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	<description>Igniting Change Through Film</description>
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		<title>Let’s Get Real for No Name-Calling Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GroundSpark is offering free streaming of our film Let’s Get Real in support of GLSEN's National No Name-Calling Week.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why Should I Be the One To Leave?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we released <em>Straightlaced</em>, we've seen more and more parents become visible advocates for their transgender and gender non-conforming  children. Sam's story makes us more determined than ever to get <em> Straightlaced</em> screened in as many high schools as possible this year.]]></description>
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		<title>New Report: Public Policy Fails Children With LGBT Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report was just issued by MAP (Movement Advancement Project) that illuminates how public policy fails two million American children. For years, anti-LGBT activists have tried to silence any school curricula that make the educational system more welcoming to children being raised by LGBT parents or guardians. MAP’s outstanding compilation of data and analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisps of Change in Idaho</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the organizers were closing up the main meeting room Friday night at the Northwest LGBTQ Youth Conference for Hope, in Meridian, Idaho, one of them approached me and whispered, &#8220;there’s a young woman in the audience who is in tears and she’s asked to speak with you.&#8221; I looked up and saw her. Cute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Equality in New York? It’s Elementary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen years ago, producer Helen Cohen and I were at PS 87 in New York City filming a fifth grade class during a civics lesson. “Today the law says that if you’re the same sex —two men or two women— you can’t get married, it is against the law,” their teacher explained. And then he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Story Needed for Civil Rights Commission Report</title>
		<link>http://groundspark.org/5107</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GroundSpark has learned that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will turn its attention to peer-to-peer bullying, harassment, and violence in schools this May—and your stories are wanted. Beginning with a day-long briefing on peer-to-peer violence in K-12 public schools on May 13th, the Commission’s report will examine bullying and other types of peer-to-peer violence where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Our National Straightlaced Partners!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing Our National Straightlaced Partners! Last week, the White House hosted a conference on combating bullying. The same day, both houses of Congress reintroduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act to protect the rights of LGBT and gender non-conforming students in our nation’s schools. We can’t think of better timing to proudly announce our national partners for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The President Gets a &#8216;B&#8217; on Bullying &#8212; Grading The White House Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Huffington Post Hats off to the Obamas for drawing national attention to the problem of bullying in our school communities. Hosting a conference at the White House to draw more media attention to bullying is an excellent step forward. Like most symbolic White House gatherings, though, this conference recommended some good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School District Does the Right Thing:Vallejo Won&#8217;t Let Students “Opt-Out” of Anti-Bullying Curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Scharf, National Program Director</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Vallejo Unified School District 30 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, voted 4 – 1 to continue its anti-bullying curriculum for students in its elementary, middle, and high schools. The curriculum was put in place as the result of a settlement negotiated by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’ve Lost a Young Violinist/Google Steps Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had planned to send out a blog post today announcing our new partnership with Google, but now I need to also let you know about another tragedy that has occurred in the midst of our gratitude. Yesterday we learned of yet another young teenager who was being harassed daily with anti-gay slurs and who [...]]]></description>
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