[EdChange] Social Justice News

[Paul C.Gorski]

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by Paul C. Gorski
October 29, 2006
 
 <http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=37753>  Human Rights Watch Criticizes NATO
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
Human Rights Watch criticized NATO-led troops in Afghanistan for their tactics endangering civilians and turning the Afghani population against the Western ...
 
 <http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_4543640>  The color of America
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Woven together, they form a tapestry of white privilege backed by an ugly underside knotted in a tangle of poverty, ghettos and disadvantage. ...
 
 <http://www.newscentralasia.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1939>  Language as a tool of Oppression
NewsCentralAsia - Santa Monaica,CA,USA
Language is probably the most powerful tool of oppression. In the hands of bigoted politicians and unscrupulous media, it is a lethal ...
 
 <http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20662999-5001028,00.html>  Women's rights champion murdered
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Human rights activists say the lives of women in Iraqi society have worsened dramatically since the US-led invasion of March 2003, amid a general break down in ...
 
 <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=54992>  Hurricane Katrina Showed Link Between Social Inequality And Health
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... The authors argue that the link between social inequality and ill health is seen in nearly every field of medicine and public health, not just in disaster ...
 
 <http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Sunday/National/20061029082731/Article/index_html>  HIV-positive children victims of discrimination
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... Besides the medical challenges of raising an HIV-positive child, people fear discrimination from family, friends and society in general. ...
 
 <http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=84259>  HUD charges local insurance agencies with race discrimination
News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA
... find insurance, then call HUD. Because then absolutely, that would be discrimination," says Carlesco. The Erie Insurance Group issued ...
 
 <http://www.fairviewobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061028/BUSINESS01/610280311/1321/MTCN06>  Lawsuits accuse Shoney's of sexual discrimination
Fairview Observer - Fairview,TN,USA
Eleven women are suing Shoney's alleging sexual discrimination, accusing senior executives at the family-friendly chain of ignoring claims that four Nashville ...
 
 <http://www.workers.org/2006/world/ivory-coast-1102>  Poverty & struggle in Ivory Coast
Workers World - USA
... chocolate. The capitalist market worldwide has controls on the production of cocoa resulting in growing poverty for these farmers. ...
 
 <http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061028/FEATURES06/610280359/1010/FEATURES>  How the South embraced Jim Crow
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... citizens of Colfax, La., were so confident of their position that they actually erected a monument to the three "fallen heroes" to "white supremacy" who had ...
 
 <http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1775730.htm>  Reports predict global warming deluge
ABC Online - Australia
... The Netherlands, Bangladesh and several Pacific Islands could be underwater within 50 years, if a groundbreaking British report on global warming is accurate. ...
 
 <http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4567129>  Experts: Warming a threat to wildlife
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
WASHINGTON -- Endangered birds, fish and plants in Massachusetts are disproportionately threatened by global warming, according to a new report that identifies ...
 
 <http://pd.cpim.org/2006/1029/10292006_nilotpal.htm>  In Defence of Constitution and Social Justice
People's Democracy
... With their socially conservative agenda, they are working overtime to establish that the need for social justice is an irrelevant idea and that reservation ...
 
 <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_5100130,00.html>  Immigrants are people, not just numbers
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... the end result of a long process involving a proposed ballot amendment, legislative "compromises" and public misinformation campaigns that scapegoat immigrants ...
 
 <http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7B4F6E9A7B-D890-43A8-939B-BB2526122E33%7D&language=EN>  LatAm, Carib Unite against Racism
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... Ibero American mayors will begin the creation in their nations of a Latin American and Caribbean Coalition of Cities against Racism, Discrimination and ...
 
 <http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/43560/>  Didn't get the subtle racism of the Ford ad? [VIDEO]
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... women?". Clearly, the racism was too subtle for Snow... imagine all the ordinary folk out there who didn't get it either? Perish. ...
 
 <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17385057&BRD=1718&PAG=461&dept_id=434846&rfi=6>  Editorial - Attention young women: Vote
Kent County Daily Times - West Warwick,RI,USA
... Women's liberation is no longer a fresh memory, and the term feminism is easily up to its sixth or seventh mainstream definition. ..
 
 <http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00043&segmentID=4>  Post-Katrina Injustice
Living on the Earth - Cambridge,MA,USA
... I recently traveled to New Orleans for a conference of environmental justice scholars and activists organized by Dillard University sociology Professor Beverly ...
 
 <http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601027_gop_retreats_to_homophobia_as_election_nears/>  GOP Retreats to Homophobia as Election Nears
Truthdig - United States
... Now that the “security” issue no longer offers the boost it once did, the GOP is counting on homophobia to drive voter turnout. ...
 
 <http://www.countercurrents.org/us-sikand281006.htm>  Christian Supremacists And American Imperialism
CounterCurrents.org - India
... Christian fundamentalists have sought to provide Bush with theological sanction for American imperialism and aggression, leading America into a head-on clash ...
 
 <http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9964>  Changes to Title IX Weaken Safeguards Against Sex Discrimination ...
Ms. Magazine - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
The US Department of Education (ED) announced changes to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 on Wednesday that will "expand flexibility" for the ...
 
 <http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=287845>  Attacks on Somalis have Cabinet worried
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
... Police investigations were still ongoing to establish the factors, other than xenophobia, possibly contributing to these senseless attacks. ...
 
 
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