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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
April 24, 2007
 
NGOs - Bureaucracies Legitimizing Oppression and Corruption (
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2700&cid=10&sid=49
)
Global Politician - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Annual NGO summit concluded at the United Nations in New York on
October 6, 2004. Here, no one seems to question the fundamental
concept of NGO and how it ...
 
Hip-hop boss wants offensive word ban (
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a45650/hip-hop-boss-wants-offensive-word-ban.html
)
Digital Spy - UK
"The word 'nigger' is a racially derogatory term that disrespects the
pain, suffering, history of racial oppression, and multiple forms of
racism against ...
 
Sexism alleged in SD pay gap (
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070424/BUSINESS/704240324/1003
)
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
By Matthew Gruchow. College-educated women in South Dakota and
nationwide often earn less money than their male counterparts, a new
study released Monday ...
 
A Band of Sisters (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-condren/a-band-of-sisters_b_46544.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Now that you know that pay inequity still exists, you--we all, and
that includes you--are responsible for doing something about it. ...
 
Poverty in Britain: It’s This Rotten System That Creates Child
Poverty (
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070501&articleId=5472
)
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
The recent announcement that the numbers of those living in child
poverty has increased by 200000 exposes the worthless promises of
New Labour and the ...
 
Extra 100,0000 adults in poverty (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6584569.stm )
BBC News - UK
The government has admitted that there were an extra 100000 adults of
working age living in both absolute and relative poverty in 2005/06.
...
 
Wash. governor signs domestic-partner bill (
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/04/23/1 )
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic
partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights
that come with ...
 
ELCA Council Commends Report on Justice for Women (
http://www.wfn.org/2007/04/msg00205.html )
Worldwide Faith News (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"This church must be able to name sexism as a sin. In other words,
gender justice is a church issue, not a women's issue. Therefore,
important questions for ...
 
Sexism is still a problem (
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070421/OPINION/704210305/1046
)
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
The firestorm was building long before fired shock-jock Don Imus
spewed his sexist and racist insults all over the winning season of
the Rutgers University ...
 
Open letter to the African people (
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/561467 )
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
Neo-colonialism, imperialism and slavery have been repackaged in form
of foreign investment, development partners, donor communities and
clubs, NGOs, ...
 
Demoralized generals refuse 'war czar' job (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/generals-0426 )
Workers World - USA
Apparently the Iraq war is going to hell in a hand basket*from US
imperialism’s viewpoint*and everyone connected to the Pentagon
knows exactly how quickly. ...
 
No Child Left Behind: The Triumph of Diana Moon Glompers (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-bracey/no-child-left-behind-the_b_46554.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
It was nutty then; it's nutty now but its nuttiness is codified in
the No Child Left Behind act which insists that all children--every
last one save for the ...
 
Detective spends 12 years tracking white supremacists (
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/88309 )
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
But his interests shifted to white supremacy and racist skinheads * a
topic of which he is the sole expert in his department. ...
 
Inequality among "Consumers" (
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/dawson220407.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
In fact, in this epoch of escalating income and wealth polarity, the
newest statistics show that inequality among US "consumers" is now at
an all-time high. ...
 
Study: Gov’t Not Prosecuting Officials for Rights Violations (
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1286 )
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
Researchers have discovered that the federal government has dropped a
staggering 98.7 percent of recent cases concerning civil rights
violations allegedly ...
 
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (
http://www.sfstation.com/hip-hop-beyond-beats-and-rhymes-e41501 )
SFStation.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
“The more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and
homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me,” he says.
...
 
Study Documents Global Homophobia (
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=19810
)
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
Vani Borooah of the University of Ulster and John Mangan of the
University of Queensland found that homophobia is the most prevalent
form of prejudice in ...
 
Gender pay gap exists as early as 1 year out of college (
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=Gender%20pay%20gap%20exists%20as%20early%20as%201%20year%20out%20of%20college&articleid=5954
)
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
"AAUW is dedicated to improving gender equity in the workplace as
well as in education," said AAUW Educational Foundation president
Barbara O’Connor. ...
 
Immigrants-rights group plans occupation of federal office (
http://www.news1130.com/news/topstory/article.jsp?content=20070423_160639_5324
)
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Members of a local immigrants-rights group are
escalating their action by occupying a federal ministry office in
Downtown Vancouver ...
 
Immigrants Used to Justify a Homeland Security Police State (
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PHI20070501&articleId=5470
)
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
Threats of terrorism and twelve million “illegal” immigrants are
being used to justify new police-state measures in the United States.
...
 
Housing discrimination complaints hit record with disability, race
... (
http://www.mcall.com/business/local/all-housingbias.5803592apr22,0,2972304.story?coll=all-businesslocal-hed
)
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
A record number of Americans are complaining about housing
discrimination, with disability and race as the leading reasons for
filing a complaint, ...
 
Human Rights Activists Detained In Moscow (
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/04/68b2ae14-1243-4c2f-9112-2f0b584f0eed.html
)
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
MOSCOW, April 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russian human rights activists
have complained of heavy-handed police tactics after officers detained
five of them in ...
 
School bullying turns gay teens off education (
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Massey_News/issue-04/stories/08-04-07.html
)
Massey News - New Zealand
Gay and lesbian people in New Zealand who come out openly in their
teens are more likely to opt out of higher education because of school
bullying, ...
 
Racism, Wealth and IQ: The Heart of Whiteness (
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070422081934887
)
Infoshop News - USA
This is racism at the level of the central nervous system,
subconscious and unconscious, a bond that expresses itself in a tribal
level of identification, ...
 
Poverty should be everyone's enemy (
http://www.theolympian.com/109/story/86565.html )
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
The poverty rate for children living in Thurston County grew about 40
percent between 1999 and 2005, according to a recent report by
Thurston County public ...
 
Economic pie gets bigger but workers’ slice smaller (
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/701387.html )
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
THE WORRIES of many workers that globalization is a threat to their
jobs and incomes, and the source of growing inequality, is finally
getting the attention ...
 
 
 
 

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