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from Paul C. Gorski
April 15, 2007

 <http://www.trinicenter.com/articles/2007/150407.html> Imus and White
privilege: Don't Blame Rap Music
Trinicenter.com - La Seiva Maraval,Trinidad and Tobago
Don Imus represents White privilege and unaddressed racism and most Whites
are trying to stay in denial of their own racism to hang onto their White
...

 <http://kcbs.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=412924> Global
Warming Activists Step it Up
KCBS - CA,USA
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP) -- Activists from coast to coast are using this
weekend to pressure lawmakers to join the fight against global warming. ...

 <http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3031> Labor joins call to
'solve global warming'
Workday Minnesota - St. Paul,MN,USA
With those words, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Ray Waldron summed up the
goals of "Global Warming Day of Action" Saturday at the state Capitol. ...

<http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20070415/opinion/167815.shtml>
Beyond baseball: Jackie Robinson opened door for civil rights in US
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
It wasn't until 1964, two years after Robinson entered baseball's Hall of
Fame, that the Civil Rights Act removed other vestiges of sanctioned
apartheid. ...

 <http://www.thestate.com/154/story/36352.html> Forum focus: School racism
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
Campus racism was the topic, with wider considerations of history, culture
and individual identity, as about 50 students from schools including
Clemson, ...

<http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/REPOSITOR
Y/704150417/1013/NEWS03> Video depicts racism in German military
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... demanded an apology from the German military and said the clip
"indicates that bias and assumptions and racism is alive and well around the
world." ...

 <http://www.blackcollegewire.org/voices/070415_beasley-imus/> Black America
Punched Racism in the Stomach
Black College Wire - Washington,DC,USA
Instead of assuming the role of the victim, Black America dropped the cards
and punched racism in the stomach. I can pretty much guarantee that Don Imus
...

 <http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4027170a10.html> Auckland police face new
allegations of racism
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
An Auckland man has made a formal complaint against three police officers
alleging he was subjected to a racist roadside interrogation. ...

<http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-22/117662031381710.xm
l&coll=2> Study: Poor, minorities still denied environmental justice
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
Mohai and fellow environmental justice expert and UM professor Bunyan Bryant
organized a conference on race and environmental hazards shortly after the
...

<http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1329717.0.gay_group
s_demand_new_hate_crime_law.php> Gay groups demand new 'hate crime' law
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Spokesman Josef Church said: "Regardless of what the manifestos do and don't
say, we want to see a government which stands up for lesbian and gay Scots."
...

 <http://www.insidebayarea.com/alllistings/ci_5667483> Clinton gives
assessment of worlds growing divide
Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA
If theres one lesson from globalization, its that those in wealthy countries
must work to empower people in poorer nations, Bill Clinton said Friday in a
...

 <http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143967376> African
examples Creating a new world order through social movements
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
She talks about social justice in Africa with a great passion. "I want to
see justice for everybody," says the diminutive woman with a big voice. ...

 <http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/asiapacific/2007415/107199.htm>
Australian PM says immigrants with HIV should not be allowed
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Australia should bar immigrants with HIV, Prime Minister John Howard said,
and his government was examining ways to make its tough restrictions even
...

 <http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5209728> Immigrants
rights activists take Chicago's streets
ABC7Chicago.com - Chicago,IL,USA
The 'Strive Act' also lets the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants obtain
secure identification cards and stay for six years if they pass a security
...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR200704140
1402.html> Author's Poverty Views Disputed Yet Utilized
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
The Texas-based author says in her book "A Framework for Understanding
Poverty": Parents in poverty typically discipline children by beating or
verbally ...

 <http://www.imemc.org/article/47816> Oxfam Survey: Financial Boycott Pushes
Palestinians into poverty
International Middle East Media Center - Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian
Territories
The survey titled, "Poverty in Palestine: the human cost of the financial
boycott - report and survey," and conducted by the Palestinian Centre for
Public ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-condren/imus-show-yankedhoweve_b_45846.
html> IMUS' SHOW YANKED--HOWEVER WOMEN STILL SUBJECTED TO SUBTLE ...
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Las Vegas, NV - April 14, 2007 - Advertisers General Motors, American
Express, Sprint Nextel and others pulled dollars away from the beleaguered
Don Imus' ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/brian-williams-of-nbc-in_b_45861.h
tml> Brian Williams of NBC, Information Oligarch
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Putting aside the blatant classism of Williams' remark - apparently people
who can only afford efficiency apartments are incapable of producing
anything ...

 <http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13891/> Iran threatened by US State
Terrorism
MWC News - Vancouver,Canada
Racist White Australia is a country with entrenched anti-Arab anti-Semitism,
Islamophobia and xenophobia that have been firmly embraced by both the major
...

<http://www.huliq.com/18518/groundbreaking-principles-on-sexual-orientation-
and-human-rights-released> Groundbreaking principles on sexual orientation
and human rights ...
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
The "Yogyakarta Principles" call for worldwide action against violence,
discrimination and abuse, by governments, the UN human rights system,
national human ...

<http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEW
S01/704140325/1006> Issues of sexism, racism must be confronted in wake of
Imus' firing
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola,FL,USA
It made America a better place. It's kinder and gentler. No more hate.
Nothing but brotherly love. We're all in this thing together now, the land
of the ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8158> Stalinist imperialism
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
THERE is a paradox - only an apparent one - in the development of Stalinist
imperialism. Stalinism arose out of the counter-revolution in Russia under
the ...

<http://www.huliq.com/18497/global-warming-pollution-up-in-48-states-since-1
990> Global Warming Pollution Up in 48 States Since 1990
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between
1990 and 2004, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of state
fossil ...

 <http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20070415/sports/sports/20070415WHITE.html>
GORDON WHITE: Robinson: Front and Center in the Civil Rights Struggle
Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA
As the first black player in modern major league baseball, Robinson was an
active and symbolically important figure at the birth of the civil rights
...

 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070412174851390> April
18-21: Annual White Privilege Conference in Colorado
Infoshop News - USA
This conference is about critically examining the society in which we live
and working to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, privilege and
oppression.

<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/04/14
/conservatisms_third_failure> Conservatism's third failure
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
The forces of privilege and inequality are now so deeply entrenched in
America that it will take a Democratic successor at least as bold as FDR or
LBJ to ...

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jan_baum_070414_from_imus_to_africa
_3a.htm> From Imus to Africa: Racism Here, There, Everywhere
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
Racism continues to be a primary issue in this country, and the world. And
truth is, we will never give a damn about the genocide in Darfur, the
slaughter ...

 <http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Howell14.htm> "Shock Jocks" as
Propagandists for Privilege
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
We hit brick walls of white supremacy and masculine prerogatives. Did some
take a path of least resistance by accepting hateful words "as our own"? ...

 <http://www.managingdiversity.co.uk/news_article.php?ID=18115306> Workplace
homophobia 'remains a problem'
Diversity News - Bradford,West Yorkshire,UK
The report claimed that there remains a lack of awareness among managers
about how to deal with instances of homophobia in the workplace and
suggested that ...

 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070412135134251> Gays
Attacked by Mob at Funeral in Jamaica
Infoshop News - USA
Jamaica may be the worst offender, but much of the rest of the Caribbean,
reported Time magazine last year, also has a long history of intense
homophobia. ...

<http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2007/Apr07/040907.htm/041307-0
8.htm> FedEx settles racial discrimination suit
Land Line Magazine - Grain Valley,MO,USA
FedEx has agreed to pay more than $53 million to settle a class-action
racial discrimination lawsuit against its FedEx Express division. ...

 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070413022311860>
Colorado: Immigrants stage week-long boycott
Infoshop News - USA
29 - Immigrant rights activists in Colorado have launched a week-long
economic boycott, saying they want to show how big an impact immigrants have
on the ...

 <http://www.epgn.com/041307/1baptistlesbian041307.htm> Faced with ex-gay
therapy, lesbian leaves Northeast Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Gay News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Exodus International to change her lesbian orientation - or stop being a
church deacon. Harvest and Exodus are Christian-based "ex-gay" ministries
that ...

 <http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/04/12/global15683.htm> Background: The
Human Rights Council and Women's Rights
Human Rights Watch (press release) - USA
The newly-established United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is charged
with overseeing and addressing the human rights situation around the world.
...

<http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=15486&group=Politi
cs> Finnish minorities ombudsman demands action to eradicate racism
Newsroom Finland - Helsinki,Finland
... problem if the next government did not roll up its sleeves and take
tangible action to improve the standing of immigrants and to weed out
racism. ...

<http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/EDIT/704130350
/1090> Racism, sexism fueled by sick society, big business
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
But Imus and nasty rappers are both symptomatic of how institutionalized
racism and sexism are. They're much like air pollution; we're dying from it,
...

<http://www.uecrescent.org/articles/stories/public/200704/13/46vv_opinion.ht
ml> Most Americans falling through growing income gap
University of Evansville Crescent online - Evansville,IN,USA
The after-tax share of income the top 1 percent gets annually has jumped
more dramatically, returning the country to the inequality level just before
the ...

 <http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/64028> Study Reveals Inequality in Higher
Education Salaries
BYU Newsnet - Provo,UT,USA
Although full-time faculty salaries are up, financial inequality in American
higher education continues to increase. In "Financial Inequality in Higher
...

<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HOS20070412
&articleId=5368> War Profiteering and the Concentration of Income and Wealth
in America
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
Combined with redistributive militarism and generous tax cuts for the
wealthy, these cuts have further exacerbated the ominously growing income
inequality ...

 <http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/12/news/18061.shtml>
Prof slams prisons as prejudiced
Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - Princeton,NJ,USA
Faced with white supremacy, exclusionary social institutions and a criminal
justice system that is "racist and deeply unfair," African Americans become
...

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