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		<title>Time for a Raise?: Inside the Fight for 15</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/05/15/time-for-a-raise-inside-the-fight-for-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah L. Jaffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kind of day Kasseen Silver has at work often depends on the weather. He’s worked at the Burger King on 116th Street (at Lexington Avenue) in Manhattan for two...]]></description>
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		<title>Student Privacy For Sale to Highest Bidder?</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/05/14/student-privacy-for-sale-to-highest-bidder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ava M Capote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Achievement Reporting and Innovation Systems (ARIS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amplify]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How safe is the personal information of public school students? This is a question that parents are starting to ask themselves. We teach them to keep their personal information as...]]></description>
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		<title>Queens Residents, Developers Battle over Iconic FMCP: Who’s Land is it Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/05/13/whos-land-is-it-anyway-developers-queens-residents-battle-over-iconic-fmcp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lima</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corona]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elmhurst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairness Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flushing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flushing Meadows Corona Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackson Heights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kew Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May 15-June 15 issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[over-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2008, after Major League Soccer (MLS) lost their bid to build a soccer stadium at Pier 40 in the West Village they’ve been determined to build one in the...]]></description>
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		<title>Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/05/02/stop-and-frisk-as-a-policy-of-state-control-over-blacks-and-latinos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/05/02/stop-and-frisk-as-a-policy-of-state-control-over-blacks-and-latinos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Brew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Kelly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Peart doesn’t appear to be a menace to society. Mild-mannered, humble and a little shy, he described his time as a student focusing on liberal arts at a Manhattan...]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Heroes from Queens and Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/17/labor-heroes-from-queens-and-brooklyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Jalonschi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April 15-May 15 Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bus Strike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY DAY SOLIDARITY: A short list of important union, organized labor and working-class leaders from Queens and Brooklyn. On May 1st, working folks from around the world will celebrate their...]]></description>
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		<title>Why is rent in NYC so Expensive?</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/12/why-is-rent-in-nyc-so-expensive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/12/why-is-rent-in-nyc-so-expensive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Wishnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April 15-May 15 Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Quinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[regulations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rent control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Since 1997, more than 100,000 apartments have been deregulated, at least one-tenth of the city’s rent-regulated stock.&#8221; If there’s one thing New Yorkers complain about more than the weather, it’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Rent Control—What It Means</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/12/rent-control-what-it-means/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/12/rent-control-what-it-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Wishnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much rent you pay and your other rights as a tenant are  governed—or not—by a complicated system of regulations. Rent control permits increases of up to 7.5 percent a...]]></description>
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		<title>NY&#8217;s Stop-and-Frisk Election</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/11/nys-stop-and-frisk-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/11/nys-stop-and-frisk-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Estelle Grosso</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2013 mayoral election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolfo Carrión Jr.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Quinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Catsimatidis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Liu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Lhota]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Kelly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Young black and Latino men accounted for 41.6% of stops, but they are only 4.7% of NYC’s total population&#8220; Last month, on March 14th 2013, the New York Police Department...]]></description>
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		<title>The Corporations Colonizing our Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/10/the-corporations-colonizing-our-public-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/04/10/the-corporations-colonizing-our-public-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ava M Capote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April 15-May 15 Issue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charter School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Impact Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Restart School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an era of corporate aggression into the public sphere, not even the classroom is safe. As the corporate reach extends into public schools, our kids are increasingly reshaped as...]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Sandy: Building Community and Worker Power in Far Rockaway</title>
		<link>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/03/27/occupy-sandy-building-community-and-worker-power-in-far-rockaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bqbrew.com/2013/03/27/occupy-sandy-building-community-and-worker-power-in-far-rockaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Rugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When the workers get together and decide how to distribute the income in such an enterprise, would they give the CEO $25 million in stock bonuses while everybody else can...]]></description>
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