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Thu Jun 14 23:13:39 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
June 14, 2007

 <http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/159195.html> Home-loan inequity
yielding no action
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Three years after Federal Reserve researchers began assembling data showing
blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to be saddled with
high-priced ...

 <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070613231010667> Hawaii:
Dividing and conquering the working class with drug testing
Infoshop News - USA
In a historic blow to workers' rights, and working class solidarity in
Hawaii, the members of the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) have
been coerced ...

 <http://campusprogress.org/features/1629/taming-the-giant-corporation>
Taming the Giant Corporation
Campus Progress - Washington,DC,USA
... of British Columbia who was in attendance, said she had noticed the
growth of corporate power in the "alarming corporatization of the college
campus. ...

 <http://gothamist.com/2007/06/13/new_york_state.php> New York State Readies
Apology for Slavery
Gothamist - NY,USA
The state legislature in Albany is prepared to issue a formal apology for
the historic practice of slavery and will be the first northern state in the
Union ...

 <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,122140.shtml>
CAIR to Release Report on US Muslim Civil Rights
Earthtimes.org - USA
The Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group's report -- the
only annual study of its kind -- will show a significant increase in
complaints ...

 <http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/articles/2007/06/13/news/daily05.txt>
Riverdale school accused of racism
RIVERDALE - Accusations of racism have permeated Riverdale, after photos
from a Riverdale Christian Academy graduation party surfaced on the
Internet.

 <http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_164120215> Racism watchdogs
say KKK in Vermont
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - An organization that tracks hate groups across the
country says the Ku Klux Klan has active chapters in Rutland and Hardwick.

<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_512446.html>
Bill would prohibit discrimination against gays
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Brad Bumsted HARRISBURG -- Discrimination against gays in employment and
housing would be illegal in Pennsylvania under legislation Democratic Rep.
...

 <http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/06/13/71968> Ellison speaks on
consumer injustice
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
By Jake Grovum elected as part of the Democratic Congressional takeover in
2006, Keith Ellison has been making news ever since. Given the open-forum
format ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/americas-uninspired-chi
l_b_52077.html> America's Uninspired Children
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Whiteness is inconsequential and meaningless. But as an indicator of how
prosperity in America has led us to value big cars over cute infants and
plasma TV ...

 <http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/149361.html> Don't gloss over
human-rights abuses
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
The Bush administration's human-rights abuses continue to embarrass the
United States and undermine its position around the world -- not just in ...

 <http://www.workers.org/2007/world/book-review-0621> US policies doomed to
fail in South America
Workers World - USA
These new developments, however, only serve to establish Regalado's main
points: * US imperialism needs to exploit Latin America's resources and
labor even ...

<http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/06/13/opinion/letters/doc466e1dcb3f
c38825083533.txt> Private security firm major problem for US
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
The problem is a company called Blackwater USA. Research shows this private
security company to be solely owned by one Erick Prince, a right wing, ...

<http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=111&c
sid2=844&fid1=26005> Reggae Acts Sign Up to Renounce Homophobia
Exclaim! - Canada
After years of promoting hatred, reggae artists such as Beenie Man, Capleton
and Sizzla have signed an agreement to renounce homophobia in their music.
...

<http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Analysis/2007/06/11/review_of
_the_arab_press/4171/> Review of the Arab press
United Press International - USA
... George W. Bush and the other leaders of the Group of Eight nations
should be the last to speak about freedoms, human rights and injustice in
the world. ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/courtney-e-martin-/healing-the-generational-_
b_51741.html> Healing the Generational Rift in Feminism
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
For example, when Jessica Valenti's lightening rod of a book, Full Frontal
Feminism, was recently criticized by some bloggers of color for being ...

 <http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070612145114968> Increased Child Labor
Caused by Poverty in Iraq
BBSNews - Charlotte,NC,USA
Poverty has forced children to work on the streets to help their families.
For the image shown above in a larger size, please see: Poverty has forced
...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/injustice-run-amok_b_51835.htm
l> Injustice Run Amok
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... which led to editorials in The New York Times and a letter from former
president Jimmy Carter protesting the injustice of Wilson's original
sentence. ...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/12/18426957.php> Kurdish Culture,
Repression, Women's Rights, and Resistance
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Yet, it is largely their mutual language as well as their mutual oppression
and a large amount of mutual poverty (despite some class differences) that
...

 <http://www.ww4report.com/node/4060> Mexico: environmental activist
murdered
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... Environment Day by denouncing the federal and state governments' "clear
incapacity" to act in the murder and Mexico's "lack of environmental
justice. ...

 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2100910,00.html> Children
smuggled into UK for sex abuse and slavery
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The trade in hundreds of children smuggled into the UK for sexual
exploitation, drug smuggling, under-age marriage, street crime and domestic
slavery was ...

 <http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=29272>
Stealth racism abounds, research finds
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Research on racism has come a long way since the old days of searching for
the "racist personality." In recent years, researchers have focused on the
subtle ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200706110545.html> Zimbabwe: Racism And the
Future of Humankind
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Racism, rather than religious fanaticism, may yet destroy Humankind, if we
refuse to accept that it is music which levels all racist barriers, not
verbal or ...

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