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[Paul C.Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
November 23, 2006
 
 
 <http://www.pr-inside.com/richards-apologises-to-civil-rights-leaders-r26864.htm>  RICHARDS APOLOGISES TO CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
LATEST: Disgraced comedian MICHAEL RICHARDS is reaching out to America's civil rights leaders to help him move on from a racist rant scandal following a moment ...
 
 <http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3477>  Greens Sue White House Over Missing Global Warming Assessment
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
The environmental community is stepping up pressure on the White House to acknowledge and take action to counter global warming. ...
 
 <http://www.energybulletin.net/22833.html>  Ecology of an environmentalist
Energy Bulletin - USA
by Amanda Kovattana. Recently, at a workshop about environmental justice, I found myself wondering if my environmental creed also included social justice. ...
 
 <http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/462751567.html>  Seinfeld Star's Despicable Meltdown Further Evidence of Racism ...
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... fewer children in America are being taught racist prejudices at home or in society than in the past, only an extremely naïve person would say racism does not ...
 
 <http://dailynews.com/news/ci_4702524>  LA blacks say racism raising its head again
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... "Maybe we go through a long quiescent period, but then we'll have a triggering device, and we see that racism hasn't gone away.". ...
 
 <http://eurweb.com/story/eur29956.cfm>  NAACP CONDEMNS RECENT ACTS OF RACISM ON COLLEGIATE CAMPUSES ...
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemns recent events on university campuses that have exposed the problem of continuing racism at higher ...
 
 <http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2006-11-21-blackgirl-review_x.htm>  'Black Girl/White Girl' revisits troubled times
USA Today - USA
... Minette refuses to take root in this place of privilege, stomping angrily about ... Black Girl/White Girl is ultimately an indictment of white, liberal hypocrisy in ...
 
 <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-kaplan22nov22,0,4768310.column?coll=la-util-opinion-sunday>  Erin Aubry Kaplan: The OJ-Kramer discrepancy
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... To me, he sounded less like a stand-up comic grasping at ways to save his act than a man imbued with white privilege, enraged that some black folks had dared ...
 
 <http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=5988>  TASMANIA TACKLES HOMOPHOBIA
Sydney Star Observer - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A series of groundbreaking Tasmanian radio advertisements highlighting the cost of homophobia has won broad backing from politicians, activists and a leading ...
 
 <http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=13267>  Panel Discusses Homophobia and Black Churches
Windy City Times - Chicago,IL,USA
Everything from the military to trauma was discussed at “Black Homophobia, Black Churches, Black Lives: Our Griots Tell Their Stories,” a forum held Nov. ...
 
 <http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-25/116396575736470.xml&storylist=alabamanews>  Critic of No Child Left Behind law urges teachers to abolish it
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
AP. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A critic of the federal No Child Left Behind education law is urging teachers to sign a petition aimed at abolishing the measure ...
 
 <http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=337223&sid=BUS&ssid=51>  China`s poorest getting even poorer: Report
Zee News - Noida,India
Beijing, Nov 22: Inequality is on the rise in officially socialist China, with the poorest becoming even worse off, a report said Wednesday, citing new ...
 
 <http://www.workers.org/2006/us/native-immigration-1130>  A Native view of immigration
Workers World - USA
... So, when did the US begin to have immigration policies, and what were those policies? For many years, whiteness was the prerequisite for citizenship. ...
 
 <http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2006/22/c7416.html>  Media Advisory - 2006 Report Card on Child Poverty in Canada to be ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... Too Many Children in Poverty for Too Long.' Campaign 2000's annual Report Card on Child Poverty presents the latest statistics on child and family poverty ...
 
 <http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-rawat221106.htm>  Women And Poverty
CounterCurrents.org - India
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat. In the country of one billion people over 24% of the population belong to Dalits and tribals. Nearly 80% of ...
 
 <http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=38535>  Moscow: Nationalism and Xenophobia Harming Russia
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... Russia. The government is looking for measures in education and law to stem the rising tide of xenophobia and racism. Vladislav ...
 
 <http://www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=9&si=101770>  Dyslexia students win discrimination case
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
Two former Leaving Cert students with Dyslexia have won a discrimination case they took against the Department of Education. They ..
 
 <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/The_United_States/Muslim_clerics_claim_discrimination/articleshow/530769.cms>  Muslim clerics claim discrimination
Times of India - India
MINNEAPOLIS: Six Muslim clerics removed from a US Airways flight said on Tuesday they were victims of discrimination and called for a boycott of the airline. ...
 
 <http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=record-view--more-action-is-needed-to-end-poverty-shame-&method=full&objectid=18128689&siteid=66633-name_page.html>  RECORD VIEW: MORE ACTION IS NEEDED TO END POVERTY SHAME
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
TOO many kids are still being brought up in poverty, said a report yesterday from the charity Save The Children. It showed Britain ...
 
 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200611210694.html>  Uganda: HIV/Aids Rising Amid Extreme Poverty of North's IDP Camps
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Resistance Army have decreased this year, and talks that could bring an end to the war are ongoing in Juba, southern Sudan, but crippling poverty continues for ...
 
 <http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=4289370&p=4z89385&n=4289462>  Ageist stereo types still rife in HR - Recruitment study
Irish Examiner - Cork,Ireland
Organisations still have a long way to go to eliminate age discrimination at work and become fully compliant with the recent UK legislation, according to the ...
 
 <http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/21/passengers.removed/>  Airline checks claim of 'Muslim while flying' discrimination
CNN - USA
... tickets on another carrier. "This discrimination should not stand," said Nihad Awad, the council's executive director. "We call on ...
 
 <http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details.aspx?i=2325&c=Race&h=Colonialism+and+white+supremacy+to+blame+for+poverty+in+Africa%2C+not+low+IQ+says+race+professor>  Colonialism and white supremacy to blame for poverty in Africa ...
Black Britain - UK
... in the USA has hit back at an LSE researcher who claims that low IQ is to blame for poverty in Africa, citing colonialism and white supremacy for the under ...
 
 <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061121.wgendergap1121/BNStory/International/home>  Women's world is far from equal
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Its annual equity report said the gender gap was close to being eliminated in the realms of education and health, but the social power balance was still vastly ...
 
 <http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_4699698>  Immigrants do not tax health care
Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA,USA
Addressing an issue at the center of the immigration debate, a study released last Tuesday found that illegal immigrants place a lesser burden on the nation's ...
 
 <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-worth/the-federalismenvironmen_b_34648.html>  The Federalism-Environmentalism Schism
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... Because before too long it will be you - at Environmental Defense, the US Department of Justice, the EPA, your state AG's office, a law firm, or in the ranks ..
 
 
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