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from Paul C. Gorski
July 4, 2007
 
 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4827.html> Homophobia on the
rise in Scottish schools
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Homophobia can be directed towards its victim in many ways and can be
extremely damaging whether it is physical, emotional or verbal, between
young people. ...
 
 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5515/1/270/> Canada:
Defend full equality - drive out the Harper Conservatives
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The Harper and Tory positions reveal that homophobia remains a powerful
force within the Canadian state, despite the cultural and legal shift in
favour of ...
 
 <http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/levant/070702> When federal deception
becomes reality
renewamerica.us - Washington,DC,USA
America is witnessing pathological classism where the rich are literally
conquering everyone else. One mistake that we the people have made for
decades has ...
 
 
<http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/adding-insult-to-the-injuries-of-corp
orate-globalization/> Adding Insult to the Injuries of Corporate
Globalization
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Not to be overlooked however, Oliver Moore of the Globe and Mail outdoes Gee
in his article "Rogue globalization protesters clash with police in
Halifax", ...
 
 <http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0703/breaking35.htm> Gender
inequality rife, conference hears
Irish Times - Ireland
"Despite all the hard work of trade unionists over recent decades, we are
still not even accurately measuring the extent of gender inequality in
Ireland ...
 
 <http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=74298> Chavez defends values of
Islam vis-a-vis the barbarians in Washington
VHeadline.com - Worth,IL,USA
Chavez proclaims that the two countries will defeat North American
imperialism, quipping that whenever he visits Iran, Washington gets annoyed.
...
 
 <http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12300> Palestine needs support
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
Hamas, like Hizbollah in Lebanon, is a thorn in the side of imperialism's
interests in the region, not least because they are living proof that the US
and ...
 
 <http://hnn.us/articles/40391.html> The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War
on All Workers
History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA
President Bush's immigration reform legislation appears to be dead in the US
Congress, but the ground war against undocumented immigrants continues to
...
 
 <http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/150932/1/3319> UN, Corporations
Accused Over Human Rights Failures
OneWorld.net - London,England,UK
The UN flagship initiative on corporate responsibility - the Global Compact
- is failing to stop corporate human rights violations, says ActionAid ahead
of ...
 
 <http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1217300> Human rights violations in
Papua
TVNZ - New Zealand
Indonesian security forces are still killing, torturing and raping civilians
in their efforts to curb separatism in Papua, Human Rights Watch said on ...
 
 <http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1039182007> Young people lose out
as Scotland lands near bottom of poverty league
Scotsman - United Kingdom
On child poverty, Scotland is ranked at 23 out of 28 countries (for some
countries no data is available) - just ahead of the UK in 24th place, ...
 
 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707030997.html> Zambia: Archbishop Urges
West to Do More to End Poverty in Africa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Archbishop Telesphor George Mpundu of Lusaka has called on the industrial
nations to invest more money in the development of effective medicines and
...
 
 
<http://www.cfnews13.com/News/International/2007/7/3/bush_won39t_supply_subp
oenaed_documents.html> Bush Won't Supply Subpoenaed Documents
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA
President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed
executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents
and ...
 
 <http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-07/04/content_909235.htm> Japan
army 'ran' sex slavery racket
China Daily - China
By Zhu Ping (China Daily) Forcing women to become sex slaves was a crime
organized by the Japanese military during Japan's invasion of China in the
1930s ...
 
 <http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/04/1969340.htm?section=justin>
Plantation slaves freed in Brazil
ABC Online - Australia
Human rights groups and labour organisations believe that between 25000 and
40000 people could be working in conditions akin to slavery in Brazil. ...
 
 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070703173140.htm> Global
Warming Is Evaporating Arctic Ponds, New Study Shows
Science Daily (press release) - USA
"In many respects, they are like the 'miner's canaries' of the planet,
showing the first signs of warming." But this new discovery by the Canadian
...
 
 
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/03/america/NA-GEN-US-Blind-March.php
> Blind people march in Atlanta to call for better access to jobs ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The event organized by the National Federation of the Blind was called a
civil rights march. Two of the main goals: access to jobs and education. ...
 
 <http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12298> Material Girls: women,
men and work
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
The origins of the new sexism can be traced, Lindsey argues, through the
social upheavals of neoliberal capitalism and how this has affected women's
and ...
 
 <http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12305> How We Are:
photographing Britain through the lens of class
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
The exhibition includes some wonderful pictures that capture working class
life in Britain over the years, like Shirley Baker's shots of Hulme,
Manchester, ...
 
 <http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/150868/1/1893> US protest
questions human rights abuses by Coke
OneWorld.net - London,England,UK
... National Alliance of People's Movements (India), Grassroots Global
Justice, Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice, Southwest
Workers ...
 
 <http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/189939> Religious sex slavery
endures in West African nations
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
But I must convince them that anything, just anything, is better than going
back to slavery." The practice is deeply rooted, and most of those leading
the ...
 
 
<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr011=gkg08yovcb.app13a&page=
NewsArticle&id=6973&news_iv_ctrl=1261> Don't blame hip-hop for urban crime
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
Hip-hop began as a reaction to national oppression and urban poverty in
working-class communities. It is now an essential piece of urban culture.
...
 
 <http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/07-01-07.html> Higher
use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco in gay, lesbian and ...
Massey News - New Zealand
Gay, lesbian and bisexual people are significantly higher users of illicit
drugs, alcohol and tobacco than the heterosexual community, according to the
...
 
 
<http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_headline=poverty-tr
ap-snares-over-a-quarter-of-welsh-children&method=full&objectid=19389722&sit
eid=50082-name_page.html> Poverty trap snares over a quarter of Welsh
children
ic Wales - United Kingdom
by Abbie Wightwick, Western Mail EFFORTS to wipe out poverty in Wales have
stalled in the last two years, according to a damning report published
today. ...
 
 
<http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/
Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1183435882740&call_pageid=1020420665036&c
ol=1112188062581> Working in poverty at minimum wage
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
And as family size increases by each additional member, roughly $5000 extra
is needed in pre-tax income to continue staying above the poverty line. ...
 
 <http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707020033.html> The
Apathy of Korean Society, by Kim Dae-joong
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
We need more than this: resistance to injustice, upright criticism of abuse
of power. Amid the absurd spectacle of President Roh Moo-hyun slandering the
...
 
 
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/OPINION01/70702054
/1001> In Libby case, Bush adds insult, injustice
Detroit Free Press - United States
If President George W. Bush wasn'ta lame duck already, he made himself so
Monday with his stupefying decision to commute the prison sentence of
convicted ...
 
 <http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10394> Civil
Rights Group Examines Diversity in Media
Feminist Majority Foundation - USA
In order to bring attention to the lack of and importance of diversity in
mainstream media, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) sponsored
a ...
 
 <http://www.monthlyreview.org/0607wkt.htm> Wage Stagnation, Growing
Insecurity, and the Future of the US ...
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
No longer does economic growth mean increases in the real earnings for the
working class as their productivity rises. This was evident through
Clinton's ...
 
 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8758> Union resistance and socialist
education
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
On the one hand. working class activists have lacked an adequate political
consciousness and on the other, those sections of the intelligentsia who
ally ...
 
 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/lett-j02.shtml> An exchange of
letters on school integration and affirmative action
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Those militants and socialists who pioneered the working class upsurge of
the 1930s that gave birth to the mass industrial unions made opposition to
racial ...
 
 
<http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category
=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=IPED01%20Jul%202007%2023%3A51%3
A44%3A873> Warning over racism seeping into Suffolk
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK
RACISM is creeping back into society in Suffolk to the point where it has
become "almost acceptable" to "demonise" young black and ethnic minority
groups, ...
 
 <http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=657> Corporate War:
Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater Operate, Profit, and ...
Arabisto.com - Orlando,FL,USA
By Ahmed Shihab-Eldin />Private contracting companies such as Haliburton and
KBR, as well as BlackWater, a private army of civilians, continue to operate
in ...
 
 <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/01/news/letter.php> Letter from China:
Inequality and the rise of an economic giant
International Herald Tribune - France
By Richard Bernstein BEIJING: It didn't take long to discover the
powerlessness of the puny individual in the face of this country's economic
juggernaut. ...
 
 
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c063ea3870132abb854d3e42e6acd
18e.htm> MOZAMBIQUE: Green lobby opposes dam construction
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Daniel Ribeiro, a leading dam researcher for Environmental Justice, an
activist group based in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, claimed that water
levels in ...
 
 <http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKBLA15357820070701> Iran and
Venezuela discuss "defeating imperialism"
Reuters.uk - UK
"Cooperation of independent countries such as Iran and Venezuela has an
effective role in defeating the policies of imperialism and saving nations.
...
 
 <http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/07/01/0701scarf.html>
Muslim woman barred from Georgia courtroom for wearing scarf
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
I wear this for religious reasons and if you don't allow me in the courtroom
with my scarf on basically you are violating my civil rights and my right to
a ...
 
 <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02371962.htm> Brazil
anti-slavery team frees 1100 farm workers
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
BRASILIA, July 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's government anti-slavery team freed
more than 1000 laborers from inhumane working conditions on a sugar cane
plantation ...
 
 <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=16883> Sex slavery:
Israel's low but thriving trade
Aljazeera.com - London,UK
With the promise of a job and better economic and social conditions, women
are driven to slavery and sold in auctions that take place in nightclubs and
bars ...
 
 <http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Comment_and_Analysis/10136371.html>
Economic inequality remains a reality
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Economic inequality remains a stark reality in India. At a recent seminar,
organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, Tex Gunning, ...
 
 
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/02/business/AS-GEN-Asia-UN-Fighting-
Poverty.php> Drop in poverty in Asia accompanied by rising inequality, UN
...
International Herald Tribune - France
The report also highlighted what officials said was a worrying trend in
rising income inequality within and among countries in the Asia-Pacific
region. ...
 
 
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070703/OPINIO
N/707030303/1047> No longer respected
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
But that is OK as long as the elite and politicians make theirs. See
Halliburton and Blackwater. Goodbye democracy, hello capitalism (also known
as greed).
 
 
 
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