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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
September 5, 2007
 
Modern slavery flourishing, say inspectors (
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/09/modern_slavery_flourishing_say.php
)
DutchNews.nl - Amsterdam,Netherlands
The four companies discovered by government inspectors last year
where workers were treated virtually as slaves were probably the 'tip
of the iceberg', ...
 
Ken Loach's film about 21st century slavery (
http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=uk&publication=04/09/2007&cat=CULTURE&pi=0
)
Courrier International - Paris,France
... is thriving thanks an influx of guest workers who are often
illegally exploited... This is what slavery looks like in the 21st
century. And it's here too."
 
More evidence civil rights and personal freedoms are history (
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2007/09/more_evidence_c.shtml
)
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
The events also highlight the problematic issue that corporations,
like Circuit City, are identified as having the same rights as an
individual. ...
 
Civil rights leaders are incensed by a black teenagers' conviction
... (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2388360.ece
)
Times Online - UK
Civil rights leaders are incensed by the apparent double standards,
and are planning a march through the town in support of the "Jena Six"
on September 20, ...
 
Study laments school racism (
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/study-laments-school-racism/2007/09/04/1188783237585.html
)
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
THE effects of racism experienced by students of Arab and Muslim
background have been underestimated, according to a five-year study of
almost 300 year 9 ...
 
Triple Threat: Racism, Economic Exploitation and War (
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336&Itemid=36
)
Black Agenda Report - Jersey City,NJ,USA
The American people and the world face a triple-threat, the
hydra-head of racism, economic exploitation and war. The Bush regime
and its permanent war ...
 
Nearly 290000 people living in poverty in Ireland: report (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFQTE1kW3bADYabH5UMi_z7soOUg )
AFP - 
Combat Poverty defined consistent poverty as existing on a low income
and deprived of one or more basic necessities such as adequate food,
...
 
Report: 1.65 million Israelis live below poverty line (
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3445864,00.html )
Ynetnews - Israel
Some 1.65 million people lived below the poverty line in 2006 and
nearly half of them were children, according to the National Insurance
Institute's poverty ...
 
Egyptian envoy criticizes selective approach towards in human rights
( http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0709041261194123.htm )
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
"Human rights is a very noble cause. Of course everybody, every
society has to respect the norms and principles of human rights. ...
 
Katrina and the Progress of the System (
http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor09042007.html )
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Speaking for a system that was built on slavery and genocide, that
has white supremacy built into its structures, laws and culture,
George Bush looked at ...
 
All Out! Support National Days of Protest To Free the Jena Six (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/03/18445540.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Black students facing decades of prison time for fighting with white
students: REGULAR. This is the REGULAR workings of a white supremacist
system. ...
 
Privatization on upswing in schools (
http://www.dailypressandargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070904/NEWS01/709040315
)
Livingston Daily - Livingston,MI,USA
Opponents of privatization -- such as the Michigan Education
Association school employees union and its constituents -- argue that
privatization places ...
 
The Privatization of New Orleans: Curtis Muhammad on Tycoons ... (
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/145214 )
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
We speak with longtime activist, Curtis Muhammad, a member of the
People's Organizing Committee and a native of New Orleans. On the
second anniversary of ...
 
Think Tank Concerned About Pennsylvania's Economic Inequality (
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18779301&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6
)
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Economic inequality has risen prodigiously from 1973 to 2004, writes
Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center (KRC).
...
 
Philippine Revolutionary Arrested in The Netherlands: Free Jose ... (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/03/18445545.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Philippines is a nation ravaged by imperialism. One form this
takes is inhuman exploitation of millions of Philippine children. ...
 
Reviving the Labour Movement Through Reviving Class Solidarity (
http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=1374 )
New Socialist Group - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A third question relates to the shameful conditions of those members
of the working class who, for various reasons, are currently not in
the workforce or ...
 
US: Ominous Signs of Blackwater Military Takeover (
http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/70248/index.php )
Indymedia Estrecho - Andalucía,Ceuta y Melilla,Spain
... ongoing occupation of Iraq, but from privatized armies, such as
Blackwater USA, which appear to be growing stronger as the US Army
is growing weaker. ...
 
Fallujah: How America Wages War On The City That Refuses Occupation (
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=108739&list=/home.php
)
Jihad Unspun - West Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Quran 5:57 On April 2004, America began "Operation Vigilant Resolve",
following the capture of four mercenaries from Bush's private army of
Blackwater USA. ...
 
El Salvador: Frontline of global struggle over water privatization (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/salvador-0906 )
Workers World - USA
In countries like Bolivia, the Philippines, the US and El Salvador
people are organizing to fight water privatization. In El Salvador in
early July, ...
 
Leading the eco-revolution (
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=61919 )
Rabble.ca - Montreal,QC,Canada
His latest project is to develop a national environmental justice
training program for grassroots leaders of marginalized people to
develop an 'inclusive ...
 
Labor Day Facts & Data ( http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/208198.htm
)
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
And the Gini Index, a measure of income inequality, continues to
rise. Reflection on the most visible aspect of our labor, income,
makes sense on Labor Day, ...
 
American Fascism: Reaping the Dragon's Teeth (
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1624/81/ )
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada
Thinkers from Toni Morrison to Noel Ignatiev to bell hooks to
Theodore Allen to Mab Segrest to David Roediger have studied whiteness
extensively, ...
 
France: Sarkozy calls for European military build up (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/sark-s03.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
French imperialism intends to maintain this advantage over its fellow
EU members and rivals in order to claim leadership rights. But on the
economic front ...
 
Ireland named as major route for child trafficking (
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ireland-named-as-major-route-for-child-trafficking-1070794.html
)
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
IRELAND has been pinpointed as a major route for trafficking children
doomed to a life of slavery or prostitution in Britain. An official
report from the ...
 
Zimbabwe: Women Fight for Identity in Science, Technology (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709030593.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Despite this challenge, Mlambo-Ngcuka said it was heartening to note
that there is a growing, common understanding in Africa that gender
equity, ...
 
Civil rights worker kidnapped in Haiti (
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/haiti-0906 )
Workers World - USA
12, Antoine drove some visiting members of a North American civil
rights group back to their rooms. He was supposed to take them to
Arcahaie the next day to ...
 
Limbaugh on Darfur: Racism on Steroids (
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog-entry/2007/08/31/limbaugh-darfur-racism-steroids.html
)
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis-St. Paul,Minnesota,USA
Rush Limbaugh is known for uttering creepy stuff, but what the
nationally syndicated radio host said last week about the
genocide-stricken Darfur region of ...
 
Unions continue fight against re-emerging racism, xenophobia (
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/OPINION/709030316
)
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Bill Chandler Racism and xenophobia have been the Achilles Heel of
the US labor movement. However, the labor movement has been in the
forefront of the ...
 
Voices of the Latina Institute: Talking with Mami about sex (
http://feministing.com/archives/007664.html )
Feministing - New York,NY,USA
The face of feminism still needs serious change. Although an IMMENSE
amount of work has been done to diversify the movement over these past
years, ...
 
Lesbian daughter of anti-gay pastor defends her sexuality against ...
( http://www.proudparenting.com/node/728 )
Proud Parenting - USA
Roggio's daughter, she is a lesbian born into the family of a man who
believes homosexuality is a choice. The 29-year-old woman came out to
her parents when ...
 
Implementing gender balance to eliminate social injustices (
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/09/03/97624.html )
IPP Media - Guardian - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
Ending social injustice is not only a wished thinking but is based
even in the Tanzania`s over all goal socially, politically,
institutionally, ...
 
In the US, class war still means just one thing: the rich ... (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2161250,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
So it would have seemed last Tuesday when the US census bureau
revealed its latest findings on income, poverty and health. The report
showed that since ...
 
Experiencing Poverty as a Child in Germany (
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2756237,00.html )
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Although Germany's economic outlook is looking rosy, the number of
children living in poverty is still on the increase. This can have
devastating effects on ...
 
Seven years after 'No Logo,' Naomi Klein back on bookshelves with ...
(
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5huOHKhv_bDrOtun-wjKy0IfsY0xg
)
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
... the gore-stained residents of Iraq and civil liberties in the US
are all among victims of the same underlying philosophy of
corporatization, she argues. ...
 
 
 
 

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