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May 26, 2007
 
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Attention
<http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/05/attention_immigrants
_thanks_for_your_hard_work.html> Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now
Leave.
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
It appears their goal is not to keep out immigrants, who are indispensable
to the US economy, but rather to control and exploit them more effectively.
...
 
 <http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=14046> Globalization and Democracy:
Some Basics
By OrpRam 
With international "free trade" agreements such as NAFTA, GATT, and FTAA,
the giant transnationals have been elevated above the sovereign powers of
nation states. THESE AGREEMENTS ENDOW ANONYMOUS INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMITTEES WITH THE ...
 
Kosovo:  <http://www.247gay.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=14854> Gay,
Lesbian Youth Leaders Under Serious Death Threats
247gay.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The leader of a gay and lesbian youth advocacy group and his staff have
today received death threats which the police initially refused to take
seriously. ...
 
 <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=71978> Time To
Remove The Barriers Preventing Indigenous Australians ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
The inequity of access to health care experienced by Indigenous Australians
is highlighted in Institutionalised Inequity: Not Just A Matter of Money,
...
 
Africa: New Report on  <http://allafrica.com/stories/200705250215.html>
HIV/AIDS First to Link Discriminatory ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
While anecdotal evidence has strongly suggested a link between gender
inequity and HIV infection, PHR has conducted the first rigorous,
large-scale field ...
 
Women's  <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=11006&sectionid=3510205>
rights key to AIDS crisis
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Physicians for Human Rights said its study of 2000 women in Swaziland and
Botswana revealed that inequality and gender discrimination were major
factors ...
 
The
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070525.wcomment0525/BN
Story/National/home> feds are widening, not closing, the prosperity gap
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The question stemmed from a report by Statistics Canada that shows how
after-tax, family-income inequality has increased in Canada over the past 15
years. ...
 
Children,
<http://elleabd.blogspot.com/2007/05/children-race-and-racism.html> Race,
and Racism
By elle(elle) 
More generally, I think the assumption stems from the positioning of white
as normative, as somehow not a race or color, and of "whiteness" as default
rather than privileged. Of course, this obscures the works of "whiteness"
scholars, ...
 
Rise in  <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/6691039.stm>
racism in the playground
BBC News - UK
Figures revealed by Channel 4 News showed that 151 reports of playground
racism in 2000/1 rose to 451 last year. Graham Falgate from the city council
said ...
 
Obfuscating,
<http://mainstreambaptists.blogspot.com/2007/05/obfuscating-forgetting-and-d
enying.html> Forgetting, and Denying--White Sins of Racism
By Mike Broadway(Dr. Bruce Prescott) 
Durham, NC, has been the focus of national attention on politics in the
justice system, the presence or absence of racism, and the way that people
debate about crime and race in public. The continuing residue of this
discussion has to ...
 
 <http://www.secularism.org.uk/82092.html> Human rights in meltdown around
the world, says Amnesty
National Secular Society - London,UK
Amnesty International (AI) warned on Wednesday of a 'human rights meltdown'
as powerful governments and armed groups were deliberately fomenting fear to
...
 
Alabama State  <http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6571395&nav=8fap>
Legislature Passes Bill To Apologize For Slavery
WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA
In 1770 on the eve of the American Revolution, African American slavery was
legal and almost unquestioned through the world. ...
 
New York  <http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=33130>
millionaires arrested on slavery charges
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
'It's truly a case of modern-day slavery. No one would ever think that human
beings were being brought into the United States and held for slave labour,
...
 
BushCo's
<http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2007/05/bushcos-guest-worker-slavery-
program.html> "guest worker" (slavery) program
By MCM(MCM) 
It creates an economic underclass of foreign workers who are at the mercy of
private employers and who are subjected to the same abuses as slaves in
societies that still condone and depend on slavery. Now Congress, in
deference to Bush, ...
 
Report:  <http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=45270> Xenophobia, Racism
Grip EU
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
CAIRO -- Europe is gripped by a dangerous rising of racism and xenophobia
and the traditional European values of tolerance and welcome are washing
away with ...
 
Smithsonian
<http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/05/smithsonian_toned_down_global.php>
Toned Down Global Warming Exhibit to Please Officials
WASHINGTON (AFP)--The Smithsonian museum institute in Washington toned-down
and delayed an exhibit on global warming it feared would displease Congress
and the White House, a former museum director said. ...
 
Landmark case for Hispanic  <http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_5981771>
civil rights retold today
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
Long before the 1954 landmark civil rights decision of Brown vs. the Board
of Education, there was Mendez vs. Westminster (Calif.) School District. ...
 
Predominance of  <http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=12373>
women in poverty trap
maltaStar.com - Malta
In fact, when many women surpass the age of 50 they find themselves in the
risk of poverty because through their life they have always depended on
someone ...
 
 
<http://www.aapress.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1180060141&archi
ve=&start_from=&ucat=5> Working Class Studies Conference
St. Paul Asian American Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
The 2007 Working Class Studies Conference (formerly known as Youngstown)
will be held on June 14-17, at Macalaster College, in St. Paul. ...
 
 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5330/1/260/>
Imperialism, War, Globalization and Resistance
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The wave of struggle and protest against corporate globalization,
imperialism, and neo-liberalism and for independence and social justice is
of great ...
 
 <http://www.newyorkblade.com/2007/5-25/viewpoint/opinion/lesbian.cfm> US
Exports Hate to Poland
New York Blade - New York,NY,USA
They chose Poland because of its state-sponsored homophobia. This is a
government that bans Pride celebrations, speaks openly about purging
"homosexual ...
 
Culture of  <http://www.washblade.com/2007/5-25/news/localnews/10642.cfm>
homophobia' at DC fire department
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
"The sum of this evidence supports findings of a history and culture of
homophobia and sexism in DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services," Alprin
wrote in ...
 
 <http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1421328.0.0.php> Ethnic
women: 80% face bias at work
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The survey said that the impact of racism, sexism, Islamophobia and
stereotyping "discouraged and excluded" ethnic minority women from applying
for jobs and ...
 
 
<http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18384389&BRD=2729&PAG=461&d
ept_id=568857&rfi=6> Vermont Bans Trans Discrimination
Gay City News - USA
Vermont became the ninth state in the nation to ban discrimination in
housing, employment, and public accommodations based on gender identity
after Jim ...
 
 <http://www.dzeno.cz/?c_id=14395> Discrimination against Roma in Czech
Republic, Amnesty ...
Dzeno Association - Prague,Czech Republic
Roma face discrimination in access to housing, education and employment,
according to the final report on the human rights situation of the Roma, ...
 
Bush's
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dan_meri_070524_bush_s_economy_is_p
o.htm> Economy Is Poverty Stricken, Bleeding Jobs and Ready to Crash.
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
There are thirty-seven million struggling below the poverty line soon to be
joined by millions more of marginal earners after they are hit with bad
luck. ...
 
Nine million Iraqis  <http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?t=42287>
live in poverty
By Jimbojoe 
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation said that about nine
million Iraqis are living under the poverty line according to a sociological
survey conducted by the Central Body for Statistics. ...
 
Stop  <http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/11137/1/373> global
warming? Start with the Pentagon
People's Weekly World - USA
Global warming is on the minds of people all over the planet. They are
talking about how strange their weather is these days. ...
 
 <http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/11112/1/373> Conference
aims to grow civil rights/labor alliance
People's Weekly World - USA
... after 30 years or more of assaults by the Republicans on the fundamental
principles and practice and enforcement around civil rights," Tyner said.
...
 
 
<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_torture_scandal.html#064205>
Amnesty slams US for trampling on human rights
AMNESTY International yesterday launched a scathing attack on the United
States, accusing it of trampling on human rights, and using the world as "a
giant battlefield" in its "war on terror". ...
 
Why
<http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/05/why-should-you-go-to-us-soci
al-forum.asp> should you go to the US Social Forum?
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
Instead, people watched in horror as the institutionalized nature of USA
racism and classism was revealed, and shown to be alive and thriving in the
waters ...
 
 <http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9887/80/> Slavery Is Alive in Brazil
While People Keep Living in Favelas and ...
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Overshadowed by the Pope's visit to Brazil, the 119th anniversary of the
Abolition of Slavery passed without much pomp. At first it may seem strange
that a ...
 
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