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from Paul C. Gorski
July 26, 2007

 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=200707251708393> Call to
Action: Oppose White Supremacists in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Infoshop News - USA
Michigan Against White Supremacy is organizing a counter event because we
believe that the white supremacists cannot be ignored. If we choose to
ignore the ...

 <http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2007/Jul-25-Wed-2007/news/15620034.html>
'Aryans' operate on both sides of prison walls
Pahrump Valley Times - Pahrump,NV,USA
According to their written manifesto, their overarching goal is to spread
the message of white supremacy in Nevada communities such as Reno,
Henderson, ...

 <http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/27008/> Minorities feel pinch of racism
Kyiv Post - Kyiv,Ukraine
Experts say that to help solve the problem of racism, state policies for
immigration and national minorities are required, as are changes to
legislation and ...

 <http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/latest-irish-news?articleid=3058490> Rise in
workplace racism complaints
Tyrone Times - Dungannon,Northern Ireland,UK
The number of people who were discriminated against at work because of their
race has jumped by 123% so far this year, the Equality Tribunal said. ...

<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070725/LOCAL18/7072504
30/-1/LOCAL17> Report released today says: Rate of child poverty rising
faster in ...
Indianapolis Star - United States
By Tim Evans The number of children living in poverty grew nearly twice as
fast in Indiana as in the rest of the nation during the first half of this
decade ...

<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw200707251059043
98C785106> Race discrimination claims soar - report
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
The number of cases of racial discrimination in Irish workplaces referred to
the state's Equality Tribunal has more than doubled, according to its latest
...

<http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=etfNews&storyID
=2007-07-25T210024Z_01_N25194320_RTRIDST_0_MORTGAGES-JUSTICE.XML> Justice
Dept. probes discrimination by lenders
Reuters - USA
WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department has opened up
several investigations into whether borrowers faced discriminated by
providers of ...

 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5019.html> Malta teachers
take on Roman Catholic homophobia
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Malta's Union of Teachers is threatening to publish the details of four
attempts to oust gay and lesbian teachers from Roman Catholic school posts,
...

 <http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1154382007> Women in
Scotland 'face inequality for generations'
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
EQUALITY between men and women will take years - and in some cases
generations - to achieve in Scotland, a watchdog body said today. ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/57529/> The Key To Good Health That
No One Is Talking About
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Krieger is one of many prominent researchers making connections between
health and inequality. Michael Marmot recently explained in his book, ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707250402.html> Zimbabwe: Women Demand
Rights
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In Zimbabwe, the majority of human rights activists are women. Women fight
for rights because they are often the ones who struggle to feed their
children, ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8895> Writing out the workers
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
Pilger's film is a potted history of US imperialism in Latin America.
Starting with a lengthy look at Venezuela, Pilger takes us on a whirlwind
tour through ...

 <http://en.rian.ru/world/20070724/69563089.html> Ukraine's Communists to
open museum for US imperialism victims
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
KIEV, July 24 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Communists announced they would open
a museum dedicated to victims of US imperialism in the Crimea next month,
...

 <http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3948242> Unpacking the
invisible knapsack of unearned white privilege
Business Report - Johannesburg,South Africa
Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege, I realised that it is most
likely that white privilege is similarly denied and protected. ...

<http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/07/kucinich_supports_slavery_repa.ht
ml> Kucinich supports slavery reparations for African-Americans
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Dennis Kucinich is the only Democratic presidential candidate who supports
making slavery reparations to African Americans, the Cleveland Democratic
...

 <http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12549> Why are disabled people
oppressed?
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
There is no question that disabled people are oppressed - but our oppression
has somewhat different roots to that of women or ethnic minorities. ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8899> For a working-class LGBT movement
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
After all, the vast majority of delegates will have experienced homophobia
and oppression in one form or another and might be expected to politically
...

 <http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=8103> Civil Rights Project at
UCLA Releases Key Report on Affirmative ...
UC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA
UCLA's Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, one of the nation's
leading research centers on issues of civil rights and racial inequality,
...

<http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/rich-man-poor-man-divide-merely-
breeds-seething-society-of-discontent-1043469.html> Rich man, poor man
divide merely breeds seething society of discontent
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
According to a recent survey published in the Financial Times, there is a
popular backlash against globalisation and its handmaiden - wealth
inequality - in ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707241032.html> Botswana: Politicians
Violate Children's Rights
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Following the national congresses of various political parties, the race for
the 2009 general election has unofficially kicked off but for children, ...

 <http://www.onmedica.net/content.asp?c=40475&t=1> Career prospects of
disabled doctors blighted by discrimination ...
OnMedica - London,UK
The career prospects and ambitions of doctors with disabilities are being
blighted by ongoing discrimination and lack of adequate supports, says the
BMA in ...

 <http://www.blacknews.com/pr/kiddies_kastle101.html> Abandoned and
Betrayed: A Discrimination Saga
BlackNews.com (press release) - Long Beach,CA,USA
During the early nineties the city of Columbus was engaged in a sewer-water
improvement project and contracted with an out-of town company to do the
work. ...

 <http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2424728320070725> Drought,
disease, poverty hitting southern Africa
Reuters - USA
By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Drought, AIDS and chronic
poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho, Swaziland and
Zimbabwe ...

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070724poverty,1,5446613.
story> As wages slip and Midwest plants close, poverty rates rise
Chicago Tribune - United States
Dayton's poverty rates are soaring, and the middle-class birthright of a
comfortable home, college for the kids and maybe a cabin by the lake is
under siege ...

 <http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2873.cfm> El Salvador Privatizing Water
and the Criminalization of Protest
World Press Review - USA
They demanded the de-privatization of the town water system and its
management to be put under the control of the national water agency, ...

 <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/07/24/2003371077> Poll
shows growth in negative views about globalization
Taipei Times - Taiwan
The public in the US and five major European countries are increasingly
perceiving globalization as negative for them and their countries, a poll
published ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8897> Black oppression is more than the
N-word
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
It'sa debate that, for socialists, touches on issues of state censorship,
racism, homophobia, misogyny, the link between politics and art and of
course the ...

 <http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article/?id=1449245> Young homeless
gay men using sex to gain shelter
Inside Housing - UK
By Emily Twinch Young homeless gay men are selling themselves for sex on the
internet to get a bed for the night because of homophobia in hostel ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/story/57254/> Wait, There Actually Is a Bridge in
Brooklyn You Can Sell Me?
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
These sirens of corporatization sing softly, "We have the perfect, painless
solution. All you have to do is to turn over that toll road (either by sale
or ...

<http://newsblaze.com/story/20070720174047tsop.nb/newsblaze/BOOKPUBL/Book-Pu
blishing.html> Samuel Clemens is Turning Over in His Grave
NewsBlaze (press release) - Folsom,CA,USA
... whose humor and common sense delight and comfort us, died brokenhearted
because he believed he had seen his country contract the disease of
imperialism. ...

 <http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=65517> Veiled imperialism
The News - International - Pakistan
Neo-imperialism, in particular the American interventionism, is a pageant of
marauding power-plays that are motivated by economic dominance of the 'third
...

<http://newsblaze.com/story/20070723120141tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Sto
ries.html> Committee on The Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
It provided a broad definition of discrimination against women - direct and
indirect, including intentional or unintentional forms, under the law or in
...

<http://health.theledger.com/article/20070723/HEALTHNEWS/4558/-1/RSS2&source
=RSS> Discrimination Linked To Health Problems Among Minorities
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
Routine, even subtle, racial discrimination places significant mental stress
on minorities that may provoke the development of chronic illness, new
research ...

 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,2133346,00.html> Sex
discrimination rife and equality will take generations, says ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It found discrimination is still rife in politics, employment and public
services, and stark gender gaps at work and at home. ...

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