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		<title>Occupy Amazon! Shop small, save 20%!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 10th, Amazon is sinking to a new low. Using a fancy smart-phone app, the mega-internet-behemoth is offering $5 or 15% off to customers who walk into a store, scan the barcode on an item, and then purchase the item through Amazon. Small businesses and smart people everywhere are fighting back and encouraging people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First in a Series: New Village Press Welcomes Create Peace Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Village Press is of course in the business of publishing the words of visionary authors. In this vein, we&#8217;ve decided to launch a Guest Blogger series, where we will feature the words of others who share and act on the vision of NVP. Our first guest is Ross Holzman of the Create Peace Project, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commons.newvillagepress.net/commons/2011/11/14/first-in-a-series-new-village-press-welcomes-create-peace-project/</link>
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		<title>What Is Going On In Oakland?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Village sent out the following newsletter on November 4, and got so much response, we wanted to open up the subject for dialogue on our blog. Please feel free to share your opinions with us! &#160; As you all know, something truly transformational is happening in cities across the country spurred by Occupy Wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commons.newvillagepress.net/commons/2011/11/07/what-is-going-on-in-oakland/</link>
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		<title>Literature and Freedom: Judith Tannenbaum at Litquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, October 8th, at 12 pm, Judith Tannenbaum, coauthor of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, will be facilitating a talk at San Francisco&#8217;s prestigious literary festival, Litquake. Published in 2010, By Heart is a two-person literary memoir narrating the encounter between Judith, a dedicated educator and writing instructor, and Spoon Jackson, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Acting Together Project Officially Launches!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hard work that’s been put into the Acting Together project keeps bearing fruit. The second volume of the anthology, Acting Together, Vol. II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities, is currently with our team of graphic designers, and close to being an ink-and-paper book! In the meantime, author Cynthia Cohen has shared her transformative ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss These Conferences!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At New Village Press we sometimes find ourselves inundated with amazing activities outside of the office. Yesterday marked the beginning of a whirlwind of conferences and events that New Village will be participating in and even co-hosting! These events provide wonderful opportunities to support and learn about exceptional people and positive movements that are taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commons.newvillagepress.net/commons/2011/09/15/dont-miss-these-conferences/</link>
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		<title>Between Grace and Fear: A New Arrival at New Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Village Press is proud to be the distributor of William Cleveland&#8217;s newest book, Between Grace and Fear: The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change. William Cleveland, who co-authored Between Grace and Fear with Patricia Shifferd, previously published Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World&#8217;s Frontlines with New Village Press. In Art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commons.newvillagepress.net/commons/2011/09/12/between-grace-and-fear-a-new-arrival-at-new-village/</link>
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		<title>A Letter of Thanks to Author Lily Yeh: Beauty That Lasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lily Yeh, author of Awakening Creativity, sent along the following letter of thanks from a teacher at Darien High School in Darien, Connecticut, whose students recently visited the Dandelion School in Beijing China, the centerpiece of Awakening Creativity, and were moved and inspired by their experience. Dear Lily, Our students returned to school last week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commons.newvillagepress.net/commons/2011/09/07/a-letter-of-thanks-to-author-lily-yeh-beauty-that-lasts/</link>
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		<title>Acting Together Continues Worldwide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Village Press published Acting Together as part of a wider project that started in 2005, when a prestigious academic institution, Brandeis University, and the most prominent international organization of theatre artists, Theatre Without Borders, established a partnership that brought the Acting Together Project to life. The first volume of the two-book set focuses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Green to the Playground and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot happening lately under the banner of &#8220;green.&#8221; At New Village we agree green is extremely important. We seek out projects, however, that go a few steps further than simple green to encompass whole-systems thinking and integrated ecological change. In this vein, last fall New Village published Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design [...]]]></description>
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