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from Paul C. Gorski
February 9, 2007

 <http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=9990> Iowa House Approves New
Protection To Gay, Lesbian Students
KTIV - Sioux City,IA,USA
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The House has approved a measure protecting gay and
lesbian students from harassment. It also assures that private religious ...

 <http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_4612.php> Are hospitals
making the grade?
Dallas Voice - Dallas,TX,USA
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association has joined forces with the Human
Rights Campaign to take a monumental step forward in making healthcare more
...

 <http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70272> Gay teens
coming out earlier to peers and family
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
You had to move away from home to be gay," says Kevin Jennings, 43,
executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a
national group ...

<http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B1AD12E3D-F0C1-40A6-BB27-5AC16711
B7CD%7D)&language=EN> Poverty and Inequality Remain in Mex
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Mexico, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) Despite of the social policies implemented by
the Mexican government, poverty and inequality remain equal if compared with
12 ...

 <http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=39057> India still
not 'shining', says rights activist
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) As long as one out of four Indians go to bed hungry
every night, human rights for all will remain a dream in India, ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200702081076.html> Somalia: Human Rights Are
Crucial for Peace
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The UIC's interpretation of Sharia led to gross human rights violations such
as public executions and public floggings. Their strict rule consisted of
...

 <http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/473/pp70.htm> Darfur - another
failure of Western 'conflict resolution'
Socialist Party - UK
But it must be linked to a mass struggle, uniting all workers and poor,
against the system - capitalism, landlordism and imperialism - that creates
...

 <http://www.wftv.com/news/10966199/detail.html> Former Principal Claims
Racial, Sexual Discrimination
WFtv.com - Orlando,FL,USA
Debbie Lyons said she can prove a pattern of sexual and racial
discrimination by the district. In one example, she said, she brought
millions of dollars ...

 <http://www.unicef.org/media/media_38258.html> Over 300000 children in
Serbia today live in poverty and exclusion
UNICEF (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The Report finds that over 155000 children in Serbia are poor and that an
additional 155000 are at risk of falling below the poverty line. ...

<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYm
VsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MDczMjQzJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==> Rich-poor gulf
widening as more kids under 6 live in poverty
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
The number of New Jersey's young children living in poverty increased over
the first half of this decade, signifying a growing divide between the
state's ...

 <http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=8683> Lewiston
Wal-Mart to pay $125000 to settle racial harassment suit
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
Some of the racial graffiti included the phrases "white supremacy," "whites
only" and "no niggers in Idaho," legal documents in the case show. ...

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/08/state/n132150S1
4.DTL&type=politics> Civil rights groups sue over delay in processing
citizenship
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... applications to be processed because of lengthy security checks claimed
in a lawsuit Thursday that the delays violated their constitutional rights.
...

 <http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article2249027.ece> EU
seeks power to jail polluters under new environmental laws
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast,UK
The first move was triggered by a landmark ruling on environmental crimes by
the European Court of Justice in September 2005, which gave Brussels a new
...

 <http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Hall08.htm> Ecology, Justice and the
Politics of Borders
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Moreover, no activist genuinely committed to justice can ignore the deaths
along the Mexican border -- 472 in 2005 alone, not counting those who died
on the ...

<http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.trouble08feb08,0,3050
31.story?coll=bal-artslife-today> Play's issues of racism remain today
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA
This 1955 drama sheds light on the pervasiveness of racism - in the theater
world and beyond, and in the mid-1950s and beyond. The stereotypes that the
...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/06/18358899.php> The Oppression
of Black People and The Revolutionary Struggle to ...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Question: In your talks one of the threads among many is about the
oppression of Black people being a foundational part of the way this society
formed, ...

 <http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=25&id=15553>
Preserving patriarchal 'whiteness'
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
Third, in the context of these changes in legal practice, the colonial
legislature refined its definition of whiteness to exclude individuals of
African and ...

 <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YSAR-6Y7RGZ?OpenDocument>
Nepal: The High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for an end to ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
The High Commissioner for Human rights today expressed her deep concern
about the continued violence in the Terai region of Nepal which has taken at
least ...

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__070207_a_world_appeal_to_s
t.htm> A WORLD APPEAL TO STOP AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
We cannot stop American Imperialism without the help of the whole world ~ we
have reached the point where the consequences of this administration's
illegal ...

 <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0702/S00083.htm> Hungry kids need
policies to end poverty
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Reports of more than 80000 children arriving at schools hungry each day
should be a wake-up call to the government to end child poverty. ...

 <http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/discrim020707.shtml> Sexual
orientation discrimination bill considered
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA
It already is illegal to discriminate in Kansas based on race, gender and
disability, and 27 states have some protection against discrimination based
on ...

 <http://www.aztlanelectronicnews.net/content/view/114/30/> The Words We
Use: The Rhetoric of Race
Aztlan Electronic News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... is a painful reminder, not only to African Americans, but also to all
people of color of the extent of white society's commitment to white
supremacy. ...

<http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/february/06/poor_countries_will_suf
fer_most_from_global_warming_ban_ki_moon_warns.html> Poor countries will
suffer most from global warming,Ban ki-Moon warns
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
6 (NNN-APP) The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global
warming, will suffer the most from climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon ...

 <http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=10582> Harrowing
report on Wales homeless youngsters
News Wales - Knighton,UK
The National Assembly Social Justice and Regeneration Committee has carried
out a wide-ranging review of youth homelessness. The Committee found that
while ...

<http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/02/disability_rights_are_civil_ri.h
tml> DISABILITY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS: The Road to Freedom Tour
Tort Deform - New York City,NY,USA
The National Coalition for Disability Rights/ADA Watch is sponsoring a
national one-year road tour to educate the public about the American with
...

<http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101fareviewessay86112a/andrew-rudalevige
/civil-rights-uncivil-wrongs-the-war-on-terrorism-s-toll-on-the-u-s-constitu
tion.html> Civil Rights, Uncivil Wrongs:The War on Terrorism's Toll on the
US ...
Foreign Affairs Magazine - USA
For Posner, constitutional rights are "especially plastic." They are shaped
mainly by the Supreme Court justices' interpretation of the Constitution,
...

<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2
007-02-07T212255Z_01_N07443230_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-MIT-PROTEST-DC.XML&WTmodLoc
=SciHealth-C3-Science-4> Black US professor presses MIT with hunger strike
Reuters.uk - UK
"I'm going to do this until somebody at this institution acknowledges that
racism plays a role and is a barrier to getting tenure at MIT and that it
...

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