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from Paul C. Gorski
June 22, 2007

<http://www.bet.com/News/DukeRapeScandalNifong.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE
=PresentationUnpublished&Referrer=%7B03CE5360-2620-42CB-AD7E-77E4249C5FB7%7D
> The Duke 'Rape' Case Shows that Justice is Definitely Not Colorblind
BET - Washington,DC,USA
... accused of rape only to see their prosecutors get off without so much as
a rap on the knuckles, the entire Duke case is a study in racism and
classism. ...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/cell-j21.shtml> Religious
backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes stem cell bill
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
In an attempt to placate the Christian right, the bill also calls for
promoting alternative methods of developing pluripotent cells. ...

 <http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=61356> Outpost of empire
The News - International - Pakistan
Of course the sensibilities of the vast majority of Pakistanis are deeply
offended by American imperialism, and the Musharraf regime's open
consolidation of ...

 <http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/492/mp1418.htm> Palestinian
infighting blows apart 'national unity' government
Socialist Party - UK
Western imperialism and the Israeli capitalist elite have strived to
undermine Hamas's 2006 election victory, but they are now faced with an
unfolding ...

 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11285/1/377> Women of the world
unite for peace and solidarity
People's Weekly World - USA
Numerous speakers argued that women's equality cannot be fully won within
the current context of imperialism -- a system that doesn't respect national
...

 <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK292988.htm> Chinese officials
held in anti-slavery crackdown
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
"They knew of the situation long ago," the official said, talking of the
slavery-like conditions at the kiln. By Tuesday, police in Shanxi and Henan
had ...

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070621vetsjun21,1,2699570.stor
y?coll=chi-news-hed> Gay veterans saluted at Daley Plaza
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Azam Ahmed Veterans and former US military officials gathered in Daley
Plaza today for the 5th annual salute to America's Gay Lesbian Bisexual and
...

 <http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/21/c7647.html> Nurses
call for end to homophobia and heterosexism in health care
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
Today, RNAO released a position statement entitled 'Respecting Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity' to address homophobia and heterosexism in
the ...

 <http://www.elpasotimes.com/breakingnews/ci_6189218> Inequality in teacher
pay raises questions
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
By Gustavo Reveles Acosta / El Paso Times Teachers in El Paso middle and
high schools serving rich neighborhoods can earn more than $1100 more than
their ...

 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070709/hancock> School's Out
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
Thomas Sobol, the former New York State education commissioner, believes the
battle lines have been drawn between democracy and corporatization. ...

 <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00269.htm> Water Services User
Charges Rob the Working Class
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
This is why Citizens Against Privatisation organised a picket of Bruce
Hucker on Sunday, May 27 - in defence of the working class, against the
harsh effects ...

<http://icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwork.co.uk/icormskirk/news/tm_headline=chi
ld-poverty-concerns-in-nw&method=full&objectid=19328850&siteid=60252-name_pa
ge.html> Child poverty concerns in NW
Southport Visiter - Southport,Lancashire,UK
by Gary Stewart, Ormskirk Advertiser A REPORT by Save the Children suggests
that 1 in 10 children in the North West are living in severe poverty. ...

<http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/child-poverty-is-booming-like-the-eco
nomy/2007/06/21/1182019279850.html> Child poverty is booming, like the
economy
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
IT'S heartening that the 20th anniversary of Bob Hawke's controversial
pledge to eliminate child poverty has generated so much public discussion.
...

 <http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/another-world-0628> Another world
possible? How?
Workers World - USA
... grassroots movement of opposition to capitalist exploitation and all its
disastrous by-products: national oppression, sexism, LGBT oppression, ...

 <http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/13546830/detail.html> Woman Wins
Discrimination Suit Against Wal-Mart
Boston Channel.com - MA, USA
A female pharmacist from Pittsfield won one of the largest discrimination
lawsuits in Massachusetts history against retail giant Wal-Mart. ...

 <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,126708.shtml>
National Builder and Developer Accused of Housing Discrimination
Earthtimes.org - USA
Since 1991, AG Spanos has engaged in a continuous pattern and practice of
discrimination against people with disabilities by designing and/or
constructing ...

<http://www.management-issues.com/2007/6/21/research/discrimination-rampant-
in-u.s.-workplaces.asp> Discrimination in US workplaces
Management-Issues - London,[more],UK
Fully one quarter of women in the US claim to have experienced
discrimination or unfair treatment at work, a damning new poll has
concluded. ...

<http://www.ere.net/inside-recruiting/news/onethird-of-women-claim-weekly-di
scrimination-180823.asp> One-Third of Women Claim Weekly Discrimination at
Work
ERE Media - New York,NY,USA
Once on the job, 31% of female workers said they experience discrimination
or unfair treatment at least once a week; 26% percent said once a month; ...

 <http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_5895.php> NJ enacts ban
on transgender discrimination
Dallas Voice - Dallas,TX,USA
Advocates hope the state's law prohibiting transgender discrimination, which
went into effect Sunday, will lead to more acceptance of transgender people
...

 <http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/636/636_08_Scahill.shtml> Jeremy
Scahill
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
What do they mean by supporting the troops when you have Blackwater
mercenaries being paid more money than the Secretary of Defense to be in the
same war ...

 <http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/06/2007062005n.htm> Government's
Enforcement of Gender-Equity Law Is Inadequate, Says ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
By SARA LIPKA The US Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has been
lax in enforcing gender equity in college athletics, according a report ...

<http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=3866&section
=7> Self-hatred leads to skin bleaching
The Statesman Online - Accra,Ghana
Ultimately, Blay says that a form of "commodity racism - the practice of
using Whiteness to sell products to predominately Black consumers" is the
...

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/article19
63906.ece> Shrinking working class will be squeezed out of university
Times Online - UK
Universities will struggle to attract more working-class entrants as
middle-class students come to dominate higher education, research suggests.
...

 <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ABD658819.htm> FEATURE-Morocco
child maids toil for pittance, face abuse
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... lasting physical and psychological harm," said Clarisa Bencomo,
children's rights researcher for Middle East and North Africa at Human
Rights Watch. ...

<http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/06/aclu-lawsuit-claims-us-forcib
ly-drugged.php> ACLU lawsuit claims US forcibly drugged immigrants during
...
JURIST - USA
Speaking to Reuters, a Los Angeles ICE spokeswoman said that sedatives are
only administered to immigrants if authorized by a court, and are not used
to ...

 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/asia/21china.html?hp> Growing
China Says Little of Child Slavery's Role
New York Times - United States
It is rooted deeply in today's reality, a combination of capitalism,
socialism, feudalism and slavery." Under President Hu Jintao, the Communist
Party has ...

 <http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070621/cleisure/cleisure3.html>
Global slavery continues
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
SLAVERY CONTINUES. Even as the world, led by the United Nations (UN),
commemorates the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the Atlantic
slave ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200706200047.html> Kenya: The Rights of the
Child Sexual Victim Routinely Ignored
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
On Monday, Justice Martha Koome was quoted as suggesting NGOs expected to
champion children's rights against sexual exploitation were overwhelmed. ...

<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/74a0fb71f9cd3a436cc5cd375f4e9f
d5.htm> Sierra Leone: Landmark Convictions for Use of Child Soldiers
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
These children should have been learning how to read, not how to shoot an
AK-47," said Jo Becker, children's rights advocate for Human Rights Watch.
...

 <http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2007/06/20/news/news1.txt> MINORITY
FARMERS PROTEST DISCRIMINATION
Pine Bluff Commercial - Pine Bluff,AR,USA
He said black farmers have been able to document repeated instances in the
past 12 years that reflect discrimination from the USDA. ...

<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-2
0-2007/0004611871&EDATE=> Nearly Three-in-Ten Hispanic Workers Have
Experienced ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Of those who reported the discrimination or unfair treatment to their
employers, 77 percent said the offender was not held accountable. ...

 <http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?ID=07062013151002&coll=buanew07>
Discrimination impacts on success of African business women
BuaNews Online (press release) - Cape Town,South Africa
Addis Ababa - The rampant gender-based discrimination hampering African
women's success in business must be tackled through policy and programmes,
...

 <http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070621/2106192.htm> Poverty fuelling
Afghan child labour
Central Chronicle - Bhopal,India
New York, June 20: Poverty, lack of educational opportunities and the demand
for cheap labour are helping fuel prevalence of child labour across
Afghanistan ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200706200978.html> Zimbabwe: Farm Workers
Union Rejects 'Poverty' Wage Proposals
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
With the Poverty Datum Line currently at Z$ 5,5 million, farm workers say
they cannot survive on the proposed wages. David Mutambirwa, a GAPWUZ 

 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4693.html> Deep-rooted
homophobia plagues the NHS
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Nurses and other health workers need to be educated about their rights and
managers need to send out the message that homophobia is unacceptable are
other ...

 <http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/06/062007poland.htm> Polish Gay Community
Reportedly Fleeing Country
365Gay.com - USA
Robert Biedron, head of the Polish Foundation Against Homophobia, said
thousands of gays have packed up and left - many to Germany and the UK. ...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/cana-j20.shtml> New study
documents increasing income inequality in Canada
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Returning to the CCPA study, it also found that there is increasing
inequality in the hours worked by individuals with different earning
capacities. ...

 <http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,0620-gittelson.shtm> Anti-Latino Racism:
The Equality Issue Of Our Time
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
by Robert Gittelson As a child growing up on Long Island in the 60's, I was
certainly aware of the fact that we had a racism problem in this country.
...

 <http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1483301.0.0.php>
Children condemned to a life in the poverty trap
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
People who fuss over definitions of poverty tend not to be poor. Strangely
enough, the poor generally have better, or worse, things to worry about. ...

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