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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
November 14, 2006
 
Far right on the rise on the Iberian Peninsula ( http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1221595.php/Far_right_on_the_rise_on_the_Iberian_Peninsula )
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... The National Front is regarded as a more open group than Hammerskin Nation, a white supremacy movement founded in the US state of Texas, which acts as an ...
 
Former World Bank Chief Economist Predicts Global Crash ( http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/301006globalcrash.htm )
Prison Planet.com - USA
... Speaking on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show, Stiglitz defined the process of globalization as a system that was "rigged against the poor ...
 
Common efforts to strengthen collective humanitarian response ... ( http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6VJLED?OpenDocument )
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... Gender-based violence was another of the humanitarian community's concerns. ... funding, the Union believed the predictability, timeliness and equity of funding ...
 
Bush Global AIDS Gag is Harmful to Public Health, Groups Tell ... ( http://www.aclu.org/hiv/gen/27372prs20061114.html )
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Action, American Foundation for AIDS Research, American Humanist Organization, American Jewish World Service, Center for Health and Gender Equity, Center for ...
 
Toxic Trucks -- Highway Smog Means Asthma For Low-Income ... ( http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=04a86ffaef25f2b10079f764adc8e502 )
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
... for asthma than children living the rest of California," says Palaniappan, whose nonprofit collaborated with more than a dozen environmental justice and health ...
 
Local civil rights leaders sound off about hate crime ( http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=5675667 )
WREG - Memphis,TN,USA
BYHALIA - Disgust and disbelief are two words that came to mind when the Memphis NAACP Director heard about the cross burning incident in Byhalia, Mississippi. ...
 
Black students issue new deadline to IUPUI over inequity claims ( http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/16002498.htm )
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
AP. INDIANAPOLIS - Black students at IUPUI have issued a new deadline for the university administration to answer requests for a ...
 
Racism Reflected in Health System ( http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35466 )
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Brazil's minister of health, Agenor Álvares, has admitted that the public health system is imbued with racism, stirring up more ...
 
Not the Revolution, But an Opening ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=11396 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... The continuing "wall between," in Anne Braden's words, people of color and white people, the reality of systemic racism and white supremacy that very much ...
 
Nigeria: The Political Restructuring Nigeria Needs ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200611130440.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... The only condition for the survival of our republic and any other republic is justice. I am talking not just of legal justice, but social justice. ...
 
Unions worldwide organize ( http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/12/news/business/75-unions.txt )
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... trade unions worldwide have launched a new global labor federation aimed at ensuring workers' rights are not forgotten in the rush toward economic globalization ...
 
Global Inequality Gaps Widening: UN Report ( http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=328651&rel_no=1 )
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... Figures in the 2006 HDI make clear the entrenched inequality across the globe: The combined income of the 500 richest people in the world now exceeds that of ...
 
Domestic Enemies Hate & Discrimination ( http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/domestic_enemies_hate_discrimination1/0011671 )
American Muslim - Bridgeton,MO,USA
Our communities are in danger now more than ever from what I call pathetic domestic enemies hate & discrimination. How do we combat these enemies? ...
 
Human rights expert questions anti-terrorism laws ( http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1787584.htm )
ABC Online - Australia
MARK COLVIN: The President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has warned that the rights of suspects are being eroded in the age of terrorism ...
 
NAACP threatens to pull out of racial bias investigation ( http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5668459&nav=2HAB )
WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USA
Governor Vilsack had invited the group to examine claims of racial discrimination by state agencies, but the group says Vilsack wants it to only look at ...
 
Rights body asks UAE to stop abuse of Asian workers ( http://www.mumbaimirror.com/nmirror/mmpaper.asp?sectid=5&articleid=1112200621244165611122006212425609 )
Mumbai Mirror - India
... Emirates should crack down on employers abusing the rights of migrant workers who are key to the Gulf Arab state’s construction boom, Human Rights Watch said ...
 
Living below poverty level ( http://www.nptelegraph.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17455718&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6 )
North Platte Telegraph - North Platte,NE,USA
... According to the US Census Bureau, 9.5 percent of the people in Nebraska live in poverty, or with less than $15,735 income for a family of three. ...
 
Harmful emissions? Why not ban poverty? ( http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Opinion/Opinion1311062.htm )
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
A NEW study has proposed a ban on the use of kerosene lamps, citing emissions into the environment. The same study also suggests ...
 
Good riddance Botha: Africans too forgiving of white oppressors ... ( http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details.aspx?i=2320&c=africa&h=Good+riddance+Botha%3A+Africans+too+forgiving+of+white+oppressors+says+black+South+African )
Black Britain - UK
... to account for his crimes, those who presided over the apartheid regime walked away free to continue to enjoy their positions of white power and privilege. ...
 
The Reality of Iran's Women's Liberation Movement ( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00237.htm )
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
In this manner, one either exposes the extent of the oppression women suffer or admires their achievements. In regards to women ...
 
Dalit oppression, a dark reality ( http://www.ibnlive.com/news/dalit-oppression-a-dark-reality/26025-3.html )
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
... There are no public campaigns for justice for them as Dalit oppression is a dark reality, especially in the rural hinterland where the society is still divided ...
 
Prosecutor: Racism prompted Spring pipe attack ( http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4333766.html )
Houston Chronicle - United States
By JUAN A. LOZANO. AP. The violent attack on a Hispanic teen who was beaten and then sodomized with a plastic pipe was fueled by the ...
 
 


 
 

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