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		<title>Student protests grow in US universities</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/student-protests-grow-in-us-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged a couple of weeks ago about a new form of student protest to emerge in the Philippines and noted how difficult it can be for police to move a dead-weight body. Rather than attempt to do so, campus police at University of California, Davis, resorted to pepper spraying peacefully sitting student protestors. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When silence speaks</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/when-silence-speaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with South African politicians is that they spend so much time on megaphone communication shouting at each other that they can’t spot the significance of silence. When they finally get the idea that something damaging is developing they are so out of touch they are clueless how to handle it. The row over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=1061&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To plank, or not to plank</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/to-plank-or-not-to-plank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Britain, students marched in protest. In the Philippines they planked. Now an anti-planking bill is before the Philippine Congress and has prompted an international internet storm of ridicule and criticism. What started out as a Facebook craze between friends has transmuted into a form of gesture politics or student protest. What is interesting, though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A snapshot of campaigning</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/a-snapshot-of-campaigning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigner-blogger Tom Baker has compiled an invaluable snapshot of civil society-government engagement in Britain between 2010 and 20011. In particular it provides interesting insights into who has been able to mobilize mass action by members, on what campaign and aimed at which department between 2010 and 2011. In a field that is generally under-researched nobody [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=982&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banning a song, violating memories</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/banning-a-song-violating-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ban by a South African court on a liberation song raises questions not only about freedom of expression (and its limits) but also about how a post-colonial society remembers past struggles against tyranny. The white-dominated civil rights group AgriForum had brought the case in the Equality Court against Julius Malema, the leader of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=978&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the surprise? PR consultancies and oppressive regimes</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/why-the-surprise-pr-consultancies-and-oppressive-regimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera’s Listening Post this week and other media outlets have made much of the employment of PR Consultants like the Washington-based Qorvis Communications and the London-based Bell Pottinger by the governments in Yemen, Syria and Bahrain to address their bad image in the west. But why should this be surprising? The surprise is as much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=974&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous humour – the silencing of cartoonists</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/dangerous-humour-%e2%80%93-the-silencing-of-cartoonists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat has been badly beaten and had his hands broken after lampooning the Assad regime. Earlier this year his Libyan counterpart Kais al-Hilali was shot while caricaturing Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi. Twenty-five years ago the Palestinian Naji al-Ali &#8211; creator of the character Handhala, child witness in the Palestinian refugee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=959&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media, public unrest and American foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://polcomm.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/social-media-public-unrest-and-american-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita Howarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron set off a media storm when he suggested it might be necessary to block the use of social media should there be a repeat of the London disturbances earlier this month in which looters used BlackBerry Messenger to co-ordinate their activities. This may have just been another case of PR-speak by a political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polcomm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4552620&amp;post=949&amp;subd=polcomm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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