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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 24, 2007
 
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ASH Staffers Protest Pay Inequity, Dangerous Conditions ( http://www.ksby.com/home/headlines/6051001.html )
KSBY - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Atascadero State Hospital staffers take to the picket line to get their message heard. They say they do the same job as their counterparts with the ...
 
Aboriginal groups file human rights complaint over child welfare ... ( http://www.firstperspective.ca/fp_template.php?path=20070223rights )
Canada First Perspective - Scanterbury,Manitoba,Canada
... Society of Canada formally filed a complaint today with the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding lack of funding for First Nations child welfare. ...
 
UN human rights expert says Israeli occupation resembles apartheid ( http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070223-1428-un-israel.html )
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
The report by John Dugard, independent investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the UN Human Rights Council, is to be presented next month. ...
 
UN opposes proposed Nigerian ban on same-sex relationships ( http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/news/article_1268792.php/UN_opposes_proposed_Nigerian_ban_on_same-sex_relationships )
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Four UN special rapporteurs on racism, violence against women, xenophobia and related intolerance said in a statement that the draft bill is 'an absolutely ...
 
Portuguese workers complain of discrimination in Spain ( http://google.the-news.net/display.aspx?id=896-19 )
Portugal News - Lagoa,Algarve,Portugal
... for jobs at Spanish building sites is being given the blame by Madrid for the growing sentiment of xenophobia being experienced by Portuguese labourers. ...
 
Lawmakers Considering Bill Prohibiting Transgender Discrimination ( http://www.nbc30.com/politics/11096475/detail.html )
NBC30.com - Hartford,CT,USA
The bill adds gender identity or expression to the law that prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age and other characteristics. ...
 
DMV Found Guilty of Racial Discrimination ( http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1212970/ )
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
Raleigh - After a five year court battle, a Superior Court judge ruled this week that the Division of Motor Vehicles is guilty of racial discrimination. ...
 
Severe poverty growing worse ( http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16762913.htm )
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
WASHINGTON - The percentage of Americans living in severe poverty has reached at least a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to ...
 
CU teacher catches flak for essay on supremacy ( http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5372445,00.html )
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday condemned a white supremacist essay attributed to a composition instructor at the University of Colorado's Boulder ...
 
Interracial Dating In Today's Society ( http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070223/DATELINE04/70222020/1155/dateline )
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
To some, Bull Connor, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a strong advocate of racial segregation, and white supremacy are more alive than ever. ...
 
UPDATE 1-FACTBOX-Where the Oil Majors stand on global warming ( http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSL2238559020070224 )
Reuters - USA
... accepting that burning oil and gas is a main cause of climate change but views on global warming and what to do about it still vary across the industry. ...
 
Celebrate the 190th Birthday of the Father of the Civil Rights ... ( http://www.rushprnews.com/press/archives/12381 )
RushPRnews.com (press release) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
from Frederick Douglass, Young Defender of Human Rights The year 2007 marks the 190th birthday of Frederick Douglass, the father of the civil rights ...
 
For Real Peace in Nepal Women Must be Involved ( http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=7af9005cbd3101fd7299aee2867f91f5 )
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
The advocacy message and rhetorical agenda that the government and the Maoists both have carried on working for gender equity does not match in terms of its ...
 
Promoting Tolerance: Historical Perspectives on Zionism and Racism ( http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2007/webArticles/022307_zionism.htm )
UN Chronicle - New York,NY,USA
The United Nations General Assembly in 1975 adopted resolution 3379 (XXX), which "determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination", ...
 
Poverty, crime and institutional racism ( http://www.workersliberty.org/node/7757 )
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
Robin Sivapalan examines the educational and social background to gangster and gun culture and starts a discussion on how institutional racism still poisons ...
 
Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail Holding ... ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1530247 )
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
Human rights groups are calling for the US government to shut down a jail in Texas where about 200 immigrant children, some only infants, are being detained ...
 
Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive ( http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum/AM33379.html )
24 Hour Museum - UK
LAGNA consists primarily of a collection of 200000 press cuttings covering all aspects of lesbian and gay life from the 1930s to the present. ...
 
Capitalism is making our children sick ( http://www.workersliberty.org/node/7745 )
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
By better understanding and politically explaining the link between poverty, inequality and ill health we can build a powerful social movement against ...
 
Study: Bay Area suffers from environmental inequality ( http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_5287782 )
Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA
In the Bay Area, we have a problem with the degree of environmental inequality ... even though we regard ourselves as a region that is very progressive, ...
 
 
 
 
 

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