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		<title>Abusive Spousal Support&#8230;.Realignment Panic&#8230;&amp; the GOP on Criminal Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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CALIFORNIA WOMAN FORCED TO PAY HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND SPOUSAL SUPPORT?  REALLY? 
What is this judge thinking?  ABC news has the report.  Here are the details:
She was forced to have sex with him, and now she&#8217;s being forced to pay his bills.
Crystal Harris of Carlsbad, Calif., had been financially supporting her unemployed, abusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incubating Change:  LA Gets in on the Feds&#8217; Promise Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Two LA Groups have just received $500,000 in federal grants to help create programs modeled on Geoffrey Canada&#8217;s remarkable Harlem Children&#8217;s Zone.
The two groups are Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission in Boyle Heights. (Love, love, love these folks.  They are such a great choice.)
And the Youth Policy Institute&#8212;another group with a very good reputation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moms in Prison on Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 01:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In 1999, Sister Suzanne Jabro took a small delegation of women to Vally State Prison at Chowchilla with the idea of starting some kind of program to help the female inmates.  At any given time, Chowchilla holds around 8,000 prisoners, making it the largest woman&#8217;s incarceration facility in the world.  Sister Suzanne, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Ted Olson &amp; David Boies Make History?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker Magazine has written the story that I hoped someone would write with regard to the challenge to Proposition 8 that is being heard right now in a San Francisco courtroom (It began last week)  but that, as Talbot notes, is almost certain to eventually land in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvey Milk Day Signed into Law by Governor Arnold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed to grow wiser at the 11th hour  and did not make good on his threat to veto hundreds of bills in an effort to bully still warring legislators to come together long enough to craft a state water policy.  (It was a tactic that the governor has used throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Deaths of LA Children II:  How to Help Not Harm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In response to my post about Sunday&#8217;s LA Times stories telling of the two adolescents who died in the care (if you can call it that) of LA County&#8217;s Department of Children and Family Services, Richard Wexler, the
Executive Director National Coalition for Child Protection Reform wrote me an email that was both informative and disturbing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Invisible&#8221; Deaths of LA Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A large thank you to LA Times writers Kim Christensen and Garrett Therolf  for their well-reported, important and heartbreaking package of articles titled &#8220;Flawed county system lets children die invisibly.&#8221;
The first of the articles tells about a disabled and desperately neglected 17-year-old boy who hung himself from a tree outside the group home where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence for Lily Burk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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From the program for Lily Burk&#8217;s memorial service at Barnsdall Art Park last Sunday.
Comments are closed.
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		<title>The Bomb Inside the State of the City Speech</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/city-government/2009/admin/the-bomb-inside-the-state-of-the-city-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Embedded in the middle of the mayor&#8217;s S.O.C. speech, there was one innocent sounding paragraph that has 76 of the city&#8217;s important community agencies in a justifiable state of panic.  The paragraph was this one:
We are going to better connect help to the people who need it by creating 21 Family Source Centers located [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Death&#8230;..&amp; Childcare</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/families/2009/admin/life-death-childcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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I&#8217;ll  likely write something a bit later about the fight over California AG Jerry Brown&#8217;s push   yesterday to do away with the federal receiver who&#8217;s overseeing California&#8217;s broken prison health care system&#8230;.
&#8230;.But, in the meantime there&#8217;s the terrible Wilmington murder/suicide of the Lupoes and their five kids.  
The news came out [...]]]></description>
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