[EdChange] Social Justice News

[Paul C. Gorski]

EdChange Social Justice News
http://www.EdChange.org
from Paul C. Gorski
August 14, 2007
 
Bush's Mercenary Revolution ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/bushs-mercenary-revoluti_b_60189.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... has systematically funneled billions of dollars in public money to corporations like Blackwater USA , DynCorp, Triple Canopy, Erinys and ArmorGroup. ...
 
Newark, NJ Anti-war march set for August 25 ( http://www.fightbacknews.org/2007/08/newark25aug.htm )
Fight Back! Newspaper - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Newark to march for peace, human rights, equality, jobs, racial, social and environmental justice, an end to violence and justice for Katrina survivors. ...
 
US encouragement of Ethiopia's Human Rights Violations ( http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_12aug07.htm )
Geeska Afrika - Somalia
Let's try to harness this victory to build momentum to end other human rights violations in Ethiopia, including possibly provoking a famine in a rebellious ...
 
"Democratic Imperialism": Tibet, China, and the National Endowment ... ( http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6530 )
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
by Michael Barker People familiar with Asian history will be aware that during Tibet's popular uprising against their Chinese occupiers in 1959, ...
 
A letter to a confused anti-imperialist ( http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8998 )
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
Imperialism, of course, is the biggest boulder blocking the road to the CPGB for most AWL people. I admit, I'm not as clear on your ideas here as I'd like ...
 
Slaves mentally handicapped ( http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2164008,00.html )
News24 - South Africa
Beijing - Hundreds of mentally handicapped people have been rescued from slavery in Chinese brickyards and other workplaces, officials said on Monday as ...
 
Background on the international dimensions of the African-American ... ( http://www.workers.org/2007/us/detroit1967-0816 )
Workers World - USA
The Civil Rights Congress under attorney William Patterson and Paul Robeson did eventually present a petition entitled "We Charge Genocide," in 1951 to the ...
 
Report raises police racism fears ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6945201.stm )
BBC News - UK
Young people from ethnic minorities in Scotland believe some actions by the police amount to racism, according to a new report. The research commissioned by ...
 
Racism in the Army ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/letters/article2253278.ece )
Times Online - UK
Black soldiers will be particularly disadvantaged by being prevented from speaking to "outside sources" about racism. In 2004 a report by the Armed Forces ...
 
Medical doctors' unconscious racism affecting patient care ( http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=34963 )
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Does lurking racism affect the workings of our major institutions - government, the judiciary, medicine, and education? And how, if it is underground, ...
 
Gay Refugees Seek Asylum in US ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12734276 )
NPR - USA
She's the legal director of Immigration Equality, a New York-based group that helps gay and lesbian people get asylum in the US She joins us from NPR's New ...
 
Racism and Injustice: The Trials of Mumia Abu-Jamal ( http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070810185943165 )
Infoshop News - USA
This new, one-hour Pacifica Radio National Special "Racism and Injustice: The Trials of Mumia Abu-Jamal" features all new interviews, including Danny Glover ...
 
Definition of discrimination ( http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070813/flair/flair4.html )
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
As we continue our series on the international Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women we focus this week on how discrimination is ...
 
Congress Acts to Overturn the Supreme Court's Recent Wage ... ( http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8555&Itemid=9 )
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria
Just two months after the US Supreme Court issued a decision making it harder for employees to bring pay discrimination claims under federal law, ...
 
Armies urged to integrate human rights in war laws ( http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-28940620070812 )
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
While acknowledging the proposal would seem "radical if not ridiculous to many", the EWI said conducting a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) would ...
 
Elderly 'are being denied human rights' ( http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,,2147219,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Basic human rights of thousands of elderly people are failing to be acknowledged in hospitals and care homes, an influential parliamentary committee will ...
 
Domestic violence a big worry ( http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/12Aug2007_news04.php )
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Citing the Children's Rights Protection Foundation, she said the number of children suffering from abuse is on the rise as well. ...
 
Contractors in Iraq operating with few restraints ( http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/08/12/contractors_in_iraq_operating_with_few_restraints )
Boston Globe - United States
Relatives of four Blackwater USA contractors slain in Iraq in 2004 testified before a House committee in Washington in February. ...
 
Mortgages, Marxism, and "Globalization" ( http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5705/1/277/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Norman Markowitz The press this week reported that the US stock market decline related to the unstable nature of the US mortgage industry (or the home ...
 
China beats India in inequality ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/China_beats_India_in_inequality/articleshow/2266908.cms )
Times of India - India
BEIJING: China has outstripped India in a dubious area: Relative inequality of income and expenditure between the rich and the poor. ...
 
Interview: Cornel West ( http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/225420.html )
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Dyson does not defend violence, sexism or homophobia in hip-hop. Any reading of his work reveals his critique and rejection of these. ...
 
Gov't to Enact Law Banning Racial Discrimination ( http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200708/200708130004.html )
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
At a UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Thursday, the Korean delegation answered questions on the status of racial discrimination ...
 
Elderly mental health care 'poor' ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6940068.stm )
BBC News - UK
But years of under-funding and age discrimination in mental health services prevent people obtaining support and treatment, they said. ...
 
Ukrainian national says employer raped her, confiscated passport ( http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/892593.html )
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
This law relates not only to trafficking in humans for purposes of prostitution, but also for purposes of forced labor or slavery. ...
 
Mauritania parliament passes law banning slavery ( http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL09898682.html )
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
By Ibrahima Sylla NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mauritania's parliament has passed a law making slavery a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years in ...
 
Bonds -- In and Outta This World ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-abrams/bonds-in-and-outta-thi_b_60021.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Then, in the aftermath of WWII--a war against fascism and, at least implicitly, against the ideology of white supremacy--it became clear to even some of the ...
 
'Inequality worsening in China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka' ( http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200708081756.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
8 (PTI): Inequality in Asian countries like Bangladesh, China, Nepal and Sri Lanka is worsening as the rich are getting richer much faster than the poor, ...
 
Venezuela touts oil pact as aid to Caribbean countries ( http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/11/business/LA-FIN-Venezuela-Caribbean-Oil.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
... Minister Nicolas Maduro said the Petrocaribe oil pact is bringing hope to the Caribbean, a region he said "always used to be a land of (US) imperialism. ...
 
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, civil rights pioneer, dead at 90 ( http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--obit-kirkaldy0811aug11,0,5108580.story )
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Kirkaldy also inspired the first Freedom Ride in 1947, when 16 civil rights activists rode buses and trains through the South to test the law enunciated in ...
 
City bans all school History Months over gay row ( http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/politics/2005-5156.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
When pupils return to school in Philadelphia this September, thanks to protests and threats to the school district, there will be no Gay and Lesbian History ...
 
500 million youths in poverty ( http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14213 )
maltaStar.com - Malta
The Labour Youth Forum expressed its concern over the millions of youth who are suffering poverty around the world. On Sunday the world commemorates World ...
 
New HIV policy to curb injustice at work ( http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161188702 )
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has said a draft national workplace policy on HIV/AIDS will soon be reviewed by Cabinet to help curb discrimination on the ...
 
Women win bias lawsuit vs. city ( http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/11/women_win_bias_lawsuit_vs_city )
Boston Globe - United States
The decision ended a 13-year battle that had started with a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination complaint and eventually reached the state's ...
 
Ban on Racial Discrimination ( http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2007/08/202_8109.html )
Korea Times - South Korea
South Korea has pledged to introduce a law to ban racial discrimination as soon as possible. Representatives from Seoul made the pledge during a meeting of ...
 
Inequality rising across Asia, ADB says ( http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-28876020070808 )
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Inequality is rising across most of Asia, partly as a result of globalisation favouring the well educated and penalising the less ...
 
The outrageous fortune of the few ( http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=134&objectid=10456833 )
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
In fact, there is no evidence that the such spending has helped to narrow gaps of inequality. Rather, the economy has become skewed to service this group. ...
 
Homophobia in the social care sector ( http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/08/08/105387/homophobia-in-the-social-care-sector.html )
Communitycare.co.uk - Sutton,UK
Homophobia, like any other discrimination, manifests itself in many different ways. One of the most insidious is the presumption all employees are ...
 
Studies Examine Cause Behind Infant Mortality Gap, Link Between ... ( http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=46821 )
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Overt discrimination was associated with the erosion of positive mood, while subtle racism was associated with symptoms of depression, possibly because more ...
 
 
 
 

*******************************
Paul C. Gorski
Hamline University
EdChange Workshops & Consulting: http://www.EdChange.org ( http://www.edchange.org/ )
Multicultural Pavilion: http://www.EdChange.org/multicultural 
Social Justice Store: http://www.cafepress.com/edchange 
Multicultural Poster Store: http://www.EdChange.org/posters 
SoJust.net: http://www.SoJust.net ( http://www.sojust.net/ )
Social Justice Bookstore: http://www.EdChange.org/transformations 
Personal Page: http://www.paulgorski.efoliomn2.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.socialjusticenews.net/pipermail/news_socialjusticenews.net/attachments/20070814/6be9aa6a/attachment.html