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from Paul C. Gorski
October 16, 2007
 
Could do better: report hits out at education inequality (
http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/could-do-better-report-hits-out-at-education-inequality-1166865.html
)
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
It identifies wider inequality in society as the root cause and says
the solution is to address the education system itself, rather than
merely targeting ...
 
SOUTH AMERICA: Call Against Poverty Takes Aim at Inequality (
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39657 )
IPS - Italy
Another face of inequality in the region is discrimination against
women, homosexuals, blacks and indigenous people. "We have finally
made the link between ...
 
HARD TRUTH-Understanding White Supremacy (1 of 3) (
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20071015d
)
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
Yes, there are battles that must be won on those levels, but the real
issue is the world system of white supremacy. This will never be
broken or overcome by ...
 
Nigeria: Nobel Prize - ERA Hails Al Gore, UN Body (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200710151469.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Kenya," Bassey added:The environmental group urged all big
governments and big polluters to thread the path of environmental
justice by urgently taking ...
 
On Transgender Rights, Congress Needs Better Teachers (
http://www.alternet.org/rights/65297/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Meanwhile, the near-universal plea by gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender groups to keep ENDA trans-inclusive sent a powerful
message to Capitol Hill ...
 
Concerns about gays in the UK Armed Forces revealed (
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5746.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
A document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act has shed
light on the worries some military personnel had about openly gay and
lesbian people ...
 
A month after killings Iraq insists Blackwater quit (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJaPlgp7v14yag8gIaJvbn8QZSIw )
AFP - 
BAGHDAD (AFP) * Iraq insisted on Monday that US private security firm
Blackwater and "other companies who commit crimes" leave Iraq after
its guards opened ...
 
Housing crisis causing poverty: report (
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Housing-crisis-causing-poverty-report/2007/10/15/1192300639833.html
)
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The report will be released on Monday at the Queensland launch of
Anti Poverty Week. Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS)
president Karyn Walsh said ...
 
AUSTRALIA: Activists Slam Neo-Colonialism in the Pacific (
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39648 )
IPS - Italy
"Imperialism used armies to take land," Treen told the audience at
the conference, referring to the initial colonising of land in the
Pacific region. ...
 
A new wall: Poverty ( http://www.charlotte.com/109/story/318255.html
)
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
The number of high-poverty schools in Charlotte has doubled since
2001, when federal courts outlawed race-based assignment plans. ...
 
Thomas-2 says sexism alive and well in the workplace (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-drexler/thomas2-says-sexism-aliv_b_67752.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
It's certainly ironic that that 16-year bookends of high profile
sexual harassment cases both involved men named Thomas. Less
remarkable is the fact that ...
 
US Negotiating Expulsion of Blackwater USA (
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=52723 )
580 CFRA Radio - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
US diplomats are now working on how to fill the security gap in Iraq
if Blackwater USA operations are phased out. US and Iraqi officials
spent the weekend ...
 
The Blackwater and War Business (
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00209.htm )
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
by Mohan Nepali, Kathmandu Following the murder by the US mercenary
army Blackwater of 12 Iraqis, the US Administration at present has
been acting as if it ...
 
Hodge's revolutionary vision of race relations - Part 2 (
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161216741
)
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
The psychic disruption in Tee's life then manifests itself in her
rejection of her African working class family and her Indian working
class neighbours. ...
 
Racism alive and unwell in Scotland (
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.1758645.0.0.php
)
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Throughout that time racism lived, breathed and thrived - from the
casual racism of being called names in the streets to increasing
physical racial attacks. ...
 
Myanmar Arrests 4 Top Dissidents, Human Rights Group Says (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/world/asia/14myanmar.html?ref=world
)
New York Times - United States
Two other members of the group were also arrested, as well as another
dissident, according to Amnesty, a London-based human rights group.
...
 
Former Shell executive accuses oil firms of 'hypocrisy' over human
... (
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.1758255.0.former_shell_executive_accuses_oil_firms_of_hypocrisy_over_human_rights.php
)
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
In an article entitled The Myth Of Corporations' Commitments To Human
Rights, written in advance of a speech he will give at a PR conference
in Dubai next ...
 
The Nation No Need for a Warrant, You're an Immigrant (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/weekinreview/14preston.html )
New York Times - United States
DIFFERENT RULES A federal raid aimed at illegal immigrants in Long
Island last month angered local officials who objected to the lack of
warrants. ...
 
Egyptian border police open fire on immigrants trying to illegally
... (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/13/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Immigrants.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
AP EL-ARISH, Egypt: Egyptian police opened fire Saturday on a group
of 10 African immigrants trying to illegally cross into Israel and
arrested four of them ...
 
Author Naomi Klein: America is succumbing to fascism (
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Naomi_Klein_explains_how_we_willingly_1013.html
)
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
Each time there's a disaster, says Klein, politicians use the "shock"
felt by the citizenry to "push through a further privatization agenda"
with little ...
 
Merlene Davis: Discrimination at UK not a surprise (
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/202179.html )
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
As the head of an institution of higher learning that is being sued
by eight women in two lawsuits charging gender discrimination in its
law enforcement ...
 
Che Lives On In the Struggle Against Imperialism (
http://pd.cpim.org/2007/1014/10142007_arun.htm )
People's Democracy - 
Bhagat Singh and Che are both characterised by their strong hatred
towards imperialism. Both of them courted danger with ease in their
struggle against ...
 
 
 
 

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