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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 4, 2007
 
Supremacy group sees 4 charged ( http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/539162.html )
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Officers confiscated a variety of weapons and Nazi and white supremacy paraphernalia. The material, displayed at a news conference, included photos of Adolf ...
 
My View: We cannot avoid the topic of racism and its effects ( http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070203/OPINION/702030301 )
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
That is, until one student said that she'd had a lot of leadership training during her high school years, but never one that talked so honestly about racism ...
 
The Withering of the American Environmental Movement The Thrill is ... ( http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair02032007.html )
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Environmentalism was once driven by a desire for social justice and an unremitting passion for the wild. We need to tap back into those populist currents. ...
 
Gay Couples To Get 'Certificates Of Inequality' ( http://www.wnbc.com/news/10922242/detail.html )
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
The woman who oversees civil marriage in Yolo County, Colo., is planning to issue "certificate of inequality" to same-sex couples on Valentine's Day. ...
 
Rights experts seek racial profiling ban ( http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Switzerland/10101780.html )
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Geneva: Human rights experts have called on governments to ban racial profiling by police and law enforcement officers, including so-called "terrorist ...
 
In India Everything Kills Except Poverty ( http://pd.cpim.org/2007/0204/02042007_mamta.htm )
People's Democracy
Across the world people die of cold, heat, water (floods etc.,) and all other elements but never of hunger, poverty and destitution, as for us they are not ...
 
Poverty rises in county Report shows increase in free school lunches ( http://www.reformer.com/headlines/ci_5150194 )
Brattleboro Reformer - Brattleboro,VT,USA
BRATTLEBORO -- Poverty levels continue to rise in Windham County schools, with counts in some towns far exceeding state averages. ...
 
Montana advocates revive legislation outlawing gay discrimination ( http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ci=108&ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=17876 )
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
Helena, MT -- Gay rights advocates, whose efforts to enact a law that would outlaw discrimination against gays and lesbians failed two years ago, ...
 
WEB Du Bois, 1868-1963: He Fought for Civil Rights for Black People ( http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2007-02-03-voa1.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois fought for civil rights for black people in the United States. During the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, ...
 
Documentary explores the story of a pioneer in science and civil ... ( http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/02/03/100ae_f3civil001.cfm )
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
... PBS), Nova explores the life of a "Forgotten Genius" who became a renowned research chemist and a lesser-known civil rights pioneer. ...
 
Is Faggot the New N-Word? ( http://www.newyorkblade.com/2007/2-2/news/national/faggot.cfm )
New York Blade - New York,NY,USA
Too many white gays and their institutions are silent about these struggles [like racism and classism], except when a specific reference to racial ...
 
Female Hispanic caucus members alleging sexism ( http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5140127 )
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
BY ERICA WERNER, AP. WASHINGTON - Three female members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus accused the organization's male leaders Thursday of treating ...
 
Colombia: Latest killing of human rights defender throws ... ( http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR230022007 )
Amnesty International USA - USA
Amnesty International condemns the killing of human rights defender Yolanda Izquierdo in the city of Monteri­a, Cardoba Department, on 31 January. ...
 
Alameda Co. DA Sued For Gender Discrimination ( http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_033145052.html )
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... filed a lawsuit against District Attorney Tom Orloff alleging that he runs a male-dominated office and engages in gender discrimination and harassment. ...
 
Former Employee Files Discrimination Suit Against LCPS, School Board ( http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2007/02/02/schools/edt90coleman020207.txt )
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
Esther Coleman, a former Loudoun County Public Schools employee, has filed a $2.9 million lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation by the ...
 
Magazine plays to Japanese xenophobia ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2004646,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The recent release of a glossy magazine devoted to the foreign-led crime wave supposedly gripping Japan has raised fears of a backlash against the country's ...
 
Oil producers 'must do more to fight poverty' ( http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Environment/10101517.html )
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Dubai: An international organisation has called on oil producing countries to do more to eradicate poverty in rural areas. ...
 
What Place Does Race Have in Sports? ( http://www.alternet.org/story/47522/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Black advancements are indexed to a series of psychological defeats for white supremacy in this country. Sure, we look back to Jackie Robinson, reverently, ...
 
Bush suppresses global warming science ( http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/02/02/bush_suppresses_glob.php )
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
These changes constituted the exclusion of words such as "climate change," or any other such word that is indicative of global warming. ...
 
Studies Examine Health-Racism Link, Quality Reporting, Nutrition ... ( http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=42703 )
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
"Associations of Abdominal Fat With Perceived Racism and Passive Emotional Responses to Racism in African-American Women," American Journal of Public Health ...
 
Washington Police Accused of Racism ( http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B55D928D0-193B-4D1E-94C4-1EE4466FA0D7%7D)&language=EN )
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Washington, Feb 2 (Prensa Latina) The police of the United states capital arrest more Hispanics and blacks than whites, revealed an official report. ...
 
Gay political group opens DC office ( http://www.washblade.com/2007/2-2/news/localnews/9938.cfm )
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
The foundation provides millions of dollars every year to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organizations as well as HIV/AIDS and other charitable ...
 
Lesbian couple register in Coahuila as Mexico's first gay civil union ( http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16605360.htm )
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
MONTERREY, Mexico - A lesbian couple who waited months for their relationship to be legally recognized spent the first day of their civil union hiding from ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

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