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		<title>ANDREW SCHOULTZ &amp; PAUL KLEE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in As It Ought To Be, January 8, 2012 Partial installation of Images in Dialogue: Andrew Schoultz and Paul Klee. Flickr photograph by My Love For You. ANDREW SCHOULTZ AND PAUL KLEE AT SFMOMA by Matt Gonzalez Today<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=2209&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in As It Ought To Be, December 21, 2011 Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Sin titulo, oil on canvas, 48&#8243; x 48&#8243;, 2011. GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA AT ELINS/EAGLES-SMITH by Matt Gonzalez Since the early 1900s when Xavier Martinez settled in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KURT SCHWITTERS</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/kurt-schwitters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in As It Ought To Be, November 27, 2011 Portrait of Kurt Schwitters by El Lissitzky, 1929. GOODBYE KURT SCHWITTERS by Matt Gonzalez “I use any material the picture demands.” Kurt Schwitters, 1920. Today marks the conclusion of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1753&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RANKED-CHOICE VOTING</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/ranked-choice-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Herrera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2011 Eleven San Francisco mayoral candidates, at the Castro Theatre, August 8, 2011. Photograph by Adithya Sambamurthy for The Bay Citizen. LIKE 1-2-3: RANKED CHOICE VOTING HERE TO STAY by Matt<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1716&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THEOPHILUS BROWN</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/theophilus-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in The New Fillmore, September 2011; reprinted in Theophilus Brown, An Artful Life (SF: Thomas Reynolds Gallery, 2011) Theophilus Brown in his Berkeley studio, 1955 or 56. A FRIENDSHIP WITH THEOPHILUS BROWN by Matt Gonzalez Much has been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1600&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KEEGAN MCHARGUE</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/keegan-mchargue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The 23-Year Old Masters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wrong Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Keegan McHargue: Natural (SF: Frey Norris Contemporary &#38; Modern, 2011); reprinted in As It Ought To Be, September 2, 2011 KEEGAN MCHARGUE, THE PERIPATETIC ARTIST RETURNS TO S.F. by Matt Gonzalez By the age of 21, Keegan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DAVID WAGGONER FOR POLICE COMMISSION</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/david-waggoner-for-police-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/david-waggoner-for-police-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Peskin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Waggoner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Britt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 1, 2011 Photograph of David Waggoner by Geoff King, 2010. DAVID WAGGONER: A Community Watchdog for Police Commission by Harry Britt, Matt Gonzalez, &#38; Aaron Peskin Given the escalating rash of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TOM SCHULTZ</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/tom-schultz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10th Street co-op galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abstract Expressionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adobe Bookshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Varela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amerika Haus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew McKinley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Space 712 Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brata Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Bilby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cedar Tavern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Bunnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franz Kline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Rosenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Micheline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Van Proyen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rauner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olaf Clasen Galerie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studio Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomas Tomaszek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willem de Kooning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Gilmartin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=1453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published as the foreword to Structure, Gesture, and Something Else: The Paintings of Tom Schultz (SF: Michael Rauner Photography, 2010) Tom Schultz, 2010. Photograph by Michael Rauner. FOREWORD: TOM SCHULTZ by Matt Gonzalez I first saw Tom Schultz&#8217;s work<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1453&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NANCY PELOSI vs JOHN DENNIS</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/californias-8th-congressional-district/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/californias-8th-congressional-district/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cindy Sheehan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dennis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Hall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Fog City Journal, October 12, 2010 John Dennis, Congressman Ron Paul, Tony Hall &#38; Matt Gonzalez, September 4, 2010. Photograph by Luke Thomas. OPEN LETTER TO NANCY PELOSI by Matt Gonzalez October 12, 2010 Representative Nancy Pelosi<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1420&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PUBLIC CONTRACTING</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/public-contracting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bond Yee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Oka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Convenient Parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Herrera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five Star Parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Bekele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Heinicke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Park Managment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rev. James McCray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Breyer Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Kay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Nolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willie Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in BeyondChron.org, July 27, 2010 WHY BOTHER BIDDING? by Matt Gonzalez How Fred Bekele won a parking garage contract in San Francisco, only to have it taken away In the summer of 2007, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1336&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PETER CAMEJO 1939-2008</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/peter-camejo/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/peter-camejo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazilian Workers Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Fronton prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Blanco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio da Silva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Camejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quechua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socialist Workers Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willie Mae Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workers Revolutionary Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=1152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in As It Ought To Be, September 14, 2009 Peter Camejo, Socialist Workers Party candidate for US President, 1976. REMEMBERING PETER CAMEJO 1939-2008 by Matt Gonzalez Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Peter Camejo’s death. He had been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1152&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VINCENT VAN GOGH</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/vincent-van-gogh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auvers-sur-Oise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaiser-Friedrich Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magdeburg bombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gauguin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road to Tarascon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=1150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in As It Ought To Be, August 5, 2009 The Painter on the Road to Tarascon by Vincent van Gogh, 1888. THE PAINTER ON THE ROAD TO TARASCON by Matt Gonzalez Laden with his brushes and props, one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=1150&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE PUBLIC DEFENDER</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/defending-the-public-defender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Chiu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Adachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Avalos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Fog City Journal, July 8, 2009 Jeff Adachi conferring with a client, photo by Robert Gumpert DEFENDING THE PUBLIC DEFENDER by Matt Gonzalez &#38; G. Whitney Leigh SAN FRANCISCO’S PUBLIC DEFENDER, Jeff Adachi, is facing a $1.9<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=935&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EMINENT DOMAIN, A MODEST PROPOSAL</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/a-modest-proposal-to-contain-eminent-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/a-modest-proposal-to-contain-eminent-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eminent domain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magna Carta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in The Argonaut, July 3, 2009 Great Seal of King John attached to Magna Carta, from the British Library A MODEST PROPOSAL TO CONTAIN EMINENT DOMAIN by Matt Gonzalez &#8220;[N]or shall private property be taken for public use,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=718&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TRANSBAY AUTHORITY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/a-black-bart-lesson-for-transbay-authority/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/a-black-bart-lesson-for-transbay-authority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Bart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jello Biafra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transbay Joint Powers Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transbay Terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varnish Fine Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Hinckle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, June 15, 2009; an edited version appears below Event poster by Chuck Sperry A BLACK BART LESSON FOR TRANSBAY AUTHORITY by Warren Hinckle, Matt Gonzalez &#38; Jello Biafra IF WE CAN LEARN FROM<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=217&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TAXI-MEDALLION SYSTEM</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/stop-romanticizing-broken-taxi-medallion-system/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/stop-romanticizing-broken-taxi-medallion-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition K San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi medallion auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi medallion transferability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 2009 STOP ROMANTICIZING BROKEN TAXI-MEDALLION SYSTEM by Matt Gonzalez RECENT SUGGESTIONS BY Mayor Gavin Newsom’s administration that San Francisco should consider selling taxi medallions to raise revenue have been greeted with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=202&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THEOPHILUS BROWN, COLLAGES</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/accidental-with-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Wonner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theophilus Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 27, 2009 ACCIDENTAL, WITH PURPOSE by Matt Gonzalez WHAT BEGAN AS A FRUGAL effort to make use of leftover paint, something all painters grapple with on occasion, has spawned a late<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=180&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: THE TRAIL OF BROKEN PROMISES</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-trail-of-broken-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CounterPunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in CounterPunch.org, October 29, 2008 THE TRAIL OF BROKEN PROMISES by Matt Gonzalez What Do They Have to Do to Lose Your Vote? Watching the Democrats in the final weeks of the presidential election has been a lesson<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=182&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HARRY BOWDEN</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-accordion-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George McNeil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Bowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willem de Kooning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Plastic Antinomy, Spring 2008 The Accordion Player by Harry Bowden, oil on canvas, c. 1934 HARRY BOWDEN THE ACCORDION PLAYER by Matt Gonzalez WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS PAINTING it seemed old and stiff. It didn’t instill<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=178&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPOILING ELECTIONS</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Peace & Freedom Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Tester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Cantwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Natural Law Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim. Johnson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 2008 2008 California Peace &#38; Freedom Party ticket: Nader/Gonzalez WHAT&#8217;S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER by Matt Gonzalez I&#8217;M SO TIRED OF THE DEMOCRATS talking about how<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=179&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE OBAMA CRAZE: COUNT ME OUT</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-obama-craze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in BeyondChron.org, February 27, 2008; reprinted CounterPunch.org, February 29, 2008 THE OBAMA CRAZE: COUNT ME OUT by Matt Gonzalez Part of me shares the enthusiasm for Barack Obama. After all, how could someone calling themself a progressive not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=183&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DEBIT CARD PROGRAM</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-making-of-a-debit-card-monopoly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debit card taxi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paratransit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in BeyondChron.org, February 14, 2007 THE MAKING OF A DEBIT CARD MONOPOLY by Matt Gonzalez SAN FRANCISCO&#8217;S TAXI PARATRANSIT program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=177&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WILL OF THE VOTERS</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/invoking-the-will-of-the-voters-but-only-if-convenient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Gate Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saturday park closure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in BeyondChron.org, May 19, 2006 Two women cycling in Golden Gate Park, 1930s INVOKING THE &#8220;WILL OF THE VOTERS&#8221; BUT ONLY IF CONVENIENT by Matt Gonzalez SIX YEARS AGO SAN FRANCISCO voters went to the polls to decide<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=172&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FREE SPEECH &amp; THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ANONYMOUSLY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-right-to-speak-anonymously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dunning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAROLE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davis Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federalist Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G. Whitney Leigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the Davis Enterprise, May 14, 2006 Whitney Leigh THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ANONYMOUSLY IS A CORNERSTONE OF OUR DEMOCRACY by G. Whitney Leigh &#38; Matt Gonzalez DAVIS ENTERPRISE COLUMNIST Bob Dunning recently published a polemic against CAROLE’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=173&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STANLEY TOOKIE WILLIAMS, THE DEATH PENALTY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/sparing-the-crips-founder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Becnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raymond Lee Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snoop Dogg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley "Tookie" Williams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #12, November/December 2005 Stanley &#8220;Tookie&#8221; Williams, photographer unknown SPARING THE CRIPS FOUNDER by Matt Gonzalez IN 1974 STANLEY &#8220;TOOKIE&#8221; &#8220;WILLIAMS encountered a body builder named Arnold Schwarzenegger outside a Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=171&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/instand-runoff-voting-on-the-move/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/instand-runoff-voting-on-the-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instant Runoff Voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Robinson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in the North Bay Progressive Journal, November 2005 Mary Robinson, first female president of Ireland, elected using Instant Runoff Voting (she finished second in the first round of balloting with 38% of the vote, then overtook her opponents<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=169&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FELIX MACNEE, PAINTER</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/felix-macnee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felix Macnee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in San Francisco Frontlines, October 2005 Felix Macnee in repose. FELIX MACNEE by Matt Gonzalez FELIX MACNEE&#8217;S RECENT PAINTINGS and drawings evoke a dual world, where fantastic creatures and morbid portraits squirm uneasily in a conceptual, abstract visual<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=328&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARLENE ACKERMAN</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/debunking-ackermans-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene Ackerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California High School Exit Examination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Standards Test]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuart Biegel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in San Francisco Frontlines, October 2005 A detail of a sculpture by Sargent Johnson at George Washington H.S., San Francisco DEBUNKING ACKERMAN&#8217;S NUMBERS by Matt Gonzalez A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER September 6, 2005 public announcement that she<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=168&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALLEN GINSBERG</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/howl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonah Raskin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael McClure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Lamantia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Whalen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Gallery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #11, September/October 2005 HOWL! by Matt Gonzalez OCTOBER 7TH OF THIS YEAR marks the 50th anniversary of the first public reading of perhaps the most enduring poem of the 20th century. In 1955, Kenneth Rexroth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=166&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CORPUS DELICTI RULE</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/where-is-the-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corpus delicti rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In re Flodstrom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Faibish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Faibish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russel Colvin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #10, July/August 2005 Rex, SF Chronicle photograph by Deanne Fitzmaurice WHERE IS THE BODY? UNDERSTANDING THE CORPUS DELICTI RULE by Matt Gonzalez SAN FRANCISCANS REACTED WITH shock over the death of Nicholas Faibish, a 12-year-old<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=159&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GERARDO SANDOVAL vs DON FISHER</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/a-new-era-in-san-francisco-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 Dorman Ave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duane Baughman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sutton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Melbostad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, June 29, 2005 Gerardo Sandoval A NEW ERA IN SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS? by Matt Gonzalez SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS GENERALLY has avoided the nasty mudslinging that political contests in other major cities often<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=158&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DEPLETED URANIUM</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/existential-warfare-overwhelming-our-opponents-by-killing-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depleted uranium]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #9, May/June 2005 EXISTENTIAL WARFARE: OVERWHELMING OUR OPPONENTS BY KILLING OURSELVES by Matt Gonzalez DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) IS A HIGHLY dense material (2.5 times denser than iron and 1.7 times denser than lead) that, if<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=157&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MARLA RUZICKA 1977-2005</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/remembering-marla-ruzicka-1977-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marla Ruzika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published online at  SFBG.com, April 19, 2005 REMEMBERING MARLA RUZICKA 1977-2005 by Matt Gonzalez ON APRIL 16, WHILE TRAVELLING on a dangerous airport road in Baghdad, Marla Ruzicka was killed in a car bombing. She was the founder of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=155&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THREE STRIKES LAW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Families to Amend California's Three Strikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Camejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santos Reyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Strikes Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 14, 2005 FREE SANTOS REYES! by Matt Gonzalez IN 1994, THE VOTERS AND STATE Legislature both adopted the &#8220;Three Strikes&#8221; law in California. Fueled by the abduction and murder of 12<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=154&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BASEBALL &amp; STEROIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babe Ruth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BALCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark McGwire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Maris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sammy Sosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steroids baseball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Golden Gate [X]press, March 3, 2005 Roger Maris, New York Yankee right fielder STEALING BASES: IS BASEBALL FAIR WITH STEROIDS? by Matt Gonzalez IN 1998 ROGER MARIS&#8217; ICONIC 61 home run record was finally conquered. Mark McGwire<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=153&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOMELESS COUNT IN SAN FRANCISCO</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/green-red-apples-the-2392-disappeared-homeless-in-san-francisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeless statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay View, February 23, 2005; reprinted in New California Media, March 3, 2005 Homeless encampment in Golden Gate Park, SF Chronicle photograph by Paul Chinn GREEN &#38; RED APPLES: THE 2,392 DISAPPEARED HOMELESS IN<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=152&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BARBARA BOXER</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/boxers-rebellion-understanding-self-preservation-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #8, February/March 2005 Sen. Barbara Boxer, SF Chronicle photograph by Paul Chinn BOXER&#8217;S REBELLION: UNDERSTANDING SELF-PRESERVATION POLITICS by Matt Gonzalez THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY RECENTLY applauded Senator Barbara Boxer for the pointed questions she directed to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=151&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONVINCING GREENS TO VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Resolution 5293]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #7, December/January 2005; reprinted in San Francisco Call, November 16, 2004 IGNORING TIRED PLEAS by Matt Gonzalez Democrats succeeded in getting Greens and Independents to vote for John Kerry, but will we be asked to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=150&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EUGENE DEBS, SOCIALIST</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/in-another-era-the-socialist-circle-of-eugene-debs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Railroad Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Hanford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emil Seidel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Espionage Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Debs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Harriman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Wendell Holmes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Camejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pullman boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seymour Stedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socialist Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #6, September/October 2004 Eugene Debs speaking to a crowd in Waterbury, CT, 1908 IN ANOTHER ERA: THE SOCIALIST CIRCLE OF EUGENE DEBS by Matt Gonzalez “I have been accused of obstructing the war. I admit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=149&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NONCITIZEN VOTING</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/giving-noncitizens-access-to-the-voting-boothzen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noncitizen voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2004 Immigrant rights march Los Angeles, California, March 25, 2006 GIVING NONCITIZENS ACCESS TO THE VOTING BOOTH by Matt Gonzalez AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHO TOSSED tea into Boston&#8217;s harbor in 1773 had<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=147&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHY VOTE FOR RALPH NADER?</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/why-vote-for-ralph-nader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob LaFollette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Debs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Wallace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Camejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upton Sinclair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 2004; reprinted in Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 21, 2004; reprinted in Independent Politics, The Green Strategy Debate (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006) ed. Howie Hawkins Peter Camejo, Matt Gonzalez &#38; Ralph Nader,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=138&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NAMING RIGHTS</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/are-you-ready-for-bechtel-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candlestick Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naming rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #5, June/July 2004 Candlestick Park ARE YOU READY FOR BECHTEL PARK? How about Halliburton Stadium, or Monsanto Field? by Matt Gonzalez ONE OF THE MORE IRRITATING governmental practices to emerge in the late 20th Century<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=137&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RAVEN LECTURE, UC BOALT LAW SCHOOL</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-american-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Vol 16, Number 2 (2005) Excerpt of Benjamin Cardozo quotation on the wall at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. THE AMERICAN CITY: A TOOL FOR PROGRESSIVE CHANGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY by<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=333&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHAIN STORES</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/reining-in-the-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chain stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Formula retail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #4, April/May 2004 REINING IN THE CHAINS by Matt Gonzalez WE&#8217;RE ALL PRETTY USED TO IT by now. A chain store moves into a neighborhood commercial district and starts to sell its product. In some<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=135&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ELECTION REFORM</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/until-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instant Runoff Voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rank choice voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published in Mesh Magazine #3, February/March 2004 Howard Phillips, Constitution Party presidential candidate in 2000, who finished 7th in Florida with 1,378 votes, more than twice the number separating George Bush and Al Gore. UNTIL WHEN? by Matt Gonzalez<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=84&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONCESSION SPEECH, 2003 SF MAYOR&#8217;S RACE</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/concession-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Call, May 10, 2005 FOR THE HISTORICAL RECORD CONCESSION SPEECH by Matt Gonzalez San Francisco Mayor’s Race, December 9, 2003 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [crowd noise, applause] Thank you very much. You’ve been a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=83&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHY VOTE?</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/why-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Knox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitney Leigh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[a paid advertisement first published in the San Francisco Bay View, October 29, 2003 Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders walking in a funeral procession for Medgar Evers, 1963 WHY VOTE? by Randall Knox &#38; Matt Gonzalez CHANGE<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=82&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CINCO DE MAYO</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/reclaiming-cinco-de-mayo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of Puebla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benito Juarez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 2003; this longer version appeared in CommonDreams.org, May 5, 2006; reprinted in Mesh Magazine #14, May/June 2006 Maximillian I of Mexico RECLAIMING CINCO DE MAYO by Matt Gonzalez MOST AMERICANS INCORRECTLY<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=81&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BANNING FUR</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/escaping-the-ice-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 19, 2002 Meret Oppenheim&#8217;s fur-lined tea cup, 1936 ESCAPING THE ICE AGE by Matt Gonzalez THERE WAS A TIME when fur played a necessary role in a person&#8217;s ability to protect<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=79&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALEXEI KRUCHENYKH, RUSSIAN FUTURIST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002 LET&#8217;S BELLYACHE! A book review by Matt Gonzalez [Suicide Circus: Selected Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh (Copenhagen &#38; Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001). Translated from the Russian by Jack Hirschman, Alexander<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=66&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JACK HIRSCHMAN, POET LAUREATE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002; revised May 20, 2006 Photograph of Jack Hirschman at the Caffe Trieste by John Perino. CHOROSHO! AN AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JACK HIRSCHMAN by Jack Hirschman &#38; Matt Gonzalez BORN IN<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=327&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MY GREEN MANIFESTO</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/my-green-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alison Gibbons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Logue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comet Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erik Michelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Opalinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Micheline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Comet Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 1, The Tenacity Issue, 2003 Detail of My Green Manifesto, printed by the Greenwood Press, photograph by Pino Trogu. MY GREEN MANIFESTO by Matt Gonzalez for Isaac Opalinsky, Alison Gibbons, &#38; Erik<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=58&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PREFACE TO DON PAUL&#8217;S FLARES: POEMS, SONGS, PROSE</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/forword-to-flares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irresistible/Revolutionary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published as the preface to Flares: Poems, Songs, Prose (SF: Irresistible/Revolutionary, 2001) by Don Paul FOREWORD by Matt Gonzalez I  FIRST MET DON PAUL a couple of years ago on Federico Garcia Lorca’s birthday, June 5. He had come<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=46&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHY I JOINED THE GREEN PARTY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/why-i-turned-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Raney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jello Biafra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Danaher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medea Benjamin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Campbell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 15, 2000 WHY I TURNED GREEN by Matt Gonzalez SO HERE&#8217;S HOW it happened. I went to a rally held in front of KRON, channel 4, with my friends Adam Raney<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=43&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JACK BLACK, YOU CAN&#8217;T WIN</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/jack-black-rides-the-rails-again/</link>
		<comments>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/jack-black-rides-the-rails-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AK Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMOK press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Ruhland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Grano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Disend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stomping the Goyim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Burroughs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Can't Win]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the The Recorder, August 23, 2000 Jack Black JACK BLACK RIDES THE RAILS AGAIN. A book review by Matt Gonzalez [You Can’t Win by Jack Black. Introduction by William Burroughs. Afterward by Michael Disend. AK Press, 2000,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=22&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JACK MICHELINE, RAGGED LION</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-elusive-jack-micheline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Micheline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ragged Lion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in Ragged Lion: A Tribute to Jack Micheline (Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press/The Smith, 1999), ed. John Bennett Jack Micheline &#38; Matt Gonzalez on Albion Street in San Francisco, c. 1993, photo by Andrew McKinley. THE ELUSIVE JACK MICHELINE<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=326&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEATH PENALTY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-demise-of-due-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the Stanford Humanities Review (Fall/Winter 1990) Newsweek photograph by Ken Light THE DEMISE OF DUE PROCESS: MURRAY AGAINST GIARRATANO by Matt Gonzalez “Even though a person be the immediate occasion of another’s death, he is not a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=325&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AMADOU DIALLO</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/who-has-a-dark-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amadou Diallo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 8, 2000 Amadou Diallo, a 23 year old African immigrant who was killed by New York City police in the building in which he lived in the Bronx, February 4, 1999.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=35&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JACK MICHELINE, THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY</title>
		<link>http://themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/jack-micheline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattgonzalez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Kaufman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Outlaw Bible of American Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S.A. Griffin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[from the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); Edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. Griffin, pg 95-97 Jack Micheline. Photograph by Rosemarie Hausherr (from the Jack Micheline Foundation website) JACK MICHELINE by Matt Gonzalez JACK MICHELINE DEVOTED<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themattgonzalezreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8164635&amp;post=3&amp;subd=themattgonzalezreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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