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from Paul C. Gorski
June 8, 2007
 
Bill seeks details on firms' links to slavery (
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/07/bill_seeks_details_on_firms_links_to_slavery
)
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
Slavery was legally sanctioned in 1641, and slaves were owned in
Massachusetts until the 1780s, when a series of decisions by the
Supreme Judicial Court ...
 
Efforts to Hand Down History of Wartime Sex Slavery Continue (
http://www.nichibeitimes.com/articles/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1181253152&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1
)
Nichi Bei Times - San Francisco,CA,USA
TOKYO -- While references to wartime sex slavery have almost
disappeared from textbooks, efforts to hand down its history and to
unite with former so-called ...
 
Foreign aid fosters poverty (
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21866969-5007146,00.html )
NEWS.com.au - Australia
FOR more than a decade Labor and Coalition governments have presided
over a foreign aid policy that has condemned millions of families to
poverty and ...
 
Wastepickers rally against privatization of waste management (
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/150052/1/1893 )
OneWorld.net - London,England,UK
Vishnu a wastepicker told the Mayor that after privatization their
income has reduced by 50% and their livelihoods are suffering badly.
...
 
EDITORIAL: 40 years later (
http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/11205/1/375 )
People's Weekly World - USA
This buys weaponry, not merely for the country's defense, but for
offensive attacks and continued oppression of the millions of
Palestinians, ...
 
Human Rights Groups Demand Accounting for Missing Detainees (
http://voanews.com/english/2007-06-07-voa86.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
Leading human rights groups Thursday called on the US government to
account for terrorism suspects they believe were detained by US
authorities abroad but ...
 
International Day of Action Against Climate Change and the G8! (
http://unite.gnn.tv/blogs/23668/International_Day_of_Action_Against_Climate_Change_and_the_G8
)
Pass this call out on to all environmental justice, climate action,
radical sustainability and related movements in all the G8 countries
and the Global South. Rising Tide will create a collection of outreach
and agit-prop materials ...
 
Bush's Global Warming Foot Dragging (
http://www.alternet.org/environment/53510/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bush snared front-page attention for his supposed shift on global
warming, but comments from his NASA chief that a hotter planet might
actually be ...
 
Gay vets recall wartime experiences (
http://baywindows.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=008EC9FBCFF24AD18614290016BE1303&nm=Current+Issue&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=F82FA123077E452BAD28BA204CB49D14
)
Bay Windows - Boston,MA,USA
As she moved between military stations, Riso's gay and lesbian
comrades would give her names of people to contact at her next
destination. ...
 
Law Professor Finds Lynchings Have Lasting Impact On Race Relations (
http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7409.shtml )
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
"The wounds of White supremacy," she writes, "still stand open and
untreated." While researching the book, published in February, Ifill
says many Blacks ...
 
The Attack on Black Women Continues by Pearl Jr. (
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=3709 )
ThugLifeArmy.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Have we, as Black people, become so passive, powerless, and naïve
that we allow White supremacy and Black inferiority to loom and
continue to spread all ...
 
Economic inequality continues in region (
http://www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5183
)
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
Amnesty International's annual report on the state of human rights
around the world released May 23 said there were advances throughout
the region in ...
 
Neal Lawson writes on the entrenchment of inequality (
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/article.asp?n=672 )
The news that the poorest face property prices 10 times their average
income entrenches Britain as a nation of declining social mobility and
growing inequality. Now only those on high incomes brackets or from
already wealthy families ...
 
Canadians of colour still long for equality (
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1181191935687&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062581
)
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Here, in Canada, whiteness is considered to be the universal hidden
norm, an ethnocentric notion that "allows one to think and speak as if
whiteness ...
 
'Oppressed' whites? Give me a break (
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-pitts0607jun06,0,6293820.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines
)
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
As in victim of racial oppression. By any measure -- health,
education, economics, employment -- white Americans enjoy a superior
standard of living. ...
 
HOW TO CREATE BILLIONAIRES AND MASSIVE POVERTY = NEOLIBERALISM (
http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/464.html )
Privatization led to the capitalist gang wars and the disarticulation
of the Russian economy. As a result there was an 80 per cent decline
in living standards, a devaluation of the Ruble and the sell-off of
invaluable oil, gas and other ...
 
On Fox's Special Report, Hume cited debunked Oregon Petition on ... (
http://mediamatters.org/items/200706060009?f=h_latest )
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
The Associated Press reported on April 30, 1998, that Robinson is "a
physical chemist," who "acknowledges he has done no direct research
into global warming ...
 
The road to equality (
http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070606/REPOSITORY/706060385/1029/OPINION03
)
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
Homophobia is wrong, but unfortunately it seems to be one of the last
forms of nominally acceptable discrimination. People need to realize
that gay ...
 
High School Homophobia Kills Gay Teen (
http://www.generationq.net/articles/High-School-Homophobia-Kills-Gay-Teen-00001.html
)
GenerationQ - Sydney,NSW,Australia
15 year old Jonathan Reynolds layed down in from of a speeding train
because of homophobic bullying at his school. by Editor-in-Chief on
2007-06-06 ...
 
Holsinger's Holy Homophobia (
http://www.queerty.com/news/holsingers-holy-homophobia-20070606/ )
Queerty - New York,NY,USA
Earlier this morning, we mentioned that Surgeon General nominee Dr.
James Holsinger penned a piece for the United Methodist Church
entitled "Pathophysiology ...
 
Blackwater: Bush's Mercenaries (
http://evolvinginkansas.blogspot.com/2007/06/blackwater-bushs-mercenaries.html
)
By Mousie Cat(Mousie Cat) 
Armed units from the private security firm Blackwater USA opened fire
in Baghdad streets twice in two days last week. It triggered a
standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, a reminder
that the war in Iraq may be ...
 
Rewards to imperialism (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=11969 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
The Palestinian flag, a potent international symbol of unity against
oppression and imperialism, has been seen on the great worldwide
anti-war ...
 
Class Matters: Working Class Culture and Counter-Culture (
http://www.macalester.edu/whatshappening/press/2007/060607.html )
Macalester College News - St. Paul,MN,USA
Working Class Studies is an emerging field at colleges and
universities in the United States, following in the steps of African
American Studies, ...
 
Trotsky's relevance today (
http://www.chinaworker.info/en/content/news/199/ )
China Worker - China
It was not just the Trotskyists who felt the terrible blow of his
death but the working class and labour movement of the whole world.
...
 
Emin blasts art world sexism (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/06/nemin106.xml
)
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
By Malcolm Moore in Venice. Female artists are paid far less and
taken much less seriously than males, Tracey Emin said as she opened a
major exhibition of ...
 
Editorial | Pursuing Injustice at Guantanamo (
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/7858012.html )
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it's looking more and more like the Bush
administration's so-called war on terror is being fought by the
Keystone Cops. ...
 
Modern Black slavery & the Prison-Industrial Complex (
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/6/13844/45743 )
By Gimmeliberty 
Over the past thirty years, the United States has seen the rise of a
new system dedicated to the governance of the social and economic
margins of society - that is, Black communities, Latino communities,
and others. ...
 
Governments told not doing enough to halt racism (
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-06-06T183238Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-301743-1.xml&archived=False
)
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Governments should work harder to combat racism
and other hate crimes which are on the rise globally but go largely
unreported, ...
 
Human rights group urges governments to do more to fight hate crimes
(
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/06/europe/EU-GEN-Romania-Hate-Crimes.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
BUCHAREST, Romania: Hate crimes are on the rise in many countries, an
international human rights group warned Wednesday, urging governments
to do more to ...
 
Lithuanian children discriminated against in Ireland (
http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18001/ )
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
After a visit to Ireland, Children's Rights Ombudsman Rimante
Salasevicuite said that Lithuanian children there feel unsafe and
discriminated against, ...
 
 
 
 

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