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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 11, 2006
 
Looking for Civil Rights Museum Donors ( http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88867 )
WXIA-TV - NE Atlanta,GA,USA
... Supporters of building a civil rights museum in Atlanta are hopeful the same help will carry over to their effort, especially in the wake of the city's King ...
 
Court set to reverse civil rights success ( http://www.spokesmanreview.com/opinion/story.asp?ID=163515 )
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
... The decision fueled the civil rights movement, ushered in an era of school desegregation and bolstered the optimism behind King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech ...
 
Initiative Launched To End Washington State LGBT Civil Rights Law ( http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/12/120806waRts.htm )
365Gay.com - USA
... The statewide gay civil rights law took effect in June after another attempt to overturn it failed. Supporters of that attempt were ...
 
Poverty's grip tightens; Statistics show more residents struggling ( http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/OSH0101/612100360/1128/OSHnews )
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USA
... One year after a special two-part series in The Northwestern, "Living on the Edge: The Peril of Poverty," recently released statistics show the number of ...
 
Poverty jeopardizes human rights -- Annan ( http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0612106223141341.htm )
IRNA - Iran
... his message on the International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2006, said wherever and whenever a man, woman or child subsists in extreme poverty human rights ...
 
Report: World Bank Fails to Address Poverty ( http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20061210_report_world_bank_fails_to_address_poverty/ )
Truthdig - United States
... by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group criticizes the international lending organization for failing to alleviate global poverty with programs that ...
 
Gender imbalance worsens poverty ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6162959.stm )
BBC News - UK
Inequality at home between men and women leads to poorer health for the children and greater poverty for the family, says a new study. ...
 
The nasty virus of discrimination ( http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1864221,0012.htm )
Hindustan Times - India
... s condition. But surely, there must be a humane mean between risky ignorance and knowledge that leads to discrimination? Each town ...
 
UNICEF: Children suffer when women face discrimination ( http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16210411.htm )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
WASHINGTON - Poverty, violence and discrimination assault women worldwide and undermine their children's futures, a United Nations agency concludes in a new ...
 
You're a terrorist, student told ( http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20904209-5007132,00.html )
NEWS.com.au - Australia
RACIAL tensions have erupted in the school system, with a teacher facing an anti-discrimination board complaint after branding a Muslim student a "terrorist". ...
 
UK Admits Racism Existence in Schools ( http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BCB1B9D2F-66E4-44CE-AC68-8FF4413A47DE%7D&language=EN )
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
London, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) British government recognized the existence of discrimination and racism in schools of this country, where black students have ...
 
Yemeni women re-ask for equality and justice ( http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2006_12_10_6472 )
News Yemen - Sanaa,Yemen
... When the Women National Committee asks for equality and justice it seeks ... women and their weak participation in managing economic and environmental resources in ...
 
Race-ing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=11596 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... initiative on the part of racial minorities, but of deep structural barriers that continue to be maintained through the pervasive power of white privilege. ...
 
Liberal Grassroots Rallying Around Obama ( http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewFlash.asp?Page=/ThisHour/Archive/NTH20061210b.html )
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... (CNSNews.com) - Denouncing what one activist called "white privilege," hundreds of protesters Monday demonstrated outside the US Supreme Court in support of ...
 
The New Inequality ( http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-8.html )
New York Times - United States
Economic inequality has now been increasing in the United States for more than 30 years, and for much of that time its causes seemed fairly clear. ...
 
Art: Whitewashing Jesus ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16125068/site/newsweek/ )
Newsweek - USA
... centuries, when basically the Jews assumed a dark coloration [in art] while Christ became radiantly white, illuminated.” This whiteness naturally extended to ...
 
Things Fall Apart: No Child Left Behind Self-Destructs ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-bracey/things-fall-apart-no-chi_b_35935.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
For the record, my first anti-No Child Left Behind (NCLB) article was commissioned by Newsday in late 2000 and published January 28, 2001. ...
 
Study shows severe inequity of wealth distribution ( http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3577704 )
The South African Star (subscription) - Johannesburg,South Africa
Helsinki - Two percent of adults have more than half of the world's wealth, including property and financial assets, according to a study by the UN development ...
 
Fighting Poverty: A Matter of Obligation, Not Charity ( http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=340980&sid=ZNS )
Zee News - Noida,India
... In fact they know all hazards and pains in the work involved in the glass making factory but they also know that living in utter poverty and dying of ...
 
Integration case shows that racism persists ( http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061209/COLUMNISTS13/612090321/1006/OPINIONS )
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... Brown was one of the last of the major cases addressing racism in America. ... In large part, it's institutional racism. That means we're part of a racist society. ...
 
Poverty: a consequence and cause of human rights deprivation ( http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=77525 )
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut,Lebanon
By Louise Arbour. Poverty is frequently both a cause and a consequence of human-rights violations. And yet the linkage between extreme ...
 
Church haven of stigma, discrimination ( http://www.observer.org.sz/main.asp?id=30345&Section=main )
The Swazi Observer - Mbabane,Swaziland
... who one day said, "let he who has no sin cast the first stone..." The church has been one of the highest contributors to stigma and discrimination in this ...
 
 
 
 

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