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Tue May 22 08:33:14 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
May 22, 2007

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/21/18419397.php> Where is the
American Working Class?
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The American media and politicians deliberately confuse working class
identity to defuse and weaken class based politics. ...

Educated
<http://wordylefty.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/educated-elites-as-followers/>
elites as followers
By Paul Chislett 
Yet it is educated elites who go along with George Bush - good people who
are looking out for their own well-being - on the backs of working class
Iraqi's who are being blown up by the dozens everyday! ...

Academic  <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1929748.htm>
suggests health services racism
ABC Online - Australia
Claims that there is systemic racism in Australian health services have been
supported by a Perth academic. The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association
...

 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1929440.htm>
Institutionalised racism killing Aborigines: AMA
ABC Online - Australia
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says Indigenous people are dying
early because of institutionalised racism. The group's annual Indigenous
Health ...

 <http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/002709.html> Racism &
Patriarchy
By natasha 
As Ilyka goes on to note in the post, no, the fact that a patriarchy exists
doesn't excuse white women for racism. The way to beat an oppressive
hierarchy isn't to look for someone lower down the ladder to abuse so that
you can pretend ...

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: The  <http://www.alternet.org/rights/51674/>
Christian Right's Fear of ...
The relentless drive against abortion by the Christian right -- the first
salvo having been fired with the 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision last month to
...

Discrimination's
<http://lsnc.net/equity/2007/05/22/discriminations-direct-impact-on-health/>
direct impact on health
By Mona Tawatao 
As if it's not bad enough that race and gender correlate significantly with
subpar health care. A new study recently published in the Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health found that those who felt they were
regularly treated ...

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/22/america/NA-GEN-US-Immigration-Tex
as.php> Judge halts enforcement of Texas suburb's rental ban against ...
International Herald Tribune - France
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas: A federal judge blocked enforcement of an ordinance
preventing apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants in this Texas city,
...

Beating  <http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/21/beating-killing-for-god/> &
Killing for God
By terrance 
I've written before about the killing of gay & lesbian Iraqis by religious
fundamentalist death squads. Doug Ireland has done the bulk of reporting on
the subject, and just this month shared that another Iraqi gay activist has
been ...

Wealth gap  <http://www.wbir.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=45420>
widens between older, younger Americans
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
Congressional Democrats, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and President
Bush have expressed concerns about economic inequality, although there is no
...

 <http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/scientist_says_.html> Scientist
Says Smithsonian Toned Down Global Warming Exhibit
Wired News - USA
In addition, graphs were altered ''to show that global warming could go
either way,'' Sullivan said. Even though the government pays the
Smithsonian's bills ...

Sara
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-whitman/exxonmobil-sex-lies-and_b_49004.
html> Whitman: ExxonMobil: Sex, Lies and Global Warming
By Sara Whitman 
They also have promised for years that global warming is the machination of
crazy scientists out of touch with reality. They have lobbied hard --and
successfully-- against the US signing the Kyoto Protocol. Rules. ...

Sex
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/277621/1/.html>
slavery film dodges Chinese censors to land in Cannes
Channel News Asia - Singapore
But Bai refuses, appealing to a kindly teacher, the corrupt chief of the
village council, and powerless policemen, who acknowledge that sexual
slavery is ...

Activists
<http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20070521/630000000020070521153224E0
.html> from Koreas urge Japan to apologize for wartime sex slavery
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) -- Civic activists from South and North Korea
supporting Asian women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during
World War II ...

Comment
<http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~r/bc/comments/~3/118512405/041056.php> by
L'Overture on Britain Commemorates Abolition of Slave ...
Abolition was not a 'moral' issue for the capitalist class The question of
the abolition of slavery has long been treated in history books as an act of
benevolence and dedication by a few white liberal campaigners, driven by
their ...

<http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2007/05/civil_rights_re
.html> Civil Rights Resource Guide
By Joe Hodnicki 
New resource from the Library of Congress:The digital collections of the
Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to civil
rights, including photographs, documents, and sound recordings. [RJ]...

UN
<http://newsblaze.com/story/20070521100405leon.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Sto
ries.html> Human Rights Expert Calls on United States to Protect Migrants
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
An independent human rights expert who reports to the United Nations Human
Rights Council has called on United States authorities to promote and
enforce ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/environment/52166/> Environment: The Unbearable
Whiteness of the Green Movement
By Van Jones, Grist Magazine 
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include
the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18742634/> Pregnancy discrimination is on the
rise
MSNBC - USA
I think I should set the record straight about something quite a few readers
ask about: Pregnancy discrimination is indeed illegal. ...

 <http://www.newyorkblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=12795>
Governor signs executive order banning sex discrimination
New York Blade - New York,NY,USA
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has signed an executive order that bans
discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender
identity. ...

 <http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2007/5/21/172255/614> Reagan,
Thatcher, Friedman -- The Grand Triumvirate of Corporate Greed
Political Cortex - New York,NY,USA
Friedman was the world's leading economist representing aggressive
privatization. To Friedman privatization was as an all-embracing panacea.
...

Cheating on  <http://www.bloggernews.net/16701> a Different Level
Blogger News Network - USA
The corporatization of our American universities is now destroying what used
to be called love of learning and is turning knowledge into anther game to
be ...

<http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070520/OPINION
/705200310/1050> Racism, hypocrisy plague foreign policy
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... we are reminded that although racial progress has been made in the US,
the stubborn bile of hatred and institutionalized racism still exists and
rears ...

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