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		<title>Graduate Workers Need a Union</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/graduate-workers-need-a-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a great panel hosted by the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University (GENU), a union of research and teaching assistants. The union is currently working towards holding its first election and becoming certified&#160;with the&#160;National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an&#160;independent federal agency which protects employees&#8217; rights to organize and oversees related&#160;laws. Those of [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/graduate-workers-need-a-union/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Charlottesville, With Love</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/to-charlottesville-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that up until this past weekend, I&#8217;ve paid little attention to the Virginia city of Charlottesville. I had a vague sense of the city, thanks to posts from Facebook friends who live there, but I had little knowledge of the city, its people, or the controversies it was struggling with. When [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/to-charlottesville-with-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Self and the Great Community</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/the-self-and-the-great-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Dewey saw democracy as an ideal expression&#160;of associated living. That&#8217;s a bit of an understatement though, because for Dewey, democracy is much more than &#8220;a special political form, a method of conducting government, of making laws and carrying on governmental administration.&#8221; Such&#160;institutions are an element of democracy, but fundamentally, Dewey argued, &#160;democracy is a [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/08/the-self-and-the-great-community/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Again.</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/07/again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got confused while watching the news this morning. There was grainy cell-phone footage of a black man shot by police. But the details were all wrong. This wasn&#8217;t a story about&#160;Alton B. Sterling, a 37-year-old man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was shot multiple times by police early Tuesday morning. He&#8217;d been engaged in [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/07/again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civic Engagement in the Zombie Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/civic-engagement-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the early days of the zombie apocalypse: a few zombies shamble down the street but society hasn&#8217;t quite yet reached full-stage desolation. It is very clear that something is wrong, but&#160;the whole situation is shrouded in chaos and uncertainty.&#160;People who seem more or less normal one minute become brain-hungry monsters the next. Leaving the [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/civic-engagement-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Collective Emotions</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/collective-emotions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon for groups of people within a shared community to experience what&#8217;s known as &#8220;collective emotions.&#8221; Sociologists Christian von Scheve and&#160;Sven Ismer define the term as referring to &#8220;the synchronous convergence in affective responding across individuals towards a specific event or object.&#8221; Communities may celebrate together and they may grieve together. They [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/collective-emotions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Words…</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/no-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no words in the face of tragedy. No words to fully express the confusing mix of horror and love and anger. No words to change the terrible past. There are no words. And yet, I find I am left with little else. I&#8217;ve no response but to love, to speak out, and to [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/no-words/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Equilibrium vs. Extremes: Rejecting the Premise</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/equilibrium-vs-extremes-rejecting-the-premise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my post yesterday I posed a question raised by S&#225;ndor Szathm&#225;ri&#8217;s&#160;Voyage to Kazohinia:&#160;Is an ideal society one at equilibrium or one which embraces extremes? In Kazohinia &#8211;&#160;as well as in some other social satires &#8211; these opposite choices are presented as mutually exclusive; a society can not have both. Both options seem to have [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/06/equilibrium-vs-extremes-rejecting-the-premise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Taste of Immigrant City</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/04/a-taste-of-immigrant-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday of this week, The Welcome Project, a non-profit dear to my heart, will hold it&#8217;s annual YUM: A Taste of Immigrant City Celebration and Fundraiser. (Get your tickets here or at the door!) I have to admit, it&#8217;s a little surreal for me &#8211; after serving as event chair for four years, this [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/04/a-taste-of-immigrant-city/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Politics in an Ideal World</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/04/politics-in-an-ideal-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, a friend asked me why anyone would want to engage in politics for politics&#8217; sake. We worry about such things because we have to, but wouldn&#8217;t it be better, in some theoretical, ideal world, if we didn&#8217;t have to? Imagine, for a moment, a perfect world; a society so flawless that it [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/04/politics-in-an-ideal-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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