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		<title>Getting Greg Boyle&#8217;s &#8220;Tattoos&#8221;&#8230;.to the Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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As you know, Father Greg Boyle&#8217;s wonderful first book &#8220;Tattoos on the Heart,&#8221; has just been published.  This means that, in addition to his quarter century of work with gangs,  LA&#8217;s most famous priest is now officially a writer.
Those who attend authors&#8217; panels at the LA Times Book Festival always seem to want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Boyle&#8217;s Book Party &#8211; Jesse Katz &#8211; And Venice H.S. Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Three last minute event notices.
Tuesday, March 9, is the release date for Greg Boyle&#8217;s new book, Tattoos on the Heart.  (Much more about the book itself later in the week.)
There is a book launch party on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Homeboy Industries featuring a book signing and reading by Father Greg.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea King, Lawbreaking Kids&#8230;&amp; Tragically Unequal Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I just read the AP&#8217;s story on 30-year-old John Albert Gardner III, the 30-year-old convicted sex offender who may or may not be responsible for raping and killing 17-year-old Chelsea King.  
(Devastatingly, as of this writing, Chelsea King&#8217;s body appears to have been found.)
Here&#8217;s the part of the story AP that I found of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Thursday Night at LMU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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For any of you who are interested in coming out to see your faithful hostess (that would be me) spin tales&#8212;wild and otherwise&#8212;about reporting on La street gangs for 20 years, and what it takes for a young man or women to extract themselves from gang life, plus various other related issues, I may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okay, About Those Gang Tours&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In the last few weeks, a great many news outlets have have run stories on the city&#8217;s newest phenomenon&#8212;The LA Gang Tour.  
The NY Times did two stories,  NPR did one, the LA Times also ran two&#8212;a news story and an op ed.) Some foreign publications ran the usual Isn&#8217;t-California-Strange?-variety articles, and such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez Granted Bail &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 Around 11:30, at the end of the closed hearing that began at 10 a.m. Alex Sanchez attorney Kerry Bensinger came out of the federal courtroom  to talk to Sanchez family and a very, very small handful of supporters, whom he drew into a side room and broke the news. U.S. District Judge  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez:  Part 9 &#8211; Judicial Whiplash &amp; &#8220;Real&#8221; Surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real, the latest bail hearing for Alex Sanchez, held took a sharp turn on Wednesday morning, causing Sanchez supporters to bask cautiously in what seemed to be a small but tangible glimmer of hope.  
The changed atmosphere at the hearing seemed presaged when Sanchez was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CHASERS: A Pasadena Charter School Goes the Distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE ACADEMIC &#038; THE DROPOUTS
I remember several years ago when I watched Dr. Mikala Rahn give a presentation of some research or other that she and her nonprofit educational consulting firm, Public Works Inc, had put together at the behest of the LA Unified School board, at the time she struck me as unusually smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andre Birotte Jr&#8230;.Homeboys In ALA&#8230;.and WLA Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2009/admin/andre-birotte-jr-homeboys-in-ala-and-wla-hiatus/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2009/admin/andre-birotte-jr-homeboys-in-ala-and-wla-hiatus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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1. HIATUS 
WitnessLA and I will be on hiatus until next Monday,  Jan. 4, in order that I may spend some much-needed time focusing on a personal writing project.  
From time to time during the week,  I will likely put up mini posts.  And I&#8217;ll tweet whenvever the spirit moves. And [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Big News!  Judge Real Taken off Sanchez Case!&#8230;&#8230;No, Wait&#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2009/admin/big-news-judge-real-taken-off-sanchez-case-no-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Monday night the news was startling. Alex Sanchez&#8217;s attorney Kerry Bensinger learned that US District Court Judge Manuel Real had been taken off the case.  
Tom Hayden quickly wrote up the news for The Nation.  Here is how his report opened:
The gang conspiracy case against Alex Sanchez was transferred to the jurisdiction of [...]]]></description>
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