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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 20, 2007
 
Germany's Immigrants Continue to Trail Behind (
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3013205,00.html )
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Children from immigrant families are far more likely not to have any
educational or professional qualifications than their German
counterparts, according to ...
 
Need for envisioning a new role for women in a new Nepal (
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=2537 )
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
Let me start with the issue of equality. Women in Nepal are
disadvantaged as compared to men. In fact, according to the World
Economic Forum's Gender Gap ...
 
Rights Group Sues Blackwater (
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNHPWlAKhppP6u09eYb4SpnhwS2QD8TKNLEG0
)
The Associated Press - 
WASHINGTON (AP) * A human rights group filed its second lawsuit
against Blackwater Worldwide contractors Wednesday, accusing the
security firm of killing an ...
 
Workers demand collective bargaining, end to racism (
http://www.workers.org/2007/us/ue-1227 )
Workers World - USA
Statewide, UE Local 150 has also recently been implementing
anti-racist union stewards' trainings for prompt, on-the-job organized
resistance to racism. ...
 
Survey reveals widespread racism in Cyprus (
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=36644&cat_id=1 )
Cyprus Mail - Nicosia,Cyprus
By Leo Leonidou CYPRIOT society is deeply racist towards non-locals,
according to a survey of migrants, repatriates and Pontians. ...
 
Racism on the rise in Great Britain - Lionel Rudd (
http://www.northernlife.ca/News/Opinions/2006/09-01-06-rudd.asp?NLStory=09-01-06-rudd
)
NorthernLife.ca - Sudbury,ON,Canada
... by the dramatic headlines in all the tabloids, even the highly
conservative London Times, many British people are revealing
disturbing levels of racism. ...
 
Let them tell and put an end to military injustice (
http://www.athensmessenger.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=274&ArticleID=7291&TM=38468.31
)
Athens Messenger - Athens,OH,USA
It has been 14 years since the "don't ask, don't tell" law was
devised to cover gays in the military. The policy remains as awkward
as it is hypocritical. ...
 
Report: Blatant discriminations against NJ's American Indians (
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--americanindians-n1219dec19,0,6084595.story
)
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Jon S. Corzine by the New Jersey Committee on Native American
Community Affairs found "lingering discrimination, ignorance of state
history and culture, ...
 
Thousands Rescued from Slavery in Brazil (
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2007/1219gobbrasil.htm )
Cuba News - Cuba
Havana, Dec 19 (acn) Some 5000 people living under conditions
"similar to slavery" were rescued this year, reported the Brazilian
government, which has sets ...
 
US-Britain gay-bashed Afghanistan (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/lavender-red-118 )
Workers World - USA
Colonialism and imperialism have always studied the cultures they
sought to conquer and destroy. The job of embedded anthropologists is
ultimately always to ...
 
EPA Denies States the Right to Fight Global Warming (
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,245685.shtml
)
Earthtimes - London,UK
The Supreme Court ruled decisively in April 2007 that EPA does have
the authority and the obligation to regulate global warming emissions.
...
 
A (Partial) Victory in the Battle Against Globalization: The NAFTA
... ( http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel181207.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
There are valuable lessons to be learned from this skirmish between
grassroots citizen groups and the forces of globalization. In the face
of widespread ...
 
White Supremacist Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Run for Comanche ...
( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/17/18467518.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Dr. Al Carroll ( educatedindio [at] yahoo.com ) David Yeagley, a
white supremacist who has made a career out of posing as both a
mainstream conservative ...
 
After Failed Bali Climate Talks: Toward a People's Agenda for ... (
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1195/1/ )
Toward Freedom - Burlington,VT,USA
World Bank funds will now be available for governments seeking to
preserve forests, but given the Bank's long history of funding
environmental destruction, ...
 
Racism in the era of globalization (
http://www.upiasiaonline.com/Economics/2007/12/19/racism_in_the_era_of_globalization/3476/
)
United Press International, Asia - Hong Kong,China
The subliminal racism that lurks behind the polished mahogany walls
of the boardrooms of some US-EU corporations came into the open a
fortnight ago, ...
 
Racism still resounds in police brotherhood (
http://www.northernlife.ca/News/Columns/Archive/Dowd/10-27-06-racism.asp?NLStory=10-27-06-racism
)
NorthernLife.ca - Sudbury,ON,Canada
Other officers bordered on racism when they had so-called souvenirs
made of this incident in which police killed an innocent man. These
included T-shirts ...
 
Africa: Church 'Was Complicit in Slave Trade, Racism, Colonialism' (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712180884.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The church is also guilty of promoting racism and colonialism that
destroyed African societies, said the theologians in a conference to
commemorate the ...
 
Let America be American Again: Racial Wealth Equity (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amaad-rivera/let-america-be-american-a_b_77417.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Race and gender compound that inequity, with people of color having
15 cents for every one dollar of white wealth (as reported by The
State of the Dream ...
 
ECOSOC: Inequality Unabated in Lat Am (
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BE65671F8-7F9E-4CF3-94A1-F558312A8997%7D)&language=EN
)
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
United Nations, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) UN Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC pointed out that there are still inequalities in Latin America
regarding the ...
 
Gender inequality remains issue - authority (
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1218/equality.html )
RTE.ie - Ireland
The Equality Authority has said that gender discrimination is still
an issue in the Irish workplace. The 30th anniversary of the
introduction of legislation ...
 
Too many Episcopalians were silent on slavery, Massachusetts ... (
http://www.episcopal-life.org/79901_92957_ENG_HTM.htm )
Episcopal-Life - New York,NY,USA
Studying the issue of reparations for slavery is a key way to begin
to transform ourselves our church, and our country." Noting that the
Episcopal Church ...
 
Proceedings postponed after guilty verdict in US slavery case (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Forced-Labor.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
AP CENTRAL ISLIP, New York: A judge cleared a US courtroom when a
jury convicted a millionaire couple in a so-called "modern-day
slavery" case after the ...
 
Child Poverty In Connecticut (
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-childpoverty.artdec19,0,2533416.story
)
Hartford Courant - United States
It's been three years since the Connecticut General Assembly created
the Child Poverty and Prevention Council and charged it with cutting
child poverty in ...
 
UN Reveals Poverty Impact on Youths (
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B766F79BC-E9CF-49E7-8BF9-2FD08D18EA59%7D&language=EN
)
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
United Nations, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) The transition of children to
adulthood in all regions of the world is affected by poverty and
exclusion from access ...
 
UN report: World's 1.2 billion youth beset by poverty, lack of work (
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/160925.html )
Earthtimes - London,UK
The World Youth Report 2007 said the transition to adulthood for many
young people has been slowed by poverty and an inability to find
decent work despite ...
 
Human Rights Watch slams Zambia over violence against women (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQffs_8cphUCnI7Cu7f2YQFNaTsw )
AFP - 
LUSAKA (AFP) * Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday accused Zambia's
government of failing to stop escalating violence against women and
prevention of access to ...
 
Washington lags behind rest of US on global warming (
http://business.theage.com.au/washington-lags-behind-rest-of-us-on-global-warming/20071216-1hes.html
)
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The point of Bali, they insist, is only to get countries to agree on
a long-term global goal for reducing emissions. Only then can everyone
sit down and ...
 
 
 
 

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