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from Paul C. Gorski
November 25, 2006
 
 <http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/027785.html>  Whites-only scholarship kicks up controversy
World Magazine Blog - Chicago,IL,USA
... the scholarship to point out "how ridiculous it is to have any sort of racially based scholarship." "We are not doing this as some kind of white supremacy thing ...
 
 <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1956260,00.html>  Cameron: poverty is a 'moral disgrace'
Guardian Unlimited - UK
David Cameron will today denounce the continued existence of poverty as a "moral disgrace" and commit a future Conservative government to action on the issue. ...
 
 <http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/542854.html>  Tax cuts hurt children living in poverty activist
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Authors of Nova Scotia’s child poverty report card call each tax cut for an economically secure Canadian a broken promise to a child living in poverty. ...
 
 <http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061124/ab_poverty_061124/20061124?hub=Canada>  Poverty highest for Aboriginal, immigrant kids
CTV.ca - Canada
First Nations, immigrant and visible minority children have the highest chance of living in poverty in Canada, says a new report by a national coalition of ...
 
 <http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/11/24/monroe_officials_accused_in_racial_discrimination>  Monroe officials accused in racial discrimination
Boston Globe - United States
MONROE, Conn. --Four Monroe school officials have been named in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a black student and his family. ...
 
 <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/24/america/LA_GEN_Brazil_Anti_Gay_Discrimination.php>  Bill making discrimination against gays punishable by prison ...
International Herald Tribune - France
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Brazil's lower house of Congress has passed a bill making discrimination against homosexuals a crime punishable by at least a year in ...
 
 <http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=5723964&nav=0w0v>  UN recommends Mexico improve fight against women's discrimination
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY A United Nations report says Mexico needs to follow promises with action if it wants to eradicate discrimination against women. ...
 
 <http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=33212>  Violence against women
The News - International - Pakistan
... effort by the government, civil society organisations and enlightened men and women to continue the struggle until the ideal of gender equity and equality at ...
 
 <http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=12aa3bd35df59f35eb66ddcffb5124e6>  Immigrants Voice Their Stories
Asian Week - San Francisco,CA,USA
... "My experiences and struggles with my inability to speak English has given me empathy for other immigrants, and that is why I got involved in the Chinatown ...
 
 <http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/11/24/richards_apologizes_to_civil_rights_lead>  Richards Apologizes To Civil Rights Leaders; Told To Apologize To ...
Starpulse.com - Branford,CT,USA
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.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=161195>  Richards' stand-up racism
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
... No, here's what bothers me: If so many of my white countrymen refuse to recognize racism when it is this blatant and unmistakable, what expectation can we have ...
 
 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/23/18332534.php>  Buy Nothing Day Action in Support of Indigenous Cultural Survival ...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
... to expose the environmental and ethical consequences of over-consumption and bring attention to the ongoing struggle for environmental justice and protection ...
 
 <http://www.sovo.com/2006/11-24/news/national/point.cfm>  End homophobia to reduce HIV among blacks, report says
Sovo.com - Southern,USA
... Americans, HIV/AIDS has “continued unabated” through black America for 25 years, and will continue to do so until everything from homophobia to unstable ...
 
 <http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200611250310.htm>  'Globalization erodes rights of working women in Asia'
Hindu - Chennai,India
Kuala lumpur, Nov 25. (AP): Globalization is increasingly eroding the rights of Asia's working women, who are falling victim to weaker legal protection, gender ...
 
 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4447/1/222/>  Iran: "Our Struggle for Change, Peace and Progress"
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... war machine is spreading terror, death and destruction in Gaza and Lebanon and in Latin America popular revolt is limiting options for Imperialism in country ...
 
 <http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/24/stories/2006112402491500.htm>  Human rights cannot "be imposed with cluster bombs": Shirin Ebadi
Hindu - Chennai,India
KOLKATA: For Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi "human rights is a package....a way of seeing the world, a culture, which cannot "be imposed with cluster bombs" and ...
 
 <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/23/1446238>  Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization: A ...
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
Hundreds of people from around the world recently gathered in New York for the "Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization a Celebration of ...
 
 <http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16055002.htm>  No Child Left Behind failing to narrow achievement gap
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... pose a challenge not only for Bush but also for the Democratic lawmakers who joined him in negotiating the original law, known as No Child Left Behind, and who ...
 
 <http://www.themilitant.com/2006/7046/704605.html>  'A magazine that arms us with ideas to fight imperialism'
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... This is important, she emphasized, "because many people argue that such an alliance is impossible today because imperialism has already eliminated the peasants ...
 
 <http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=715775>  Thousands of Ulster children below poverty line face a bleak ...
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... Clare, a Belfast mother-of-one who lives below the poverty line, said: "It can be very hard to make ends meet - particularly in winter months when sometimes ...
 
 
 
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