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	<title>The Forest and the Trees</title>
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	<description>a personal blog by Gerry Manacsa</description>
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		<title>Running Hard for a Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finishing the Blue Norther Duathlon Pushing farther at the Energizer Night Run This is a story about perseverance. A simple tale of grit overcoming adversity… and inertia. It’s a call to action for a good cause. And it also happens to be a story about my wife, Karina. Two years ago, burdened by an illness that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity’s End</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to spend a lot of time thinking about creativity. What it is. How to foster it. Worrying about not having enough — or not having it when I really need it. After those years of immersion, talking and documenting, I find that I really don’t think about it much any more (beyond that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Yarns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Out of Balance (the old site that‘s inhabited some of this space since the mid 90s) was my active journal, I spent the days after my return from a trip chronicling my travels with photos and short essays. I wrote furiously in those first days home, hoping to capture the essence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil disobedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shot this photo at the N17 protest in Houston last week, and the words just seemed to fit… click to download larger version]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Houston: November 17 Day of Action</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/occupy-houston-november-17-day-of-action-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young and old. T-shirts, coveralls and suits. Black, white, brown and yellow. People of every stripe gathered in downtown Houston on November 17 to call for justice and a return to democracy for the people…]]></description>
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		<title>UC-Davis Pepper Spraying in Context</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/uc-davis-pepper-spraying-in-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last Saturday’s appalling pepper spraying incident during a UC-Davis Occupy protest, the UC-Davis police chief, Annette Spicuzza, said, &#8220;There was no way out of that circle. They were cutting the officers off from their support. It&#8217;s a very volatile situation.&#8221; This implies threatening behavior from the surrounding students. Perhaps there was more going on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brutality Becomes Banal</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/brutality-becomes-banal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OccupyCal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen this video of police pepper spraying peaceful, seated student protesters at UC-Davis yesterday? I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve looked at countless other stories, photos and videos of police assaulting Occupy protesters over the past weeks, but this one somehow outraged me even more than those that came before. After letting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9500 Liberty, the DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/9500-liberty-the-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was working with filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byler on the documentary 9500 Liberty in 2009, America was at an inflection point in its immigration policy. Action at the national level was paralyzed by rigid opposition on the right and distracted timidity on the left. At the same time, mushrooming unemployment and economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I support Occupy Wall Street or: Why I love America</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/why-i-support-occupy-wall-street-or-why-i-love-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2011/why-i-support-occupy-wall-street-or-why-i-love-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this country. My family and I arrived here more than forty years ago. My parents worked hard to support our family and to give us kids a start that was far beyond their own origins. We in turn went to school, did the work, and made our way out into the world. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On La Dolce Vita</title>
		<link>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2008/on-la-dolce-vita/</link>
		<comments>http://www.outofbalance.org/blog/2008/on-la-dolce-vita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Manacsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fellini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filmmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Ebert reflected recently on his 46-year journey with La Dolce Vita. His musings recall my own experience with Fellini’s film… More than a decade ago, I remember the experience of being drawn to the screen — literally pulled closer to the television — as La Dolce Vita unfolded. Something in its velvet frames of black and white spoke to me… [...]]]></description>
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