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from Paul C. Gorski
January 17, 2007
 
US Bombings in Iraq Increased Fivefold in 2007 (
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/17/headlines )
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
Warns of No Charges in Blackwater Killing of Iraqis The Justice
Department is downplaying expectations of criminal prosecutions in
last September’s killings ...
 
Bring'em Home, But at Least, Pay'em: Wear Green! (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-malloy-sj/bringem-home-but-at-lea_b_81864.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
$1222 is what a security specialist for Blackwater grabs daily. Do
the math. Army sergeants get somewhere from $51100 to $69350 a year.
...
 
Ontario: Teachers renew call for women's pay equity (
http://news.therecord.com/News/BreakingNews/article/296400 )
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
Ontario's elementary public school teachers are renewing a call for
the province to live up to obligations to end gender-based pay
discrimination. ...
 
People's Peace Conference to focus on solutions (
http://www.workers.org/2008/us/nj_0124 )
Workers World - USA
... a year-old formation of more than 120 organizations working to
end the war and promote social, racial, economic, health and
environmental justice. ...
 
Tackling racism in schools (
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-01-17-Tackling-racism-in-schools
)
24dash - Hereford,UK
A ground-breaking conference on dealing with racism in schools is
being organised by Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County
Council. ...
 
“Muslims in Germany” study: State-propagated racism under the ... (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/musl-j17.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
By Martin Kreickenbaum For two weeks, the state premier of Hesse,
Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Party*CDU), has centred his election
campaign on ...
 
Schools crisis entrenches inequality in South Africa (
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=080117050848.8okrxaba.php
)
Africasia - London,UK
Schools catering for black children always received far less than
those for whites, further entrenching the policy of inequality.
Following the fall of the ...
 
2008 Elections: Capitalist Politics & the Socialist Alternative (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7949&news_iv_ctrl=1501
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
But does this imperialist party offer anything new for the
working-class in this election cycle? Discuss what real change
means for US workers. ...
 
A Peaceful Revolution: Pay Discrimination (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irma-d-herrera/a-peaceful-revolution_b_81861.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Let your Senator know that we won't rest our case until such time our
anti-discrimination laws live up to the original intent of expanding
opportunity. ...
 
Study Says Black Americans Should Get Reparations for Housing ... (
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january162008/housing_discrimination_study_011608.php
)
Salem-News.Com - OR,USA
Historic housing and lending discrimination against black Americans
has created a significant discrepancy in their overall wealth * a gap
that may take ...
 
Kevin Jennings to leave GLSEN (
http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=blog&sc2=news&sc3=&id=54936
)
Bay Windows - Boston,MA,USA
Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay Lesbian Straight Educators
Network, is stepping down 13 years after forming the the organization.
...
 
The politics of poverty »» (
http://www.eastnorthumberland.com/article.php?id=1863 )
The Independent Online - Brighton,Ontario,Canada
After a series of headline-grabbing pledges to tackle poverty on the
campaign trail, it is time for the McGuinty government to deliver.
...
 
Child poverty numbers sobering (
http://www.lavistasun.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19202626&BRD=2712&PAG=461&dept_id=556239&rfi=6
)
La Vista Sun - Papillion,Ne,USA
A common factor underlying many of the problems: childhood poverty.
Nebraska's child poverty rate rose 50 percent between 2000 and 2005,
according to the ...
 
Criticism of Clinton is calculated sexism (
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/OPINION02/80115070/1008/OPINION01
)
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
This is sexism’s standard-issue double bind: too calculating to be a
real woman, too emotional to be president. This attack is not directed
at Clinton alone ...
 
Biofuels, BP-Berkeley, and the New Ecological Imperialism (
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/hc160108.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
However, this case represents a new twist in the combination of
debunked science, ecological imperialism, and the sophistry of
"sustainable development. ...
 
Pulp Non Fiction: Mpls Civil Rights gets Jordan shakeup (
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/article/article.asp?NewsID=85360&sID=4&ItemSource=L
)
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder - Minneapolis,MN,USA
by Anna Pratt To dramatic effect, Michael Jordan, director of the
Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), indicated bold changes
were in store for ...
 
White Privilege, White Progressives and the Audacity of Obama’s ... (
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=494&Itemid=1
)
Black Agenda Report - Jersey City,NJ,USA
That overtures, and only overtures, can satiate a desire for real
equity? We have, in times past, demanded far too little and gotten
exactly what we have ...
 
xenophobia is the new racism (
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10728:Xenophobia%20is%20the%20new%20racism%20&catid=3:news%20from%20jozi&Itemid=61
)
The Zimbabwean - Harare,Africa
I, like activists fighting against racism prior to independence, was
targeted because I fight for refugees' rights. Again I was exposed to
the police's ...
 
Feminism phobias misguided, illogical (
http://www.svsu.edu/clubs/vanguard/stories/1698 )
Valley Vanguard - MI,USA
by Marisa Gwidt Some readers saw the word "feminism" in this
article's headline and cringed, fearing someone would catch them
reading it. ...
 
Happy Birthday, Dr. King! (
http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/town-talk/entries/2008/01/15/happy_birthday.html
)
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
He spoke out against social and economic injustice and conflict. How
did his work influence your life? What would you like young people to
know about King’s ...
 
Seattle teachers fighting back against privatization (
http://www.socialistworker.org/2008-1/658/658_04_Seattle.shtml )
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
a corporation with a track record of supporting school privatization.
But the teachers developed a different lesson plan for the direction
of the public ...
 
China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution & Pitfalls of ...
( http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events/showevent.asp?eventid=6311
)
UCLA Asia Institute - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Often eclipsed in this glowing picture are enduring, indeed
exacerbated, structures of inequality and the vibrant forms of popular
resistance these have ...
 
Does Rupert Murdoch control our minds? (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13901 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
The police have been used to oppose working class resistance, from
the Chartists in the 19th century. During the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike
the police were used ...
 
Religious minority faces discrimination in Armenia (
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/religious-minority-faces-discrimination-armenia-20080116
)
Amnesty International - USA
Jehovah's Witnesses in Armenia face discrimination and imprisonment
because of their beliefs, according to a new Amnesty International
report. ...
 
Lesbian deacon seeks Presbyterian ordination for third time (
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/15/state/n211739S17.DTL&type=politics
)
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Like other mainline Protestant groups, the Presbyterian Church (USA)
has been struggling for decades over the traditional Christian
prohibition on gay sex ...
 
Study: Gay Relationships Healthier Than Straight Ones (
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid51628.asp )
Advocate.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"Research shows that lesbian and gay couples have a head start in
escaping the traditional gender role divisions that make for power
imbalances and ...
 
Slavery in the 21st century (
http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2008/01/15/news/top_stories/01humantrafficking15.txt
)
Auburn Journal - Auburn,CA,USA
Ben Furtado/ Auburn Journal Selling humans into slavery has become a
$9-billion-a-year industry involving more than 45000 women and
children. ...
 
That elusive poverty line (
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0116/p08s01-comv.html )
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
New York's mayor sets a worthy task of calculating a more accurate
measure for poverty. It's hard to reduce poverty when you don't
measure it well. ...
 
Report: More Nebraska children living in poverty (
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=7626539&nav=menu605_2
)
NTV - Kearney,NE,USA
(AP) - A new report shows 15% of Nebraska children were living in
poverty and 36% were from families considered to be low income over
a 5-year period. ...
 
Who's The Real Racist? Where's the True Sexist? Let's Get a Grip! (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/whos-the-real-racist-w_b_81548.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
What are racism and sexism? Is there a continuum starting at the
point where sexist or racist inclinations are nonexistent? Then moving
along it we find a ...
 
What is wrong in America: In the words of Martin Luther King (
http://www.wilsoncountynews.com/link.asp?twindow=Default&smenu=354&sdetail=17682&mad=Yes&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=
)
Wilson County News - Floresville,TX,USA
These are attributes that continue to be given to the qualities of
“blackness” or “whiteness.” I think it’s neither a black nor white
issue but merely one ...
 
Human Rights Campaign plans events to mobilize LGBT voters in five
... (
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Human_Rights_Campaign_plans_events_to_mobilize_LGBT_voters_in_five_early_s_0115.html
)
PageOneQ.com - USA
by PageOneQ Human Rights Campaign, America's largest gay rights
organization, is ramping up efforts to support fair-minded candidates
in five early states ...
 
Extricate racism embedded in our society, culture (
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/OPINION02/801150311/1039/OPINION
)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
As white people, we are socialized into racism without our
permission, and the dynamics of racism become so normalized that we
act them out without thinking ...
 
Poverty: America's Hidden Shame (
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joseph_j_080112_poverty_3a_america_s_h.htm
)
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
It is the result of deliberate, legislated, legalized inequity and
injustice. It is cold-heartedly planned and calculated, and corrupt
legislators have ...
 
Economic inequality plagues Kenya (
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/376420.html )
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
But in a country where millions are jobless and even the
backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk work of picking tea is something to covet,
economic inequality is a ...
 
 
 
 

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