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	<title>A Passion for Letter Writing &#187; Activism</title>
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		<title>Be a Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you see this recent story in the news?  It&#8217;s amazing!  ABC&#8217;s Person of the Week
Go look&#8230; I&#8217;ll wait for you to come back.
Okay, if you go to the Wish Upon a Hero site you can search for wishes that involve sending cards or letters.  Grant any wish you want, but be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Letters: The Campaign for Letter Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannah Nicklin, the lovely English playwright, wants to write more letters.  Through her I recently discovered the web site postletters.org &#8212; &#8220;a UK-based, worldwide movement to encourage, promote and take delight in the activity of writing letters and sending post.&#8221;
If you go over to the site you can request to join the movement and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Letter Writing Really Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think most people are familiar with Amnesty International&#8217;s great work for human rights via their letter writing campaigns.  In America we have a long tradition of government official listening when we rise up and create a big voice for change.  (Well, mostly.)  But I have never been entirely convinced that this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the U.S. Postal Service (and Rate Increase)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reading this post on the postal service rate increase coming up.  Personally, I always hate to see it, but know it&#8217;s a necessary evil of the times.
However, this article in particular was really depressing.  They said the effects of the rate increase are a &#8220;drop in the bucket&#8221;.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Talk to a Troop</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforletters.com/2009/01/operation-talk-to-a-troop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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Here is an inspiring story about a young gentleman, a kind and honorable boyscout, who decided he wanted to make a difference for soldiers serving in Iraq.
If this doesn&#8217;t inspire you to write a letter, I don&#8217;t know what will!
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/1376065,5_1_WA14_GILETTERS_S1.article#
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		<title>Chemo Angels and Senior Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely and kind Mama Jamz pointed out to me the heartwarming program called Chemo Angels.  This organization connects chemo patients with &#8220;angels&#8221; who send them weekly letters and small gifts in order to support them through the difficult experience of fighting cancer.
One must apply and be approved to be an angel, but what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Endangered List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I recently read an article in which letter writing has been put on the endangered species list along with pit toilets, phone landlines, VCRs, swimming holes, honey bees and bowling alleys (among others).
They&#8217;ve listed hand-written letters as #9, but it&#8217;s interesting to read the whole list.
Now, you know what happens when something gets on [...]]]></description>
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