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Tue Mar 27 19:30:55 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
March 27, 2006

 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6500375.stm> Figures show
increase in poverty
BBC News - UK
The statistics showed that 980000 Scots were living in relative poverty
(after housing costs) in 2005/06 - an increase of 20000 on the year before.
...

<http://www.pr-inside.com/georgia-taxes-working-poor-families-deeper-r77776.
htm> Georgia Taxes Working-Poor Families Deeper Into Poverty
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Working poor families in
Georgia with incomes well below the federal poverty line face state income
tax ...

 <http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.1289790.0.0.php>
10000 more children sink to the bottom of the poverty trap
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The rescue of children from poverty in Scotland ground to a halt last year
as the numbers of the most deprived families started to rise. ...

 <http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=6283417&nav=6DJI> Housing Leaders
Accuse City Council Of Discrimination
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
The director of the Mississippi Region Eight Housing Authority Roy Necaise
is accusing Gulfport city leaders of covert discrimination. ...

 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/index.php/article/view/5044/1/250/> Things
Fall Apart: China and the Decline of US Imperialism
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
When historians of the future look back, they may very well conclude that
2007 marked the time when the crisis of US imperialism became so obvious
that even ...

<http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070326/OPINION/70
3260309/1005/OPINION> Heed public on Iraq war
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
Imperialism and militarism are the deadly enemies of democracy. If democracy
means anything, it means public opinion matters. Tyranny does not ask for
the ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200703260341.html> Rwanda: When Genocide
Denied Reason
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Some commentators describe racism as preference for one's own ethnic group
(ethnocentrism or ethnic nationalism), fear of foreigners (xenophobia), ...

 <http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/March2007/26/c6554.html> Set minimum
wages above poverty line: Study
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
TORONTO, March 26 /CNW/ - Not a single province in Canada pays a minimum
wage that lifts working Canadians out of poverty, concludes a study by the
Canadian ...

 <http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=10219> Penn State
Women's Basketball Coach Resigns after Discrimination ...
Feminist Majority Foundation - USA
With help from the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Harris filed a
federal lawsuit against Penn State for alleged racial and sexual
discrimination ...

<http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/03/26/news/latest_news/b59186
21e8dcadad862572ab00036aa1.txt> Senate OKs bill banning discrimination
against gays
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
DES MOINES - A bill prohibiting discrimination against gays and lesbians in
Iowa won Senate approval Monday over the objections of critics who predicted
the ...

 <http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=4575&CategoryID=7> Report
highlights discrimination in French job market
Monday Morning - Beirut,Lebanon
In some 90 percent of cases where discrimination occurred, the candidate
with an African-sounding name -- Kader Larbi or Farid Boukhrit for men, ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200703261117.html> Namibia: Gays And Lesbians
Left Out of Aids Policy - LAC
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE National Policy on HIV-AIDS that was adopted in Parliament recently is a
good document, a human rights lawyer says, but gay, lesbian, bisexual and
...

 <http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=294580> New Then and now: Obama's
views on gay rights
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
Obama went on to compare the gay rights struggle to the civil rights
movement of the 1960s - pointing out his African father and white mother
wouldn't have ...

 <http://english.people.com.cn/200703/26/eng20070326_360892.html> Nigerian
women denounce inequality in gender representation
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... demand for full representation in public decision making as a matter of
right for they are worrying about high level gender inequality in the
country. ...

 <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/26/news/UN-GEN-UN-US-Terrorism.php>
UN expert to visit US for assessment of human rights in ...
International Herald Tribune - France
GENEVA: The UN investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism
will visit the United States in May to make sure that the country is
following ...

<http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2ED7D8C3-D2B5-485D-AFC0-502AA627
8F89%7D)&language=EN> US Accused at UN as Human Rights Abuser
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Geneva, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina) An official report presented before the UN
Council on Human Rights, currently in session in Geneva, revealed violations
and ...

 <http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/322466511337894.php> AFRICAN
CROSSROADS: The Black Madonna
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
WHITE SUPREMACY is pervasive around the globe, but when it comes to those
ultimate images that rule the world, no area is as subject to psychological
...

<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C03%5C25%5Cstory_25-3-2
007_pg7_6> US clandestine activities abroad will blow back: historian
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
Imperialism, by definition, requires military force, huge standing armies, a
large military-industrial complex, and the willingness to use force
regularly. ...

 <http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/11372674/detail.html> Gay
Discrimination Claimed In Lawsuit Against Police
Boston Channel.com - Boston,MA,USA
CARIBOU, Maine -- An Old Orchard Beach man has filed a lawsuit against the
Caribou Police Department claiming he was unfairly arrested for drunken
driving ...

 <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,79674.shtml>
More GOP Hypocrisy: Trent Lott Contradicts Himself on Executive ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... firings of eight US Attorneys by invoking executive privilege. Asked why
President Bush was justified in keeping his advisors from testifying when
White ...

<http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpwel245143648mar25,0,3641224.story?
coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines> Blaming the poor for their plight
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
In short, it is the poor people's culture of poverty that has led to our
current situation of record-breaking income and wealth inequality. ...

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