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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 13, 2006
 
Update: Proposed Discrimination Ordinance Stirring Controversy ( http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=5801708 )
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USA
The proposal would stop discrimination based on race, gender and sexual orientation, but it's the sexual orientation part that is stirring controversy. ...
 
Student Sues District Over Sexual Discrimination ( http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_346185353.html )
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(CBS) SANTA ANA A lawyer for a gay, former Santiago High student who sued the Garden Grove Unified School District, alleging her principal "outed" her, asked a ...
 
UF study reveals fear of discrimination keeps many people with ... ( http://news.ufl.edu/2006/12/12/epi-hire/ )
University of Florida - Gainesville,FL,USA
... national average — not necessarily because they have frequent seizures or can't find jobs but because many continue to fear workplace discrimination, a new ...
 
Action called on racial discrimination ( http://www.totalcatholic.com/universe/index.php?news_id=1998&start=0&category_id=4&parent_id=0&arcyear=&arcmonth= )
The Universe - Manchester,England,UK
The report, titled Getting It, Getting It Right states: "The exclusion gap is caused by largely unwitting, but systematic, racial discrimination in the ...
 
Mary Cheney Pregnant ( http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=13472 )
Windy City Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... The openly lesbian Cheney has played a leading role in her father's campaigns, effectively managing day-to-day activities during the 2004 reelection effort. ...
 
Angela Davis on Ken Saro-Wiwa Angela Davis ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=10323 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
... Greetings from people in the US fighting for environmental justice and from the many participants in the campaign to boycott Shell Oil, particularly in the ...
 
100,000 children living in poverty in NI ( http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=78585&pt=n )
U.TV - Belfast,Northern Ireland,UK
... in Belfast, Social Development Minister David Hanson was accused of hiding behind old arguments about how the government had addressed poverty and social ...
 
Report: Lots of kids in poverty Reliance on food aid, Medicaid on ... ( http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-19/116594141998230.xml&coll=3 )
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot - Jackson,MI,USA
... More children in Jackson County, which has been hit with plant closings and layoffs in recent years, are living in poverty, and relying on food stamps and ...
 
Violent murder fuelled by homophobia ( http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10781 )
Gay.com UK - UK
A man who was kicked to death on the doorstep of a closed police station was rounded on because his attackers believed he was gay, reports The Sun. ...
 
Fontaine slams UN delay on indigenous rights ( http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/12/fontaine-un.html )
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
... leaders thought the UN General Assembly was going to approve the declaration, and had planned to celebrate its passage in New York on Human Rights Day, Dec. ...
 
China urges US to abandon double standards on human rights ( http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/12/content_5476930.htm )
Xinhua - China
12 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday urged the United States to abandon its double standards on human rights and refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of ...
 
How to Hide Structured Racism ( http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/Robbins12.htm )
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
... as Andrew Barlow defines it, â€*societywide patterns of privilege and subordination ... attending schools in predominantly middle-class and white suburban school ...
 
US disparity wins comparisons to Latin America ( http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2006/12/11/columnists/dncolumn01.txt )
Dowagiac Daily News - MI, USA
Economists see the destruction of our middle class as an inequality trap that could catch us as surely as Latin America. A generation ...
 
We ignore inequality at our peril ( http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165877415952&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
If you're living in a house of your own and have even a little money in the bank, you're well ahead of billions of the world's poorest people. ...
 
Poll: Most Americans see lingering racism -- in others ( http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/ )
CNN - USA
(CNN) -- Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a ...
 
Racism Alive and Well In LA ( http://www.tmz.com/2006/12/12/racism-alive-and-well-in-l-a/ )
TMZ.com - Glendale,CA,USA
TMZ has obtained stunning video of a racist rant directed at a runner for a television show -- and it all went down in Hollywood. ...
 
Zimbabwe: Silence Abets Oppression and Exacerbates Suffering ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200612110900.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
NOTHING demonstrates the state of trauma afflicting Zimbabweans and their sense of fatalism more than the plight of examination markers. ...
 
Lara slates sexism in Bollywood ( http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=28930&in_page_id=7&in_a_source= )
Metro - London,UK
Bollywood actress Lara Dutta has spoken out about the pressures on women in the Indian film industry. The former Miss Universe said ...
 
US Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa ( http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4534/1/32/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... against the continued occupation of Iraq, against the US supported Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon, against all of imperialism's aggressive policies. ...
 
The Other Candidate ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/e-a-hanks/the-other-candid_b_36087.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... walk. Culturally, Americans have a fairly congruous understanding of what "Whiteness" and "Maleness" means, for better or for worse. ...
 
Report documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality ( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/08/18335893.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by wsws (reposted). A report released Tuesday by a United Nations group documents the staggering levels of global inequality in household wealth. ...
 
The rich grow richer as American inequality grows ( http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/12/11/the-rich-grow-richer-as-american-inequality-grows/ )
Blogging Stocks - USA
All economies distribute wealth unequally. As the New York Times [subscription required] pointed out on Sunday, over the last several ...
 
WEALTH INEQUALITY WIDENING WORLDWIDE ( http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=13949 )
National Center for Policy Analysis - Dallas,TX,USA
... world's wealth. However, global inequality in wealth may well be somewhat lower today. The data in the report is six years old. Fast ...
 
Gender inequality deals blow to mothers and children: UNICEF ( http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/12/11/unicef-report.html )
CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
A new report from UNICEF says children around the world would be healthier if their mothers had more control over household decisions and finances. ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

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