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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 13, 2007
 
Age bias waits for all, so we all should all want to end it (
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/viewpoints/cvoice/070212donaldson.html
)
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
Researchers have focused a great deal on racism and sexism, but very
little on ageism. Perhaps an underlying reason for this neglect is
that age prejudice ...
 
Barack Obama vs. Huey P. Newton (
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mickey_z_070212_barack_obama_vs__hue.htm
)
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
There is no fascist or reactionary government in the world today that
could stand without the support of United States imperialism.
Therefore our problem is ...
 
New Insurance Legislation Would End Discrimination Against People ...
(
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,59282.shtml
)
Earthtimes.org - USA
"Congress can help improve access to mental health services and end
insurance discrimination against those suffering from mental health
disorders by passing ...
 
Dade schools' Crew sued for discrimination (
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16682193.htm )
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
BY PETER BAILEY. The former second-in-command of the Miami-Dade
school district has filed a lawsuit alleging she was forced out after
being humiliated and ...
 
Doctors to donate day's income to fight poverty in Africa (
http://www.nyasatimes.com/news/230.html )
Nyasa Times - Blantyre,Southern,Malawi
Last World Health Day, on April 7th, 2006, more than 60 physicians
across Canada demonstrated their commitment to overcoming poverty in
Africa by donating ...
 
Civil and Voting Rights Advocates Call on Congress for Significant
... ( http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0212-02.htm )
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME,USA
The document was authored by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law and the Brennan Center and is being co-signed by a number of
groups, ...
 
Half the World Gender equality in Yemen: women and Health (
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=859&p=culture&a=3 )
Yemen Times - Sana'a,Yemen
In view of this future policy interventions that seek to achieve
gender equity in health would need to tackle all these issues.
 
Ending Abuses of Girl Children Theme of UN Conference (
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070212170803mlenuhret0.9663507
)
Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
Gender equity and the elimination of discrimination and violence
against girl children are themes of the upcoming 51st session of the
UN ...
 
Environmental justice conference set (
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070212/NEWS01/70212018/1004/living
)
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
CAMDEN - Nationally recognized scholars on environmental justice will
discuss how communities can address issues of pollution and
contamination during a ...
 
Recognize homophobia ( http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=20402 )
Lehigh University The Brown and White - Bethlehem,PA,USA
Homophobia is so socially acceptable that it's hard to recognize its
prevalance on campus. Arguably, it's harder to be a gay student on
campus than it is to ...
 
Football Association bans homophobia (
http://uk.gay.com/headlines/11036 )
Gay.com UK - UK
In the midst of Gay.com's Kick Homophobia Out of Football Campaign,
the Football Association has explicitly banned homophobic chanting at
football stadiums. ...
 
Gay churchgoers more likely to quit mainstream religion (
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10423608
)
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
The Auckland campus social work lecturer said that of the 2269 gay,
lesbian and bisexual participants in the survey, 73 per cent said
they were raised as ...
 
Globalization Doesn't Lead to Democracy (
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200702/kt2007021215535054330.htm
)
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
One reason why we see growing resistance to globalization's advance
is the gnawing sense among many that economic integration doesn't
rapidly lead to ...
 
It's Not What You Know (
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/12/its_not_what_you_know.php
)
TomPaine.com - Washington,DC,USA
In fact, there is no evidence that the recent growth in income
inequality is due to increased rewards for education. To the
contrary, for the first few ...
 
Our view: Racism still too common (
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070211/OPINION01/702110324/1014/OPINION
)
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
The monster is racism. While the country and the region have come far
since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, we have to believe we
have not come far ...
 
Muslim women visit Que. town which has controversial code aimed at
... (
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=590fbf74-91f5-44a2-8b01-dcb36e7c610b&k=40374
)
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
(CP) - A delegation of Muslim women paid a visit Sunday to the Quebec
town that passed a controversial code aimed at immigrants. ...
 
Third of poor children are new immigrants (
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3363596,00.html )
Ynetnews - Israel
A third of Israel's poor children in 2005 were new immigrants,
according to an annual report by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
and the National ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Hamline University
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