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from Paul C. Gorski
June 4, 2007

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/safr-j04.shtml> South Africa:
Public sector workers strike demands pay increase
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
The strike action must be viewed against a background of ever greater levels
of social inequality. One teacher, from a school in the township of Soweto
near ...

 <http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan030607.htm> Uncovering The Myth Of
"Fair Go" Australia
CounterCurrents.org - Mahrashtra,India
Indigenous Australians continue to experience widespread institutionalised
racism and remained unequal and marginalised minority group. ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8566> The left in France and Greece
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
The absence of a Marxist party willing and able to argue working-class
ideas, he said. "There is nothing spontaneous about it". ...

<http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsec
tion=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=June2007&file=World_News2007060424
225.xml> Most Palestinians live in abject poverty: Amnesty
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
LONDON * Israel has plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of
poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation, yet failed to ensure its
own ...

<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070603/womens_protest
_070603/20070603?hub=TorontoHome> Police, anti-poverty group locked in
standoff
CTV.ca - Scarborough,ON,Canada
Saying their demands for safe, affordable housing for women have been
ignored for too long, members of an anti-poverty group took over an
abandoned house on ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/supreme-court-chooses-to-_b_50
476.html> Supreme Court Chooses to Uphold Discrimination
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
In 1998, she filed a discrimination suit that her pay was lower than it
should have been for the years she worked, claiming it was because of her
sex. ...

<http://health.ivillage.com/allergy/alnews/0,,wbnews_bnwjnb9m,00.html?dst=rs
s%7Cwb> Discrimination Linked to Health Problems Among Minorities
Routine, even subtle, racial discrimination places significant mental stress
on minorities that may provoke the development of chronic illness, new
research suggests.

<http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2007/06/report_links_d
i.html> Report Links Discrimination Against Women and HIV Infection Rates
By Reproductive Rights 
Via Ms. Magazine's Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs:Physicians for Human
Rights released a report on Friday demonstrating that discriminatory views
against women contribute to the spread of HIV. The organization conducted a
study in ...

 <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/589819.html> Theological schools
lag in diversity
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
To black students, many theological schools look like bastions of white
privilege. And the implications are international. In a world where
Christianity is ...

 <http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=5363887>
Ratings Raise TV News Sexism Questions
6abc.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
New York (AP) - June 3, 2007 - With all the women in television news on both
sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to the
20th ...

 <http://www.dailyscare.com/1431/politics-of-fear-eroding-human-rights>
'Politics of fear' eroding human rights
The Daily Scare - Cincinnati,OH,USA
The government has been condemned for eroding Britain's human rights record
by using the "politics of fear" to bring in tougher anti-terror legislation,
...

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/02/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-G-8-Protest
.php> 10000 join London demonstration to urge G-8 to keep poverty pledges
International Herald Tribune - France
LONDON: An estimated 10000 people joined a peaceful demonstration in London
on Saturday urging G-8 leaders to keep their promises on combatting poverty.
...

 <http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=45461> Palestinian Poverty
Soaring: Labour Organization
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
GENEVA -- Poverty has dramatically soared in the Palestinian territories
over the past year due to Israeli restrictions and closures, with workers
facing ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/rights/52897/> Looking to Congress for Justice on
Wage Bias and Gender Discrimination
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
She filed a discrimination lawsuit, got support from the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission and won a $3.8 million award from a jury. ...

<http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=1004370&srvc=home>
Roberts' rules of bias: Court shows supreme indifference to job sexism
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
By Bonnie Erbe. This week's ruling on pay discrimination is a supremely
enlightening example of the arbitrariness of the law and the difference one
justice ...

 <http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060207E.shtml> Robert Parry | Bush's
Global Warming Foot-Dragging
Bush snared front-page attention for his supposed shift on global warming,
but the President's tepid 'aspirational goals' - and comments from his NASA
chief that a hotter planet might actually be beneficial - continue to
reflect Bush's ...

 <http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/43888> Blackwater: The Rise
of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army ...
Media Monitors Network - CA,USA
... Christian mega-millionaire who has served as a major bankroller not only
of President Bush's campaigns but the broader Christian-right agenda." ...

<http://www.independent.ie/national-news/women-peace-laureates-fight-sexual-
inequality-690413.html> Women peace laureates fight sexual inequality
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
The campaigners vowed to lobby international governments and major
institutions in a high-profile bid to root out gender inequality. ...

<http://www.citywire.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?VersionID=92751&MenuKey=New
s.Home> Property prices return inequality to 19th century say academics
CityWire.co.uk - London,England,UK
The property divide threatened to return the UK to levels of inequality
'last seen in the 19th and early 20th centuries', as young people and
families face ...

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