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		<title>On the absence of &#8220;thinking middle-classes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/on-the-absence-of-thinking-middle-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My response to today&#8217;s editorial: &#8220;Yet, Jamaica&#8217;s thinking middle class has the power to profoundly influence change.&#8221; I find these coded and lofty attempts to distinguish who&#8217;s &#8220;thinking&#8221; from who&#8217;s not to be really problematic. For example, the term &#8220;well-thinking Jamaicans&#8221; which is used far too much in editorials, smacks of an elitism that is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=681&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better Policy, not Parent Bashing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School has reopened so it&#8217;s high season for parent-bashing. Here&#8217;s my response to the latest on the National Parenting Policy proposed a few years back. To the Editor: As a parent with a child in Jamaica&#8217;s gov&#8217;t-run schools, I have long opposed such lofty propositions as a &#8220;National Parenting Policy&#8221; for both its elitism and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=674&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The People&#8217;s United Party of Jamaica</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/the-peoples-party-of-jamaica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to start my own party.  Why not? After enduring the hypocritical, circus-like behaviour of the PNP, the bald-faced lying and deceitful JLP, and the near silence and invisibility of the NDM for the past several months, what are we supposed to do?  Just sit down and wait for all of them &#8211; a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=663&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing For the Devil</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/dancing-for-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christopher Dudus Coke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was responding to Agostinho&#8217;s post about the future of Passa-Passa, when it occurred to me that I should write some of my thoughts about the event on my own blog as well.  (I wish I kept track of what I wrote on other people&#8217;s blogs; each was a post in itself!) I have never [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=655&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tivoli Gardens has declared war against the state</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[dem guh loot police station a look fi bullet an gun.. police ah run lef&#8217; kyaar and gunman a drive..  POLICE CARS NO. 20, NO. 36 &#38;  NO.91 dem bun dung police station.. helicopter and all a dem fufool police an&#8217; souljah a run go a Tivoli fi meet dem Waterloo&#8230; Crime Minister Golding come [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=646&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Golding, you are fired!</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/bruce-golding-you-are-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From dodging to denial&#8230;. Just in case you don&#8217;t realise it yet Brucie, your days as PM are numbered less than 10. When a political leader boldly LIES to both its citizens and those who make up the government that one is expected to preside over, purposefully misrepresents one&#8217;s relationship to criminals, abuses one&#8217;s access [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=639&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On tolerating homosexuals and such (Editorial, Jamaica Observer)</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/editorial-on-tolerating-homosexuals-and-such/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On tolerating homosexuals and such&#8230; &#8211; Editorials, Current Issues &#38; Opinion Articles - JamaicaObserver.com. You know what I love (in a cheeky kind of way) about this editorial?  Even as its authors concede that a lot will and continue to change regarding the status of gays and lesbians, it still showed ambivalence of its editors [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=636&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the real Jamaican please stand up? (Jamaica Observer)</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/will-the-real-jamaican-please-stand-up-social-political-issues-jamaicaobserver-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the real Jamaican please stand up? &#8211; Social &#38; Political Issues - JamaicaObserver.com. D. Ranks wrote: 3/16/2010 Good Piece, and I applaud it. What I object to, however, is the term &#8220;real Jamaican.&#8221; Who is a real Jamaican? Is it one who believes as the author does, or is it one who hold an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=633&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry fi Haiti but scorn Haitians</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/sorry-fi-haiti-but-scorn-haitians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this a few days ago in response to Danville Walker&#8217;s letter to the editor published on Feb. 1 in the Gleaner. It wasn&#8217;t published, and since I am just remembering about it, thought I&#8217;d share it with you. ============ Dear Editor: Frankly, I am rather disappointed that Danville Walker has chosen to jump [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=632&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Jamaicans can do besides praying</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/what-jamaicans-can-do-besides-praying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Contribute money to organisations that can make it go further than you can:  Red Cross, UNICEF, Lambi, Partners in Health, Food for the Poor, Doctors without Borders, 2. Know someone who has a yacht? Ask them to put it to use for this emergency situation. 3. Organise a team of doctors, nurses, health workers &#38; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=longbench.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1875532&#038;post=615&#038;subd=longbench&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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