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from Paul C. Gorski
October 18, 2007

 <http://blackagendareport.net/?p=336> Numbers Tricks Mask Declining Wages
and Rising Inequality
Black Agenda Report - Jersey City,NJ,USA
US employment numbers have been doctored into meaninglessness, as have all
indices of economic growth or decline. Not only is the public incapable of
making ...

 <http://www.dailyscare.com/2267/social-inequality-in-us-hits-new-record>
Social Inequality in US Hits New Record
The Daily Scare - Cincinnati,OH,USA
By Bill Van Auken The Internal Revenue Service issued a report last week
documenting record levels of social inequality in the United States. ...

 <http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/11887/1/395> Sparks fly
at Capitol Hill hearing on Jena 6
People's Weekly World - USA
Calling hanging nooses a "powerful symbol of white supremacy," Ogletree
warned, "What happened in Jena is not an isolated incident. ...

 <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel161007.html> Globalization Now: The
North American Auto Industry Goes South
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
by Richard D. Vogel Understanding globalization, the main trend of
capitalism at the beginning of the 21st century, is critical because of the
many ways ...

<http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/1
0/17/john-moore-hate-al-gore-all-you-want-global-warming-is-real.aspx> John
Moore: Hate Al Gore all you want. Global warming is real
National Post - Canada
These are tough times for global warming deniers: Even denier-in-chief
George W. Bush finally knuckled under in July and admitted not only that the
world is ...

 <http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200710171507.htm> Racism prevalent
in sport in Australia: rights report
Hindu - Chennai,India
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission recently did a survey on
the cultural diversity and racism in Australian sports and the findings are
not ...

<http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/dating/entries/2007/10/17
/a_study_in_femi.html> A study in feminism
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
According to the study, feminism seems to add to the quality of heterosexual
relationships, not detract from it. Furthermore, feminists questioned in the
...

 <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-783L56?OpenDocument>
Rural women face problems of discrimination and manifold disadvantages
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
Gender equity and equality had been a key guiding principle of his
Government's Common Minimum Programme, he said. Over 1 million women at the
grassroots ...

 <http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071017/health/health4.html> My
dream... a good society
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
As a people, we have been scourged and subordinated by the shackles of
slavery and colonialism; we have been emasculated by perennial economic ...

 <http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/761> New Orleans still needs aid
while Iraq proceeds
Daily Cardinal - Madison,WI,USA
If we really are concerned with establishing a quality of life based on
democracy and freedom from oppression and violence, then our primary focus
need not ...

<http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9EGzhoDBNIYwr9r8nC6Nfk3VWig>
NS poverty activists urge province to consult impoverished, make ...
The Canadian Press - 
MacNaughton, who helped to release a report Wednesday outlining ways to
eradicate poverty, said Nova Scotia needs to talk to people struggling to
get by as ...

 <http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22602279-5005961,00.html>
More than one in 10 Aussies 'in poverty'
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
By Kim Christian MORE than one in 10 Australians are now officially
categorised as living in poverty, with three per cent classed as working
poor, ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200710170916.html> South Africa: School
Children Stand Up Against Poverty
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Hundreds of school children showed their commitment to fighting poverty on
World Poverty Eradication Day by assembling at the Union Buildings in
Pretoria on ...

 <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=27364&sectionid=3510203> Blackwater,
Bush's shadow army
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
A Prominent US journalist says the killing of innocent Iraqi people by
Blackwater and White House mercenaries in Iraq is a war crime. ...

Globalization Still Hurting Poor Nations
Kashmir Watch - Islamabad,Pakistan
Globalization is a buzzword gaining increasing importance all over the
world. Today, the world appears radically altered. A very significant
feature of the ...

 <http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article20531.php> A History of Feminist
Literary Criticism
Fabula - France
Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally
altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary
analysis. ...

 <http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2007/10/15/daily16.html>
Study: Women largely absent in California executive roles
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
"Too many board rooms and executive suites in California still look more
like 1957 than 2007 in terms of gender equity. And we've seen no real change
in ...

 <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15290717> White
Southerners' Role in Civil Rights
NPR - USA
News & Notes, October 15, 2007 . Cornell University professor Jason Sokol
explores the lives of Southern whites during the Civil Rights era. ...

<http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NEWS/710180
329> Class matters: Educator has controversial take on poverty
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
Paul Gorski, assistant professor at the graduate school of education at
Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., called Payne a classist. ...

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