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from Paul C. Gorski
May 5, 2007

 <http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1213/81/> Public as Enemy:
Targeting You
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada
It's a very profitable, and growing sector of the so-called
'Prison-Industrial Complex,' and one White House favoured contractor,
Halliburton has been quick ...

 <http://www.wesh.com/news/13264071/detail.html> High School Band Director
Suspended After Racism Allegations
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA
Greg Mulzet, the band director at Rockledge High School in Brevard County,
will begin a suspension Monday morning after some students accused him of
making ...

 <http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/global-mothers-day/> Global Mothers’
Day
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
This year, however, fathers and children would be wise to serve mom a stack
of books on globalization along with the pancakes and eggs. Globalization?
...

<http://warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/blog/john_freeland/2007/may/05/perils_of_s
tagnant_wages_and_rising_inequality> Perils of Stagnant Wages and Rising
Inequality
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
In a recent blog article called Is Inequality the Problem?, TPM Cafe Warren
Reports on the Middle Class writer Elizabeth Warren takes issue with the
idea ...

<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-0
5-2007/0004581526&EDATE=> Human Rights First Statement on US Military Mental
Health Report
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Maureen Byrnes, executive
director of Human Rights First, a New York-based advocacy group, issued the
following ...

 <http://www.247gay.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=14498> Poland: Ban of
Warsaw Gay Pride in 2005 Violated Euro Human Rights ...
247gay.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The then Mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski, who is now President of Poland,
violated three Articles of the European Convention of Human Rights when he
banned ...

 <http://www.wafa.ps/english/body.asp?id=9987> ISM: Colonizers Attack
Citizens, Beat Human Rights Workers with Pipe
WAFA - Palestine News Agency - Gaza,Gaza Strip,Palestinian Territories
HEBRON, May 5, 2007 (WAFA) -International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said
that a number of citizens and two international human rights workers (HRW)
were ...

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/05/america/NA-GEN-US-EU-Global-Warmi
ng.php> US-EU claims of progress on global warming greeted with skepticism
International Herald Tribune - France
WASHINGTON: European Union and US leaders are hailing what they say is aa
big step toward bridging their sharp differences on global warming. ...

 <http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=59561> FBI Launches Civil
Rights Inquiry Into Violence At LA Immigration ...
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA
The FBI will open a civil rights inquiry into the Los Angeles Police
Department's actions at an immigration rally where officers cleared a city
park by ...

 <http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_124214813.html> Minority Workers
Accuse MTA Of Racism
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK Black and Hispanic members of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority Police Department accused the agency in federal
court Friday of ...

 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11000/1/370> Human rights group
hits Wal-Mart for abuse
People's Weekly World - USA
Human Rights Watch issued a report May 1 that said Wal-Mart’s aggressive
efforts to keep out labor unions often violate federal law and infringe on
workers’ ...

 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11012/1/370> A new spirit in the
air
People's Weekly World - USA
The overwhelming response condemning the reprehensible comments of radio
“shock jock” Don Imus is a reminder, if one were needed, that racism and
sexism ...

 <http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414976> Native Children
Left Behind
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
No Child Left Behind is also up for reauthorization in the 110th Congress.
President Bush's fiscal year '08 budget proposes to underfund NCLB by more
than ...

 <http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=54308> Gap between rich and
poor widens
The News - International - Pakistan
In the urban areas, however, income inequality increased rapidly. The urban
income distribution in 2001-02 turned out to be the most unequal. ...

<http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2007-05-04&section=2&id=9
> Common good in practice: A call to end hunger and homelessness
Bowdoin Orient - Brunswick,ME,USA
I have a lot of difficulty justifying a system that produces—arguably is
built upon—so much inequality. I've found out that I don't really care about
...

 <http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070504/lead/lead2.html> Justice
divided! - Inequality of treatment for rich and poor - report
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
Delays in the justice system as well as the inequality of the treatment
meted out to the rich, the poor, the powerful and those without power, head
the list ...

<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr008=sl7ntbexx5.app7b&page=N
ewsArticle&id=6724&news_iv_ctrl=1261> Is socialism possible in the United
States?
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
A socialist society would give us the tools to successfully wage a war on
racism, sexism and homophobia. It would give us more power to fight disease,
...

 <http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1202575.html> The Safety Net/Seeing
school through immigrants' eyes helps ...
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA
For instance, a routine fire drill may be a welcome interruption of classes
for native students, but immigrants who have direct experience with war may
...

 <http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/05/050407colrts.htm> Gov. To Sign Colorado
Gay Rights Bill
365Gay.com - USA
"Once this bill is signed into law, Colorado will be a freer and fairer
place for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents."

<http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.fullStory&sp=l
323881> African gays and lesbians combat bias
AND - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
The new law, adopted by a 230– 41 vote, was welcomed by gay and lesbian
activists in South Africa and around the world as a significant advance for
equal ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200705040510.html> Africa: On Oppression and
the Oppressed
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Clearly, one of the most intractable problems facing Africa today is the
problem of oppression. The continent is littered with an ugly coterie of
oppressive ...

 <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4309.html> African gay
activists meet in Johannesburg
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
60 human rights and LGBTI activists from all corners of the African
continent will gather to discuss ways to challenge state homophobia,
lesbophobia and ...

 <http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid45009.asp> Despite Turkey's
reforms, gays say legal protections lacking
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
''We want to share and learn the experiences of all gays and lesbians who
struggle against homophobia in the Middle East, Balkans, Europe, and the
other ...

 <http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/5588> Mindset of a Military
Victory Leads Disadvantaged Young People to ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
Middle and upper classism rampant in politics and governance have to give
way to a more generous and inclusive ideology and practice if a common Sri
Lankan ...

 <http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=41011> White Power Spreads
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
The white supremacy ideology has several ideology currents, such as the
paneuropean supremacy, according to which all Europeans are “white”, or
nordicism, ...

<http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/05/selective-civil-rights-enfor
cement-at.asp> Selective civil rights enforcement at the DOJ
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
That's according to Joe Rich, the former head of the Justice Department's
Civil Rights Section, and a Justice Department manual written by Craig
Donsanto, ...

 <http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1792> Gay rights
victories in NH, Iowa
Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco,CA,USA
Gay civil rights activists scored two major victories in the states last
week – passing non-discrimination legislation in Iowa and a civil unions
bill in ...

 <http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007233559> Civil Rights Groups
Fight For Afghan Prisoner Rights In Ottawa
AHN - USA
Ottawa, ON (AHN) - Human rights groups are heading to federal court all day
Thursday to plead that Taliban insurgent prisoners should not be returned to
...

 <http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=6356> California Right
Wing Attacks LGBT Rights
San Francisco Bay Times - San Francisco,CA,USA
CRI is going after LGBT youth by trying to stop the Student Civil Rights
Act, which would ensure that all students have a safe place to grow and
learn. ...

<http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/c16877/publikasjon/vis.html?tid=45713&stru
kt_tid=16877> Feminist waves, feminist generations: life stories from the
academy
Kilden Informasjons- og dokumentasjonssenter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
- Oslo,Oslo,Norway
Based on life stories from contemporary feminist scholars, this volume
emphasizes how feminism develops unevenly over time and across institutions
and, ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1716&dept_id=74116&newsid=18292080&P
AG=461&rfi=9> Women employees deserve equal pay for equal work
East Greenwich Pendulum - East Greenwich,RI,USA
Feminism isn't about "Girl's Gone Wild," or the images of how women should
look according to Madison Avenue. Empowerment isn't skin deep. ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200705030151.html> Africa: White Liberals
Cannot See Any Truth in Africa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
White supremacy still comes first to them and has to be first addressed
before they can see the truth from a black perspective. ...

 <http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP157007> Saudi
Women Columnists Protest Against Oppression of Women in ...
Middle East Media Research Institute - Washington,DC,USA
Saudi women columnists have recently spoken out against the oppression of
women in their country. They denounced the Saudi preachers who spread
negative ...

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