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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 21, 2007
 
Increased US fees is hardship, immigrants and lawyers say ( http://www.workpermit.com/news/2007_02_20/us/proposed_immigration_fees_rise-01.htm )
Workpermit.com - UK
Worried immigrants across the United States are checking their budgets. The cost of filing more than two dozen kinds of immigration forms is proposed to go ...
 
Immigrants need more than promises ( http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/02/20/3647353-sun.html )
Edmonton Sun - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
For years, Canada has been cherry-picking immigrants with the best skills and education, then abandoning them to work in jobs that are not their chosen ...
 
The roots of racism in the US ( http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-1/620/620_10_Racism.shtml )
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
Racism and racial oppression have been features of everyday life for Blacks in the United States for more than 350 years. But the persistence of racism is ...
 
Study Claims Environmental Racism In Bay Area ( http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_051211155.html )
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
(CBS 5 / KCBS) SAN FRANCISCO Environmental racism is an unhealthy reality across the Bay Area, according to a new study by UC Santa Cruz and Brown ...
 
Safety Places a Distant Second in Race to Repopulate New Orleans ( http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2487 )
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
Environmental justice advocates say that Congress now has an opportunity to reinvigorate a legacy of environmental racism, with pending legislation to allow ...
 
Gay and lesbian couples in NJ apply for civil-union licenses ( http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/11588/gay-and-lesbian-couples-in-nj-apply-for-civil-union-licenses/ )
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USA
PHILADELPHIA - At Collingswood's Borough Hall, in streamed a handful of citizens of historical significance - gay and lesbian couples who applied for a ...
 
Senior Spotlight By John Toscano ( http://www.qgazette.com/news/2007/0221/Senior_page/020.html )
Western Queens Gazette - Queens,NY,USA
Gotbaum says the inequity exists because while the city has 54 percent of the state's population living below the poverty level, it received only about 18 ...
 
Globalization as a cause of war and as fuel for war's bonfires ( http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/20/business/glob21.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
In countries around the world, globalization has been blamed for increasing inequality, extinguishing local culture, enabling transnational crime and a host ...
 
The true face of homophobia ( http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003579772_pitts20.html )
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
He cut through the clutter of weasel words and half-truths that traditionally surrounds homophobia, showed us what lies behind honeyed euphemisms ...
 
Homophobia conference told of Iraq "sexual cleansing" ( http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3747.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
At a conference on Faith, Homophobia and Human Rights, 250 people from over fifty organisations have signed a statement condemning homophobia within ...
 
Matthew Shepard Foundation Reacts to Recent Homophobia in Sports ( http://www.247gay.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=13163 )
247gay.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Longstanding homophobia within the sports community has recently become more apparent to the public because of Mr. Hardawayâ€*s inexcusable comments and the ...
 
The State of Black California is our site of the day ( http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/02/the_state_of_bl_1.html )
California Progress Report - Oakland,CA,USA
Racial inequality between blacks and whites is very similar in Sacramento, San Diego and San Jose to that in Los Angeles, despite their smaller metropolitan ...
 
Diane Glass | Education: past failures, future needs ( http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003579775_woman20.html )
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Dormant in the hearts of many affluent, white parents lives just a little racism. They don't want to see their little Johnny lose his bid for an elite ...
 
Report exposes gross human rights violations at the coast ( http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=1143965108 )
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
Gross human rights violations by salt harvesting companies in Malindi have been exposed in a newly published report by the Kenya National Commission on ...
 
Major Conference on US Education Law And Its Human Rights Impact ... ( http://www.civilrights.org/civil_rights_calendar/page.jsp?itemID=29532928 )
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
Confirmed speakers include: Gay McDougall, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, United Nations Commission for Human Rights; Prof. ...
 
What is Orientalism? ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=10751 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
So the illusion that the study of the Orient is a disinterested neutral science continues to be important for the workings of imperialism today. ...
 
Testimony begins in school discrimination case ( http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/16741973.htm )
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Testimony began today in federal court in the trial of a woman who filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Crestwood School District. ...
 
Study: Discrimination Big Predictor Of Black Teens' Drug Use ( http://www.kcci.com/news/11065172/detail.html )
KCCI.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa State University study shows that racial discrimination is a strong predictor of drug use by black teenagers. ...
 
Five activists arrested in anti-poverty protest ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070220.BCBRIEFS20-1/TPStory/National )
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
About 20 anti-poverty activists stormed Carole Taylor's office at 650 West 41st Ave. yesterday morning demanding surplus money from the budget today be ...
 
Iraq poverty survey ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=10785 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
A third of the population of occupied Iraq now live in poverty -many more than prior to the US-led invasion. A recent United Nations Development Programme ...
 
EU Study Finds One In Six Europeans Living Below Poverty Line ( http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006521862 )
All Headline News - USA
Brussels, Belgium (AHN) - A new study by the European Union finds that one in six Europeans is currently living below national poverty lines across the ...
 
Report: 'Realistic' poverty threshold higher than federal ( http://www.thetranscript.com/localnews/ci_5265698 )
North Adams Transcript - North Adams,MA,USA
What's happening more and more is we have these people who raise themselves above the poverty level and find themselves ineligible for services. ...
 
Analysis: Rising racism alarms EU, Germany ( http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20070220-123344-3853r )
United Press International - USA
20 (UPI) -- Racism and xenophobia are becoming decidedly more pronounced across Europe, and it is fast becoming an issue of major concern for Germany which ...
 
White House Censors Global Warming Science ( http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4886/1/32/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Bush administration officials are censoring top scientists on global warming. This is part of an effort to deceive the public about its effects and to block ...
 
Immigrants drown in red tape ( http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/19/3645226-sun.html )
Canoe.ca - Canada
Many highly educated and skilled immigrants come to Canada on the promise of a brighter future, only to find that their credentials are not worth the paper ...
 
MIT Professor ends hunger strike protesting racism ( http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/19/professor.hungerstrike.ap/ )
CNN - USA
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A black MIT professor who claimed racism led to the university's decision to deny him tenure ended a 12-day hunger strike ...
 
Study Verifies More Hazardous Waste Facilities Located In Minority ... ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070218135344.htm )
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily - New research from the University of Michigan is the first known national level study that supports environmental justice scholars' claim ...
 
NIGHTMARE OF BEING GAY IN NIGERIA ( http://www.gcn.ie/content/templates/?a=1907&z=4 )
GCN - Dublin,Ireland
Nigerian LGBT people opposed to a new anti-gay law in the country have spoken about their experiences in a report for the International Gay and Lesbian ...
 
Corporate Chiefs May Come to Rue Fat Paydays ( http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hunt&sid=arth8j9wbrcc )
Bloomberg - USA
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke devoted an entire speech this month to income inequality, worrying that it threatened ``the dynamism'' of ...
 
US Imperialism and Arroyo Regime in the Philippines on Trial at ... ( http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sanjuan180207.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
This resulted in the death of thousands of US soldiers and 1.4 million Filipinos in what advocates of imperialism call a "savage war of peace. ...
 
Complaints of discrimination in Lincoln nearly double ( http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/02/18/news/nebraska/fb37f5221e751392862572860011f520.txt )
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
(AP) -- The number of discrimination complaints made to the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights in 2006 were nearly double that of the previous year, ...
 
 
 
 

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