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from Paul C. Gorski
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September 16, 2007

 <http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/world/10154180.html> Racism
shrouded in nationalist interests
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
One does not need to search, their memory banks far, for evidence of racism
overtaking common sense. Remember the US fiasco with the Dubai Ports
authority, ...

<http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070916/OPINION08
/709160308/1109/OPINION> Racism not alive? Just look around and at the
'Jena' tree
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Although northern racism is not as overt, it is ever present. It may not be
in the form of a noose or a Confederate flag being hung. ...

<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Redir.aspx?ID=f57b9e65-ebf8-48db-a82e-faf59e7
6e871&ParentID=05aba01b-ebc0-493e-b607-1a41efdfcebd> 'BBC documentary
reinforces Britain's institutional racism'
Hindustan Times - India
The Black Police Association has been telling the Home Secretary and senior
officers for years about racism in the Police Force, but the complaint has
been ...

 <http://www.campkc.com/campkc-content.php?Page_ID=640> Witnessing History:
Kansas Governor Signs Anti-Discrimination Order
Camp KC - Kansas City,MO,USA
The non-partisan coalition, dedicated to ending discrimination against LGBT
people, worked with the governor's office on the executive order's language,
...

 <http://www.neurope.eu/articles/77708.php> Unabated discrimination against
Sikhs
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium
Similar instances of discrimination have been documented across Europe. "Not
only we are deprived of the benefit of our relative victory in court, ...

 <http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2007/09/15/4498185-sun.html>
Poverty 'outrage' urged
London Free Press - Canada
By JENNIFER O'BRIEN, SUN MEDIA It's time to stop tolerating child poverty
and start getting "outraged" about it, politicians and child welfare
advocates ...

<http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=record/Layout/Art
icle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1189840563250&call_pageid=1024322168441&col=1024322
594318> Say no to segregation
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
Do not let the Conservative party push forward its ill-conceived agenda of
supporting gender inequity, increasing the tax burden and enabling social
...

 <http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article/5231> Privileging the privileged?
Early Decision data examined for high ...
Wesleyan Argus - Middletown,CT,USA
"My guidance counselors weren't pushing college," said Toni Martello '08,
who is completing a Psychology thesis on the experience of working class
students ...

 <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070915104849.htm> Grouping
Kids By Ability Harms Education, Two Studies Show
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping
practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working-class
pupils ...

<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=88a5a0eb-92d9-4
684-967d-f1c4cbfd9561> Eyewitness to oppression
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Instead, she found the continued oppression of women. Slezic's original
plans to spend just a few weeks photographing Canadian soldiers for Canadian
...

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/09/15/eaclimate
115.xml> Man is to blame for global warming, US admits
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Professor John Marburger said it was more than 90 per cent likely that
mankind was causing global warming and that the earth may become "unlivable"
without ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR200709140
1970.html> Let's Add Some Color to the Greening of America
Washington Post - United States
Molina works for the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, a
nonprofit that raises awareness of and lobbies to eradicate environmental
health ...

 <http://www.bloggernews.net/110199> Xenophobia: Racism, Sexism,
Anti-Semitism, and Homophobia
Blogger News Network - USA
If one looks hard at the lingering prejudices that haunt the Judeo-Christian
traditions, one discovers embedded in their ancient tales and pronouncements
...

<http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/gay%20rights%20activists%20cal
l%20for%20ja%20rule%20media%20ban_1043753> GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CALL FOR JA
RULE MEDIA BAN
Contactmusic.com - Burley in Wharfdale,Ilkley,UK
Gay rights activists are urging the media to issue a ban on rap star JA RULE
- after he launched a foul-mouthed tirade accusing the gay and lesbian ...

 <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/14/content_6720043.htm> UN
adopts resolution on indigenous peoples' rights
Xinhua - China
The Human Rights Council adopted the declaration on June 29, 2006, which had
been drafted and debated for more than two decades and the assembly had ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200709131171.html> Sudan: Children Still
Enduring Grave Human Rights Violations - UN ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Sudanese children continue to face grave violations of their human rights,
from being recruited and used by armed forces and groups to suffering rape
or ...

<http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/metro/dc0e853fad89077886
257356004b1e16.txt> Addressing racism in Iowa's legal system
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
David Goodson, founder of Social Action Inc., said exposing racism in Iowa
courts, laws and police departments is the first step towards solving the
problem ...

<http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=95cc9e77-0
97a-410e-b8ca-fc41202f9963> National Vigil For Jena Six
Eyewitness News Memphis - TN, USA
In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere." so when a group of Memphians heard about the Jena Six
they ...

 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=42&ItemID=13769>
Workers' Power in Argentina
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
There has been a resurgence of struggle inside the workplace and Argentina
's working class has turned to its historical tools for liberation: direct
...

 <http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070915/mathtrek.asp> Separate Is
Never Equal
Science News - USA
The cause of this inherent inequality, the majority opinion stated, was
segregation's psychological impact on children. It made African-American
children ...

 <http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/859206.html> Closing the gap of
inequality: a personal responsibility
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
By IVAR MENDEZ | 4:41 AM The huge gap of inequality between the haves and
the have-nots in the world is in our face in the news on a daily basis. ...

 <http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=13518&channel=0> Fujicolor
fined for environmental crime
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
... of its pre-treatment permit at its photo-processing facility in Terrell,
the US Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency has announced.
...

 <http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/09/14/5> Taipei gays protest
Nicaragua homophobia
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The campaign, helmed by Amnesty International Mexico, calls on 10 groups
around the world to fight homophobia, encouraged by t Gay activists in
Taipei ...

 <http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/movies/14east.html?ref=arts> On
London's Underside, Where Slavery Survives
New York Times - United States
"Eastern Promises," like those earlier movies, is fundamentally about the
moral scandal of slavery, the traffic in human bodies and human misery that
...

 <http://www.countercurrents.org/rehman090907.htm> Children:The Silent
Victims
CounterCurrents.org - India
Violation of the children's rights to protection, despite being massive, is
an under-recognised and under-reported phenomenon in Pakistan. ...

 <http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/09/90747.shtml> A Call to the Antiwar
Movement: The Need for Unity
NYC Independent Media Center - New York,NY,USA
In addition, the people's struggles against US imperialism in Colombia, the
Philippines, Cuba, the Sudan, Venezuela, Haiti, and around the world - as
well ...

 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5835/1/283/> An
Imperial Democracy
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Radical democracy at home becomes imperialism abroad: "Realize that she
[Athens] enjoys the greatest renown among all men for not succumbing to
disgrace and ...

 <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=13756> US
Imperialism, South Asia and lessons from Latin America
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
During a recent trip back home to India, I managed to catch up with
Siddharth Varadarajan, Associate Editor of The Hindu - a national newspaper
in India ...

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