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Tue Jul 31 10:55:59 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
July 31, 2007

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/719/37324> Indonesia: Youth key to new
political party
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
"I began to see the links with other injustices around me and saw the need
to liberate people as a whole from imperialism", she said. ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707300990.html> Ghana: Women And the New
Forms of Slavery
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
What is gathered from Mahad's story really is the modern form of gender
specific slavery that could be taking place in our own country where slavery
has ...

 <http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6086.html> Biracial sisterhood
laid groundwork for Civil Rights Movement
Indiana University - Bloomington,IN,USA
Their struggles helped set the stage for other white Americans to address
the challenges raised by the civil rights movement of the second half of
20th ...

 <http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-07-29-voa21.cfm> Women's Rights
Entrenched in Sierra Leone
Voice of America - USA
By Akwei Thompson Last month, Sierra Leone's parliament enacted three laws
that give women unprecedented rights. One human rights coalition said the
new ...

 <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/887429.html> Less than 2% of parents
tried for harming children are convicted
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
The children's rights group claims the actual rate of conviction is even
lower than 1.5 percent, as the police often never open investigations
against ...

 <http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingworldnews/ci_6470427> Group: Spain not
protecting migrant kids
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Simone Troller, European children's rights researcher for Human Rights Watch
and the report's author, told The Associated Press that under Spanish law,
...

<http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=
84215> Issue of street children 'one of most important mounting social ...
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut,Lebanon
"Lebanon has already signed the International Treaty for Children's Rights,
which mandates the implementation of all articles stated in it," Karam
added. ...

 <http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1800> Freire:
Necrophilia, Schooling and Resistance
African Path - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Oppression--overwhelming control--is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of
death, not life. The banking concept of education, which serves the
interests of ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/workplace/58089/> Why Democrats May End Up on the
Wrong Side of the Social Security ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
"Congress rejected Social Security privatization in 2005 and should reject
it again in 2007 -- whether it's for Americans, Peruvians or Canadians. ...

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/331830/retailers_want_proposed_dis
crimination.html> Retailers Want Proposed Discrimination Legislation
Rejected
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
Ledbetter claims that the discrimination began anew with every paycheck she
received because every one was discriminatory. The Supreme Court denied that
...

 <http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/31Jul2007_news13.php> Unreasonable fear of
HIV
Bangkok Post - Thailand
But the biggest problem has become the ignorance and the discrimination of
those without Aids against those with the disease. ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707300790.html> Rwanda: Economic
Inequalities Affecting Poverty Reduction Efforts
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"Soaring inequality is threatening poverty reduction and economic growth,"
the National Human Development Report 2007 noted, adding that Rwanda's high
...

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD761ADB-3523-4DC1-B106-2B5FC76A8674
.htm> Half of Iraq "in absolute poverty"
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half
of the population living in "absolute poverty" according to a report by
Oxfam. ...

 <http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/8820247.html> Fighting poverty in
Louisiana
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
This problem is poverty. According to the 2005 American Community Survey,
approximately 864277 Louisianians, or about 20 percent of the state's
population, ...

 <http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/30/ap3968060.html> Nike Settles
Racism Lawsuit for $7.6M
Forbes - NY,USA
By SARAH SKIDMORE 07.30.07, 4:49 PM ET Nike Inc. has reached a $7.6 million
settlement in a class-action race discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of
400 ...

 <http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=31769> European Coalition of
Cities against Racism
ISN - Zurich,Switzerland
Description: This paper presents facts and findings from an action plan of
the European Coalition of Cities against Racism, focusing on the role of
first ...

 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070730141145.htm> Stronger
Evidence For Human Origin Of Global Warming
Science Daily (press release) - USA
His research shows that, if you look at global warming as a puzzle, and you
put together the natural factors such as increased solar radiation and
reduced ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/story/57490/> Fear and Loathing in Middle America
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bageant grew up in a fundamentalist Christian, ultra-working-class family in
a claustrophobic little Virginia town named Winchester. ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200707290117.html> Nigeria: Accounting
Profession, The Church, and The State - Potent ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
ELASTIC tolerance for corruption fostered by socio-cultural norms and
attitudes towards public property that were nourished under colonialism,
poverty and ...

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/719/37313> Culture, power and society
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
For example, Parenti summarises the relation between politico-economic
imperialism and cultural imperialism in four ringing sentences: "Imperialism
is the ...

<http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppay295311965jul29,0,6908951.col
umn?coll=ny-news-columnists> Not getting too far on reparations
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
This bastion of municipal white supremacy was established to protect the
wealth of Charleston, almost every dime of which the port city accrued from
the ...

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pollute_bdjul29,1,365779
2.story> In minority neighborhood, kids' risk of cancer soars
Chicago Tribune - United States
"All communities are not created equal," said Robert Bullard, director of
the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, ...

 <http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-29-voa15.cfm> Chinese Authorities
Prevent Multinational AIDS Rights Conference
Voice of America - USA
As Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing, although Chinese officials have
become more supportive of AIDS prevention efforts, discrimination against
people ...

 <http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/07/29/stories/2007072950120300.htm> The
reality of economic apartheid
Hindu - Chennai,India
BY BILL KIRKMAN Financial inequality in British society is at its widest for
40 years. That is the finding in a new report just published by the Joseph
...

<http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/07/28/gorbachev_blame
s_us_imperialism_for_growing_global_disarray> Gorbachev blames US
imperialism for 'growing global disarray'
Boston Globe - United States
... of the Soviet Union, which his policies helped bring about, ushered in
an era of US imperialism responsible for many of the world's gravest
problems. ...

<http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070728/OPINION02
/70728002/1014/OPINION> It's time to recognize DC as a full participant in
our democracy
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
That year, Congress enacted a bill that sought to balance out the interests
of pro-slavery and anti-slavery states. Called "The Missouri Compromise,"
the ...

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