[EdChange] Social Justice News

Wed Apr 23 22:52:45 EDT 2008

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from Paul C. Gorski
April 23, 2008

 <http://media-newswire.com/release_1064612.html> SPECIAL ADVISER ON GENDER
CALLS FOR SPECIAL POLICIES TO FREE WOMEN ...
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
“Unless the world refocuses its policies to address the adverse impact of
globalization and economic inequality on development and poverty reduction,
...

 <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5724272.html> French port
workers on strike
Houston Chronicle - United States
2008 AP PARIS — Workers at ports around France are holding a 24-hour strike
against government privatization plans. Union leader Daniel Lefebvre says
French ...

<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2/864953687?page=NewsArticle&id=8984&news_iv
_ctrl=1261> Mexicans workers fight against oil privatization
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
Calderón’s proposal to the Mexican Senate would greatly ease restrictions on
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-run oil company, and facilitate the
...

 <http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=753860> Talkshops won’t end
racism
Sowetan - Soweto,South Africa
The Free State University video has alerted South Africa to important
dynamics in the raging debate on racism. It revealed in a glaring way how,
...

 <http://mcv.e-p.net.au/news/queer-youth-suicide-risk-3045.html> Queer youth
suicide risk
Melbourne Community Voice - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Homophobia destroys those things; it divides them off from their
communities; and the more abuse, the more alienation.” Hillier says
homophobia is still ...

 <http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A44032> Our
state's history should not be sanitized
Charleston City Paper - Charleston,SC,USA
In his time, Tillman was one of the most outspoken promoters of white
supremacy in America, stating, "We of the South have never recognized the
right of the ...

<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8991&news_iv_ctrl=1030
> Anti-war coalition tours Midwest
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
In their pursuit of greater dominance, US imperialism is creating
increasingly insufferable living conditions for workers and oppressed
peoples around the ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/environment/83032/> How Many Earth Days Do We Have
Left?
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
McNALLY: The enormous global inequity in income and wealth breeds inequity
in health, in education, and in all phases of life, doesn't it? ...

 <http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_9015767> Study: Women's wages lag behind
men's in NM
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
The study found the worst inequity was in Los Alamos County, where women
earn 57 percent of what men earn. Santa Fe County had the narrowest gap, ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-joe-baca/on-earth-day-lets-talk-ab_b_9797
8.html> On Earth Day, Let's Talk About Environmental Injustice
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Consequently, achieving environmental justice remains a high priority for
CHC -- working with leaders like Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis, who chairs
our ...

 <http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4700975&page=1> Report
Criticizes Repressive Saudi Laws for Depriving Women of ...
ABC News - USA
New York-based Human Rights Watch spoke with more than 100 Saudi women and
interviewed officials in the kingdom, concluding that male guardianship
deprives ...

 <http://www.ketv.com/news/15957899/detail.html> Study: Iowa Women Earn 77
Cents To Every $1 For Men
KETV.com - Omaha,NE,USA
The Gender Wage Equity Study was released in honor of national Equal Pay Day
on Tuesday. The study shows that in 1999 women earned 72 cents to every $1
...

 <http://www.ilw.com/articles/2008,0423-ewing.shtm> Extremists Hijack
Debate: Increased Reports Of Hate Crimes And ...
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
Latinos, regardless of immigration status, are feeling the impact of the
extremist rhetoric as they report increased discrimination and anxiety, ...

 <http://www.counterpunch.org/birkenstein04222008.html> Why Can't I Have the
Opportunity to Sell Out?
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
The reason the O’Reillys--that would be willfully ignorant white males in
this case--want to deny the importance of whiteness and maleness? ...

 <http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-21-life-span-study_N.htm> Life
spans decline in some US areas
USA Today - USA
"There's just more inequality." It's not the type of inequality that one
would expect in the United States, says Richard Suzman of the National
Institute on ...

 <http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/node/1745> Moldovan sex slaves released in UK
human trafficking raids
Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review - Tiraspol,Moldova
They had been smuggled from Europe's poorest country and forced into sex
slavery. Trafficking gangs operate with government involvement in Moldova.
...

<http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/8004_clinton-under-the
-bus-mom.html> Throwing Clinton Under the Bus To Spite Mom
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
In Slate, the indispensable Linda Hirshman tackles feminism's latest head
scratcher: Young women rejecting 'embarrassing, old school feminism' just to
annoy ...

<http://7thspace.com/headlines/279495/development_and_validation_of_the_meas
ure_of_indigenous_racism_experiences_mire.html> Development and validation
of the Measure of Indigenous Racism ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
In recent decades there has been increasing evidence of a relationship
between self-reported racism and health. Although a plethora of instruments
to ...

<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/racism-rife-at-hospital-says-suspended-
foreign-doctor/2008/04/21/1208742851996.html> Racism rife at hospital, says
suspended foreign doctor
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A SOUTH African obstetrician is so furious at the racism and paranoia he
said he was subjected to at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital that he has flown to
...

 <http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/6382> US Military Courting Felons
for Recruitment, but, Gays Still Can't ...
Capitol Hill Blue - VA,USA
We have a government that fosters homophobia and yet expects Military
leaders to tolerate felons in the ranks. BOY, have we ever stepped through
the old ...

 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6769/1/330/> The Euros
are Coming, the Euros are Coming
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Norman Markowitz In his newest book, Blows Against the Empire, author
Gerald Horne looks at US imperialism’s growing crisis with another economic
...

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_robert_j_080421_the_sorrows_of_race
_.htm> The sorrows of race and gender in the 2008 presidential election
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
These are not candidates opposing imperialism and capitalism but candidates
telling us why we should believe that they can better manage the system. ...

 <http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977328862> America,
a Civilization in Decline
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA
Taxes on the upper class SHOULD be higher than those on the working class.
THEY should carry the bulk of the tax burden. I am so sick of the old line
about ...

 <http://www.pww.org/article/view/12916/> Why young people should get
involved with unions
People's Weekly World - USA
This vision of unions, as a center of democratic and working class struggle,
is one of the most valuable contributions that we can make. ...

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nclass121.x
ml> Millions wrongly believe they are middle class
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Around 15 million people - a quarter of the population - are in denial of
their true working class status, a study by moneysupermarket.com, the
financial ...

 <http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2008/04/21/news/news4.txt> Poverty on
the rise
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas - Monmouth,IL,USA
By Chelsea McDougall/Staff Reporter MONMOUTH - A new study paints a grim
picture of Illinois poverty, and more specifically, of Warren County. ...

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