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January 11, 2007
 
 <http://www.outinmiami.com/home/news.asp?articleid=30921>  GLSEN SOUTH
FLORIDA WINS GAMMA MU GRANT
Out In America - Columbus,OH,USA
GLSEN South Florida (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of South
Florida)announced it was awarded a $10000 grant by Gamma Mu Foundation to
support ...
 
 
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=fury-over-gays-law-&method=full&ob
jectid=18432385&siteid=94762-name_page.html>  FURY OVER GAYS LAW
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
RELIGIOUS groups who staged a torchlit protest against new laws to protect
gays were yesterday accused of homophobia. The legislation bans anyone from
...
 
 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=105&ItemID=11819>
Whither Diversity?
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Also, celebrating cultural diversity is a no-cost substitute, distraction,
and excuse for not addressing inequality. Virtually everyone today recoils
at ...
 
 <http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=42034>
Gender Inequality Puts Women in Ethiopia at Increased Risk of HIV ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Although women in Ethiopia are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS,
little is being done to address ways to protect them from the disease, ...
 
 <http://www.workers.org/2007/world/philippines-0118>  US behind reign of
terror sweeping Philippines
Workers World - USA
ASEAN's main role is to facilitate economic and political penetration of the
area for imperialism. However, the Philippine government announced that the
...
 
 <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/marable100107.html>  The Iraq War and
America's Economic Imperialism
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
by Manning Marable. Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the James
Baker-Lee Hamilton Committee submitted to President George W. Bush its ...
 
 <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10332591.htm>  Rights groups
urge US to shut Guantanamo prison
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
NEW YORK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Detainees at a US military prison camp in
Guantanamo Bay need to be charged or released and the jail shut down, human
rights ...
 
 <http://theseoultimes.com/ST/db/read.php?idx=4591>  The Second Asia Human
Rights Forum for Anti-Sexual Exploitation of ...
The Seoul Times - South Korea
The Asia Center for Human Rights (ACHR), Anti-Slavery International, Korea
University Graduate School of International Studies, The Hwajeong Peace ...
 
 <http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5466>  The Blair audit:
war, human rights, liberalism
Agoravox - Paris,France
First, the performance of the Blair years on human rights has been dismal.
The initial grudging advances have been followed by prolonged backtracking.
...
 
 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4654/1/234/>  Women's
Liberation Movement in Iran
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Celebrating international days is one way to publicize the gender and class
oppression issues. Another form of struggle is organizing campaigns with ...
 
 
<http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?category=National&slug=Pover
ty+forces+babies+into+begging&id=99238>  Poverty pressures: Babies forced
into begging
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
But poverty in her village and no work in the city forced her to conclude
that begging is the easiest way to survive. "It gets very hot in the slums
in the ...
 
 <http://www.unicef.org/media/media_38003.html>  UN General Assembly adopts
powerful definition of child poverty
UNICEF (press release) - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK, 10 January 2007 - The UN General Assembly has adopted a powerful
definition of child poverty, acknowledging that while poverty harms
everyone, ...
 
 <http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/956688>  Youth resilient despite
discrimination
TVNZ - New Zealand
A new study shows the country's ethnic youth experience more discrimination
than their Pakeha peers, but are remarkably resilient. ...
 
 
<http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2791&Itemi
d=2>  Confronting white privilege
Excalibur Online - Toronto,Canada
Let's talk about white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism." Jensen
continued to make more controversial remarks throughout the seminar. ...
 
 
<http://www.examiner.com/a-500318%7EGroup_accuses_county_police_of_racism.ht
ml>  Group accuses county police of racism
Examiner.com - USA
BALTIMORE - A Baltimore County lawmaker and his black constituents alleged
racism among county police officers, a charge police officials called ..
 
 
<http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21038823-5006002,00.htm
l>  Mel slammed for racism again
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... the heat is back on Mel Gibson, whose box office hit Apocalypto has been
attacked by Guatemala's presidential commissioner on racism. ...
 
 <http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/january10/king-011007.html>
New volume of MLK Jr. papers reveal his early concerns about ...
Stanford Report - USA
Collectively, the documents reveal that King's concern about poverty, human
rights and social justice is present in his earliest handwritten sermons, ..
 
 
<http://www.mediarights.org/news/2007/01/09/free_multimedia_lesson_plan_on_t
he_civil_rights_movement>  Free Multimedia Lesson Plan on the Civil Rights
Movement
MediaRights - USA
Check out Integrating with All Deliberate Speed, a comprehensive multimedia
unit on the Civil Rights Movement with video clips, a timeline, photographs,
...
 
 <http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=354133&catid=32>
Half Of Young Immigrants Discriminated Against: Study
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
Research among young people in New Zealand has revealed that many of those
who are immigrants have experienced discrimination. ...
 
 
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070110/COLUMN
ISTS27/701100335/1005/OPINION>  In the US, immigrants face too much
hostility
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
This story is very different from the position taken by sectors that are
hostile toward undocumented immigrants. It goes without saying that behind
the ...
 
 <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/01/10/2003344114>
Families living in poverty increased last year
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
The number of families living below the poverty line nationwide has
skyrocketed to nearly 90000, a new high since 1981 when figures were first
compiled, ..
 
 
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart9jan09,1,4632390.story?coll=la
-headlines-business>  Civil rights activists decry Wal-Mart
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Religious and civil rights leaders in Los Angeles and other big cities said
Monday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stood in the way of Martin Luther King
Jr.'s ...
 
 <http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/events/2990/>  There is No Media Justice
without Women.
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
We know that corporate media don’t fairly represent or serve women, their
communities or their social justice concerns. This is also too often true of
..
 
 
<http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/007/anti-environmental-judicial-nomi
nee-myers-withdraws.html>  Anti-Environmental Judicial Nominee Myers
Withdraws
Earth Justice (press release) - Oakland,CA,USA
Myers' history of opposing citizens' access to justice and unfairly favoring
special interests over environmental protections showed that his presence on
...
 
 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3449.html>  Gay Christians
speak out against fundamentalists
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Rev Kirker expressed his disgust at the hostility Christian fundamentalists
are showing towards gay and lesbian people. "The government has a clear task
not ...
 
 <http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?date=2007/01/09/1>  High noon
for UK gay rights
PlanetOut - San Francisco,CA,USA
Richard Kirker, chief executive of the UK's Lesbian and Gay Christian
Movement, is ashamed of his fellow Christians. "Pleas that 'religious'
individuals and ...
 
 
<http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/11683354
6448420.xml&coll=2>  Educators feeling left behind
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
"But to expect a level of achievement to occur given that level of inequity.
. . ? "They basically say to you, 'Make it work,' but they don't give you
the ...
 
 
<http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/january/09/international/human_righ
ts_watch_demands_closure_of_guantanamo_prison.html>  Human Rights Watch
demands closure of Guantanamo prison
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Washington, DC, Jan 9 (IndianMuslims.info) As the fifth anniversary of the
Guantanamo Bay detention center approaches, Human Rights Watch denounced the
...
 
 
 
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