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[Paul C.Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 22, 2007
 
 
<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0702/gallery.gend
erequity/content.1.html> Landmark Moments for Gender Equity
SI.com - USA
After 123 years of awarding more prize money to men than women, Wimbledon
yielded to public pressure and announced on Feb. 22, that it will offer
equal pay ...
 
 <http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=15606> Domestic Violence
Bill Passed At Last
Daily Graphic - Accra,Ghana
... The Ark Foundation, Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the
Ghana Police Service, Advocates for Gender Equity, LAWA Ghana Alumnae
Incorporated ...
 
 <http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5275240> Racism causes too many
lost opportunities for blacks
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Dr. Percy Julian, an outstanding chemist, was held back professionally by
racism in the United States and obtained his Ph.D. in Vienna, Austria. ...
 
 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070222140531743> Racism:
The Growth Engine of the American Prison Gulag
Infoshop News - USA
The US prison system is a horrific national monument to racism, that dwarfs
and mocks the Statue of Liberty, revealing the United States as by far the
...
 
 
<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=joowxezlr3.app13a&page=
NewsArticle&id=6445&news_iv_ctrl=1501> Fighting National Oppression & Racism
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation this Friday for public meeting
on the struggle against national oppression and racism in the United States.
...
 
 <http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/02/22/01363.html>
Conservative MP Colin Mayes outed for institutionalized racism ...
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA - Conservative BC MP Colin Mayes must step down as Chair of the
Parliamentary Aboriginal Affairs committee and apologize for his praise of
an e- mail ...
 
 <http://www.alternet.org/rights/48308/> Families Behind Bars: Jailing
Children of Immigrants
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The inmates are immigrants or children of immigrants who are in deportation
proceedings. Many of them are in the process of applying for political
asylum, ...
 
 <http://www.hrreporter.com/loginarea/members/viewing.asp?ArticleNo=5032>
New immigrants 3.2 times more likely to be poor
Canadian HR Reporter - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
New immigrants' poor English skills, not a lack of credential recognition,
might account for much of the earnings gap between recent immigrants and ...
 
 
<http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=7ecbebe51c9cceb
ed709b61141dcde56> 'Immigrants Bring Crime' Is a Myth
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
Editor's Note: Government and academic studies prove decisively that the
common belief that immigrants, especially undocumented ones, bring
criminality is ...
 
 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10618/1/360/> Dr. King showed
worker rights are civil rights
People's Weekly World - USA
Memphis showed the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights. Dr.
King was in Memphis in early 1968 because of a strike by African American
workers. ...
 
 <http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/475/pp61.htm> Fighting homophobia
Socialist Party - UK
Homophobia is alive and well in workplaces, in schools and on the streets.
This prejudice is a feature of the capitalist system whose ideology is used
to ...
 
 <http://www.indypendent.org/?p=819> Guatemalan Villages Face Globalization
at Gunpoint
The Indypendent - New York,NY,USA
8-9, it was globalization at gunpoint. The village was sitting atop a large
nickel deposit. For the Maya Q'eqchi' residents, the land was their physical
and ...
 
 <http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=401> Nowhere to Turn for
GLBT Homeless Youth
City on a Hill Press - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GBLT) people make up an estimated
20 to 40 percent of the national homeless population while composing between
...
 
 
<http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20070222-023604-6961r
> Congress urged to act on human rights
United Press International - USA
The plan was necessary "to reverse the Bush administration's detention and
interrogation policies," Human Rights watch said in a statement. ...
 
 <http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=22415> Human Rights
Violation Victims Most Often Roma
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
Social services are the weakest part of the Croatian state apparatus when it
comes to the question of respecting human rights, pointed out Zarko
Puhovski, ...
 
 <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/22/news/UN-GEN-UN-Israel.php> UN
human rights expert says Israeli occupation resembles apartheid
International Herald Tribune - France
Dugard was appointed in 2001 as an unpaid expert by the now-defunct UN Human
Rights Commission to investigate only violations by the Israeli side, ...
 
 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6387843.stm> UN alarm at
Palestinian poverty
BBC News - UK
The report warns that rising levels of unemployment and poverty are posing
acute challenges to "food security" - a family's ability to provide itself
with ...
 
 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070221231437796> Five
Arrested as Anti-Poverty Committee Women Occupy Finance ...
Infoshop News - USA
The women of the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) successfully occupied the
office of Finance Minister Carole Taylor on Monday. At 10:00 am five women
locked ...
 
 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10616/1/360> Inequality, poverty
threaten democracy, group says
People's Weekly World - USA
... the rich and poor that have widened and deepened during the Bush
administration, the coalition said inequality and poverty are a threat to
democracy. ...
 
 
<http://washdateline.mgnetwork.com/index.cfm?SiteID=wsh&PackageID=46&fuseact
ion=article.main&ArticleID=9383&GroupID=181> School districts challenge No
Child Left Behind
Washington Date Line - Washington,DC,USA
At least six districts have passed resolutions saying they will not comply
with federal rules under the No Child Left Behind law. ...
 
 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200702210935.html> Ghana: Reaping the Double
Dividend of Gender Equality
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Declarations, conventions and goals alone are not enough to attain gender
equity as pointed out in the report which further stated, "It is imperative
that ...
 
 <http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=42556&provider=gnews>
COMMENTARY: What do we tell our children about racism?
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
So as we celebrate Black History Month, I wonder: What kind of
responsibility do we parents have in educating our children about the sad
legacy of racism ...
 
 
<http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2007%20Opinion%20Editorials
/February/21%20o/Racism%20in%20Anti-Islamic%20Swiss%20Media%20By%20Haytam%20
Al-Rayan.htm> Racism in Anti-Islamic Swiss Media
Al-Jazeerah.info - Dalton,GA,USA
... however we have big problem with racism and discrimination, and what
strange also that many lawful responsible people in the government and media
and ...
 
 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3771.html> French court
blocks lesbian adoption
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation at work or in the
provision of goods and services is illegal in France, and openly gay,
lesbian and ...
 
 <http://www.nhpr.org/node/12349> Report Says State Continues to Face
Education Inequity
NHPR - Concord,NH,USA
A new report released today/Wednesday shows that the inequity in education
funding between rich and poor towns is as great now as it was back in the
late ...
 
 
<http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/joel_s_hirschhorn/2007/feb/21/economic
_inequality_is_real_bad> Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
Rising American economic inequality has received attention by Senator Jim
Webb, presidential candidate John Edwards, CNN's maverick Lou Dobbs, and
others. ...
 
 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200702210815.html> South Africa: Acknowledge
the Violence of Disparity
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Of these problems, one factor that needs to be understood more clearly is
the role of inequality. Considering that SA is one of the most unequal
societies ...
 
 <http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=103537>
Europe's human rights court condemns Turkey for torture
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey for the treatment of a
brother and sister arrested and tortured by anti-terrorist police in
İstanbul and ...
 
 
<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=vlm1v6yla1.app1b&page=N
ewsArticle&id=6443&news_iv_ctrl=1261> Socialist Women's Conference in NYC
builds activists, leaders ...
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
The conference, putting women's oppression in the framework of the
oppression of the working class as a whole, aimed to provide participants
with a ...
 
 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=YOR20070220
&articleId=4880> Against War: Resisting Empire and the Canadian Mission in
Afghanistan
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
In this case, Canada would act would support US and western imperialism
under the rubric of a NATO mission given legitimacy by a resolution rammed
through ...
 
 <http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=7047> Racist attacks up
in Europe
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA
Frattini was basing his conclusions on a report to be published in March by
the Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. ...
 
 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/are-we-becoming-a-backwoo_b_417
65.html> ARE WE BECOMING A BACKWOODS NATION?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
But in just a few years, thanks to the xenophobia of the Bush administration
and its supporters, we've fallen behind much of Europe and Asia. ...
 
 
<http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=124348&catID=1&category=World
&rtFlg=rtFlg> Racial profiling in UK
Merinews - India
The world's fourth biggest economy boasts of a culture that at times
degenerates into xenophobia and hatred for other cultures purely on the
basis of colour ...
 
 <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/21/opinion/main2498442.shtml> The
Dark Side Of White History
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
Settlement, slavery and segregation - propelled by economic expansion and
justified by white supremacy - inform much of what the United States is
today. ...
 
 
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