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from Paul C. Gorski
June 24, 2007

 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=13132>
Choices for Black labor
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Within the Black working class there is a less of a sense that unions are
the instruments to deal with the larger problems facing Black America. ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR200706220
1793.html> Treating Trauma With Neglect
Washington Post - United States
Mr. Cruz's background strongly suggests an inequity in who is being asked to
sacrifice for our country. The article also revealed a dangerous stigma
against ...

 <http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=8997> Of gender
inequality in Iran
Arab American News - Dearbom,MI,USA
Just as prostitution provides the focal point for the larger issue of women
and gender inequality under the Islamic Republic, "Offside" uses soccer to
...

<http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_nam
e=prasad%2Fprasad213.txt&writer=prasad> Clueless elite
Daily Pioneer - New Delhi,India
>From the late19th century to early 1930s, the KKK insisted on white
supremacy, anti-semitism, racism, anti-catholicism, homophobia and nativism.
...

<http://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/feminism-friday-woman-what-are
-you/> Feminism Friday - Woman, What Are You?
By thinking girl 
The power structure under which we live is a white heterosexual capitalist
male supremacy, and identity is socially constructed under its directives,
which assigns hierarchical value to groups that are defined in opposition or
binary to ...

 <http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=6701547&nav=menu119_3> 43rd
Anniversary Of Three Civil Rights Workers Deaths
WLBT-TV - Jackson,MS,USA
This week marked the 43rd anniversary of the deaths of James Chaney, Michael
Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman - three civil rights workers slain in Neshoba
...

 <http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070622/asia-slavery.htm> Across Asia,
corruption and slavery form bitter web
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA
Across Asia, corruption and slavery form a bitter web. REUTERS/Stringer But
shocking images of men and children padlocked and brutalized in stifling ...

 <http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/146557.html> Officials arrested in
slavery scandal
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Amid the host of new revelations, media said slavery ringleaders were hiding
child laborers and charging ransoms for their release. ...

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india24jun24,1,4713180.
story?coll=la-headlines-world&track=crosspromo> Sex slavery crisis within
India too
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Anti-trafficking efforts focus on those taken abroad. But the problem also
persists at home. NEW DELHI -- Meena discovered she had been sold while
riding in ...

 <http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/87543.shtml> NYC Police Brutalize
Human Rights Attorney
NYC Independent Media Center - New York,NY,USA
By Amadi Ajamu A human rights attorney known for handling cases of police
brutality became a victim of police abuse last Thursday evening in Brooklyn.
...

 <http://www.newsyemen.net/en/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_06_23_6715>
Children conference recommend swift steps to stop violence
News Yemen - Sanaa,Yemen
Save the Children Sweden work focuses on children's rights, and tackles
issues that affect marginalised children. The core of the work focuses on
children ...

 <http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=12346> Commentary: The Bushites
Have Outsourced Our Government To Their Pals
Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA
It's on this last point that corporatization ultimately founders. For
contractors, the concept of "better" applies strictly to their bottom lines
- not to ...

<http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B6DDD357B-4732-499E-8483-E4C52375
0031%7D&language=EN> Poverty Forces Panamanian Kids to Work
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Panama, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) In spite of Panama's economic boom, the
terrible distribution of wealth, marginality and social exclusion force
50000 ...

 <http://www.managingdiversity.co.uk/news_article.php?ID=18188394> Obesity
'next discrimination issue'
Diversity News - Bradford,West Yorkshire,UK
Obesity could become the next workplace discrimination issue, joining a
growing list of outspoken prejudices in UK offices. Seven out of ten
employers in a ...

<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1321253.php/Huma
n_Rights_Watch_accuses_US_administration_over_poor_human_rights> Human
Rights Watch accuses US administration over poor human rights
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Manama - A senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) official blamed the US
administration Friday for a deterioration in human rights around the world
over the past ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/how-terrorism-affects-glo_b_5342
9.html> How Terrorism Affects Global Warming (it does!)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Recently he wrote that global warming hysteria has become a problem of truth
versus propaganda. He says the issue is more about freedom than tiny changes
in ...

 <http://www.ldnews.com/editorials/ci_6203307> Inequity in drug laws
Lebanon Daily News - Lebanon,PA,USA
For more than 20 years, there has been an outcry about the
disproportionately harsh federal sentences mandated for small-time crack
cocaine dealers. ...

 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=13126>
Sorry Frank Rich: The "Washington Mob" Has More Than 3000 Deaths ...
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
My latest Empire and Inequality Report (#20) is dedicated to dominant
(so-called mainstream) United States media taboos that undermine the moral
and ...

 <http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1525549/> Effectiveness of Army's
Anti-Racist Policies Questioned
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
based group that tracks racist groups in the US, released a report last year
that claimed white supremacy continues to thrive in the military. ...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/22/18429432.php> For a United
Anti-War Movement
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, US imperialism emerged as the
world's dominant power. It has arrogantly sought to impose its will on the
peoples of ...

 <http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/289180112564420> Title IX was a
turning point for American women and girls
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
It shouldn't have taken a federal law to bring gender equity to sports and
all other aspects of education. But it did, and the job still isn't
finished. ...

 <http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/blackfarmers622> Decades
of Discrimination Against Black Farmers May End with ...
Black America Web - Dallas,Tx,USA
With support growing on both sides of the aisle in Congress, backers of
bills to end decades of discrimination against black farmers said they are
...

 <http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=167928>
Racial discrimination in loan rates before 1995: Fed research
Financial Express - Bombay,India
JUN 22 : Federal Reserve research showed that interest costs on home and car
loans made before 1995 had signs of racial discrimination. ...

<http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&st
oryID=2007-06-22T194312Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-304383-1.xml> Women face
discrimination, harassment at work - poll
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
One in four women faces discrimination at work and 17 percent have felt
sexually harassed at the office, according to a new survey. ...

<http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/is-microfinance-really-effecti-002524.php
> Is Microfinance Really Effective in Alleviating Poverty?
Triple Pundit - San Francisco,CA,USA
The article's subheading summarizes his conclusion: Despite the hoopla over
microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. ...

 <http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=34208> Police, labour
execs linked to Chinese slavery scandal
The Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei Darussalam
GOVERNMENT labour monitors and police officers were actively involved in the
Chinese brickyard slavery scandal, investigators said yesterday. ...

<http://sundial.csun.edu/news/2007/06/22/Entertainment/Icon-Angela.Davis.Sti
ll.Working.For.Change-2917704.shtml> Icon Angela Davis still working for
change
Daily Sundial - Northridge,CA,USA
A vocal opponent of oppression of all kinds, Davis spoke on topics of
feminism, prisoners' rights and race, and suggested we think more broadly
and ...

 <http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/article2695139.ece> White
working-class boys are the worst performers in school
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Richard Garner White working-class boys perform worse than any other
ethnic or gender group at school, according to a study published today. ...

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