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		<title>Re: Shame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(also posted at PoliticsRespun.org) I have an old stand-by joke for partisan political events that I happen upon or at which I end up.  How can you tell an NDP event? The cries of &#8220;Shame! Shame!&#8221; There are a few tropes we can pile together about political rallies.  Conservative ones seem to have hired goons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2011/04/re-shame/</link>
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		<title>Contempt, democracy, and change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(also posted at PoliticsRespun.org) So far, 2011 has been an interesting year, one full of history, democracy, and change &#8211; and hope.  We&#8217;ve seen uprisings throughout northern Africa and the Middle East, with people demanding democracy instead of oppressive governments and dictatorships. Today, something historic happened in Canada as well &#8211; though nothing on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2011/03/contempt-democracy-and-change/</link>
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		<title>There are times I can&#8217;t believe I study politics.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[– Also posted at PoliticsRespun.org – I&#8217;m a graduate student in political science at York University. And there are times – increasingly more times – that I can&#8217;t believe that I study politics. And I&#8217;d like to suggest that this is precisely what Stephen Harper wants. Personally, I think that it&#8217;s kind of telling that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2011/03/there-are-times-i-cant-believe-i-study-politics/</link>
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		<title>Jasmine Revolutions, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s still wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argued that the &#8220;end of history&#8221; was the emergence of liberal democracy &#8211; and, of course, capitalism &#8211; as the predominant ideological force in the world. According to Fukuyama, the shift to liberalism was inevitable &#8211; it was just, quite simply, better than anything else. When he wrote this, in 1989, just before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2011/02/jasmine-revolutions-egypt-tunisia-libya-and-francis-fukuyamas-still-wrong/</link>
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		<title>A letter to the Simon Fraser Student Society regarding the Goldcorp donation to SFU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear members of the Board of Directors of the Simon Fraser Student Society, Hi! Greetings from Tropical Toronto. Long time no talk. As many of you are likely aware, my name is Kevin Harding and I am an alumnus of Simon Fraser University (BA Hons. Political Science and Labour Studies &#8217;10), and someone who looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/11/a-letter-to-the-simon-fraser-student-society-regarding-the-goldcorp-donation-to-sfu/</link>
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		<title>As can be &#8220;justified&#8221; in a &#8220;free&#8221; and &#8220;democratic&#8221; society?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(originally posted on PoliticsRespun.org) The G20 protests, bail, and rights restrictions: a &#8216;free&#8217; and &#8216;democratic&#8217; society? According to internet reports, after having been threatened with solitary confinement in the Toronto East Detention Centre&#8217;s &#8220;hole&#8221; (likely not a euphemism) without being permitted any communication and after having been refused contact with legal counsel, G20 arrestee Alex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/10/as-can-be-justified-in-a-free-and-democratic-society/</link>
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		<title>Democracy and education: they go together, except when the government doesn&#8217;t like it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org &#8211; see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board&#8217;s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow.  Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/democracy-and-education-they-go-together-except-when-the-government-doesnt-like-it/</link>
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		<title>Protecting the people elected to do the peoples&#8217; work from the people who want them to do their work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three days, a fake lake, and $1 billion dollars in security costs later, the G8/G20 meetings will have wrapped up by the afternoon of June 27.  Over one hundred protestors will have been arrested, and as of the time of writing, at least three police cars have been burned.  Hundreds of police officers will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/protecting-the-people-elected-to-do-the-peoples-work-from-the-people-who-want-them-to-do-their-work/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Do not simply, passively, only just think of the world.  Change it too.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, Many people have asked me to share the text of my remarks to convocation today. You&#8217;ll find them below. But first &#8211; I really, truly, and strongly believe that all of our experiences from our adventures at university have been influenced by the people that we&#8217;ve been lucky to go through them with. All [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/do-not-simply-passively-only-just-think-of-the-world-change-it-too/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;an unfinished thought&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked, recently, to participate in an interview at the university about the president&#8216;s &#8216;legacy&#8217;, given that he will be retiring in a few months. An interesting question. As is common with me, the conversation drifted during the interview, from what the president&#8217;s legacy might be to what it should be and why education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/11/an-unfinished-thought/</link>
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