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		<title>When the Dictators Go :  What Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Ratcliffe casts his thoughts wider as the turbulence  continues across the Middle East and North Africa. Ben Ali and Mubarak have been ousted and Gaddafi, after unleashing more savage dogs of war against his own people, looks set to suffer the same fate. Yemen and Bahrain are just a little further down the queue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=517&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Power versus Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Ratcliffe continues his observations and analysis of the fluid and remarkable situation in Egypt. Mubarak resigns! Let us hope he is truly out and not just on vacation awaiting an opportunity to return. The Swiss Government has frozen his assets, so the signs so far are good. One down! But there are, of course, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=512&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Millions Mobilise as Mubarak Manoeuvres!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egyptian Youth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following his analysis of the Tunisian situation Roy Ratcliffe sends this insightful, challenging and timely assessment of the fragile condition of the amazing, popular and pluralist uprising in Egypt. last night as I watched Mubarak&#8217;s speech I feared the orchestrated and violent backlash we are witnessing. Roy begins: The spectacle of Mubarak on television, telling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=506&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YOUTH LEAD THE UPRISING IN TUNISIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from our posting of the Gaza Manifesto, Roy Ratcliffe, a leading figure across three decades in youth and community work and a long-standing activist in the Palestinian Liberation Movement, has sent his thoughts on the tumultuous situation in Tunisia. As ever comments and criticisms welcomed. He begins: 1. The background. The recent explosive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=501&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GAZA YOUTH MANIFESTO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Defence of Youth Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will find below the full text of an eloquent and courageous statement from a group of young people in Gaza. Its appearance was sparked by the closure of the Sharek Youth Forum &#8211; see Youth work is forbidden in Gaza. Its appearance too has fired all manner of supportive and hostile response &#8211; more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=495&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From being pesky to being pariahs!</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/from-being-pesky-to-being-pariahs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children's rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young people need to be listened to, not talked at; There is a lot more to the PSNI&#8217;s Operation Exposure than the issue of children&#8217;s rights, says Phil Scraton In a Comment piece in the Belfast Telegraph Phil Scraton draws our attention to the Police Service Northern Ireland&#8217;s Operation Exposure and concludes: Our research has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=491&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the rot in thinking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Defence of Youth Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-social behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop the rot in thinking; anti-social behaviour is a complex issue, and it requires a youth perspective Graeme Tiffany opens his critical response to the latest sloppy thinking about &#8216;anti-social behaviour&#8217; as follows: The publication of the Ipsos-Mori report, Policing anti-social behaviour: The public perspective, and subsequent media interviews with Sir Denis O’Connor, the Chief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=487&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I won&#8217;t do youth work any more!</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/why-i-wont-do-youth-work-any-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Defence of Youth Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[outcomes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Wyllie&#8217;s thoughts on his blog echo the feelings of more than a few workers we&#8217;ve talked to over the past few years. He begins: Why I won&#8217;t do youth work any more Part 1: Outcomes education Over the last few years I&#8217;ve worked on several occasions with young people; including as a youth worker, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=483&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Empowerment : Critical Perspectives from Scotland</title>
		<link>http://criticallychatting.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/community-empowerment-critical-perspectives-from-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Edinburgh Papers, &#8216;Reclaiming Social Purpose in Community Education&#8217; appeared in 2007 and are to be found on our Contemporary thoughts page. We are delighted to receive in 2010 the Glasgow Papers, &#8216;Community Empowerment. The editorial introduction by Akwugo Jemelu and Mae Shaw begins: Community development in Scotland has a rich and diverse history. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=476&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defined by History : Youth Work in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing debates about youth work a recurring theme is that somehow we don’t know what we are up to; that we can’t explain what youth work is. This sweeping historical account  by Bernard Davies gives the lie to this weary cliché.  In responding to a European debate about the character of youth work, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticallychatting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5570204&amp;post=472&amp;subd=criticallychatting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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