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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
September 12, 2007
 
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Sexism alive and well at UA ( http://wildcat.arizona.edu/home/news/2007/09/11/Opinions/Sexism.Alive.And.Well.At.Ua-2960851.shtml )
Arizona Daily Wildcat - Tucson,AZ,USA
It's probably happened to any female UA student who has walked alone after dusk. She sees a car approaching, the windows rolled down, music blasting. ...
 
BETWEEN THE LINES: The Return of Jim Cro... ( http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur36662.cfm )
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The "environment" for white supremacy mentality and the return of Jim Crow justice have been laid. We're living in the second "Redemption" Era (the first ...
 
9-11: The Illusion of a Historic Coup in the Course of Imperialism ( http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/bustani110907.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
5 Of course, the engagement is all for the benefit of imperialism. Thus, it is no surprise that the primary target of Freedom House was Central and Eastern ...
 
Conference: 150 years since the Indian rebellion against British ... ( http://www.workersliberty.org/node/9131 )
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
In the process we will talk about contemporary imperialism, racism and the rise of the religious right, and the struggles against them in South Asia and ...
 
Women sue church day care alleging racism ( http://kob.com/article/stories/S191277.shtml?cat=504 )
KOB.com - Albuquerque,NM,USA
SANTA FE (AP) - Five Rio Arriba County women have sued a day care center run by a church. They allege they were fired after complaining about the director's ...
 
Golden Gate University Hosts This Year's Radical Lawyering Conference ( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/10/18446789.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Panels and workshops on environmental justice, immigrant rights, challenging white privilege in the legal community, critical legal studies, ...
 
Escalating Attacks on Immigrants & New Resistance ( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/10/18446723.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
First they super-exploit immigrants in these hellholes--under conditions that are close to those in factories 100 years ago in this country. ...
 
Teachers and Rights Groups Oppose Education Measure ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/education/11child.html?ref=education )
New York Times - United States
10 -- The draft House bill to renew the federal No Child Left Behind law came under sharp attack on Monday from civil rights groups and the nation's largest ...
 
The Reality of Disposable Kids ( http://www.chowk.com/articles/12595 )
Chowk - Santa Clara,CA,USA
According to Kevin Bales, the leading expert on contemporary slavery, these children living in our unreality are actually slaves. Bales writes in his book, ...
 
Strength in our colors ( http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/2007/09/11/Opinion/Strength.In.Our.Colors-2959742.shtml )
Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA
7, in an incident of vile racial injustice, a noose was found hanging on a tree outside of the Nyumburu Cultural Center at the university. ...
 
Nigeria: '54 Percent Nigerians Live Below Poverty Line' ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200709110494.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... headed by Mrs Saudatu Sani, said "54 per cent of the population live in relative poverty; progress is low, while 35 per cent live in extreme poverty. ...
 
No progress on child poverty, report says ( http://www.thestar.com/News/article/255328 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
OTTAWA -- Despite nearly two decades of promises by political leaders, little progress has been made in reducing the scourge of child poverty in Canada, ...
 
Alienating youngsters on the margins of society ( http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/alienating-youngsters-on-the-margins-of-society/2007/09/10/1189276630663.html )
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
AUSTRALIA is arguably the most multicultural country in the world and should act as a beacon in the fight against racism. Instead, we live in a society in ...
 
Hyde Park: Mobilize for free education ( http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6266 )
McGill Daily - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Our administration continues to be a prominent voice for the corporatization of education, turning a public good into a private commodity and saving ...
 
'Women workers still face discrimination' ( http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=3588 )
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Women continue to face discrimination in every aspect of life, especially at work, although they have immense contribution to the country's economy, ...
 
We're staying the course of injustice and chaos ( http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/63953.html )
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
As Sept. 11 comes near, it is time to ask ourselves: Where are we today as a country? Are we closer to freedom? We, the people of the United States, ...
 
Poverty takes huge toll on health ( http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/254394 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Amazingly, we have largely ignored the one risk that surpasses all of these in its potential to cause ill health and its cost to our health system - poverty ...
 
Poverty amid prosperity ( http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/254707 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Ontario enjoys a prosperous economy by global standards but poverty here occurs more "frequently and persistently" for six high-risk groups, says a report. ...
 
'Social bias' in setting pupils ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6986914.stm )
BBC News - UK
Children from working class backgrounds are being placed in lower sets than their ability merits, a study suggests. Middle class pupils were more likely to ...
 
Latin America -- Rising Class Struggle Forces Socialism onto the Agenda ( http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article11.php?id=614 )
Socialist Alternative - Seattle,WA,USA
To eradicate poverty and inequality and defeat the right-wing opposition, the working class and poor in Bolivia and Venezuela need to develop their own ...
 
Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/marx-s10.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
He was, like so many others, a victim of the catastrophe that swept over the working class and socialist intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. ...
 
Sri Lanka students' organization observes a black week against ...
Colombo Page - Colombo,Sri Lanka
... (IUSF) launched a Black Week in all universities except in Northern and Eastern Provinces from today in protest of said privatization of education. ...
 
German Documentary Reveals the Costs of Privatization ( http://www.artthreat.net/2007/09/296 )
Art Threat Magazine - Montreal,QC,Canada
A powerful new documentary examining the effects of privatization has emerged from Germany. THE BIG SELLOUT weaves a story of mismanagement, neocolonialism, ...
 
Guest essay: People are indoctrinated to believe their government ( http://www.publicopiniononline.com/opinion/ci_6848459 )
Chambersburg Public Opinion - Chambersburg,PA,USA
By JOHN ILLO Imperialism presents us with a puzzle. The puzzle is not about its purpose or reasons. Capital must invest and expand, and if capital in a ...
 
Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions? ( http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=13734 )
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
In other words, the organization's own white supremacy remains intact and fundamentally unchallenged, as are the countless forms of violence against women ...
 
The world's a dirty place when you are poor ( http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/09/Opinion/The_world_s_a_dirty_p.shtml )
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
Taylor County seems determined to become Florida's poster child for environmental racism and classism, illustrating Bullard's assertion that once a place ...
 
The Purpose of Education ( http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3897.shtml )
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
The current study of American history is nothing more than the indoctrination of Americans in the ideas of White supremacy and Black inferiority. ...
 
Indigenous Peoples and the Left in Latin America ( http://www.monthlyreview.org/0707dunbarortiz.htm )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
There is no doubt that US imperialism made necessary national liberation movements for the realization of the integrity of nation-states in the rest of the ...
 
Democracy, the press at a critical juncture ( http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2003874214_demoed09.html )
Seattle Times - United States
The corporatization of news has laid bare how woefully unwilling strictly market-driven conglomerates are to fielding aggressive news organizations with a ...
 
Discovering You're a Racist ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-dixon/discovering-youre-a-raci_b_63619.html )
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Where separation and isolation exist, there is no doubt in my mind that prejudice, fear, hostility and injustice will follow. Even in those with the best of ...
 
 
 
 

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