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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
January 23, 2007
 
EU pledges to fight discrimination ( http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200701/465d94bd-7388-4e49-8dbd-aa74cab572cb.htm )
EUPolitix.com - Brussels,Belgium
Failure to realise an individual's potential because of discrimination is an enormous waste to society, Vladimir Spidla said today. ...
 
Stigma and Discrimination Fuel Spread of AIDS in China ( http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2816611&page=1 )
ABC News - USA
... detained in advance of a conference he was organizing to help people infected with the disease their legal rights to treatment and non discrimination. ...
 
All-white jury to hear police discrimination suit ( http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/106083.asp )
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
An all-white jury was chosen Monday for a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against the city of Springfield by two former black police lieutenants. ...
 
Bush could end poverty - but instead spends $320 million a day on war ( http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=10579 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
This is money that could be spent on fighting poverty and saving lives. Instead it is poured into death and destruction. ...
 
Report: Retirement Poverty Risk Rises ( http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/23/ap3353608.html )
Forbes - NY,USA
Without changes in the US retirement system, poverty among people 65 and over is likely to increase, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center ...
 
WCC NEWS: Wealth, poverty, ecology inter-linked, say WSF speakers ( http://www.wfn.org/2007/01/msg00258.html )
Worldwide Faith News (press release) - New York,NY,USA
At the World Social Forum in Nairobi, speakers at a workshop organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) said that wealth, poverty and ecology are ...
 
You can get involved and help stop domestic violence ( http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/OPINION/701220315 )
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
Shannon Wong is coordinator of the Orange County Coalition Against Domestic Violence and director of Gender Equity Programs at the YWCA of Orange County.
 
Activists celebrate Tanzanian woman's UN appointment ( http://www.afrol.com/articles/23925 )
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
A similar trend of poor gender equity in decision-making roles is the norm throughout Africa. Tanzanian-born and educated Ms Migiro shows that women have ...
 
Report: Global Warming Is Here, Now ( http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/22/tech/main2387304.shtml )
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
(AP) Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative ...
 
Health Disparities and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Unfinished Civil ... ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070122/sfm090.html?.v=77 )
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
These numbers make both health care delivery and health care coverage a very direct racial and ethnic equity issue, and that translates into a civil rights ...
 
australia: An underlying racism, poll indicates ( http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=4377&CategoryID=7 )
Monday Morning - Beirut,Lebanon
Front-page newspaper photographs of the violence recalled the Cronulla riots, which sparked a wave of national soul-searching over racism. ...
 
Canadians See Racism as Significant Problem ( http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/14473 )
Angus Reid Global Monitor - Vancouver,BC,Canada
53 per cent of respondents think racism is a very or somewhat significant problem in their city, while 47 per cent disagree. Foreign-born residents account ...
 
Blair "Can't Decide" Whether To Allow Catholic Homophobia ( http://www.workersliberty.org/node/7587 )
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
Today, Tony Blair is having trouble making his mind up. According to his press briefing this morning, Tone is struggling to make a decision about whether to ...
 
The power to eliminate abiding poverty ( http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/535051.html )
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
The problem -- Poverty abides in the South because neither government nor business has been willing to take on the cause of fighting social inequity. ...
 
Global warming is here and getting worse: report ( http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/24/2003346159 )
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
Human-caused global warming is here -- visible in the air, water and melting ice -- and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global ...
 
Long fight for justice for homosexuals in Africa ( http://www.africa-interactive.net/index.php?PageID=2921 )
Africa News - Haarlem,Noord Holland,Netherlands
Even with tens of thousands of activists at the World Social Forum (WSF) denouncing injustices of all kinds, the issue of discrimination against homosexuals ...
 
9:51 am: Human Rights Watch: Europe Union countries undermine ... ( http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/55705.html )
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
NEW YORK (AP) - Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that some European countries continue to undermine an international ban on torture by accepting "empty ...
 
Will the US imperialists attack Iran? ( http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=rp0xfzm0q1.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=6313&news_iv_ctrl=1261 )
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
By standing up to imperialism and supporting Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements against Israel, Iran has gained hero status among many people in ...
 
Senate survey finds educators not happy with No Child Left Behind ( http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070123/NEWS/70123001 )
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USA
DENVER — The federal education reform law No Child Left Behind is unrealistic and underfunded, according to Colorado educators responding to a survey ...
 
Oppression of women still exists in the West ( http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1169507415031&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112876262536 )
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
And, should anyone think that the West has succeeded in freeing women from oppression, visit a women's shelter or a strip club. There are plenty of both.
 
Russell Simmons And Beastie Boys Team Up To Fight Racism ( http://www.cinemablend.com/celebrity/Russell-Simmons-And-Beastie-Boys-Team-Up-To-Fight-Racism-2472.html )
Cinema Blend - USA
"The only way to end the madness is to have people of goodwill step up and say racism in all its ugly forms is wrong. Period. "The leaders of the Christian ...
 
Immigrants must know their rights, group says ( http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-070122immig,1,3978357.story?coll=chi-news-hed )
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
Recognizing that most undocumented immigrants do not know their rights, Bolivar and several religious and advocacy leaders announced the launch Monday of an ...
 
Feminism Brings Benefits to All -- Men Included ( http://www.alternet.org/story/47080/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Feminism freed me from the expectation that I would be the primary wage-earner in my family. Where I had once considered a career based largely on how much ...
 
Two Forest Activists Murdered in Honduras ( http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-22-2007/0004510461&EDATE= )
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
International coalition of environmental groups demand full investigation and overhaul of national forest policy WASHINGTON, Jan. ...
 
Justice report faults FBI for not initially investigating Foley ( http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/BREAKING20/70122010 )
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
But the Longboat Key Republican is already picking up new (and unexpected) friendship from environmental groups, liberal bloggers and labor unions. ...
 
University of Minnesota to host largest regional GLBTA college ... ( http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&-RecID=36028&-Find )
UMN News - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Faisal Alam, founder of Al-Fatiha Foundation, an organization dedicated to the empowerment and advancement of gay, lesbian and transgender Muslims. ...
 
School-clubs bills appeal to homophobia ( http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935174&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192778735&path=!news!columnists )
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
Claire Bohannon described her first gay-straight alliance meeting at St. Catherine's School to a General Assembly subcommittee. ...
 
The Gap Widens between the Rich and the Poor under Globalization ( http://english.daralhayat.com/business/01-2007/Article-20070122-49abb72c-c0a8-10ed-009d-421b5c0181a7/story.html )
Dar Al-Hayat - Beirut,Lebanon
A recent IMF working paper (December 2006) attributes the structural change in the shares of work and capital in the factors of production, globalization ...
 
Sexism's alive and well on the right ( http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/300614_joel22.html )
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... control of the House Rules Committee? Sexism isn't dead in America. At times, like when you ask Who Sacrifices? it allows you both to divert and demonize.
 
Slashing society's sexism ( http://www.stateronline.com/home/news/2007/01/22/Opinion/Slashing.Societys.Sexism-2656243.shtml )
Daily Kent Stater - OH,USA
There is still sexism at work in today's society, and these numbers of increased women at college should not be a cause for concern. ...
 
Cuba Exposes US-European Imperialism ( http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/idioma/ingles/2007/ene22denunciacuba.htm )
Cuban News Agency - Cuba
Havana, Jan 22 (ACN) Europe and the United States share similar intentions to dominate Third World markets and natural resources, though they seem to defer ...
 
For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the ... ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/war-j22.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
More and more, the global role being played by US imperialism, in its lawlessness, rapacity and recklessness, resembles that of German and Japanese ...
 
Book Review: Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak ... ( http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/22/171802.php )
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
Surprisingly (for a Westerner like me), if there is oppression of women, few of these writers find it in Islam itself. Like the Bible, the Qu'ran can be ...
 
Contrary to Myth, Brazil Is Ashamed of Being Mestizo ( http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9784/80/ )
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
As the accepted belief is that black people have a natural, unpleasant smell, the white child continues on her way secured in her whiteness and superiority, ...
 
Our child poverty disgrace ( http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/readstory.php?id=8056 )
Greenock Telegraph - Greenock,Scotland,UK
Those on the front line of the battle to beat deprivation have called for urgent action to combat poverty in Inverclyde, which is home to some of the most ...
 
 
 
 

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