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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
May 28, 2007
 
 <http://english.people.com.cn/200705/28/eng20070528_378513.html> Aborigines
remain in poverty, bad health
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Many live in slums in or on the fringes of cities, or in poverty in tiny,
remote Outback communities. Prime Minister John Howard said at a function in
...
 
Widespread ethnic  <http://www.thelocal.se/7421/20070527/> discrimination in
Stockholm bars
People with dark skin are routinely denied entry to bars and nightclubs in
Stockholm, a police investigation has shown.
 
 <http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTk1NTY0MDky> Modern day
slavery
Kuwait Times - Kuwait City,Kuwait
In an era where slavery is supposed to have long been forgone as an
acceptable practice, I am shocked at the fact that today in Kuwait, despite
humanitarian ...
 
 
<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/NEW
S/705250306/1001> COMPLETE TEXT OF ALABAMA'S SLAVERY APOLOGY
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
While physical slavery is dead, the legacy is alive. My nation's journey
toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed
by ...
 
 <http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1151415> Slavery alive and well in US
TVNZ - New Zealand
Slavery is a shame that most Americans believe lies in their country's past.
In fact, slavery is alive and well in the United States. ...
 
 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=12919>
Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
The "benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on
furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq 's oil. ...
 
A
<http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_response_to_th
e_pew_study_on_muslim_americans/0013963> Response to the PEW Study on Muslim
Americans
American Muslim - Bridgeton,MO,USA
... a robust heroism that is fully-grounded in morality. The hero who
resists oppression, not least of all, the oppression he is tempted to
inflict upon others.
 
More on  <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5338/1/260/>
White House Censorship of Global Warming Science
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Word of the White House censoring federal climate scientists on global
warming began leaking out to the press early in George W. Bush's first term
in office ...
 
 <http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/50BF1948-56D3-4AA7-BC8F-58A5DE1336CB/>
America's Healthcare System is the Third Leading Cause of Death
The social and economic inequalities that are an integral part of American
society are mirrored in the inequality of access to the health care system.
Tags: health, social issues, medicine.
 
A  <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,2089458,00.html>
decade of Blair has left society more segregated, fearful and ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Britishness was losing its synonymity with whiteness and its antithesis to
blackness. Racism had not disappeared; but it was no longer the electorally
...
 
A
<http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1180254163
95050.xml&coll=2> fraudulent constitution
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
Their post-Reconstruction aims were very clear: to preserve white supremacy
through restrictions that rid the state's voting rolls of blacks and poor
whites ...
 
New
<http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article2581575.ece>
watchdog criticises Ireland's record on racism
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast,UK
The European Commission Against Racism says Ireland is one of the worst
countries in the EU for failing to ratify a number of anti-discrimination
treaties. ...
 
 
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/sports/story/3976228p-4592735
c.html> Anti-Olympic activism ramps up as protesters demand action on
poverty
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Letter-writing just doesn't cut it for the people the Olympics is hurting,
says David Cunningham of Vancouver's Anti-Poverty Committee, a group
representing ...
 
 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=12908>
Anti-Immigrant in Black Face?
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Part of changing the character of work can be found in the demands of a
social movement that combines the fight for political and social justice,
...
 
 
<http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=166&id=9653&
t=Globalization's+broken+promise> Globalization's broken promise
Spero News - USA
In Africa, globalization builds on a history of slavery, colonialism and
exploitation - a fact many recognize to have a continuing impact on the
continent's ...
 
 <http://www.countercurrents.org/parenti260507.htm> Globalization And
Democracy: Some Basics
CounterCurrents.org - Mahrashtra,India
This process, called globalization, is treated as an inevitable natural
"growth" development beneficial to all. It is in fact a global coup d'état
by the ...
 
 
<http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Islam_28/Islamophobia_racism_gr
ip_Europe_-_Report.shtml> Islamophobia, racism grip Europe - Report
Garowe Online - Garowe,Nugaal,Somalia
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 ...
 
" <http://www.4thletter.net/?p=501> Feminism For All?" @ DigitalFemme
By david brothers 
Digital Femme Online. While white, Asian, Latina and biracial female
characters are forced to fulfill duties as the resident eye candy, black
female characters are usually quietly solving problems and taking charge in
the background or ...
 
 <http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070013368>
Victim of discrimination: Six-yr-old denied treatment
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Six-year old Sonu Laskar from Sonarpur, suffering from thalassemia and in
urgent need of surgery, was denied admission and treatment by not one but
three ...
 
 <http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=3357> Problem Is Corporate Greed
Black Star News - New York,NY,USA
What we are witnessing now is the beginning of state-sanctioned racism and
xenophobia that must be stopped by the few sensible people left in this
country. ...
 
 <http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3215782> UN expert faults
US on human rights in terror laws
ABC News - USA
But Martin Scheinin of Finland, a UN rapporteur on rights in countering
terrorism, said his findings for the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council
did not ...
 
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