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Tue Jan 29 07:08:47 EST 2008

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from Paul C. Gorski
January 29, 2008

 <http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/01/29/news/local/gender.txt> City
commission votes to make gender identity discrimination illegal
Independent Florida Alligator - Gainesville,FL,USA
By KATIE GALLAGHER, Alligator Writer The City Commission listened to more
than 100 citizens comment on a policy to make discriminating based on gender
...

<http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/OSH/8012
8111/1987> Spotlight letter: Religious right's message is one of
discrimination
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USA
You think that racism is dangerous and unjust? I do also. You think that
poverty in this very wealthy nation is dangerous and unjust? I do also. ...

 <http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009860333> Los Angeles Couple
Sentenced For Slavery Of Filipino Maid
AHN - USA
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - A couple was sentenced at a Los Angeles court for
"modern-day slavery" committed to their Filipino domestic worker. ...

 <http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=7348> Feminism, Class and
Anarchism
Anarkismo.net - USA
This article argues that feminism in its own right is worth fighting for and
that when it comes to ending sexism an insistence on always emphasising
class ...

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/28/wminto128.x
ml> Anti-apartheid activist in protest over poverty
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg An anti-apartheid activist has rejected
one of South Africa's highest honours in protest at poverty in the country.
...

 <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBus6P_G-L_m9i0uYBcRgEtt9Pvw> US
propped up Suharto despite rights abuses: documents
AFP - 
There also was no mention of human rights in Indonesia in the briefing
papers of Suharto's meeting with President Reagan in October 1982. ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-giordano/immigration-policy-will-_b_83610.
html> Immigration Policy: Will the Real Senator Clinton Please Stand Up?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
The presumption that Clinton has been a leader on immigrant rights - spun
heavily by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other surrogates - is
not ...

<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-2
8-2008/0004743652&EDATE=> Harm of Abstinence-Only Programs in US and Abroad
Subject of Panel ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... in partnership with the Sexuality Information and Education Council of
the United States (SIECUS) and the Center for Health and Gender Equity
(CHANGE), ...

<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/2
8/americas_forgotten_genocide> America's forgotten genocide
Boston Globe - United States
... between 2 and 4 million Americans - a majority of them from the North -
joined the Klan over the next few years, all vowing to maintain white
supremacy. ...

 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2247881,00.html> Leprosy
awareness
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Millions are subjected to discrimination and social exclusion, limiting
their opportunities for education, employment and marriage. ...

<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/new_orleans_working_c
lass_hit_by_cost_squeeze> New Orleans working class hit by cost squeeze
Boston Globe - United States
New Orleans has become a place many working class people cannot afford and
may have to leave. (cheryl gerber/Associated Press) Associated Press /
January 27 ...

<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=c8329d36-fb83-466c-8e4e-3d9
e234dfe58&k=42819> Survey of homophobia in schools underway
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
WINNIPEG -- The University of Winnipeg and Egale Canada have launched
Canada's first major national student survey of homophobia in schools. ...

<http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Boycott+Olympics%3B+free+Ti
bet&id=19131> Boycott Olympics; free Tibet
Phayul - Tibet
For over fifty years the Tibetan people have lived under oppression. They
are imprisoned, beaten, tortured, raped, and even killed for voicing
opinions ...

<http://www.ibnlive.com/news/modernday-slavery-african-children-trafficked-t
o-uk/57505-2.html> Modern-day slavery: African children trafficked to UK
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
PTI MODERN-DAY SLAVERY: African children are being used to obtain illegal
housing and other welfare benefits, the Sunday Telegraph reported. ...

<http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/OPINION/8
01270330&sfad=1> 'Guilt card'? What about sexist slurs?
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
By Linda Cunningham Sexism and misogyny are alive and well in America - and
so embedded in every aspect of our culture, institutions and our religions
as to ...

 <http://www.countercurrents.org/nader270108.htm> Eight More Years?
CounterCurrents.org - India
This system subordinated workers, consumers and the environment to the
supremacy of globalized commerce. That was just for starters. Between 1996
and 2000, ...

<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1201325108143
650.xml&coll=7> In Oregon and US, green groups are mostly white
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
That limits outreach to nonwhites and contributes to a segregated green
movement, with more minorities heading to grass-roots environmental justice
groups.

 <http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=20803> Gender discrimination
cause of violence against women
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Saying that insensitivity to gender discrimination is the root cause of such
heinous crimes, he underscored the need to educate and sensitise police, ...

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/01/27/dl270
4.xml> Government must stop child slave outrage
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In 1833, after a vigorous and prolonged campaign, Parliament abolished all
forms of slavery within the British empire. More than 150 years later, ...

<http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Next_US_president_should_not_ignore_pover
ty.html?siteSect=105&sid=8669456&cKey=1201368232000&ty=st> Next US president
"should not ignore poverty"
Swissinfo - Switzerland
Domestically I hope they will address the issue of health care and the fact
that 37 million Americans are at or below the poverty level. ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/the-crisis-of-identity-po_b_8
3376.html> The Crisis of Identity Politics
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
If Clinton wins, we will be the nation that beat the gender gap, but tripped
on racism and classism. If Obama wins, we will have faced our history of
racism ...

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