[EdChange] Social Justice News

Sun Aug 26 11:47:21 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
August 26, 2007

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR200708240
2123.html> 30 Immigrants On Bikes Deliver A Labor Revolt
Washington Post - United States
The 30 men -- all immigrants, including undocumented workers frustrated with
the poor conditions and low wages that are often a fact of life in America's
...

 <http://www.nbc4.com/news/13972724/detail.html> Immigrants, Supporters Plan
Business Boycott In Prince William Co.
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
Starting on Monday, immigrants and their supporters said they will begin a
big boycott in Virginia. They said they are angry at Prince William County
and ...

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/arts/NA-A-E-MUS-US-Reggae-Festiva
l-Protest.php> Gay, lesbian, groups protest NY reggae concert because of
anti-gay ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW YORK: A reggae festival in New York which was created to promote
peace among cultures is being denounced by gay and lesbian groups for
allowing ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200708241051.html> Mauritania: New
Anti-Slavery Law Not Enough for Real Change ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law
criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. ...

 <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/arts/museum.php> The International
Slavery Museum: A legacy of resistance, and of ...
International Herald Tribune - France
By Jane Perlez LIVERPOOL: The newly opened International Slavery Museum in
Liverpool thrusts the visitor directly into the cultures of West Africa, ...

 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,2156357,00.html>
Brazil's not just samba, sun and indulgence; the poor remain in ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The sexualisation of black women is as old as slavery itself, and in
Brazilian attitudes towards race, little has changed. In Brazil, social
apartheid is ...

<http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=097d30f
5-14af-40fa-b4e7-71c2909f2cb6> Anti-poverty group dumps garbage at mayor's
home
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER - About a dozen members of the Anti-Poverty Committee filled the
entrance to Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's Yaletown apartment building with
...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR200708230
1765.html> The Fire This Time
Washington Post - United States
... cleanse one's mind of the stereotypes, the race jokes, and the sewage of
American social history that created the pervasive cobweb of white
supremacy. ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/more-enemies-greater-pr_b_61773
.html> More Enemies = Greater Profits
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Aside from Defense and Munitions, don't forget the outsourcing of security
to companies like Blackwater, creating a parallel army larger than our
official ...

 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=13612>
Globalization and Terror - double bait-and-switch
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Now similar kinds of elites sacrifice their peoples to corporate
globalization and work their neo-colonial barbarism using double duplicity
to get what they ...

<http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=052bf8aa-758a-493e
-a752-5f0e92f670a2> UN urged to get moving on gender inequality
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The fight for gender equality is the world's most compelling issue, says
Stephen Lewis, the former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS. ...

 <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/aroc230807.html> Zionists Attack Mural of
Palestinian Resistance
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
The mural depicts related images of struggle by indigenous communities
against forces of imperialism, racism, and economic oppression. ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-garman/the-freedom-to-symbolize-_b_61690
.html> The Freedom to Symbolize My Own Oppression!
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
This strange logic (permit me the freedom to symbolize my own oppression!)
has just been revisited in the south of England, where another schoolgirl
was ...

<http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/e6c3e927-1d48-4b03-a054-c72ec8
ef65f7.html> Iranian Rights Activists, Intellectuals Decry 'Wave Of Arrests'
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
August 24, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- More than 650 Iran-based human rights activists
and intellectuals have issued an open letter to condemn what they describe
as ...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/germ-a25.shtml> Increasing
numbers of German children live in poverty
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
By Dietmar Henning Child poverty is on the increase in Germany. In western
German cities such as Bremerhaven, and in many eastern German cities and ...

<http://blog.acton.org/archives/1886-Myths-Christians-Believe-about-Wealth-a
nd-Poverty.html> Myths Christians Believe about Wealth and Poverty
Acton Institute - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... "Myths Christians Believe about Wealth and Poverty." This topic was
especially relevant for me because I graduated from a Wesleyan Evangelical
seminary, ...

 <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/08/24/2003375635>
Poverty hampers education
Taipei Times - Taiwan
What good is free education, some in Senegal wonder, when poverty means
children are forced into work? By Liz Ford It's a hot, sunny day on Goree
Island, ...

 <http://www.pr-inside.com/amid-russia-s-boom-a-dark-secret-r206967.htm>
Amid Russia's boom, a dark secret: chronic abuse of children
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
A report by Russia's human rights ombudsman says children's rights
violations remain <> and more parents are victimizing their children. ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/movies/60278/> New "Mad Men" TV Show Uses the Past
to Reveal Racism and Sexism of ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Unlike the McCarthy Era, we live in a time of innocence, believing we have
overcome much of the sexism and racism in which the characters in Mad Men
revel. ...

 <http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2157> Making Black
Girls "Ladylike"
African Path - Minneapolis,MN,USA
While the report quickly asserts that "The teachers' actions appeared to be
less the result of conscious racism or sexism than an unwitting tendency to
view ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/story/60487/> God's Harvard: The New Grooming
Ground of the Evangelical Movement
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Christian right had become a fixture in American politics and the nation
was about to elect George W. Bush, the closest thing American evangelicals
have ...

 <http://www.freepress.org/doit.php?strFunc=display&strID=325&strYear=2007>
Jim Crow-like oppression in Louisiana
Columbus Free Press - Columbus,OH,USA
by Color of Change Last fall in Jena, the day after two Black high school
students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from
the ...

 <http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_6694524> Divide between high-,
low-wage earners grows
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
It's hard to tell which part of this story is more poignant, but it's a good
bet most folks would choose the fact that a working-class guy with his wife
... 

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