitol to protest the Marriage Equality Bill being heard in the Senate.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sen. Scott Dibble, co-sponsor of the bill, outside the Senate chambers shortly after passage.</media:title>
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		<title>Lac Courte Oreilles Open Harvest Camp in the Penokee Hills</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/06/lac-courte-oreilles-open-harvest-camp-in-the-penokee-hills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara With</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 6, 2013 by Barbara With According to Indian County TV, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Tribe has opened a treaty harvest and educational camp on public lands in the Penokee Hills. The camp is located near the site of the proposed 22-mile mountaintop removal open pit iron mine (the largest in the world) that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12191&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GTAC To Appear Before Joint Mining Impact Committees</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/05/gtac-to-appear-before-joint-mining-impact-committees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 22:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara With</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 5, 2013  by Barbara With On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, the Town of Morse will host a question and answer session with officials from Gogebic Taconite (GTac) concerning the four-phase, 22-mile open pit taconite mine they plan to develop in Iron and Ashland Counties. This will be a joint meeting of the Town of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12182&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">GTac engineer Tim Myers, lobbyist Bob Seitz and CEO Bill Williams in front of the Iron County Board. Photo: Rebecca Kemble</media:title>
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		<title>Mining Company Has No Answers for Iron County Residents</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/05/01/mining-company-has-no-answers-for-iron-county-residents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wcmcoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1, 2013  by Rebecca Kemble On Tuesday, April 23 the Iron County Board held a question and answer session with Gogebic Taconite (GTac) personnel concerning the four-phase, 22 mile long open pit taconite mine they plan to develop in Iron and Ashland Counties. Despite the requirement that questions from Iron County residents had to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12156&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">GTac engineer Tim Myers, lobbyist Bob Seitz and CEO Bill Williams in front of the Iron County Board. </media:title>
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		<title>Observations from Kissick  v.  Huebsch Et. Al.</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/04/18/observations-from-kissick-v-huebsch-et-al/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 18, 2013  by Leslie Amsterdam It was an interesting day in Western Federal District Court in Madison on April 17 as University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor Michael Kissick and the ACLU of Wisconsin sought a temporary injunction against the Wisconsin Department of Administration and their State Facilities Access Policy, which mandates that groups of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12117&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Charles Tubbs, former Wisconsin State Capitol Police Chief after testifying in a hearing re Kissick vs, Huebsch being defended by ACLU of Wisconsin in Western Federal District Court.</media:title>
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		<title>Federal Courtroom Solidarity</title>
		<link>http://wcmcoop.com/2013/04/17/federal-courtroom-solidarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 17, 2013  by Leslie Amsterdam Read more about Michael Kissick&#8217;s ACLU lawsuit seeking to protect Free Speech at the Wisconsin Capitol here: https://www.aclu-wi.org/story/capitol-free-speech-case-qa-professor-michael-kissick<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wcmcoop.com&#038;blog=38216176&#038;post=12108&#038;subd=wcmcoop&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Jason Huberty and Sue Trace provide courtroom solidarity outside the US Courthouse where Prof. Michael Kissick takes on DOA Secretary Mike Huebsch and WI Capitol Police Chief David Erwin for curtailing his ability to exercise his First Amendment rights in the public forum otherwise known as the Wisconsin Capitol.</media:title>
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