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from Paul C. Gorski
April 30, 2008

<http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_chickens_com
e_home_to_roost/0015803> The Chickens Come Home to Roost - Losing our Civil
Rights
American Muslim - Bridgeton,MO,USA
by Sheila Musaji When a 2004 Cornell University poll showed that nearly half
of Americans thought it was reasonable to restrict the civil rights of
American ...

 <http://www.star-telegram.com/245/story/613555.html> Of rights and rites
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Standing up for LGBT rights did not always come easily to me. As a young
"foot soldier" in the civil rights movement, I was inspired by the writing
and ...

<http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=73764>
NY Couple Resort to Civil Disobedience for Gay Marriage Rights
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
Pinello and Nissensohn saw their sit-in as "act of civil disobedience,"
along the lines of similar non-violent acts of protest used during the civil
rights ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200804300784.html> Nigeria: Coalition Insists
on Citizens' Economic, Social Rights
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
To the advocates, human rights and fundamental freedoms are inalienable,
indivisible and inter-dependent; and that the full realisation of civil and
...

 <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iLkpgrjbN-fRn8-t7IEAjN1assQAD90CBHG80>
Australia to remove gay discrimination from 100 laws
The Associated Press - 
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's new government won praise Wednesday
for its plan to eliminate discrimination against gay couples in more than
100 ...

<http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7B02800A40-2B09-4846-A585-2699DF19
D965%7D&language=EN> Costa Rican Women Suffer Discrimination
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Other studies note that in this Central American country, working women are
facing labor discrimination in all social strata, which can be openly seen
in ...\

 <http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4633.shtml> Is Alicia Keys
In Tune With The Conspiracy?
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
Certainly not all White people are out to get us. However, some of us are
too busy forgiving a system of White Supremacy that has been assaulting us
since ...

<http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
603&Itemid=1> Obama's 'Race Neutral' Strategy Unravels of its Own
Contradictions
Black Agenda Report - Jersey City,NJ,USA
The very premise - that race neutrality is possible in a nation built on
white supremacy - demanded the systematic practice of the most profound ...

<http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/tomdispatch/2008/04/teaching-imperial
ism-101.html> Teaching Imperialism 101
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Commentary: Without RAND, our military-industrial complex, as well as our
democracy, would look quite different. By Chalmers Johnson The RAND
Corporation of ...

 <http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1464> Report on the
International Situation
International Viewpoint - London,England,UK
Over the last long period, American imperialism has confirmed its policy of
strategic politico-military redeployment. As Ernest Mandel pointed out, ...

 <http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-04-29-voa57.cfm> Poverty in Haiti
Places Children at Risk for Labor Exploitation
Voice of America - USA
VOA's Brian Wagner reports that chronic poverty places many children at risk
of exploitation. Many Haitians take pride that their nation was the first in
...

 <http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/30/21051/> Conference links
poverty and environmental issues
Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - NJ, United States
By Mendy Fisch Scholars in the developing field of environmental justice
spent two days debating ways to combat environmental degradation that
impacts the ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-baer/keep-kids-covered----espe_b_99213.h
tml> Keep Kids Covered -- Especially Immigrants
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Not only did it shine a light on whether or not young, illegal immigrants
should receive taxpayer-supported medical treatment; it broached an issue
powerful ...

 <http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3609/who_would_ida_b_wells_vote_for/>
Who Would Ida B. Wells Vote For?
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
Racism or sexism - which is worse? Take your pick. Paula Giddings' new
biography, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against
Lynching, ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/83810/> On Sexist Media
Coverage of Hillary Clinton
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
There are plenty of ways to criticize Hillary Clinton without resorting to
sexism, but the mainstream media refuses to go beyond frat-boy commentary.
...

<http://www.star-ecentral.com/movies/buzz/buzz.asp?file=archives/buzz/2008/4
/29SpikeLeeho&date=4/29/2008&title=Spike%20Lee%20honoured%20for%20Katrina%20
film> Spike Lee honoured for Katrina film
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
Festival organisers said that Lee was selected for his stories that
"challenge America's consciousness of social injustice".

 <http://cornellsun.com/node/30289> A Disorientation Guide: The Cornell
corporation and mental colonialism
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca,NY,USA
Domination confines us not only in concrete systems of oppression, but also
in silent, invisible, and tasteless ideologies of dehumanization. ...

 <http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27880/pub_detail.asp> The
Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few
American Enterprise Institute - Washington,DC,USA
By N. Gregory Mankiw Income inequality is rising, and in this article, AEI
visiting scholar N. Gregory Mankiw looks at the statistical evidence and
causes. ...

 <http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33292620080429> Chinese
children sold "like cabbages" into slavery
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold
into slavery like "cabbages", to work as labourers in more prosperous areas
such ...

<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2004379491_twained2
9.html> Confronting racism honestly, responsibly
Seattle Times - United States
Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the nom de plume Mark Twain, helped expose
slavery as a racist and dehumanizing system and an undeniable part of
America's ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/manisha-sinha/is-obama-lincoln-to-hilla_b_989
55.html> Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Like Lincoln, who was dismissed for being a "Black Republican" for opposing
racial slavery, Obama ironically stands accused of playing the race card by
Sean ...

 <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00393.htm> Globalization and terror
: Clueless in Latin America
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
by Toni Solo Corporate globalization and its equally misshapen twin, the
fake "war on terror", look like the Western Bloc's last crooked chance to
sustain a ...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/28/18495544.php> Mass
Mobilizations in Mexico Temporarily Stop Bush-Calderon Oil ...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
FAP spokespersons told the Mexican press that they had managed to prevent
the privatization "energy reform" packet submitted by the usurper government
of ...

 <http://philadelphia.about.com/b/a/257772.htm> Equality Forum -World's
Largest Annual GLBT Civil Rights Forum ...
About - Cities & Towns - New York,NY,USA
The largest annual national and international GLBT civil rights forum has no
registration fee and all substantive programs are free. ...

 <http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/97774> Bell's Supporters Press for
Federal Civil Rights Probe
WNYC - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK, NY April 28, 2008 -Sean Bell's family and supporters continue to
press for a federal civil rights probe into the fatal police shooting of the
...

 <http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18500> Aged people are too often ignored
and denied their full human rights
eGov monitor - London,UK
By Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe The
rights of old people are not being respected in many forms and this must not
...

<http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/OPINION03/804
280336/1008/OPINION01> Gender discrimination is real, a roadblock to success
for women
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
By JOYCE CROUCH . April 28, 2008 This year, the American electorate has the
unique privilege to have a real conversation about discrimination. ...

 <http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/news/130/ARTICLE/2240/2008-04-29.html> White
Zimbabweans have a role to play
Zimbabwe Guardian - London,England,UK
We chose to accept donor funds to start human rights movements which were
nothing but a way of preserving white supremacy and giving a few black
Zimbabweans ...

 <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/wright-is-right_b_99061.html>
Wright is right
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Jeremiah Wright, and the police slaughter of Sean Bell, have pulled the scab
off the still-putrifying wound of white supremacy once again... and Obama is
...

 <http://www.workers.org/2008/us/imperialism_0501> Low-wage imperialism &
the potential for workers' struggle
Workers World - USA
We publish below excerpts focusing on the US working class from Goldstein's
paper. Both papers will soon be available on the workers.org site in their
...

 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/28/2229606.htm> Child poverty
reaching 'crisis levels' in NZ
ABC Online - Australia
The report was released by the Child Poverty Action Group, an independent
charity, which believes one in five New Zealand children are living in
poverty. ...

 <http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=04SOC280408> Wages
leave many factory workers in poverty
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
MEKONG DELTA - The Government is being urged to adjust the poverty line to
support many workes who are struggling to make ends meet in industrial zones
...

<http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/OPINION
/804280310/1050> Undocumented immigrants do pay share of taxes
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
With Tax Day past, it is important to challenge a common myth that
undocumented immigrants take advantage of human services while doing nothing
to support ...

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