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	<title>Unmarried Blog &#187; advocacy</title>
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		<title>D.C. Council Hearing on Same-Sex Marriage: Round One</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/10/27/dc-council-hearing-on-same-sex-marriage-round-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meaghan Lamarre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wearing my Alternatives to Marriage button and carrying a sign saying “Don’t throw domestic partners under the marriage equality bus”, I headed into the offices of the District Council yesterday afternoon to attend the hearing on gay marriage. The hearing proved so popular that I was only able to join other visitors in an overflow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a long post about advocacy</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/02/10/a-long-post-about-advocacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[120 AtMPers emailed Congress last week, asking that the stimulus bill include domestic partners in its expansion of Cobra affordability.  On Monday I called Senator Sue Collin&#8217;s office (because she has expressed support for domestic partners and because she had a high-profile role in the stimulus compromise).  Her staff said that there were already 500 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AtMP in Washington DC</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/01/19/atmp-in-washington-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embodying the spirit of service that is invoked for Martin Luther King&#8217;s birthday and Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, AtMP&#8217;s board of directors spent this weekend at a strategic planning retreat in Washington DC.
Although most board members had to return to their far-flung home towns (including Albany, Boulder, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), I am staying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential Allies in Congress</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/30/potential-allies-in-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/30/potential-allies-in-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 2009 legislative agenda is starting to take shape.  A key step is to identify Representatives and Senators who are likely to be receptive to our message about increasing fairness for singles and non-marital relationships in health care, taxes etc.
A recent NY Times article makes the unmarried Sanchez sisters of California sound like potential allies [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Litigation Options</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/22/litigation-options/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/22/litigation-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters are asking if AtMP will file an amicus brief with the CA supreme court &#8211; the short answer is &#8216;no.&#8217;  The reason is that we don&#8217;t have lawyers on staff nor money to hire legal consultants.  But if we did, we would seriously consider the suggestions of AtMP member Joe D.  He says CA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we end marriage discrimination?</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/21/how-do-we-end-marriage-discrimination/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/21/how-do-we-end-marriage-discrimination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the best way to respond to marriage discrimination?  Are you ready to divorce in protest?  How could a test case get to the U.S. Supreme Court?  Should government recognition of relationships drop the word marriage?  People everywhere are bursting with ideas.  This is an opportunity to capture ideas, bounce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain and Protest for Prop 8</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/20/pain-and-protest-for-prop-8/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/11/20/pain-and-protest-for-prop-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outrage over California&#8217;s Proposition 8 is sparking new interest in the decade-long grassroots movement to boycott marriage. AtMP&#8217;s mailbox is full of creative ideas and personal pleas from around the country:

Jeff and his wife are thinking of getting divorced in protest.
Joe has drafted a litigation proposal aiming for CA to stop licensing any marriages and [...]]]></description>
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