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		<title>Greensboro, NC Educators Take Respect for All to the Next Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I went to Greensboro, North Carolina to screen Straightlaced, It&#8217;s Elementary, It&#8217;s Still Elementary, Let&#8217;s Get Real, and That&#8217;s a Family! for several different groups of educators in the community. As often happens after these events, attendees left very inspired to take the next step in their communities to put these films to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GroundSpark&#8217;s work in Lake County highlighted tonight on KQED&#8217;s &#8220;California Report&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GroundSpark&#8217;s work in Lake County, California is featured in an important story on today&#8217;s &#8220;California Report&#8221; airing on public radio throughout the state at 8pm today.
Reporter Scott Shafer wanted to do a follow up story on the two-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Ventura County openly gay eighth grader Lawrence King. With a grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Sporty Hot Dog Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we received an email from a woman named Monique Marshall. Apparently she had attended the Straightlaced premiere in Los Angeles last March. Monique purchased a copy of the film and then took it home to watch with her ten-year-old daughter, Moreau. 


After seeing the film, Moreau asked her mother if she could write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Lexington, KY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday was a miserably cold day with dreadful weather conditions in Lexington, KY. While many locals camped out at home with hopes of catching the University of Kentucky basketball game on TV later that afternoon, another group gathered at Kentucky Theater in the early part of the morning in great anticipation of the state’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In memory of Hannah Landers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At every screening of Straightlaced where there is a Q and A afterwards, someone always, understandably, asks, “Who is Hannah Landers?” Because at the end of the film, a title comes up that says:
In memory of Hannah Landers
September 28, 1990 &#8211; May 6, 2008

In May of 2008, Sue Chen, my co-producer, had booked a plane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents Can&#8217;t &#8220;Opt Out&#8221; of Lessons About Family Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a case that GroundSpark has been following closely, the Alameda County Superior Court ruled this week that lessons designed to address anti-gay and lesbian bullying in the district&#8217;s elementary schools do not simply  constitute  &#8220;health lessons&#8221; and therefore are not subject to the state&#8217;s policy of allowing parents to &#8220;opt out&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I joined the board by David Kundtz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Chasnoff, President/Senior Producer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to all the friends and fans of GroundSpark. I’m the new guy on the board of directors. Brittney Shepherd, our staff producer, asked me to introduce myself and answer the question: Why did you join the board?

To learn more about my background and and our other amazing members of our board of directors, go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Maker Debra Chasnoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are very proud to announce that Debra Chasnoff&#8217;s alma mater, Wellesley College, recently honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Documentary Filmmaking from the college&#8217;s Art Department and Cinema and Media Studies Program.

Here’s a bit from the speech, Beth Pfeiffer, one of the trustees of the college, made during the award presentation:
“Debra Chasnoff, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minneapolis Premiere Right Around the Corner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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We are gearing up for the Twin Cities premiere of Straightlaced, which will take place Monday November 16th in Minneapolis. This will be the last regional premiere of the film, completing an thirty-city, ten-month long tour of Straightlaced! With an impressive array of community partners and dedicated volunteers working on the ground to fill the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straightlaced in Long Island, NY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of October 29, a group of students, educators parents and social service providers gathered at the Long Island GLBT Community Center in Bay Shore, NY for a screening of and discussion about Straightlaced, facilitated by GroundSpark national Trainer Scott Hirschfeld. Sponsored by the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth’s Safe Schools Initiative [...]]]></description>
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