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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 26, 2007
 
Not so civil service ( http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1081974 )
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Other female officers have said that small, petty instances that indicate a pattern of sexism and discrimination, are routine, male superiors insisting ...
 
Patrick Barkey: What is behind income inequality? ( http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/BUSINESS/702250305/1046 )
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
In fact, the inequality has been growing slowly and steadily over a span of decades. And if there is any simple theme that can be said to emerge from this ...
 
Carlos Sanchez: Where is the outrage? ( http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2007/02/25/02252007wacsanchez.html )
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
We are nearly four generations removed from the culture of Jim Crow, a culture of overt racism, of segregation and of oppression. In those five generations, ...
 
Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology ( http://www.sfstation.com/color-of-violence-the-incite-anthology-e31066 )
SFStation.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Smith, Naber, and Ritchie discuss the intersecting ways in which various forms of interpersonal and state violence and oppression exist in the lives of ...
 
US severe poverty reached 32-year high: 16 million people ( http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=9933&formato=HTML )
MercoPress - Montevideo,Uruguay
The gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" in United States keeps widening and the percentage of US citizens who are living in deep or severe poverty has ...
 
Major new report analyses areas of poverty in Australia ( http://www.indcatholicnews.com/austrrepr326.html )
Independent Catholic News - London,UK
... across Australia account for more than seven times their share of top rank positions on the major factors that cause intergenerational poverty. ...
 
Complaints about religious discrimination in workplace on rise ( http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=245178 )
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In Minnesota, the number of Muslims per year who filed federal complaints alleging religious discrimination at work climbed from four a decade ago to 66 ...
 
FBI building database on victims slain amid civil rights-era violence ( http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS/702250405/1001 )
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
The list of "forgotten killings" from the nation's civil rights era continues to grow for the Justice Department. The FBI's field offices already have ...
 
Paper: Civil rights activist descended from slaves held by late ... ( http://www.wctrib.com/articles/index.cfm?id=17019&section=news )
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
NEW YORK (AP) - Genealogists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. ...
 
Hazardous Waste ( http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i09/8509notw9.html )
Chemical & Engineering News - USA
Over the past 20 years, environmental justice scholars have argued that such facilities have been disproportionately sited in politically powerless, poor, ...
 
Gay teens struggle for acceptance ( http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/OPINION/702250357/1002/OPINION )
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Currently, there are more than 3000 GSA chapters registered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Writing about the topic of teenage ...
 
Other People's Property A Shadow History of Hip Hop in White America ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/25/RVGGRO469N1.DTL&type=books )
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... his book gives the abiding sense that the white boy is really trying hard to come to terms with his white guilt and its parent, white privilege. ...
 
Beyond prejudice ( http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/02/25/stories/2007022500120400.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
Yet, at a time when far more moral men and women had been caught up in Hitler's xenophobia or reduced to being mere spectators to what was happening by ...
 
Israeli prejudice and discrimination ( http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/region/10106750.html )
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
The report points to "unashamed discrimination" against Palestinians in favour of Israeli colonists, an issue that Arabs have complained of for many years ...
 
Jennifer and the Pork Board; and Women of Wal-Mart Fight ... ( http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/ReaderComments/?ContainerID=449491 )
Austin Chronicle - Austin,TX,USA
A federal appeals court has ruled that a sex-discrimination suit filed back in 2001 by six women is entitled to class-action status, bringing some 2 million ...
 
Historic breakthroughs expected for gay-rights bills in US Congress ( http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/25/america/NA-GEN-US-Gay-Rights.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
More than 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies include sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policies, as do 17 states and many local ...
 
Poverty: the damning facts ( http://www.sundayherald.com/analysis/analysis/display.var.1217844.0.0.php )
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
A shocking new report reveals that 910000 Scots live in poverty, including 25% of the country's children. Investigations Editor Neil Mackay looks at the ...
 
Gay Hate Crimes, Civil Rights Protections Expected To Pass This Year ( http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/02/022407congress.htm )
365Gay.com - USA
Wary conservative leaders, as well as gay-rights advocates, share a belief that at least two measures will win approval this year: a hate-crimes bill that ...
 
Racism charges leveled at Spotsylvania officials ( http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/022007/02242007/262597 )
Fredericksburg.com - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
A former Spotsylvania County deputy county attorney leveled charges of "institutionalized racism" against the county government Thursday night during a ...
 
Affirmative action foes have no link to King legacy ( http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/OPINION03/702240308 )
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
King predicated his dream of a color-blind society on justice -- racial and social justice -- that first addressed the social, political and economic ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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