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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 31, 2006
 
Civil rights were violated, prisons told ( http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061230/NEWS/612300342/1006/NEWS )
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
The US Department of Justice announced Friday that federal investigators found "substantial civil rights violations" inside four Delaware prisons. ...
 
Civil Rights Marched To James Brown's Rhythm ( http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=50e10c76-011a-4aaa-9019-a274ccbca030 )
TheDay - New London,CT,USA
... And that's a consideration of just his musical influence. More importantly, Brown played a significant role in civil rights and the Black Power movement. ...
 
Court: Prisons subject to anti-discrimination law ( http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061230/NEWS01/612300313/1009&theme= )
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... The ruling opens Vermont's prison system to a broad range of complaints by inmates protected by anti-discrimination law, said Barbara Prine, a Vermont Legal ...
 
My opinion Susan Estrich: Gender pay gap proves discrimination is ... ( http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/162331 )
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... about the symbols and tokens, the Nancy Pelosis and Hillary Clintons, whose presence could almost convince you, and does some, that discrimination is dead. ...
 
Migrants face school obstacles ( http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_30/12/2006_78369 )
Kathimerini - Athens,Greece
Children from immigrant families in Greece are likely to face far greater discrimination than their classmates, according to a study by psychologists which was ...
 
4 officers sue LA Police Department, allege discrimination ( http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/16351414.htm )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
LOS ANGELES - Two black and two Hispanic Los Angeles police officers are accusing top department officials of discrimination for failing to include them in a ...
 
Another US war crime in Baghdad ( http://www.workers.org/2006/world/saddam-hussein-1229 )
Workers World - USA
In reality, this is an assassination of the head of state of the nation of Iraq, which is currently occupied and ruled by US imperialism. ...
 
Demonstrations in Delhi ( http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/31/stories/2006123103570800.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
AGAINST US IMPERIALISM: Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists, led by Brinda Karat, at a demonstration near the American Centre in New Delhi on Saturday ...
 
Sudan: Why Doesn't Bush Act On Darfur? ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200612290814.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... in Sudan's Darfur region is intensifying without a meaningful response from the White House. ... no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all ...
 
The 2006 You Didn't Hear About ( http://www.alternet.org/story/46015/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... their reservation, there were other victories against the environmental destructiveness of ... Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet -- hounded by justice the last ...
 
France, Land of Inequality ( http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,456999,00.html )
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
Despite its much-hailed equal rights laws and a woman leading the presidential campaign, the realm of French politics still remains one of the most sexist in ...
 
Schools, state let immigrants' children down ( http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061229/BLOGS02/61229033/1046/OPINION )
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
Here's a draft of Sunday's editorial. If you have comments, e-mail Barbara Curtin, the lead writer. Oregon schools are shortchanging immigrantsâ€* children. ...
 
United Kingdom fighting antigay hate crimes ( http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid40743.asp )
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... response. According to a report released by the Home Office, more than 1,000 incidents involving homophobia occurred in London in 2005. ...
 
Schools 'failing to tackle homophobia' ( http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/men/news/education/s/231/231813_schools_failing_to_tackle_homophobia.html )
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
PUPILS and parents should be encouraged to report schools which fail to take homophobia seriously, the Home Office said today. New ...
 
Peruvian economy grew 7.5% in 2006, but poverty still at 49% ( http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2949 )
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
... Economy, Luis Carranza, informed that the Peruvian economy grew by 7.5% during 2006, though many analysts point out that this has done little to reduce poverty ...
 
Push Ahead People's Struggles In 2007 ( http://pd.cpim.org/2006/1231/12312006_edit.htm )
People's Democracy
... At the international level, the resistance to US imperialism's hegemonic drive continues to grow. Despite its brutal military ...
 
The Iraq War and America's Economic Imperialism ( http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/issues/civilliberties/marable/iraqwarandimperialism122906.html )
Jackson Progressive - Jackson,MS,USA
By Manning Marable. Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the James Baker-Lee Hamilton Committee submitted to President George ...
 
Bolivia Indigenous Rights Awarded ( http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BE2644D69-EB28-4828-BC8D-1B8A8B33C7E6%7D)&language=EN )
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian Chancellor David Choquehuanca called for his country to fight for respect of human rights and indigenous people on ...
 
Edwards to focus on poverty, global warming, health care ( http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16339205.htm )
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
AP. NEW ORLEANS Two years older and he says wiser, too, John Edwards announced a repeat presidential campaign Thursday with new ...
 
UK Study Raises Global Warming Fears ( http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2006/12/28/climate-global-economy-business-cx-1229oxford.html )
Forbes - NY,USA
The UK's Stern Review was the latest in a line of alarming studies that have attracted public attention to global warming. While ...
 
Ann Coulter Calls Kwanzaa a Lunatic Blend of Black Racism ( http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18392 )
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... Ann Coulter has dissed the so-called African-American holiday called Kwanzaa, calling it "a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism ...
 
Angela Davis Speaks Out on Prisons and Human Rights Abuses in the ... ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/28/1450208 )
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
Scholar and former prisoner Angela Davis was in New Orleans this month to speak out against human rights violations and demand amnesty for those imprisoned ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

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