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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
August 16, 2008

The problem with lecturing others about human rights
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
At the same time, the focus on human rights abuses in China raises the question of whether Canada's hands are clean enough to allow us to lecture the ...

UN panel has concerns on human rights in Britain
The Associated Press - 
LONDON (AP) - The UN Human Rights Committee is criticizing Britain over its tough counterterrorism laws, legislation that limits free speech and the use of ...

'Separate but equal' is still discrimination
Hi-Desert Star - Yucca Valley,CA,USA
By Shelle Enright / Yucca Valley Separate but equal was outlawed in this country some time ago. But it still exists within the issue of gay marriage. ...

Former Kean University Administrator Sues for Race, Gender ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Lawsuit alleges that Kean University engaged in a pattern of harassing, demoting, and/or terminating African-American female administrators and faculty for ...

UN Body: Germany Needs to Do More Against Prevalent Racism
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Members of a UN anti-racism body have called on Germany to do more to integrate foreigners. A controversial citizenship test in one German state especially ...

Racism in Indian Schools in South Africa
Desicritics.org - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Racism seems to still be alive and kicking in a very saddening level in South Africa. But would it mean a race to the bottom in terms of inclusiveness or a ...

Labor's fight against racism has impact
People's Weekly World - USA
Verzion workers won a 10 percent wage increase last week after they staged a "Ready to Walk" march outside the company's New York headquarters. ...

Immigration issue sparks American racism
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
Immigration has become the new magnet of American racism. It's time to recognize this evil trend, and confront it. From the oh-so-patriotic ''Minutemen,'' ...

Denver's DNC: Movement sets marches, rallies to raise key issues
Workers World - USA
... the economic crisis, racism and the prison industrial complex, sexism, homophobia and many of the ills endemic to the capitalist system. ...

Gay activists in India want British apology for sex law
Independent - London,England,UK
Now it is homophobia. Activists in India are about to demand another apology from Britain. Sixty-six years after Mahatma Gandhi called on the British to ...

The deafening silence of dissent
Times Online - UK
I feel it is a great injustice and unChristian to think that rich women should have knowledge [of birth control] and a poor woman should live in ignorance. 

Russia, Georgia, and independence in the age of imperialism
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
McCain was a bomber pilot in the US imperialist war that sought to deny the Vietnamese nation its independence and reunification. Barack Obama also issued a ...

Laughter: Not Always the Best Medicine
Campus Progress - Washington,DC,USA
For example, Lander claims perfect grammar as evidence of "whiteness." If that's true, is poor grammar a black thing? And by arguing that going to graduate ...

Study shows inequity in teacher quality among districts, schools
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
McALLEN -- Students in Texas middle and high schools experience disparities in teacher quality according to factors like the students' poverty level and ...

More female neurosurgeons sought
United Press International - USA
The report said there appears to be gender inequity in regard to salaries and academic promotion, as well as inadequate mentoring and lack of female role 

South Africa: Efforts Towards Inequality Must Be Aligned
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said efforts towards inequality, eradicating poverty and unemployment must be aligned to further women's development ...

Federal And Local Tension Marking Immigration Policy
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Although national immigration policy is certain to figure into the big convention speeches and platform announcements this month and will form the ...

Remembering slavery and its hard-won abolition
Lloyd's List - London,UK
The fact that these territories were one point in the triangle of slavery will be remembered with the help of the Windrush Foundation. ...

WWII sex slaves demand apology from Japan
LIVENEWS.com.au - Sydney,NSW,Australia
The Second World War ended 63 years ago today, but for 200000 'comfort women' who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers, the war has never ...

Xenophobia victims embark on an uncertain future
Sowetan - Soweto,South Africa
Victims of the xenophobia violence that erupted across South Africa earlier this year have begun leaving their safe havens - basic tented camps set up ...

The Hillary Holdouts ... And A Theory Why
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
It is not (or, not only) the often quoted instances of sexism in media commentary about Hillary. It is not (or, not only) incalculable personal preference. ...

The Old Future's Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crises
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Shaped by patriarchy, white supremacy, and that predatory corporate-capitalism, pornography provides a disturbing mirror on our collective soul. ...

"Oooh! -- Sorry About that Slavery Thing!"
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
... the cruelties of mass incarceration and a cynical judicial and political system that endlessly engages in white supremacy (without the labels). ...

Age discrimination 'is still rife in the NHS'
Public Servant Online - Staffordshire,UK
Gordon Lishman, director-general of Age Concern, commented: "These figures show that age discrimination within the NHS is still rife. ...

Medical society apologizes for past racism
WFXL Fox 31 - Albany,GA,USA
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Nearly 80 years after the organization denied membership to a black doctor, the Sangamon County Medical Society is apologizing for ...

MOVIE SUPERHEROES & AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Cleveland Indy Media - Cleveland,OH,USA
by X Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 at 4:25 PM After watching three superhero films in a matter of weeks, it occurred to me that these movies may be responding to ...

US imperialism & Caspian oil
Workers World - USA
Yet Georgia is at the center of US imperialism's moves to control the oil-rich Caspian Sea region. Georgia is the energy highway for Europe, with at least ...

The plot against liberal America
New Statesman - London,England,UK
The resulting inequality has greatly benefited the Republican Party while drawing it closer to its most affluent and extreme supporters. ...

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