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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
January 27, 2007
 
Nonprofits pay men more than women ( http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07027/757292-28.stm )
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
That the gap was 51 percent larger two years later alarmed -- but did not surprise -- local gender equity activists yesterday. ...
 
Environment and global warming top issues, Canadians say ( http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/January2007/26/c9486.html )
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
26 /CNW/ - Among all the issues facing the world today, Canadians are most concerned about the environment and global warming -mentioned by one-third of the ...
 
Study of Immigrants Links Lighter Skin and Higher Income ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/28immig.html )
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
27 (AP) Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be ...
 
End racism in all communities ( http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17773287&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=456222&rfi=6 )
The Citizen's Voice - PA,USA
But in a larger society, a person must interact with people of many different backgrounds, and therefore see the wrongness of racism. ...
 
The Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People and the Environment ( http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46809/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The battle over dams is at the core of worldwide conflicts involving water scarcity, environmental degradation, globalization, social justice, ...
 
Queer Youth Ask Schools To Battle Homophobia ( http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=356241&catid=35 )
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
A national forum for queer youth is calling on schools to do more to eliminate homophobia. The biennial Kaha Queer Youth Hui, bringing together lesbian, ...
 
Human rights workers detained by Somali authorities ( http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_7295.shtml )
Garowe Online - Garowe,Nugaal,Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia Jan 27 (Garowe Online) - At least 8 employees who worked for Elman Peace and Human Rights Agency in Mogadishu were arrested by Somali and ...
 
America Rewards Whiteness ( http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070126_america_rewards_whiteness/ )
Truthdig - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A new study of thousands of immigrants found that those with lighter skin earned more money than immigrants of similar background whose skin was darker. ...
 
Funding body accused of sexism and ageism over Crichton campus ( http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/education/display.var.1152243.0.0.php )
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The body which funds higher education in Scotland has been accused of "sexism and ageism" over its refusal to give extra money to a university's satellite ...
 
Poverty rising amid welfare's decline ( http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4503971.html )
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
Nearly ONE IN FOUR children now lives in a poor household, making Texas the FIFTH-WORST state for child poverty. This is the first in an occasional series ...
 
Target Corp. settles discrimination case with federal monitors ( http://www.yorkdispatch.com/business/ci_5100561 )
York Dispatch - York,PA,USA
PHILADELPHIA -- Target Corp. will pay $775000 to 14 black workers to settle discrimination complaints filed by federal civil rights monitors. ...
 
Ban on global-warming film sparks heated debate ( http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=171053 )
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
Frosty Hardison is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former Vice President Al Gore, ...
 
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1999967,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The US government wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned. ...
 
Rosen repeated a number of global warming falsehoods ( http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200701260001 )
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
After making the unsubstantiated assertion that there are an "increasing number of scientists who are falling into the camp" of global warming "skeptics," ...
 
Harrassment policy to include 'gender identity' ( http://www.dukechronicle.com/news/2007/01/26/News/Harrassment.Policy.To.Include.gender.Identity-2680361.shtml )
Duke Chronicle - Durham,NC,USA
Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity, described the changes to council members. He said removing the word "preference" reflected most ...
 
40 years of socialist feminism ( http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol28no1/28110fsp_40years.html )
Freedom Socialist Party - Seattle,WA,USA
While new branches in the US were putting down roots, pioneers in Australia made revolutionary feminism an international presence with the founding of FSP ...
 
LARGEST YOUTH MOBILIZATION ON GLOBAL WARMING: EVENTS ON 575 CAMPUSES ( http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/990 )
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington,DC,USA
... CoPIRG, Dakota Resource Council, Earth Day Network, Energy Justice Network, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, Global Exchange, ...
 
Anatomy of a slur (Gay) ( http://www.washblade.com/2007/1-26/view/actionalert/actionalert.cfm )
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
22, Washington met with gay organization heads Neil Giuliano from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Kevin Jennings from the Gay, ...
 
Wake up and smell the coffee ( http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=62261 )
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
You see, economic globalization doesn't give us culture, it gives us profits -- albeit probably not properly distributed along all economic and social lines ...
 
Globalization: China's Brutal Sweatshops ( http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=2929 )
Black Star News - New York,NY,USA
China Blue is a disturbing documentary expose of how young Chinese are impoverished through globalization. How would you feel if you knew that the jeans ...
 
'AFRO-PUNK': The music that spawned a movement ( http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070125/NEWS/701250302/-1/State )
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
Some white people don't like to admit to white privilege. It might be something they've never thought about. Somebody asked me the other day, ...
 
Retreat center invites white people to confront racism ( http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=23053 )
pride source.com - Farmington,MI,USA
16-18, March 30-April 1 and April 27-29, offers participants the opportunity to explore topics and issues including institutional racism, white privilege ...
 
The Empire and Inequality Report, Issue no. 8 ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=11960 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
The Bush agenda simply represents an extreme form of the intimate historical connection between Empire abroad and Inequality (and repression) at home in the ...
 
Wars of national liberation in the Middle East ( http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol28no1/28102mideast.html )
Freedom Socialist Party - Seattle,WA,USA
At this late stage in its development, imperialism "dictatorial international monopoly capitalism" is flailing to stay upright against a sea of opposition ...
 
'20/20' to examine Camden poverty ( http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070126/NEWS01/701260352/1006 )
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
News crews followed the lives of three impoverished Camden kids for more than a year as a way of looking at poverty nationwide, the network said. ...
 
Poverty Institute study shows cost to raise a family in RI is ... ( http://www2.ric.edu/news/displayNews.php?id=news-343 )
RIC News and Events - Providence,RI,USA
Both single-parent and two-parent families earning slightly less than twice the Federal Poverty Level - $30710 for a family of three and $37000 for a family ...
 
American Ideology: Racism Welded to Capitalism ( http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/806/81/ )
Atlantic Free Press - Groningen,Netherlands
... political constructs like race, class and gender to define white privilege. Or in Jensen's own terminology: white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy.
 
Developing a Power Analysis ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=11958 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
The ruling ideology of European colonization was white supremacy and therefore modern imperialism is fundamentally white supremacist. ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

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