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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
August 31, 2007
 
Justification of war evaporates ( http://tracypress.com/content/view/10920/2244/ )
Tracy Press - Tracy,CA,USA
The facade quickly put in place after the failure to turn up weapons of mass destruction has fallen away, finally revealing the bald-faced imperialism ...
 
Zimbabwe: Leaders Not Ready for Genuine Gender Equity ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200708300694.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
A Protocol on Gender, designed to get governments to make commitments towards the attainment of gender equality and women's empowerment was endorsed in the ...
 
Neutrality is cowardice ( http://www.newstatesman.com/200708300019 )
New Statesman - London,England,UK
By analogy, the BBC would have been neutral on the question of slavery in the mid-19th century, and should be giving full voice today to the likes of the ...
 
Racism at Work: It Doesn't Work to Just Say No ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/penelope-trunk/racism-at-work-it-doesn_b_62572.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
On a national radio show, there are a lot of checks in place to make sure racism doesn't happen on air: The producer screens calls, and the host can say ...
 
Norway admits to racism in emergency service ( http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/100015.html )
Earthtimes.org - USA
Oslo- Norway's health authority has admitted to racism in the ranks of its emergency services after widely publicized case involving a severely injured ...
 
Poor Analysis ( http://feeds.villagevoice.com/~r/blogs/bushbeat/~3/150051220/poor_analysis.php )
Village Voice - New York,NY,USA
Bush is "pleased with lower poverty rate." Here on our planet, the situation is different. Wednesday was a good day at the beleaguered White House, ...
 
10% of Australians in poverty: Study ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/10_of_Australians_in_poverty_Study/articleshow/2322578.cms )
Times of India - India
SYDNEY: Nearly 10 per cent of Australians are living in poverty despite a booming economy, a major new study published on Thursday said, but its findings ...
 
Inequity in Post-Katrina Funding ( http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/30/katrina )
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
Two years after Hurricane Katrina took its toll on colleges along the Gulf Coast, the federal government isn't doing enough to facilitate recovery and ...
 
The Privatization of Education: How New Orleans Went From a Public ... ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/30/145226 )
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
While many in New Orleans have waited two years for recovery, the restructuring of its schools seemed to happen overnight. Not long after Hurricane Katrina ...
 
The Katrina Experience in Houston: Stories of Unintended, and ... ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-parker-aab/the-katrina-experience-in_b_62574.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
I'm from a working class family, proudly so, but union labor. I came to understand the world through that point of view. When I was ten, we lived near a ...
 
Attack of the Wallmart-istas? ( http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2288/81/ )
Atlantic Free Press - Groningen,Netherlands
So when will day arrive when America's once vibrant and hyper-patriotic working class wakes up and realizes they're at the receiving end of one of the ...
 
YPD's new excuse for racial profiling
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
THE NYPD study only takes into account so-called Islamic extremism while completely ignoring white supremacy and neo-Nazi organizations. ...
 
Why socialism makes sense ( http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/642/642_08_Socialism.shtml )
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
Racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-immigrant scapegoating are just a few of the means they have at their disposal. The corporate media and the mainstream ...
 
Study finds inequality in Texas education funding ( http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2007/08/27/daily41.html )
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... percent higher in a third of the schools, until the 2000 to 2001 school year when there was a dramatic drop in the level of inequality in the district. ...
 
First Woman Appointed to Head Top Med School ( http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10493 )
Feminist Majority Foundation - USA
While medical schools have achieved near-gender equity in enrollment, a gender balance among faculty and administrators lags far behind. ...
 
Living with the scourge of caste discrimination ( http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details/2522/uk )
Black Britain - UK
That is the reality of caste discrimination - it exists everywhere, explained Maria Dass, a member of the Dalit community in London. ...
 
GenderPAC Releases New Report on Gender Discrimination in Schools ( http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10492 )
Feminist Majority Foundation - USA
The second of its kind, the 2007 GENIUS (Gender Equality National Index for Universities and Schools) Index examines non-discrimination policies, ...
 
The federal poverty lie ( http://blog.nj.com/njv_jon_shure/2007/08/the_federal_poverty_lie.html )
NJ Blog - New Jersey,USA
Poverty in the state remained at the same level as at the start of the decade--and so did the income of the typical worker. The legacy of tax cuts for the ...
 
After Katrina -- Poverty Is Still America's Shame ( http://www.alternet.org/katrina/61106/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The naked face of poverty that shocked the world two years ago remains just as naked and shameful two years later. And Bush and the Democrats are to blame ...
 
36.5 million live in poverty in United States ( http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C30%5Cstory_30-8-2007_pg5_39 )
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
WASHINGTON: More than one in ten Americans, or 36.5 million people, live in poverty in the United States, with children and blacks the worst hit, ...
 
So-called Military Contractors Lean More Towards 'Military' than ... ( http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rowan_wo_070829_so_called_military_c.htm )
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
Blackwater, CACI, and others have made headlines. So many contractors are being used by both the US military and intelligence branches that Amnesty USA ...
 
The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet The GOP's ... ( http://www.counterpunch.org/rosen08292007.html )
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Hopefully, the latest revelation of the Republican, Christian right's hypocrisy will only make Americans wary of anything they say about the morality of ...
 
Six New Orleans Schoolyards Contaminated With Arsenic ( http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2007/2007-08-27-095.asp )
Environment News Service - USA
"There is strong evidence to prove Hurricane Katrina exacerbated arsenic levels throughout the city," said Al Huang, environmental justice attorney for NRDC ...
 
State Homophobia Threatens Health and Human Rights in Uganda ( http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070827204246521 )
BBSNews - Charlotte,NC,USA
"For years, President Museveni's government has drummed up homophobia and denied the basic rights of LGBT people for his own political advantage," said ...
 
Growth in Chinese inequality leads to rise in protest ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12907 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
The boom has created greater inequality than at any time since 1949. China's growth has not made the world economy more stable. Faster growth and greater ...
 
Slavery continues in Brazil's Amazon coal bunkers ( http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/aug/27/slavery_continues_brazils_amazon_coal_bunkers.html )
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
In September 2004, Brazil's Ministry of Labor signed an agreement with pig iron producers aimed at fighting slavery in the region and "huge progress has ...
 
International slavery museum: a refreshing approach to history ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12897 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
A detail of the Freedom! sculpture that opens the new International Slavery Museum (Pic: Lee Garland) The new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool ...
 
 
 
 

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