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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
May 2, 2007
 
Rural issues: Youth work role in racism explored (
http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=14021
)
Young People Now - London,UK
The role of youth work in combating rural racism is to be
investigated by the Rural Youth Network. The organisation will look
into the issue following ...
 
CSU must work harder to end racism in community
St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud,MN,USA
"White Cloud" is synonymous with entrenched racism. Among the
examples are city governments that have been reliably unresponsive to
racism and cops who ...
 
Mpls. restaurant agrees to payment to settle discrimination claim (
http://www.wctrib.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8ORKUGG1 )
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
A trendy restaurant has agreed to pay $325000 to settle a
discrimination lawsuit alleging mistreatment of its Hispanic
employees. ...
 
Dancing to Empowering Beat * Girls fight sexism in middle school (
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2007/05/01/news/news254.txt )
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
By Tatiana Zarnowski, Sentinel Reporter, April 30, 2007. It’s not the
rampant discrimination they saw in a movie about the women’s suffrage
movement, ...
 
Indian policies under influence of American imperialism (
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0705018334190347.htm )
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) said tuesday that
pressures from US imperialism were influencing India's policies
particularly in the economic ...
 
Zimbabwe: Fight Against Imperialism, Youths Urged (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200705010032.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"They are very important in the history of this country and, thus,
the youths have a very key role to play and contribute to the final
defeat of imperialism ...
 
NAACP TO BURY N-WORD: Civil rights org. will hold symbolic funeral
... ( http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur33189.cfm )
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The civil rights organization, which held a symbolic funeral in
Detroit for the demise of Jim Crow in 1963, will hold a similar
service for the N-word ...
 
Addressing the gender pay gap (
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-1/117803829275260.xml&coll=9
)
The Saginaw News - Saginaw,MI,USA
Michigan's gender pay chasm average. 67 cents for $1, says the
Michigan Pay Equity Network. Those averages, critics point out, don't
take into account ...
 
Beleaguered immigrants live in fear (
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS05/705010319/1189/BLOG13
)
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Deportations of immigrants in Michigan and Ohio jumped to 2528 for
the last fiscal year, a 27% increase that's almost twice the 14%
increase nationally, ...
 
Thousands join Tokyo May Day rallies against wealth inequality (
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/05/01/afx3671370.html
)
Forbes - NY,USA
TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Thousands of Japanese joined May Day
rallies in the capital,urging the government to tackle wealth
inequalities in the world's ...
 
Workplace oppression continues even as another May Day goes by (
http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/02/stories/2007050210720100.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
BANGALORE: Homita J., Sharavathi HC and Sunita KH, young workers in
their twenties, have experienced workplace oppression at its worst.
...
 
Building the struggle for socialism in the US (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr007=a182spsnx2.app7b&page=NewsArticle&id=6713&news_iv_ctrl=1261
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
Oppression breeds resistance. Capitalism creates the necessary
conditions for revolution and the creation of socialism. ...
 
Guest Workers Fall Victim to Xenophobia in Russia (
http://www.hetq.am/eng/society/0704-russia.html )
Hetq Online - Yerevan,Armenia
In 2003 friends of Borik Ghazaryan and Hrachya Darmanyan, residents
of the town of Talin in the Aragatsotn Marz, invited them to the city
of Oryol in the ...
 
What's the Real Reason for the Sudden Attack on Hip Hop? (
http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2007/04/rap_attacks_man/ )
Vibe - New York,NY,USA
The desire to police hip hop at the level of language does little to
address the sexism, misogyny and homophobia that informs the treatment
of black women ...
 
Human Rights Watch says Wal-Mart denies basic labour rights (
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=368933&ssid=53&sid=BUS
)
Zee News - Noida,India
Washington, May 01: Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that US retail
giant Wal-Mart violates a global pact on labor rights by interfering
with basic rights to ...
 
South Asians in UK twice as likely to live in poverty (
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1094011 )
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
LONDON: About 30 per cent Indians in Britain live in poverty, says a
report, which also found that despite improving academic performance
and qualifications ...
 
Health study highlights regional poverty (
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911163.htm )
ABC Online - Australia
A study has found a high number of chronically ill people in country
areas of Australia live below the poverty line. Chronic Illness
Alliance says about 40 ...
 
Discrimination against Muslims rising in Australia, says ex-PM (
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200704301861.htm )
Hindu - Chennai,India
30 (AP): The government is partly to blame for an increase in
discrimination against Muslims in Australia, a former Prime Minister
said today. ...
 
Textbooks biased against workers: teachers' group (
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/05/01/2003358989
)
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
... and the negative impact brought about by globalization, these
textbooks offer an unrealistically rosy picture of economic
development and globalization. ...
 
Poverty Rate Doubles for Ethnic Minorities in Britain (
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-04-30-voa47.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
Nick Johnson, a spokesman for CRE, told VOA that the problem of
racial inequality has yet to be properly addressed in Britain. ...
 
Europarliament: Religious Leaders Homophobic (
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=106839 )
Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy
"There is no homophobia in the Catholic Church and it is time that
all this ended," Cardinal Scola said on Thursday to the Italian
bishops' television ...
 
UN Special Expert Cites Minutemen as Human Rights Risk (
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=8165 )
KPBS - San Diego,CA,USA
A United Nations human rights expert kicked off a three week tour in
San Diego today on Monday to look at how undocumented migrants are
treated in the ...
 
India: May Day Manifesto of CITU, 2007 (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5200/1/32/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
*the working people of the developing countries, engaged in fighting
back the offensives of imperialism on the one hand and the onslaughts
of the ruling ...
 
Commentary: Domestic violence is not women's fault (
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-1185--6-6--.html )
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
This is not a message that the majority of Caribbean men would like
to hear but it must be expressed nonetheless because the inequity in
gender relations ...
 
 
 
 

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