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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 2, 2007
 
Job Discrimination Filings Rise In 2006 ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6387421,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal job discrimination complaints filed by workers against private employers rose in 2006 for the first time in four years. ...
 
Young blacks feel discrimination ( http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5130766 )
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Chicago - Decades after the civil rights movement's greatest victories, black youth often see a world rife with discrimination, a new survey says. ...
 
Panama: Poverty despite Economic Growth ( http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BAA93B4B7-A4AE-40A9-895D-1BE102FC6776%7D)&language=EN )
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Panama, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) Despite Panama s high economic growth, poverty and unemployment continue at high levels the National Council of Organized ...
 
Children rally against poverty in India ( http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=22054 )
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
According to United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific, there is an estimated 350-400 million people below poverty line in India, ...
 
EU plans far-reaching 'genocide denial' law ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/weu02.xml )
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Germany, current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, will table new legislation to outlaw "racism and xenophobia" this spring. ...
 
US Protections for Working Families Worst of All Affluent Countries ( http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2007/02/020107ov_study_fam.php )
Southwest News-Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
According to the Index, the US is well-situated among countries that ensure the right to work for all racial and ethnic groups, regardless of gender, ...
 
Immigrants poorer than Canadian-born citizens: study ( http://www.hrreporter.com/loginarea/members/viewing.asp?ArticleNo=4979 )
Canadian HR Reporter - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
New immigrants are still poorer than those born in Canada, despite the fact immigrants have much higher levels of education than the skilled immigrants from ...
 
Racism 'rampant' in France ( http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2062569,00.html )
News24 - Cape Town,South Africa
The release of the survey came amid a push by blacks to put racism squarely on the agenda of the campaign for the French presidency ahead of the April and ...
 
Indigenous Women And Racism ( http://presszoom.com/story_123847.html )
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
For Indigenous women, gender-based violence is fueled by racism. They are marginalized and abused. They are facing discrimination. ...
 
Gay Bully Bill Passes Iowa Senate ( http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/013107iowa.htm )
365Gay.com - USA
The survey, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, also found that 69 percent of junior/middle high school students had been ...
 
Use profits to clean up your mess, Shell told ( http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=14&art_id=vn20070201075429417C256699 )
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... which was launched on Wednesday by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, environmental justice group groundWork, Friends of the Earth South ...
 
Director Takes on Homophobia in Hip-Hop ( http://www.queerty.com/queer/culture/director-takes-on-homophobia-in-hiphop-20070201.php )
Queerty - New York,NY,USA
... come through loud and clear, to which Hurt replies: Honestly, I am not always comfortable having conversations about homosexuality and homophobia. ...
 
Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Headlines National Black Church Summit ... ( http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR020107C.html )
Religion News Service - Washington,DC,USA
The continued silence of the Black gay community on issues dealing with homophobia has left the entire community vulnerable to the divisive tactics of those ...
 
Globalization and terror: the O'Loan report ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=12011 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Monopoly capitalism's (11) imperialist globalization project is on the rocks up against limits provoked by environmental deterioration, US dollar decline, ...
 
Globalization Is the New Imperialism: ( http://www.larouchepub.com/other/govt_docs/2007/3406_eir_testimony.html )
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - Leesburg,VA,USA
This testimony was submitted by EIR News Service to the Hearing on Trade and Globalization, held by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of ...
 
For the first time in his presidency, Bush acknowledges income ... ( http://www.tdn.com/articles/2007/02/01/biz/news06.txt )
Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
NEW YORK -- President Bush acknowledged Wednesday that there is growing income inequality in the United States, addressing for the first time a subject that ...
 
God Hates Inequality ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/god-hates-inequality_b_40170.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
[Their words] reveal that God hates inequality. That's our theological foundation - God hates inequality. What does the Bible have to say about the minimum ...
 
Biggest US Companies Faulted for Poor Disclosure of Global Warming ... ( http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,53179.shtml )
Earthtimes.org - USA
... climate legislation is growing, California and seven Northeastern states are already taking regulatory action to reduce global warming pollutants. ...
 
New interactive civil rights exhibit unveiled ( http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=6008226 )
WREG - Memphis,TN,USA
MEMPHIS, TN - In 2004, an oral history project called "Voices of the Civil Rights" launched a 40 city tour across 22 states to record the stories of ...
 
Racism in cricket ( http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=167643 )
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
Racism is an evil that has transformed today`s world into conflict zones and human beings into savages. It is something crime which should have no place in ...
 
First French racism poll released ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6317799.stm )
BBC News - UK
Black leaders say the restrictions are compounding the problem and call for public policy changes to beat racism. It is estimated that nearly 4% of France's ...
 
The full impact of racism ( http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=29063&pid=1537 )
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Levy writes that "while students' racism may be hateful, it never brought anyone physical harm." What about the psychological harm on not just Chelsea ...
 
Immigrants comprise a disproportionate number of black students ( http://www.huliq.com/8859/immigrants-comprise-a-disproportionate-number-of-black-students )
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
In addition, immigrants constituted 35 percent of the Black students at the ten most selective schools, but just 24 percent in the least selective schools ...
 
CANADA'S UNDERPAID, UNDEREMPLOYED IMMIGRANTS ( http://maisonneuve.org/index.php?&page_id=12&article_id=2604 )
Maisonnueve - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Canada is a nation of immigrants. This has been a truism for as long as the notion of Canada has existed, and it is no less true today than it was in eras ...
 
Tutu: Homophobia = apartheid ( http://www.planetout.com/support/click.html$rg/817,108165,c:/news/article.html?date=2007/01/30/1&navpath=/news/ )
PlanetOut - San Francisco,CA,USA
As a community, we've become accustomed to attacks from religious leaders, especially those hailing from Africa, so it's heartening to hear that Desmond ...
 
African LGBTI Human Rights Defenders Warn Public against ... ( http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/increse310107.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
As Human Rights Defenders from across Africa, we strongly discourage the public from taking part in any LGBTI campaigns or calls to action concerning Africa ...
 
Empire Vs. Democracy ( http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/31/empire_vs_democracy.php )
TomPaine.com - Washington,DC,USA
If we choose to keep our empire, as the Roman republic did, we will certainly lose our democracy and grimly await the eventual blowback that imperialism ...
 
US Imperialism & the Anti-War Movement ( http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=51w0n5seo2.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=6335&news_iv_ctrl=1501 )
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
US Imperialism & the Anti-War Movement: What should be the role of the US anti-war movement? To "push the Democrats to the left?" We say no. ...
 
Educators blast No Child Left Behind changes ( http://www.examiner.com/a-538560~Educators_blast_No_Child_Left_Behind_changes.html )
Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA
BALTIMORE - Two key proposed Bush administration changes to the No Child Left Behind law drew criticism from local public school education officials and ...
 
Phumzile: Poverty = crime ( http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2062154,00.html )
News24 - Cape Town,South Africa
Cape Town - South Africa must end poverty for millions and build moral values to help stop violent crime and corruption, the country's deputy president ...
 
Civil rights leader Rustin left in closet of history ( http://www.thehurricaneonline.com/news/2007/01/30/News/Civil.Rights.Leader.Rustin.Left.In.Closet.Of.History-2684088.shtml )
Hurricane Online (subscription) - Coral Gables,FL,USA
The documentary not only revealed all of the actions that Rustin helped initiate during the black civil rights movement, but also exposed why so little is ...
 
Advocacy groups call for action on homeless gay youths ( http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid41569.asp )
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Coalition for the Homeless said gay, lesbian, and transgender youths make up at least 20%, possibly ...
 
Final Anti-Gay Marriage Measure Falls In Canada ( http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/013007canada.htm )
365Gay.com - USA
It contradicts Canada's legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages," Siksay said in the House of Commons last year as he tabled a motion calling on the ...
 
International Day Against Homophobia preparations kick off ( http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3592.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Gay campaigners and activists from around the world are gearing up for the 3rd International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on May 17th. ...
 
Education inequality must end ( http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opcoh305072293jan30,0,5625670.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines )
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
"Inequality" was a term never uttered by former Gov. George Pataki when he spoke about schools, let alone "morally indefensible," even after a court ruled ...
 
Critics: Quebec town's conduct code 'xenophobic' ( http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070129/code_conduct_070129/20070129?hub=Canada )
CTV.ca - Scarborough,ON,Canada
But some Muslim leaders have called the code a thinly-veiled example of xenophobia. "Racism is coming out of the woodwork now, and it's not being obscure or ...
 
No child is born a racist and no child should become one ( http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_15 )
Romano Vod'i - Czech Republic
The fight against racism and xenophobia must not be limited to one day a year. We have the responsibility to fight hate and prejudice all the time and ...
 
Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities should be made ... ( http://www.jis.gov.jm/labour/html/20070129T090000-0500_11107_JIS_DISCRIMINATION_AGAINST_PERSONS_WITH_DISABILITIES_SHOULD_BE_MADE_UNCONSTITUTIONAL____MUNROE.asp )
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service - Jamaica
Government Senator, Professor Trevor Munroe has suggested that discrimination against persons with disabilities or health reasons should be made ...
 
Ghana: The Menace of Poverty And the Environment ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200701300461.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Poverty is the state of having inadequate access to one's survival needs and basic social amenities, which include food, clothing, shelter, education, ...
 
Children take part in march against poverty ( http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/218200701302124.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
30 (PTI): On the 59th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, nearly 6000 children today took part in a "Public Parade Against Poverty" organised by over 900 ...
 
In Race Matters the US Is Becoming More and More Like Brazil ( http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9789/80/ )
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
So how does this maintenance of white supremacy exert itself in Brazil? There are several factors that contribute to the protection of the status quo. ...
 
 
 

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