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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 17, 2007
 
Immigrants protest Patriot Act (
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7741493 )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP STOCKTON - About 1800 Laotian immigrants, including more than a
hundred Hmong veterans who fought for the United States against the
Vietnamese, ...
 
Another Discrimination Lawsuit Against Fresno State Athletics (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/16/18467299.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Dan Waterhouse, Community Alliance News Yet another gender
discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Fresno State and its
athletic department. ...
 
Slavery's Long Effects on Africa (
http://www.pamdemocrat.org/Newspaper/Details.cfm?Nz=(0GIZ4I%26%3DAG8%20%0A&Iz=%23)%22%3CH%0A
)
Democrat Newspaper - Basseterre,St. Kitts and Nevis
So slavery has a very long effect." Another legacy of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade was the fuelling of conflicts and long
lasting rifts between ...
 
Report: Poverty among Arab population growing (
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483377,00.html )
Ynetnews - Israel
The situation was not much better in the north, where 63% of all Arab
children lived in poverty. In southern Israel, 63% of Arab children
lived beneath the ...
 
Poverty exists every day, not just at Christmas (
http://winnipegsun.com/News/Columnists/Pursaga_Joyanne/2007/12/16/4726781.html
)
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
By JOYANNE PURSAGA A sudden fall on the floor of a refrigerated
trailer led Frank Laird to a path that ended in poverty and
homelessness. On May 22, 2006, ...
 
Homeless 'out there' closer than you think (
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.rodricks16dec16,0,520937.column
)
Baltimore Sun - United States
But there are a lot of reasons for homelessness, starting with one
stated succinctly one fine day by Esther Reaves, doyenne of poverty
workers and director ...
 
UK Gays, Lesbians Urged to Rally Against International Homophobia (
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/Dec/1701.htm )
UK Gay News (press release) - UK
"Yes to Education, no to Homophobia" was a suggested theme for IDAHO
events around the world and this was reflected in several events in
the UK. ...
 
Human Rights and Service Learning (
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=105 )
Human Rights Education Associates (press release) - Cambridge,MA,USA
HREA and Amnesty International-USA just published a manual on human
rights and service learning. Service learning is a method whereby
learners learn and ...
 
Do Black Youth Need 'White Values'? (
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=739f8ee198f908998cdce96d704102bd
)
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
But is there really anything such as "black" or "white" values, asks
Khalil G. Muhammad -- an assistant professor of history at Indiana
University and the ...
 
Changes in the Civil Rights Division (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-abrams/changes-in-the-civil-righ_b_77019.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Just three days after our series Bush League Justice exposed the
dismal record of this Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, in
particular the voting ...
 
New Development in Jena Case: Capitalist "Just-Us" and the Case of
... ( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/15/18467167.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
In the small town of Jena, Louisiana, where a white supremacist,
southern segregationist way of life rules, nooses were hung on a
"whites-only" tree at the ...
 
Rich keep getting richer - still (
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/12/15/Worldandnation/Rich_keep_getting_ric.shtml
)
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
That's an astonishing figure, and it is the highest level of income
inequality since the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929."
And it's true. ...
 
Capitalism's mortgage debt crisis (
http://www.themilitant.com/2007/7148/714820.html )
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
But for the vast majority of borrowers in the working class and
middle classes, it offers no relief at all. This underscores the fact
that the billionaire ...
 
For Gay Teenagers, Hope in Numbers (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/16Rparenting.html?ref=nyregionspecial2
)
New York Times - United States
This was the ninth year of the PrideWorks gathering, which is put on
by the Hudson Valley chapter of the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education
Network. ...
 
Kenya: Money Factor in Parliamentary Race (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712150122.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
However, he says a majority of voters are vulnerable due to poverty
and may be swayed by candidates' financial resources. University of
Nairobi scholar ...
 
Cause of death: Poverty (
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1215roberts1215.html
)
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Joe Arvizu died last week. He was 18 years old and a member of the
chorus, the color guard and Junior ROTC. He would have graduated from
North High School ...
 
Cuba Regrets 'Past Error' of Homophobia (
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=91&ItemID=14507
)
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
by Gerardo Arreola Cuba considers the official homophobia of the past
decades "an error" but this period still needs discussing: "what
happened has to be ...
 
Revelations in US Report on Iran: Lies About Nukes... And Bigger Lies
( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/15/18467168.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
And such resistance will inspire those living in the Middle
East*people who face death and terror at the hands of US
imperialism*to themselves break out of ...
 
Lat Am Confers on Corporate Mercenaries (
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BFB44BD20-7FCE-4696-8071-82F36D79CE68%7D)&language=EN
)
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Such corporations as Blackwater have contracts with the US Department
of Defense to recruit former soldiers and police, who later are sent
to fulfil ...
 
Racism drives immigration uproar (
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/1215satlets2-153.html
)
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
These protests against Mexicans are about racism turned toward Brown
people. It's very similar to the racist behavior directed at
African-Americans in the ...
 
Resistance and Hope (
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/12/14/resistance_and_hope
)
The People's Voice - Nashville,TN,USA
The people who actively opposed injustice throughout American history
and offered fierce resistance are a light in the gathering darkness*a
beacon of hope ...
 
EU passes 'comfort women' motion (
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-12/15/content_6323517.htm
)
China Daily - China
BRUSSELS: The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday approved a
resolution on Justice for the "Comfort Women" - those forced into sex
slavery by the Japanese ...
 
Experts: housing discrimination on the rise (
http://www.wbir.com/news/regional/story.aspx?storyid=52441 )
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
By DEBORAH BARFIELD BERRY and ROBERT BENINCASA, Gannett News Service
Nearly 40 years after a national law banned housing discrimination, an
increasing ...
 
Report: Discrimination Threatens Marginalized People Most During ...
( http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-13-voa62.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
By Lisa Schlein The International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies says people who suffer discrimination are often
overlooked in times of ...
 
US Report of Race distorts reality of discrimination (
http://www.aapress.com/opednews.php?subaction=showfull&id=1197599336&archive=&start_from=&ucat=7
)
St. Paul Asian American Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
"Our analysis reveals that the Bush Administration is utterly out of
touch with the reality of racial discrimination in America," said
Ajamu Baraka, ...
 
Imperialism and Kurdish self-determination (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=h40qemi302.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=7763&news_iv_ctrl=1036
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
But imperialism, through a constant policy of divide and conquer, has
intensified national oppression. Imperialism perpetuates national
oppression not just ...
 
Amnesty International Says Rights Abuses Rising In Zimbabwe ... (
http://voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-12-14-voa44.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
By Blessing Zulu Amnesty International says human rights abuses in
Zimbabwe are on the rise despite efforts by South Africa to mediate a
settlement to the ...
 
 
 
 

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