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from Paul C. Gorski
June 10, 2007
 
What happened to childhood? How we are failing the young (
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2640426.ece )
Independent - London,England,UK
A dossier of evidence from 380 campaign and welfare groups, the most
extensive ever into children's rights, obtained by The Independent on
Sunday reveals ...
 
Logocide: The Latest Christianist Tactic (
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1744/32/ )
Atlantic Free Press - Groningen,Netherlands
The GOP presidential wannabe - and sycophant of the Christian Right -
was supposedly "clarifying" why he raised his hand during the May 2007
Republican ...
 
Anti-globalization protestors demonstrate in Berlin (
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=40752 )
Jurnalo - Berlin,Germany
Following the close of the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm,
Germany, anti-globalization protestors took their message to the
streets of Berlin Friday ...
 
Action Report: Victory to the Intifada contingent on ENOUGH ... (
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373119.html )
Indymedia UK - UK
The economic and financial blockade that the Zionists and western
imperialism have maintained on the Palestinian people for nearly 18
months is causing ...
 
REPORT ON THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE IN THE PHILIPPINES (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/09/18426349.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
It is a durable tradition of resistance against imperialism,
historically the first in Asia, and still continuing with all its
vicissitudes, through defeats ...
 
Adrien Katherine Wing, "Critical Race Feminism, A Reader" (
http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=1906 )
By Ann Bartow 
Now in its second edition, the acclaimed anthology Critical Race
Feminism presents over 40 readings on the legal status of women of
color by leading authors and scholars such as Anita Hill, Lani
Guinier, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, ...
 
Test to reveal 'inner racism' in job applicants (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/10/nrace110.xml
)
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In the wake of a BBC documentary in 2003 revealing racism among
police recruits, the Home Office introduced tests designed to uncover
racial prejudice. ...
 
Sacked after gay slur (
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21880284-2902,00.html
)
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
He also met with officials from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Network and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
and filmed a public ...
 
Sexism seems part of response to Katie Couric (
http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_6098513 )
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
By David Bauder / AP Given all the women in television news on both
sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to
the 20th century. ...
 
Civil Rights (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr010=9zlyxi99u2.app5b&page=NewsArticle&id=6851&news_iv_ctrl=1501
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
In order to protect their wealth, the capitalists and their
representatives work tirelessly to pit working class people against
each other based on our ...
 
San Antonio police chief sued for sex discrimination (
http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=2&nid=2380 )
KCEN-TV - Eddy,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Two high-ranking female San Antonio police
officers have sued Chief William McManus accusing him of gender
discrimination. ...
 
Dalits open their own school to protest discrimination (
http://www.indiaedunews.net/Jharkhand/Dalits_open_their_own_school_to_protest_discrimination_1312
)
IndiaEduNews.net - New Delhi,India
Ranchi: Dalits in a Jharkhand village have set an example of how to
protest against discrimination without creating unrest. Dalits in
Thadi village of Dumka ...
 
Ann Williams: An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey (
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-060907114857.htm )
Palestine Chronicle - Mountlake Terrace,WA,USA
Forty years of needless suffering and direct occupational oppression
by the US-sponsored Israeli state armed with US-manufactured weapons--
including ...
 
Blackwater Heavies Sue Families of Slain Employees for $10 Million
... ( http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/53460/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The lawyers representing the families of four American Blackwater
contractors killed in Fallujah make the case that the company's
executives are suing the ...
 
Bullying in schools is all too common (
http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-2/118131527954020.xml&coll=3
)
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot - Jackson,MI,USA
It's not for us to say whether Gallentine has been the victim of
homophobia or the sort of behavior typical at most schools. It's
hard to imagine, though, ...
 
Green socialism is necessary (
http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/11209/1/375 )
People's Weekly World - USA
While development in socialist and nonaligned countries may not be
motivated on the whole by a drive for profit and control (capitalism
and imperialism) as ...
 
Privatization in Europe (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5385/1/265/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
On the one hand are those who believe that privatization and
liberalization is the only way to meet the needs of consumers, improve
the efficiency of public ...
 
Biloxi NAACP Accuses Biloxi School District Of Discrimination (
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=6634166&nav=6DJI )
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
"We're going back to segregated schools within our school system,"
said James Crowell, President of the Biloxi NAACP. During a news
conference Friday ...
 
PAIN OF POVERTY (
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/06/09/pain-of-poverty---89520-19269570/
)
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
A THIRD of deaths each year in the world, 18million, are caused by
poverty 30000 children a day die of hunger or disease. ...
 
Human rights groups name "disappeared" detainees (
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00109.htm )
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
(London and New York 7 June 2007) -- In the most comprehensive
accounting to date, six leading human rights organizations today
published the names and ...
 
Landmark Supreme Court ruling affirms that labour rights are human
... ( http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/June2007/08/c2709.html
)
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
"This landmark decision recognizes that collective bargaining is a
right for all workers, and it affirms that labour rights are human
rights. ...
 
Black Resistance and Capitulation by Tamara K. Nopper (
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=3711 )
ThugLifeArmy.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... new immigrants have subscribed to the logic of antiblackness in
ways that are perhaps more complicated than the traditional forms of
white supremacy." ...
 
Rich-poor gulf widening (
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=8390 )
The News - International - Pakistan
The urban inequality witnessed a steep increase as it stood at 4.8
for the top 20 per cent against 57.7 for the bottom 20 per cent
population of the country ...
 
 
 
 

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