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Sat Apr 5 16:48:47 EDT 2008

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from Paul C. Gorski
April 5, 2008

Lukiwski apologizes to Commons (
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/410295 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
(April 3, 2008) OTTAWA * A disgraced Conservative MP from
Saskatchewan today publicly apologized in the Commons to gay and
lesbian friends, colleagues and ...

Civil rights leaders, sanitation workers mark 40th anniversary of ...
( http://www.dailymail.com/APHeadline/200804040682 )
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
The strike lasted 65 days and brought civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. to town to champion the black workers' cries for
better pay, ...

Civil Rights Groups Seeing Gradual End of Their Era (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403589.html?hpid=artslot
)
Washington Post - United States
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, the storied
organizations that propelled the modern-day civil rights movement
alongside him are either ...

Olympic torch must throw light on human rights in China, says Amnesty
( http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17711 )
Amnesty International UK - UK
Earlier this week Amnesty issued a new report showing a human rights
situation that is getting worse, not better, in the run-up to the
Olympics. ...

Immigrants File Suit Against Immigration Agents (
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/96296 )
WNYC - New York,NY,USA
Ten immigrants from New Jersey - including 2 American citizens - are
suing immigration agents and the federal authorities in charge. by
Marianne McCune NEW ...

The F-Word ( http://www.teenink.com/Pride/article/17804/The-F-Word/
)
Teen Ink - USA
We have come a long way, but feminism is far from dead, despite what
you might hear. Even today, women only earn 75 cents for every dollar
a man makes. ...

Four killed at Haiti anti-poverty demo (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYz0ztx1cGYVy4zaQqUBfjfSHjaw )
AFP - 
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) * Four people were shot dead and some 20 injured
Friday on the second day of demonstrations in Haiti against rising
prices and poverty, ...

Beyond the Mountaintop: King’s Prescription for Poverty is our ... (
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/04/beyond_the_moun.html
)
California Progress Report - Oakland,CA,USA
“Beyond the Mountaintop: King’s Prescription for Poverty” does not
disappoint as a way to spend part of today considering why King was in
Memphis and what ...

Remembering Dr. King's Legacy on Poverty (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-barbara-lee/remembering-dr-kings-lega_b_95099.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
One of the most enduring (and, in my opinion, under appreciated)
aspects of Dr. King's legacy concerns his fight against poverty. From
launching the Poor ...

Mexico readies for battle on oil privatization (
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12812/1/417 )
People's Weekly World - USA
The right-wing government of President Felipe Calderon is about to
present a plan which opponents fear will entail the privatization of
Mexico’s ...

Clara Zetkin, socialism and women (
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/745/38576 )
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
The suffrage movement involved working class, middle-class and
capitalist women. Zetkin analysed the different class perspectives
within the suffrage ...

School play helps end classroom homophobia (
http://www.lgf.org.uk/news/504/75/ )
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation - Manchester,USA
A new and groundbreaking play challenging homophobia and bullying in
Manchester schools has now been seen by more than 1500 young people
and will soon be ...

DR. KING, FORGOTTEN RADICAL. (
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=dr_king_forgotten_radical
)
Tapped - Washington,DC,USA
... idyllic meeting of little black boys and little white girls than
it is to consider his analysis of how white supremacy keeps that from
becoming reality.

Racism still plays role in America (
http://www.reflector-online.com/news/2008/04/04/Opinion/Racism.Still.Plays.Role.In.America-3303037.shtml
)
The Reflector online - MS,USA
However, since men today aren't as prone to walk around wearing bed
sheets (as Forrest Gump would say), several people I have met seem to
believe racism is ...

Injustice root cause of violence, not Islam: Non-Muslim leaders (
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=14129 )
The Muslim News - UK
"We cannot preach peace to people suffering injustice." Benny said
the government should create prosperity and uphold justice for
everybody in order to ...

Turning Up the Heat on Sentencing Injustice (
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/040408crack.cfm )
Drug Policy Alliance - Washington,DC,USA
This spring, DPA launched a federal campaign to end the cruel and
costly crack/cocaine sentencing disparity. The disparity creates
enormous racial ...

Coincidence of Martin Luther King and Imus Anniversaries Brings ... (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/coincidence-of-martin-lut_b_95039.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Yet, even as we're prepared to make a biracial man a serious
candidate for president, we still struggle with the kind of
institutional racism (and classism) ...

The Unrealized Dream: 40 Years After King's Assassination (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/the-unrealized-dream-40-y_b_95073.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
"The Unrealized American Dream," a new report from the Program on
Inequality and the Common Good of the Institute for Policy Studies,
shows that the United ...

Legacy of MLK: Unions Can Help Us Get to the Promised Land (
http://www.alternet.org/rights/81352/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
A quick snapshot of today's income inequality and continued health
and educational disparities suggests that we haven't come too far.
...

On Prisons, Borders, Safety, and Privilege: An Open Letter to ... (
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/81260/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's time for white feminists to challenge their own privilege,
listen to all voices and take on the issues that matter. There is no
role for the white ...

Civil War didn't end slavery (
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/03/civil-war-didnt-end-slavery/
)
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
The truth is that the South found legal ways to re-enslave
African-Americans in a way that was usually more brutal than the brand
of slavery the war ...

Bush's global-warming limbo (
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/04/04/bushs_global_warming_limbo
)
Boston Globe - United States
Since then, scientific research has provided new evidence for the
urgency of acting to slow global warming. But the Bush administration
drags its feet ...

Active living in diverse and disadvantaged communities (
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/ehs-ali040308.php )
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Many of these barriers to active living reflect broader social and
environmental justice issues. The papers identify specific
explanations for racial, ...

Revealed: the real cost of child poverty (
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2170684.0.Revealed_the_real_cost_of_child_poverty.php
)
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
No-one has ever doubted the human cost of child poverty. Now the
Scottish Government has worked out the financial bill, too. ...

40 years later, MLK son focuses on father's fight against poverty (
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/122106.html )
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
By WALTER PUTNAM ATLANTA * Forty years after his father's
assassination, Martin Luther King III is carrying the anti-poverty
banner that led the civil ...

Israel, USA to boycott UN anti-racism conference in Durban (
http://www.imemc.org/article/53943 )
International Middle East Media Center - Beit Sahour,West
Bank,Palestinian Territories
Israeli sources reported that Israel and the United States decided to
boycott the Durban II Anti-Racism conference which will be conducted
in early 2009. ...

Audit Reveals Racial Housing Discrimination in Cedar Rapids (
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17280229.html )
KCRG - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
They expected to find discrimination in about ten percent of the
cases. Instead, they found more than seven times that amount. "I do
not believe in 1968 it ...

Professional migrants face discrimination in NZ - study (
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10502032
)
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Photo / Mark Mitchell Highly skilled immigrants struggle to find jobs
in New Zealand because they come up against a wall of discrimination
from both ...

The Evil of NATO (
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/020351.html )
Lew Rockwell - Burlingame,CA,USA
NATO has always been a tool of US imperialism, for the military
occupation and control of Western Europe. That is why Sen. Bob Taft
opposed it. ...

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