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from Paul C. Gorski
July 14, 2008

 <http://thewip.net/talk/2008/07/feminism_does_matter.html> Feminism Does
Matter
The Women's International Perspective - Monterey,CA,USA
Having passed thru 2nd wave feminism and moved into the 3rd if not the 4th
wave, full of the growing complexities that make up this world, ...

 <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/13/content_8539339.htm> UN:
discrimination increases vulnerability
Xinhua - China
LUSAKA, July 13 (Xinhua) -- People living with HIV/AIDS have to contend with
enormous stigma and discrimination even when applying for a visa to abroad,
...

 <http://www.outinlasvegas.com/home/news.asp?articleid=32222> ANOTHER
MISGUIDED EFFORT BY RIGHT-WING TO FOMENT ANTI-GAY ...
Out In America - Columbus,OH,USA
This is clearly another effort by right-wing to force Republican
presidential nominee John McCain into using gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender issues ...

 <http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/13/editorial/editorial02.html> New law
codifies loss of American civil rights
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
PRESIDENT Bush had good reason to indulgently praise Congress for passage of
wiretap legislation that surrenders citizens' rights to be free of
unreasonable ...

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/758/39148> Terrorist turns liberator in
the stroke of a pen
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
It is also a failure to recognise what history has taught us: that
longstanding and systematic oppression perpetrated by state actors often
gives rise to ...

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/758/39186> Workers and students: can we
make a revolution?
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
Marxists argue that the working class is capable of overthrowing capitalism.
But what is the working class? A working-class person is someone who, ...

<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july122008/prejudice_history_7-11-08.php
> Racism's Long and Turturous History Against African-Americans
Salem-News.Com - OR,USA
There are no simple answers for racism. Few problems in our society rival
it, and for the first time in US history, we will very likely elect our
first ...

<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hundreds-of-police-set-to-lo
dge-race-bias-claims-866574.html> Hundreds of police set to lodge race bias
claims
Independent - London,England,UK
By Brian Brady Hundreds of police officers are poised to mount race
discrimination actions against their own forces in reaction to the case
launched by ...

<http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/autocodes/countries/ukraine/minoritie
s-in-ukraine-living-in-climate-fear-$1231036.htm> Minorities in Ukraine
living in "climate of fear"
InTheNews.co.uk - London,UK
The new climate has also seen minorities subjected to harassment,
discrimination and abuse from state officials and members of the public,
today's report ...

 <http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=5234> Bush to Next President: Global
Warming is Your Problem
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The internal EPA study recognized manmade greenhouse gas emissions as a
major contributor to global warming and warned of dangerous climate change
should ...

 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/opinion/l13affirm.html> Where's the Talk
About Racial Justice?
New York Times - United States
We need a deeper national discussion and understanding about race, culture
and poverty, along with a concerted and committed effort to relieve the ...

<http://www.wrbl.com/index.php/news/article/ama-admits-racial-inequality-in-
past/27016/> AMA Admits Racial Inequality In Past
WRBL - Columbus,GA,USA
By Ashley Ball The AMA has been looking at racial inequality within their
organization for several years. They have just finished up a study with more
...

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/BUSH-AIN-T-NO--COWBOY----W-by-Lee-Patton-0
80709-736.html> BUSH AIN'T NO "COWBOY": Why the Wrong Word Promotes Extreme
Inequality
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
Worse, to recall Bush as a "cowboy president" mucks-up our eternal inability
to think clearly about class and income inequality. Worst of all, to persist
in ...

<http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/indian-american-couple-to-pa
y-1-mn-to-maids-in-slavery-case_10070816.html> Indian American couple to pay
$1 mn to maids in slavery case
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The Sabhnanis were convicted in December last year on 12 counts including
modern-day slavery, forced labour, involuntary servitude and harbouring
illegal ...

<http://i2.democracynow.org/2008/7/11/slavery_by_another_name_author_douglas
> Slavery by Another Name: Author Douglas Blackmon on the Re ...
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
A new book by award-winning journalist Douglas Blackmon uncovers the
forgotten history of neo-slavery imposed on hundreds and thousands of
African Americans ...

 <http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1374/1/> Nicaraguans Demand
Justice from World-Bank Financed Sugar Cane Company
Upside Down World - Hartwick,NY,USA
Long before the loan was approved, former workers from Chichigalpa were
protesting the destructive environmental and labor practices of the company.
...

 <http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/356/public/news913882.html> A White
Supremacy Torchbearer
The Black Chronicle - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
Helms accepted the torch that Tillman passed to a new generation of white
supremacists--and served the same cause with a tad more subtlety. ...

<http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/11/on-being-jewish-and-white/
> On Being Jewish and White
Feministe - USA
How can we effectively confront white privilege within Jewish communities
when potential allies dismiss that whiteness? Shouldn't each individual be
allowed ...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/jack-j12.shtml> Jesse Jackson's
self-criticism and the state of American politics
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... the conditions of poverty and oppression in which millions of poor and
working class African Americans live on poor parenting and absentee fathers.
...

 <http://community.feministing.com/2008/07/anti-feminist-women.html>
Anti-Feminist Women
Feministing - New York,NY,USA
Perhaps if Victorian feminism has included reproductive rights Queen
Victoria might not have hated it so much. Modern anti-feminists tend to come
in two ...

<http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/91223/?ses=2f0d31db32eb8d26b9b8
429ff9b16c77> Racism, Sexism and Speed: Can NASCAR Be Saved From Itself?
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
However, despite NASCAR's efforts to improve their image, it's still a sport
where racism thrives below the surface and sexism in the form of bikini-clad
...

 <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5joM2ksMOS3Fis47TrUdAIEuPghrwD91R1HGO0>
AMA apologizes to black doctors for past racism
The Associated Press - 
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal
apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded
blacks ...

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