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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
December 24, 2007
 
Iraq: America's outsourced war (
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=46830
)
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
This week a US human rights group filed its second lawsuit against
security contractor Blackwater on charges of war crimes, assault and
wrongful death. ...
 
US ignored warnings about security firms in Iraq (
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004089744_blackwater24.html
)
Seattle Times - United States
By Steve Fainaru A helicopter belonging to the US private-security
company Blackwater flies over Baghdad in April 2004. WASHINGTON * The
US government ...
 
Youngsters join in racism battle (
http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Youngsters-join-in-racism-battle.3607202.jp
)
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By HAYLEY REVELL IN A BID to tackle racism, hundreds of children from
a Whitley Bay school took part in a poster launch through Show Racism
the Red Card ...
 
Racism and verbal abuse drive family out of city (
http://www.odt.co.nz/article.php?refid=2007,12,24,5,00500,818e145f2a4ec051fd65d24bbe9a3183§=1
)
Otago Daily Times - Dunedin,New Zealand
He said his wife, a New Zealand citizen who has lived in the country
for 10 years, deals with racism on a daily basis in Dunedin from the
supermarket ...
 
New Energy Bill- Working People will Pay (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/23/18468576.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The new energy bill is another long term payment plan that will be
required of working class people while the billionaires continue to
collect. ...
 
In Kentucky's teeth, toll of poverty and neglect (
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/24/america/24kentucky.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
By Ian Urbina BARBOURVILLE, Kentucky: In the 18 years he has been
visiting nursing homes, seeing patients in his private practice and,
more recently, ...
 
Rural poverty report card (
http://www.radioowensound.com/news.php?id=8292 )
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada
A local women's group wants to paint a more accurate picture of
poverty in Grey, Bruce, Huron and Perth counties. The Rural Women
Take Action on Poverty ...
 
India: Islands of prosperity in an ocean of poverty (
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=128742 )
Merinews - New Delhi,India
But the sorry state of affairs is such that there are mere islands of
affluent people in a gigantic ocean of poverty. With the Sensex going
past the 20000 ...
 
Bangladesi Minorities Unite to Fight for Their Rights (
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/8839 )
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
A 33-member executive committee of the Bbangladesh National Chapter
of the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh minorities
(HRCBM-Bangladesh) was ...
 
Migrants face a wide range of human rights abuses (
http://www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=8046 )
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
In an era of globalization, ways to ensure the rights of all human
beings, regardless of origin and nationality, become essential.
 
Nobel winner slams US on global warming (
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36075&sectionid=3510212 )
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
The Nobel laureate also examined the importance of globalization,
saying that globalization is happening as inescapably as our telephone
and internet ...
 
Rights Group Sues Blackwater (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121901553.html
)
Washington Post - United States
AP WASHINGTON -- A human rights group filed its second lawsuit
against Blackwater Worldwide contractors Wednesday, accusing the
security firm of killing an ...
 
Tribunal on stigma and discrimination begins (
http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=40504&typeid=1
)
KanglaOnline - Kangla,Manipur,India
IMPHAL, Dec 22: The two days Indian people`s tribunal on stigma and
discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS begins today at
the conference hall ...
 
Opening Our Eyes to Slavery (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/opinion/nyregionopinions/LI-Slaves.html?ref=nyregionopinions
)
New York Times - United States
Human trafficking and slavery are global phenomena, and there is no
reason to believe this region is somehow untouched by it. ...
 
Indian couple gets 40 yrs in jail for 'slavery' (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indian_couple_gets_40_yrs_in_jail_for_slavery/articleshow/2633438.cms
)
Times of India - India
Most of the US media used the word "slave" or "slavery" while
reporting the case. The couple could get up to 40 years in prison,
although their lawyers have ...
 
Gov. blasts Bush on health care (
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/NEWS01/712220353
)
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
The poverty level is $20650 a year for a family of four. Of the 35000
children who would have been eligible under the plan, 20000 were
expected to ...
 
Civil Rights Coalition Continues to Challenge Arizona Employer ... (
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/discrim/33338prs20071221.html )
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... flawed database system and imposing draconian sanctions,” said
ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project attorney Omar Jadwat. The American
Civil Liberties Union, ...
 
Black-white divide hits home in Nathan McCall's 'Them' (
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/21/RVVET50DI.DTL
)
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
She self-servingly espouses King's vision of racial harmony, and
blinded by white privilege, is baffled when longtime residents snub
the wide-eyed new ...
 
Black caucuses have equal right to organize (
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/NEWS04/712220307
)
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
Many people have no understanding of the term 'racism' or the reasons
a minority group has to caucus, to discuss issues that pertain to
them. ...
 
Arab-Israeli legislator: Indifference to human rights report ... (
http://www.imemc.org/article/52061 )
International Middle East Media Center - Beit Sahour,West
Bank,Palestinian Territories
Mohammad Baraka, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament)
stated that Jewish Israelis demonstrated their indifference to the
discrimination ...
 
Indigenous discrimination (
http://www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5443
)
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
Community leaders recount dozens discrimination allegations, from
simple mistreatment in everyday activities such as taking a bus, to
cash supposedly ...
 
Nepal ordered to end discrimination against gays (
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKDEL24908920071221
)
Reuters UK - UK
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the government on
Friday to end discrimination against gays and guarantee sexual
minorities the same ...
 
Student Told to Cover Up Lesbian T-Shirt (
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gnlqIZdrmFrCQhdexwZXvH1hLP0QD8TM7DAG1
)
The Associated Press - 
(AP) * A high school official made a mistake by telling a student to
cover up a lesbian-themed T-shirt or face suspension, the school's
principal said ...
 
ACLU demands that school stop censoring lesbian student (
http://www.gay.com/news/election/article.html?2007/12/21/1 )
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... of all the students who go to that school," said Christine Sun, a
staff attorney with the ACLU's national Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Project. ...
 
Kenya: Economic Violence - Unemployment and poverty are human ... (
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2859 )
African Path - Minneapolis,MN,USA
It is the story of youth poverty and unemployment in Kenya. Young
people are often viewed with skepticism and suspicion. They are
treated as miniature ...
 
Poverty on the increase (
http://www.galwaynews.ie/2306-poverty-increase )
Galway City Tribune - Galway,Ireland
Volunteers have been astounded by the level of poverty as, for the
second year running, they have found clear evidence of a down-turn in
the economy during ...
 
Chinese spouses protest 'declining human rights' (
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/12/22/2003393634
)
Taipei Times - Taiwan
Chinese spouses of Taiwanese, accompanied by members of a social
activist group, filed a protest yesterday against what they called
"declining human rights" ...
 
Human Rights Groups Call on Bush Administration to Stand Up for ... (
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/hrd/2007/statement/399/ )
Human Rights First - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK*Today Human Rights First joined with 11 other leading human
rights organizations in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice. ...
 
More on the 'scientific' attacks on global warming (
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/21/16436/710 )
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
James "global warming is a hoax" Inhofe (R-Okla.) issues a report in
which he claims: Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two
dozen countries ...
 
Rights group to appeal judge's ruling against Muslim scholar ... (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/21/america/NA-GEN-US-Muslim-Scholar.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW YORK: A civil liberties group said it will appeal a US judge's
ruling that upheld the federal government's decision to deny entry to
a prominent ...
 
 
 
 

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