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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 17, 2007
 
Britain worst place for growing up: report (
http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/february/14/international/britain_worst_place_for_growing_up_report.html
)
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
According to the UNICEF report titled "Child Poverty in Perspective:
An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries", Britain lags
behind industrialised ...
 
Zimbabwean VP vows to defeat "British imperialism" (
http://english.people.com.cn/200702/17/eng20070217_350690.html )
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Zimbabwean Vice President Joseph Msika has said Zimbabwe was now
poised to "win the war against British imperialism," praising
Zimbabweans for resilience in ...
 
Study: Dark-Skinned Immigrants Experience More Wage Discrimination
... (
http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7010.shtml
)
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
"It isn't how dark you are relative to your own country, but seems to
be how dark you are here that affects earnings," she says, noting
discrimination in ...
 
Ethnic Chinese and discrimination: What next? (
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20070216.A05&irec=4
)
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Inter-ethnic relations remain a thorny issue in the country despite
the enactment of last year's citizenship law, which criminalized
discrimination and ...
 
Parent alleges discrimination at Oakley school district (
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/16716834.htm
)
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
The class-action disability discrimination lawsuit was filed in
federal court in Oakland Wednesday by a parent of a former student at
Delta Middle School. ...
 
EU anti-hate law sparks debate on Nazi and Soviet crimes (
http://euobserver.com/9/23515 )
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
But she said that "all EU states want to give a strong signal of
being ready to combat racism and xenophobia" adding there is unanimous
support for "a legal ...
 
Americans believe in global warming but don't want to make changes (
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0215-oregon.html )
Mongabay.com - USA
Most Americans believe global warming is real but view it as a
distant threat according to comments by Anthony Leiserowitz, a
professor of environmental ...
 
King says 'militarism' taking away from racism, poverty fight (
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-27/1171635895133250.xml&storylist=alabamanews
)
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The war on terrorism is making it hard to
fight the war on poverty and racism, according to the son of slain
civil rights leader ...
 
Indian athletes experience racism on the road (
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/02/16/sports_top/000indians.txt
)
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
American Indian athletes, coaches, parents and fans are having to
deal with racism on road trips to schools off the Wind River Indian
Reservation. ...
 
Penn Law School Establishes Civil Rights Chair With Help Of $1 ... (
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1099 )
Penn - Philadelphia,PA,USA
"Establishing a civil rights chair at Penn in Sadie and Raymond
Alexander's memory is a wonderful tribute to a courageous and
brilliant couple," Penn ...
 
Gay, Lesbian Couples Request Marriage Licenses (
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6094260&nav=0s3d )
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
Gay and lesbian couples came from around Texas to the Travis County
Tax Assessor's office Wednesday afternoon, requesting marriage
licenses. ...
 
US fails to provide justice for Afghan victims: Human Rights Watch (
http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4043&Itemid=2
)
Associated Press of Pakistan - Pakistan
Human Rights Watch asked Washington to provide accountability for
several other cases of alleged abuse and killings by US forces in
Afghanistan. ...
 
NBA gives Hardaway the boot (
http://outsports.com/nba/20062007/0216hardaway.htm )
Outsports.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
He should take a cue from the NFL, which has embraced its role as a
social leader and implemented programs to fight homophobia, racism and
sexism in the ...
 
UT female faculty cite sexism in history department (
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070216/NEWS21/702160301
)
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
By JOSHUA BOAK. Historians at the University of Toledo are struggling
to reconstruct their own academic department, which anonymous female
professors say in ...
 
Dr. J. Short Shot: Tim Hardaway and Mitt Romney (
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/jonas/048 )
BuzzFlash - Chicago,IL,USA
Just like racism, homophobia is not in-born. It is taught. So widely
taught as it is in this country, it is rampant even amongst the most
...
 
Gay basketball star exposes the game's homophobia (
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3719.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
John Amaechi, the former NBA basketball player who disclosed his
homosexuality last week, has been receiving threatening e-mails since
making the ...
 
Gay Christians march against Church homophobia (
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3727.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
The "End Christian Homophobia" demo will take place in Longmarket in
the city centre on Saturday 17th February, 10am-12pm. The protestors
will demand that ...
 
China's Widening Income Gap (
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/gb20070216_056285.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
)
BusinessWeek - USA
Why does Beijing care about inequity? One obvious reason is that it
is sparking social unrest. Protests by workers angry about unpaid
wages and farmers ...
 
It's a mad world (
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/oliver_james/2007/02/its_a_mad_world.html
)
Guardian Unlimited - UK
First, hard commitments to end the massive inequality in income and
private wealth. Second, the payment of the average national wage to
all families with an ...
 
Colorblindness is still blindness (
http://www.progressiveu.org/085734-colorblindness-is-still-blindness
)
ProgressiveU.org - San Mateo,CA,USA
Inequality has infiltrated the way people live, work and even how
they are educated. Ellison and Baldwin all write on the conditions of
those who have been ...
 
Gay Couples get certificate of inequality (
http://www.generationq.net/articles/Gay-Couples-get-certificate-of-inequality-00001.html
)
GenerationQ - Sydney,NSW,Australia
WOODLAND, Calif.,(UPI) -- The clerk-recorder in one California county
handed out more than 20 "certificates of inequality" to gay couples on
Valentine's Day ...
 
White History 101 ( http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070305/younge )
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
Settlement, slavery and segregation--propelled by economic expansion
and justified by white supremacy--inform much of what the United
States is today. ...
 
New Website: Universal Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents
( http://www.socialniprava.info/article1746.html )
Droits sociaux en Bulgarie - Sofia,Bulgaria
All countries are covered and all rights as well as cross-cutting
issues such as human rights and counter-terrorism or human rights and
structural ...
 
NEPAL:Human Rights Watch has interviewed child soldiers (
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=15851 )
PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal
Seventeen-year-old Sita, who had been with the Maoists for seven
months before she was captured by government forces, told Human Rights
Watch she was ...
 
Patricia J. Williams ( http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070305/williams
)
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
According to these lyrics, whiteness is a dull preserve defined by
respectable class status, college education and world-class angst;
black people have ever ...
 
No Child Left Behind? These Kids Just Want to Come in From Cold (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021400645.html
)
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Woodson is not the only DC school in terrible condition, with pipes
that are old and worn, ceilings that are caving in and no computer
access for all ...
 
India: Dalit Freedom Network Welcomes Human Rights Watch Report on
... (
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsdetails.php?newsid=940 )
Pakistan Christian Post - Karachi,Pakistan
The report, "Hidden Apartheid, Caste Discrimination against India`s
`Untouchables,`" is a "shadow report" to the UN Committee on the
Elimination of Racial ...
 
Illinois Poverty Report Released (
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=6096059&nav=1sW7 )
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
The report says 85% of Illinois counties saw a jump in the number of
people living in poverty. More than 17000 people live in poverty in
Rock Island County. ...
 
Scientists: January the hottest ever, thanks to El Nino and global
... ( http://www.komotv.com/news/national/5853221.html )
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA
It is what climate scientists predict happens and will happen more
frequently with global warming, according to an authoritative report
by hundreds of ...
 
Study finds female students in colleges outnumber males - but why? (
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2007/02/15/News/Study.Finds.Female.Students.In.Colleges.Outnumber.Males.But.Why-2721524.shtml
)
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
In a report titled "Gender Equity in Higher Education: 2006," King
names three prevalent theories surrounding this gender-based
phenomenon: an economic ...
 
Unite Against Fascism/Love Music Hate Racism Conference (
http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/fullstory.php?&sid=&id=3247
)
RWD Online - London,England,UK
The conference will also see the launch of the recently-formed Love
Music Hate Racism Artists' Group - an informal grouping of key
musicians involved in ...
 
Texas mayor grapples with racism (
http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/10602/1/359 )
People's Weekly World - USA
Others maintained that racism and use of racially offensive language
should be outlawed and people who engage in such behavior should face
serious legal ...
 
Society stereotypes feminists (
http://theapp.appstate.edu/content/view/2039/41/ )
ASU The Appalachian Online - Boone,NC,USA
That's a little harsh and I certainly do not advocate suicide, but
feminism is not the scary, militant, man-hating institution people
seem to think it is. ...
 
Ackerman bombards Army homophobia (
http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17855657&BRD=2676&PAG=461&dept_id=542415&rfi=6
)
Times Ledger - Astoria,NY,USA
By John Tozzi. US Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) skewered the
Pentagon last week for kicking openly gay translators out of the armed
forces and suggested ...
 
 
 
 

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