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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
October 24, 2007
 
Anti-Hate Crimes March Planned in DC (
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=105245 )
WXIA-TV - Atlanta,GA,USA
Civil rights leaders gathered in Downtown Atlanta Tuesday to call for
a march on the Justice Department and an economic boycott next month.
...
 
US Army Accused of Hiding Chemical Weapons Information (
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2007/2007-10-23-091.asp )
Environment News Service - USA
The Army failed to consider matters of environmental justice in its
decision, the groups claim, saying that the Army failed to provide
adequate monitoring ...
 
116000 Okinawans protest revision of Japanese textbooks (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/okinawa-1025 )
Workers World - USA
The Okinawan people have a proud history of protest and struggle
against US imperialism and against Tokyo. They will not allow the
truth to be rewritten by ...
 
Artists Remind US Of Che’s Message (
http://pd.cpim.org/2007/1021/10212007_che.htm )
People's Democracy - 
Not that the invasions of US imperialism were new to us. The war in
Vietnam was at its height. Cambodia had been invaded. Massive protests
rocked Europe and ...
 
US imperialism intensifies hostilities against socialist Cuba (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/cuba-1025 )
Workers World - USA
Goliath victory against the greatest enemy of humankind, US
imperialism. It can therefore be easy to forget sometimes how
difficult life can be for the ...
 
Blackwater protesters behind bars (
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7249332&nav=menu45_2_11
)
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
"Somebody has to step up and do something, so I'm behind bars," said
Mary Grace, one of the 7 protesters outside Blackwater USA arrested
Saturday for ...
 
Congressman: Blackwater may have evaded millions in taxes (
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/23/congress.blackwater/ )
CNN - USA
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A congressional committee investigating the
performance of the private security firm Blackwater USA on Monday
questioned whether the ...
 
The Blacks: a challenge to the injustice of imperialism (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13305 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
... pronouncements on the horrors of slavery mask an inability to
address the true impact and injustice of British imperialism and
colonial conquest. ...
 
Women caught in cycle of injustice (
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20071023.E03&irec=2
)
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
In their daily lives women are still often marginalized, cornered and
treated as creatures who are worth less than men. This treatment
originates not only ...
 
HBCU Students Push National Petition To Oust Jena Prosecutor (
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_9849.shtml )
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
“It shamefully represents a consistent theme of historic injustice in
the South,” says the petition, which the students plan to forward to
the US Department ...
 
Needed: a campaign against privatization (
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4827&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=322&volume_num=42&issue_num=04
)
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
Privatization is a recipe for corruption. There always has been and
always will be some level of graft, corruption, and incompetence in
government ...
 
Bush To Veto Employment Non-Discrimination Act (
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/23/enda-white-house-veto/ )
Think Progress - Washington,DC,USA
Tomorrow, the House is expected to vote on the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act (ENDA). The bill, introduced by Rep. Barney
Frank (D-MA), would make it ...
 
Canadian natives still face prison discrimination (
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-10-23T202539Z_01_N23247988_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-ABORIGINALS-COL.XML
)
Reuters Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Last year, when the report was released, the service denied there was
systemic discrimination against aboriginals. It said it was "making
progress and we ...
 
Charity group says Aust poverty numbers increasing (
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/23/2067852.htm?section=justin
)
ABC Online - Australia
A coalition of charity and welfare groups says the number of
Australians living in poverty is steadily increasing and is now at
just over 11 per cent of the ...
 
Western Australian resources boom leads to deepening social
inequality (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/west-o23.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
We are fighting to develop an independent political movement against
militarism and war, against deepening social inequality, and against
the ongoing ...
 
Study links income, health ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/4248071a13.html
)
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
The link between income inequality and poor health was found to be
true in both rich and poor nations. The study authors concluded that
social inequality ...
 
New resource puts human rights in classroom focus (
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/article3088214.ece
)
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Lisa Smyth A new education resource to inspire, inform and
challenge young people to make their minds up about controversial
human rights has been ...
 
The Future of Cities: How Sprawl and Racism are Intertwined (
http://www.alternet.org/environment/65404/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
VJ: Racism. It is the reason that people move away from each other.
People don't want to talk about why people call this a "good"
neighborhood or that one a ...
 
Stop and search is not a solution to crime (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13343 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
Racism is at the heart of stop and search. Home office figures show
that black people are six times as likely to be stopped and searched
as white people, ...
 
James Watson’s 'scientific' racism is inferior science (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13332 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
So the hideous but seemingly immortal serpent that is scientific
racism has emerged once again. This time the perpetrator is James
Watson, who won the Nobel ...
 
Still proud to be a feminist (
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071023/COL02/710230304/1026/FEATURES01
)
Detroit Free Press - United States
Having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s, I define feminism as a
commitment to equal opportunity for women. That is, women have the
right to define themselves ...
 
Growing rich-poor gap is new 'slavery', say Protestant leaders (
http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=1311 )
Ecumenical News International - Geneva,Switzerland
"As a matter of the integrity of our faith, we must say, 'No' to
slavery in all of its forms," said the president of the World
Alliance of Reformed Churches ...
 
David Horowitz on Slavery: “Where’s the Gratitude?” (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/23/18455564.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The demand for reparations is a demand for compensation to African
Americans for the impact of slavery and its aftermath. The call for
reparations demands ...
 
Ghana: "Making Poverty History" is Faltering (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200710220893.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Success is evading the United Nation's Millennium Plan in Africa to
halve extreme poverty, contain the HIV/AID's pandemic and provide
primary education for ...
 
Amnesty condemns discrimination of Roma, immigrants in (
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n125026 )
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
The Greek branch of Amnesty International on Monday handed the
government a petition signed by more than 56000 people condemning
discrimination against ...
 
Inequities * a fact of life in schools (
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071022/COLUMNISTS17/710220314/1006/OPINIONS
)
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
Inequity between schools. One has a nice, new multipurpose athletic
facility and another doesn't. - Private citizens believing that since
they raised the ...
 
The Alarming Effects of Income Inequality on Health (
http://www.medindia.net/news/The-Alarming-Effects-of-Income-Inequality-on-Health-28302-1.htm
)
MedIndia - Chennai,India
A research team, led by Danny Dorling at the University of Sheffield,
carried out a study to determine whether the apparent impact of income
inequality on ...
 
Numbers Tricks Mask Declining Wages and Rising Inequality (
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10&ItemID=14096
)
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
New federal data show that income inequality in the United States is
higher than it's been since World War Two, possibly higher than just
before the stock ...
 
UN human rights czar lashes Canada for vote against native rights (
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzHNoXeq1LxPsS523fPORp3cbgPQ
)
The Canadian Press - 
"I have to register my profound disappointment," the former Supreme
Court justice told a conference Monday organized by the Canadian Human
Rights Commission ...
 
The Rise of Corporate States with Asia Bleeding (
http://indiainteracts.com/members/2007/10/21/The-Rise-of-Corporate-States-with-Asia-Bleeding/
)
indiainteracts.com - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
... Heart of South Asia Zionist, Brahminical White supremacy has
ensured the annihilation of entire enslaved nationalities in as et of
divided geopolitics. ...
 
Civil Rights Activist Fights Anti-Muslim Prejudice (
http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=4470 )
Muslim American Society - Falls Church,VA,USA
WASHINGTON, DC (WAMU) Oct. 19, 2007 - A notable leader of the civil
rights era is speaking out against what he's calling a nationwide
effort to discredit ...
 
Is the Justice Department Conducting Latino Outreach on Behalf of ...
( http://www.alternet.org/rights/65749/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Civil rights attorneys say the DOJ has turned away from suing on
behalf of minority voters that tend to support Democrats. ...
 
Hearing Brings Modern-Day Slavery to Light, ACLU Urges State ... (
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=50732 )
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
WASHINGTON -- Modern-day slavery exists in the shadows, but it is
alive and well, said witnesses today at a House Foreign Affairs
Committee hearing on the ...
 
The Hypocrisy of “Newly Minted Feminists”*And David Horowitz ... (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/21/18455049.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Horowitz is seizing on the truth of the real oppression of women in
countries ruled by Islamic fundamentalists in the service of a very
big lie. ...
 
Gender wage gap persists in SA’s corporate world (
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/BusinessTimes/Article.aspx?id=591587
)
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Women are still getting the rough end of the stick when it comes to
salaries * despite all the noise made about gender equality in the job
market. ...
 
Ain’t That America (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/opinion/22mon1.html?hp )
New York Times - United States
Hostility for illegal immigrants falls disproportionately on an
entire population of people, documented or not, who speak Spanish and
are working-class or ...
 
 
 
 

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