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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 5, 2007
 
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Jena case provides peek at racist attitudes (
http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=2505 )
Frost Illustrated - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
It is still white supremacy domination-only the territory has been
expanded to include the continents of Africa, Iraq, etc, etc., until
globalization occurs ...
 
The beginning of the end (
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/kate_green/2007/12/the_beginning_of_the_end.html
)
Guardian Unlimited - UK
But the culture of inequality in Britain damages more than the lives
of those in poverty. It is a major social and economic cost to the
whole nation. ...
 
MDC Assembly of Women Commemorates 16 Days of Activism Against ... (
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10266:mdc-assemly-of-women-press-statement&catid=31:top%20zimbabwe%20stories&Itemid=66
)
The Zimbabwean - Harare,Africa
... the Zimbabwe government continues to use primitive and archaic,
modern and up-to-date tools of oppression to further enhance abuse and
oppression of ...
 
Child poverty is worse than statistics suggest (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article3000270.ece
)
Times Online - UK
Sir, The measure of poverty used by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's
researchers is not only that which the Government itself uses, but it
is also ...
 
Poverty persists in SA, despite boom (
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22873574-2702,00.html
)
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
POVERTY remains a persistent feature of South Australian society,
despite the economic boom, a welfare group says. South Australia's
Council of Social ...
 
A snapshot of injustice (
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/04/opinion/edphoto.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
In April 2006, US forces arrested Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi
photographer working for the Associated Press in Ramadi. The military
alleged that he had ...
 
Class injustice (
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20071221502403200.htm )
Frontline - Chennai,India
"Hiding Behind the Poor", a recent report by Greenpeace India,
provides a quantitative perspective to this internal "climate
injustice". ...
 
Cameroon: Disabled Persons Decry Discrimination in Job Market (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712040789.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Disabled persons in Cameroon like their counterpart worldwide
yesterday decried the discrimination and marginalisation faced in the
job market as they ...
 
Reaching across party lines to end modern-day slavery (
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_7630271 )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
We call it modern slavery. It must be stopped. Especially in the past
decade, federal criminal civil rights prosecutions have uncovered
cases of enslavement ...
 
California a top destination for human traffickers, report finds (
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7632965 )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The task force, the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and
Slavery, cites research by the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center.
Over a five-year period, ...
 
Some Enchanted Movie: Mixing Feminism With Femininiity, Disney ... (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-seltzer/some-enchanted-m_b_75334.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Judging by the collective age of the audience around me as I settled
in for a Saturday evening showing of Disney's Enchanted, I wasn't the
only person who ...
 
Calls increase to reopen '64 civil rights workers' slayings (
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071204/NEWS/71204027
)
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
"The FBI should be focusing its resources on the civil rights-era
cases where there were significant investigations at the time of the
crimes and where ...
 
Civil Rights Coalition Petitions Congress to Re-Authorize and ... (
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/467203/civil_rights_coalition_petitions_congress.html
)
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
The Campaign comprises a diverse coalition of national civil rights
organizations that represent communities of people of color that
believe high schools ...
 
Let's Put the "Justice" Back in Our Juvenile Justice System (
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20071203/cm_huffpost/075072 )
Yahoo! News - USA
Shaquanda's case is just one of many reflecting the racial inequity
in America's juvenile justice system, which funnels low-income
children of color into ...
 
Vindication against homophobia (
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/03/vindication_against_homophobia
)
Boston Globe - United States
... demonization of gay marriage and homosexuality in general, these
stories serve as vindication, irrefutable proof of the hypocrisy
behind the homophobia. ...
 
New Survey Finds Increased Inequality In Child And Adolescent ... (
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90359.php )
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
A survey published in the December issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin
reports that inequality in the provision of child and adolescent
mental health (CAMH) ...
 
Immigrants hurt in race-hate attacks (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2995091.ece
)
Times Online - UK
BERLIN A pregnant Iraqi woman and a group of African immigrants were
hurt in separate attacks in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, that police
believe were ...
 
Human Rights Crusader Michael Ratner: We'll Keep Going After Bush ...
( http://www.alternet.org/rights/69421/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Center, born of the civil rights movements of the 1960s, has been
at the forefront of human rights litigation ever since. CCR pursued
the former Chilean ...
 
UN chief calls for end to job discrimination against disabled people
(
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/04/news/UN-GEN-UN-Day-of-Disabled.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
AP UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end
to the "deplorable" job discrimination against millions of disabled
people around the ...
 
Minneapolis cops file discrimination lawsuit (
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/12/03/copslawsuit/
)
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
... Five African-American police officers are suing the Minneapolis
Police Department and police chief Tim Dolan, alleging race
discrimination. ...
 
Poverty and exclusion blight Roma (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7124786.stm )
BBC News - UK
By Oana Lungescu The European Commission is set for an unprecedented
meeting with Roma (Gypsy) people from all over Europe. ...
 
Bush administration infringes on civil rights (
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/opinion/bush-rights120307.htm )
Periódico 26 - Las Tunas,Cuba
With the tired argument of protecting the country from terrorist
acts, the Bush administration has extensively infringed on civil
rights. ...
 
More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States (
http://www.monthlyreview.org/1107yates.htm )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
We see in the consciousness of the working class of the United States
the impact of scores of years of nationalism within the world's
biggest and most ...
 
Number of female coaches in women's sports shrinks to all-time low (
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-women2dec02,1,7928637.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&track=crosspromo
)
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Officials in athletics say there is no one simple reason, but most
add that sexism is part of it. By Ken Fowler, Special to The Times
UCLA women's soccer ...
 
NHS ignoring human rights of people with learning disabilities (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/03/learningdisability.humanrights
)
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The NHS is holding thousands of people with learning disabilities in
bleak accommodation with scant regard to their human rights,
inspectors warn today. ...
 
Somali Group: 5960 Killed This Year (
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gKQ6Hm0yuq8jNqzJY4rRkn0qzwhQD8T9DV280
)
The Associated Press - 
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) * Violence in Somalia's war-ravaged capital
has killed 5960 civilians this year, a human rights group said Sunday.
...
 
Young People Storm DC For Action on Global Warming (
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00013.htm )
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
... as well as groups representing youth of color, like the
Indigenous Environmental Network and the Environmental Justice Climate
Change Initiative. ...
 
Attacking Muslims under the veil of free specch is wrong (
http://www.nyunews.com/news/2007/12/03/Opinion/Attacking.Muslims.Under.The.Veil.Of.Free.Specch.Is.Wrong-3127515.shtml
)
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA
This is ultimately a cultural eugenicist argument, rooted in a
philosophy of white supremacy. Furthermore, Horowitz endorses the
racist supposition that ...
 
 
 
 

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