<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>IMAGINE 2050 &#187; Rev. David L. Ostendorf</title>
	<atom:link href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/author/dave/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:41:29 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	
		<item>
		<title>In Wisconsin, the Political Divide is Deep as the Governor’s Recall Election Looms</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/18/in-wisconsin-the-political-divide-is-deep-as-the-governors-recall-election-looms/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/18/in-wisconsin-the-political-divide-is-deep-as-the-governors-recall-election-looms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equal Pay Enforcement Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter ID Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/?p=12557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week a phenomenal 1.3 million voters went to the polls in the Wisconsin Governor’s primary to set the stage for the final act in one of the most divisive political battles in the entire country.  Fortunately, they did not &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/18/in-wisconsin-the-political-divide-is-deep-as-the-governors-recall-election-looms/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/05/18/in-wisconsin-the-political-divide-is-deep-as-the-governors-recall-election-looms/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Oklahoma City and the Enduring Challenge of Racist, Domestic Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/04/19/oklahoma-city-and-the-enduring-challenge-of-racist-domestic-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/04/19/oklahoma-city-and-the-enduring-challenge-of-racist-domestic-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anders Behring Breivik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass Murderer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma City Bombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racialization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorist Acts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Mcveigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violent Threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waukesha Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=12328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s seventeenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing is a reminder that the cauldron of “domestic terrorism”—a handy euphemism for white “Christian” terrorists—is ever-simmering. As news broke of the Oklahoma City bombing, speculation was rampant that “Middle East terrorists” were &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/04/19/oklahoma-city-and-the-enduring-challenge-of-racist-domestic-terrorism/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/04/19/oklahoma-city-and-the-enduring-challenge-of-racist-domestic-terrorism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Give Me Your Wired, Keep Your Poor: The New Welcome Mat for High Tech Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/10/give-me-your-wired-keep-your-poor-the-new-welcome-mat-for-high-tech-immigrants/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/10/give-me-your-wired-keep-your-poor-the-new-welcome-mat-for-high-tech-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bipartisan Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Judiciary Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reform Law Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa's Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRLI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamar Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Lamar Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skilled Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas's Lamar Smith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=10358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent bipartisan action by the House Judiciary Committee to approve more high-skilled, high-tech immigrants from China and India into the US reveals, once again, the crass – indeed class – politics of Congressional immigration policy gridlock. The ironically named “Fairness &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/10/give-me-your-wired-keep-your-poor-the-new-welcome-mat-for-high-tech-immigrants/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/10/give-me-your-wired-keep-your-poor-the-new-welcome-mat-for-high-tech-immigrants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Unmasked: Rick Perry, Racism, and the Anti-Immigrant States&#8217; Rights Movement</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/12/unmasked-rick-perry-racism-and-the-anti-immigrant-states-rights-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/12/unmasked-rick-perry-racism-and-the-anti-immigrant-states-rights-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Cooper of Tennessee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federation For American Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas Secratary of State Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Cuccinelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Level Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Id]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Ambitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Policy Initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry Tampa Tea Party debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secratary of State Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[States Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee's voter id law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter ID Bills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=10063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With a single quick-lips shot to his right foot, Rick Perry wounded his presidential ambitions, confounded his conservative base, and – most significantly – unmasked once again the racism of the anti-immigrant, states’ rights movement. Defending his support of in-state &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/12/unmasked-rick-perry-racism-and-the-anti-immigrant-states-rights-movement/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/12/unmasked-rick-perry-racism-and-the-anti-immigrant-states-rights-movement/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Muslims, in the Crucible of Race, Religious Bigotry, and New Possibilities</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/28/muslims-in-the-crucible-of-race-religious-bigotry-and-new-possibilities/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/28/muslims-in-the-crucible-of-race-religious-bigotry-and-new-possibilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center For American Progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Progressive Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelical Christian Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifth Congressional District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota School District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sixth Congressional District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Cloud Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U S Department Of Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota has the largest number of Somali refugees in the U.S., with thousands living in Michele Bachmann’s Sixth Congressional District. African and Muslim, the Somali community is here thrust into the crucible of race and religious bigotry, mirroring daily the &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/28/muslims-in-the-crucible-of-race-religious-bigotry-and-new-possibilities/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/28/muslims-in-the-crucible-of-race-religious-bigotry-and-new-possibilities/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Brave New World: President Names Arizona’s Sheriff Arpaio to Head Homeland Security, Plans Mass Deportation Program</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/12/a-brave-new-world-president-names-arizona%e2%80%99s-sheriff-arpaio-to-head-homeland-security-plans-mass-deportation-program/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/12/a-brave-new-world-president-names-arizona%e2%80%99s-sheriff-arpaio-to-head-homeland-security-plans-mass-deportation-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressman Mo Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dhs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enforcement Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enforcement Professionals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enforcement Sweep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Origin Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarcasm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Joe Arpaio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, February 16, 2012—President Perry announced today that controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will head the Department of Homeland Security in his new Administration.  “Sheriff Joe is one of the finest law enforcement officers in the nation,” the President said, &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/12/a-brave-new-world-president-names-arizona%e2%80%99s-sheriff-arpaio-to-head-homeland-security-plans-mass-deportation-program/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/12/a-brave-new-world-president-names-arizona%e2%80%99s-sheriff-arpaio-to-head-homeland-security-plans-mass-deportation-program/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hooded Sweatshirts, Shopping Carts, &amp; Walking to Work: How to Profile an Undocumented Person, via the Ozarks Minutemen</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/31/hooded-sweatshirts-shopping-carts-walking-to-work-how-to-profile-an-undocumented-person-via-the-ozarks-minutemen/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/31/hooded-sweatshirts-shopping-carts-walking-to-work-how-to-profile-an-undocumented-person-via-the-ozarks-minutemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-immigrant movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Ordinance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers Branch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazelton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hooded Sweatshirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hooded Sweatshirts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Control and Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reform Law Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRLI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minutemen Civil Defense Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petition Signatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB 1070]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Springfield City Ordinance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Springfield Missouri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Ozarks Minutemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Springfield, Missouri, the Ozarks Minutemen suggest that “illegal aliens” can be identified by their “use of shopping carts to transport goods or carrying groceries long distances, store to home.”  Other identifiers include walking to work, walking with your head &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/31/hooded-sweatshirts-shopping-carts-walking-to-work-how-to-profile-an-undocumented-person-via-the-ozarks-minutemen/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/31/hooded-sweatshirts-shopping-carts-walking-to-work-how-to-profile-an-undocumented-person-via-the-ozarks-minutemen/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Government Cleansing: Immigrants Get Hammered</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/17/government-cleansing-immigrants-get-hammered/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/17/government-cleansing-immigrants-get-hammered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Immigration Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board Of Immigration Appeals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandworkers International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deportation Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dhs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nlrb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secure Communities Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweatshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Us Department Of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage And Hour Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Gutherie]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the relatively quiet summer weeks of August, elements of the Obama Administration have hammered immigrants. On August 11 the obscure Board of Immigration Appeals at the Department of Justice ruled that immigrants arrested without warrants no longer have to &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/17/government-cleansing-immigrants-get-hammered/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/17/government-cleansing-immigrants-get-hammered/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Race and The Race to the Bottom</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/03/race-and-the-race-to-the-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/03/race-and-the-race-to-the-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-immigrant movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barricades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt crisis resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Human Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Departments Of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Travails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Descent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Worker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirksville Missouri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-wage workers of color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Rivas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race To The Bottom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stagnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployed Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Liberty Iowa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a restaurant in Kirksville, Missouri, a recently-fired immigrant worker made $400 for seventy-two hours of work per week. Seventy-two hours. $400 per 72-hour week. It took Maria Rivas forty years of hard work to earn her way up to $11.40 an &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/03/race-and-the-race-to-the-bottom/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/08/03/race-and-the-race-to-the-bottom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Barriers to Ballots: Republicans Brazenly Suppress Voter Rights</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/20/barriers-to-ballots-republicans-brazenly-suppress-voter-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/20/barriers-to-ballots-republicans-brazenly-suppress-voter-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Legislative Exchange Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brennan Center for Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado Senator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Voter ID laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Naturalization Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas City Missouri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas Secretary Of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kobach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[League of Women Voters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Exchange Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Lyndon Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Michael Bennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter ID Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter Suppression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voters Rights Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin Voter ID laws]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you believe folk in your community should have the right to vote without a “photo please” demand at their polling place, read on. In a frenzy of political deconstruction four decades after President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 signing of both &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/20/barriers-to-ballots-republicans-brazenly-suppress-voter-rights/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/20/barriers-to-ballots-republicans-brazenly-suppress-voter-rights/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Race, and the Race for 2012</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/race-and-the-race-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/race-and-the-race-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High School Graduation Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Member Of Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violation Of Civil Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the race for 2012 heats up, and as showcase “debates” proliferate to select the Republican challenger to President Obama, countless questions on race linger unspoken by media interlocutors and pundits.  Here are a few for consideration. To Mitt Romney: &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/race-and-the-race-for-2012/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/race-and-the-race-for-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Contract Workers in the Belly of the Food System</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centro de Tabajadores Unidos en Lucha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Cleaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cub Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain Workers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunger Strikers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janitorial Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squalid Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage Contract]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A block-long tent city of pickets and placards lines a main thoroughfare on the south side of Minneapolis, just off  the property of a huge Cub Food supermarket.  Hunger strikers supporting low-wage contract food system workers underscore the irony of &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/01/contract-workers-in-the-belly-of-the-food-system/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Packinghouse Bathroom Breaks: Leaving Human Dignity at the Plant Gate</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/18/packinghouse-bathroom-breaks-leaving-human-dignity-at-the-plant-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/18/packinghouse-bathroom-breaks-leaving-human-dignity-at-the-plant-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bathroom Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contentious Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebraska Appleseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupational Safety And Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupational Safety And Health Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage And Hour Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Complaints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened again several weeks ago.  He asked permission to go to the bathroom.  His supervisor told him to wait till a replacement was found for his position on the line. The supervisor didn’t come back. He could wait no &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/18/packinghouse-bathroom-breaks-leaving-human-dignity-at-the-plant-gate/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/18/packinghouse-bathroom-breaks-leaving-human-dignity-at-the-plant-gate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Called Out, Anti-Immigrant Movement Just Can’t Let Go of Father John</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/04/called-out-anti-immigrant-movement-just-can%e2%80%99t-let-go-of-father-john/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/04/called-out-anti-immigrant-movement-just-can%e2%80%99t-let-go-of-father-john/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Numbers Usa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With money and media masters at their side one would think that the big-name nativists featured in a recent New York Times article would have handled the story of their kinship with John Tanton, the “anti-immigrant crusader” who birthed them, &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/04/called-out-anti-immigrant-movement-just-can%e2%80%99t-let-go-of-father-john/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/04/called-out-anti-immigrant-movement-just-can%e2%80%99t-let-go-of-father-john/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Tantonites Just Don’t Get It…</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/20/the-tantonites-just-don%e2%80%99t-get-it%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/20/the-tantonites-just-don%e2%80%99t-get-it%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Immigration Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federation For American Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krikorian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nativists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Numbersusa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When high-grade ore in Minnesota’s Iron Range began running low some years back, mining companies turned to extracting taconite, an iron-bearing hard rock once discarded as uneconimcal in the mining process. Taconite.  Tantonite. As the aging John Tanton, patriarch of &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/20/the-tantonites-just-don%e2%80%99t-get-it%e2%80%a6/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/20/the-tantonites-just-don%e2%80%99t-get-it%e2%80%a6/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anti-Muslim Bigotry: The Deadly Fires of Hate</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/07/anti-muslim-bigotry-the-deadly-fires-of-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/07/anti-muslim-bigotry-the-deadly-fires-of-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadly Consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear And Hatred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear Mongers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace And Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secular Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Jones]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be 780 miles from the halls of Congress to Gainesville, Florida, but the distance between anti-Muslim bigots in both locales is but an arm’s length. Put Muslim-bashing Congressman Peter King and the heretical, Qur’an-burning Terry Jones in a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/07/anti-muslim-bigotry-the-deadly-fires-of-hate/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/07/anti-muslim-bigotry-the-deadly-fires-of-hate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Prancing with the Stars: Steve King to Host Pearce and Beck in Iowa</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/03/prancing-with-the-stars-steve-king-to-host-pearce-and-beck-in-iowa/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/03/prancing-with-the-stars-steve-king-to-host-pearce-and-beck-in-iowa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District Congressman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Subcommittee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesa City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Numbersusa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Action Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Mainstream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell Pearce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Supremacists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In just a few weeks Arizona’s stalwart bigot, state senator Russell Pearce and NumbersUSA’s Roy Beck will journey to springtime Iowa to lend their support for Steve King’s ever-rising anti-immigrant credentials. King, Iowa’s Fifth District Congressman, is hosting his “Conservative &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/03/prancing-with-the-stars-steve-king-to-host-pearce-and-beck-in-iowa/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/03/prancing-with-the-stars-steve-king-to-host-pearce-and-beck-in-iowa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Steve King and the Sound of Iowa’s Silence</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/14/steve-king-and-the-sound-of-iowa%e2%80%99s-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/14/steve-king-and-the-sound-of-iowa%e2%80%99s-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutionalist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Subcommittee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa Fifth District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party Candidate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Remarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Representative Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sound Of Silence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Constitution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One really has to wonder where the good people of Iowa are when it comes to U.S. Representative Steve King, who regularly spouts and touts some of the most extreme and extraordinary positions taken by anyone in Congress.  The sound &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/14/steve-king-and-the-sound-of-iowa%e2%80%99s-silence/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/14/steve-king-and-the-sound-of-iowa%e2%80%99s-silence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Basking in Deletion of “Civil Rights” and “Labor” from Committees, House Leaders Vow More Name Changes</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/19/basking-in-deletion-of-%e2%80%9ccivil-rights%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9clabor%e2%80%9d-from-committees-house-leaders-vow-more-name-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/19/basking-in-deletion-of-%e2%80%9ccivil-rights%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9clabor%e2%80%9d-from-committees-house-leaders-vow-more-name-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[112th Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights And Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee Members]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee Name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee Names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution Subcommittee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Majority Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opportunities Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technological Glitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the new House Majority did not slack off during the Christmas break.  In the giving spirit of the season, they generously provided new names to several key Committees.  The Education and Labor Committee was re-christened the Education and &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/19/basking-in-deletion-of-%e2%80%9ccivil-rights%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9clabor%e2%80%9d-from-committees-house-leaders-vow-more-name-changes/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/19/basking-in-deletion-of-%e2%80%9ccivil-rights%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9clabor%e2%80%9d-from-committees-house-leaders-vow-more-name-changes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Acts of Resistance and Hope, Breaking the Barriers of Power</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/22/acts-of-resistance-and-hope-breaking-the-barriers-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/22/acts-of-resistance-and-hope-breaking-the-barriers-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homelands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injustice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages And Working Conditions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=6829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a restaurant in a small Midwest town last week three workers got fired for standing up for a new employee promised one salary and given significantly less after his first week on the job.  They took the injustice to &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/22/acts-of-resistance-and-hope-breaking-the-barriers-of-power/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/22/acts-of-resistance-and-hope-breaking-the-barriers-of-power/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Page Caching using disk: enhanced
Object Caching 1717/2142 objects using disk: basic

 Served from: imagine2050.newcomm.org @ 2013-05-20 19:56:55 by W3 Total Cache -->