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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night, October 14th, Margaret Saadi Kramer (JGD-USA) and artist/activist Jill Sobule and I went downtown to join the OccupyLA folks. There was a contingent participating in an event representing the prison hunger strikers (California and elsewhere) and I had been invited to come and speak on the subject. It was near sundown when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JGD-USA Supports Human Rights for Inmates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I spoke in support of the prisoners participating in the California Prison Hunger Strike. The inmate strikers have re-instituted the hunger strike after prison officials appeared to have reneged on the small gains the original strike afforded them. We have reproduced my text from today along with accompanying video. The press conference at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Jim Crow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in how the current state of mass imprisoment came to be, I can recommend some reading. This is not light reading. These are serious books dealing with what I believe to be the greatest failure of social policy in our nation&#8217;s domestic history. Michelle Alexander&#8217;s book, &#8220;The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JGD at Northern Nevada Correctional Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday June 25, Jail Guitar Doors USA co-founder Margaret Saadi Kramer and I ventured out to Nevada for a Jail Guitar Doors event at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. This is a facility just up the road from Nevada State Prison, near the town of Carson City, Nevada. Our host was Mary Harrison, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brad Herman Memorial Gear Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before we left for the Jail Guitar Doors benefit “Howling at the Moon” at the Mohawk Club in Austin, Texas we were contacted by a good man from Houston named J.D. Herman. He told us about his older brother Brad, who had died and was an ex-offender and musician. Brad had a music store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jail Guitar Doors USA Brad Herman Memorial Gear Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to all our friends. It&#8217;s Wayne writing with incredible news. A few days ago, as we prepared for the Jail Guitar Doors Benefit tonight in Austin Texas with English Teeth, Salesman and Lions, a good man named JD Herman contacted us. JD&#8217;s brother Brad had died. Brad was an ex-offender and a musician who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter From JD Herman About His Brother Brad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMING FULL CIRCLE My older brother, Brad Herman taught me to play guitar and instilled in me the DIY possibilities of playing and writing music. Growing up on the Jam and the Clash, and later Texas punk like the Big Boys and the Dicks it was a fantastic way to come into music. I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JGD-USA at Terminal Island</title>
		<link>http://jailguitardoors.org/blog/?p=604</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we finally made it into the federal prison at Terminal Island in San Pedro, CA. I had gone in once last year as part of a group sponsored by the Agape Spiritual Center and met a staff member who was willing to let us bring JGD-USA and a load of guitars in. Between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t put other people in prison to give some people jobs.&#8221; — Gov. Andrew Cuomo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above: The iconic California prison of San Quentin There have been some encouraging signs materializing in the last month or so. In New York, new governor Andrew Cuomo is looking to close down empty prisons. As the absolutely horrific Rockefeller Drug Laws have slowly been scaled back (although not repealed) and a few saner voices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dante&#8217;s Inferno</title>
		<link>http://jailguitardoors.org/blog/?p=525</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s New York Times carried a report on the inherent possibilities of art and litrature in the rehabilitation of prisoners in New York&#8217;s Department of Corrections. Specifically, the iconic institution of Sing Sing state prison, where Jail Guitar Doors USA was born. Wesleyan University professor, Ron Jenkins, took it upon himself to bridge the [...]]]></description>
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