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from Paul C. Gorski
July 18, 2008

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who believe their students can and will change the world. It is designed to
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And now to the news:

 <http://www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/511173.html> ANNIE LAURIE
GAYLOR: Women's rights movement celebrates 160 years
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
And when one of our own, Hillary Rodham Clinton, ran for president, she
faced all sorts of sexism. A Washington Post woman columnist publicly
admonished her ...

 <http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/07/hunting-the-ele.html> Hunting the
Elephant in the American Living Room Chuck Sheketoff
BlueOregon - OR,USA
As they note on their webpage, inequality is a "The Triple Whammy." The
intense concentration of wealth and income at the top of the economic ladder
creates ...

 <http://www.myjoyonline.com/features/200807/18422.asp> The racial bells
toll in America (Part I)
Joy Online - Accra,Ghana
Earlier in 1856, the Republican party had organized to oppose the extension
of slavery. In the state of Illinois, Lincoln was so prominent that the
party’s ...

<http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/07/14/teens-take-stand-against-hu
man-trafficking.html> Teens take a stand against human trafficking
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA
The project, dubbed End Slavery Now, is the creation of sisters Joan Park
(15) and Grace Park (17), and now includes a planning group of about 24 teen
girls ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-fournier/in-response-to-the-abc-ni_b_1
13381.html> In Response to the ABC Nightline Special on Sex Trade in Haiti
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Mr. Dan Harris, of ABC News, is to be commended for calling attention to the
problem of child slavery. This problem of modern slavery is not, however,
...

 <http://www.counterpunch.org/walker07182008.html> A Kinder, Gentler
Imperialism?
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Initially supported by a majority of the American public and given
legitimacy by the mainstream intellectual class, the Bush regime’s
imperialist vision no ...

<http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/17/gender-inequity-in-science
-why-legal-remedies-are-grossly-inadequate/> Gender Inequity In Science: Why
Legal Remedies Are Grossly Inadequate
Feministe - USA
When I was poking around at the Protein Wisdom right-wing wackaloon
treehouse seeing what they had to say about my fisking of the NY Times piece
on Title IX ...

<http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/07/17/afl-cio-in-coalition-to-fight-mccains-eff
orts-to-gamble-away-social-security> AFL-CIO in Coalition to Fight McCain’s
Efforts to Gamble Away ...
AFL-CIO - Washington,DC,USA
says Social Security is an “absolute disgrace” (see video) and that
President Bush’s failed privatization scheme is the way to go. Yesterday, a
coalition of ...

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-immig_suitjul18,0,2667590.stor
y> Immigrants sue for unpaid wages
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Vanessa Bauzá | Chicago Tribune reporter Ten immigrant workers filed a
lawsuit Thursday claiming they are owed thousands of hours of back wages
from a ...

 <http://www.alternet.org/story/91736/?ses=e18b6506bf032973b25cab695f8d685a>
AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... anger about the newly passed FISA law, the constant reminder that Iraq
is still all about the oil, and the ongoing debate about the future of
feminism. ...

 <http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/07/17/two-worlds-women> Two
worlds of women
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
"Feminism is seen as negative, complaining about things," she says. More and
more frequently these days we hear the cries of so-called post-feminists:
women ...

 <http://socialistworker.org/2008/07/18/a-principled-stand> A principled
stand against racism
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
READERS OF SocialistWorker.org will be happy to learn of the principled
stand against the bigoted career of Jesse Helms made by a white 51-year-old
NC state ...

 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2307862.htm?site=melbourne>
Racism hampers job opps: Report
ABC Regional Online - Australia
The co-author of a new report examining racial and religious discrimination
in employment says it is time the Equal Opportunity Commission was given the
...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/17/18517118.php> Toxic
Construction and Environmental Racism in Hunters Point Shipyard
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Minister Christopher Mohammad of the Nation of Islam, spoke ardently about
the environmental racism and classism the Dept. of Public Health conveys
when it ...

<http://womensissues.about.com/b/2008/07/17/encouraging-gender-equity-in-dev
eloping-nations.htm> Encouraging Gender Equity in Developing Nations
About - News &amp; Issues - New York,NY,USA
Gender equity may not be fully realized in the US and other Western
countries, but the gap that separates women and men is a crack in the
sidewalk compared ...

 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/18/globaleconomy.economics>
Record numbers living in poverty
guardian.co.uk - UK
The number of people living in poverty in the world's 50 least developed
countries is rising despite their economies growing at the fastest pace in
30 years ...

<http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=DISCRIMINATION-LAWSUIT-ba
glm> ANTIOCH: CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS ALLEGING POLICE DISCRIMINATION SEEK ...
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Civil rights groups suing Antioch police for alleged racial discrimination
against African-Americans living in Section 8 housing filed a motion today
to ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/proof-democrats-are-bette_b_1132
38.html> Proof: Democrats Are Better For the Economy
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Income inequality as measured by the Gini index increases under Republicans
and decreases under Democrats. I think this is a very revealing statistic
...

<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shocking-new-us-report-rev
eals-american-nightmare-of-inequality-869736.html> Shocking new US report
reveals American nightmare of inequality
Independent - London,England,UK
... free enterprise is the best way to lift Americans out of poverty, the
report points to a rigged system that does little to lessen inequalities.
...

<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july162008/human_trafficking_7-16-08.php
> Human Trafficking is an Unaddressed Worldwide Tragedy
Salem-News.Com - OR,USA
Bringing attention to human slavery and trafficking should not be a
difficult task. People should be completely shocked and appalled that this
problem has ...

<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/07/16/do-americans-expec
t-their-business-leaders-to-be-white-study-says-yes/> Do Americans Expect
Their Business Leaders to Be White? Study Says Yes
Discover Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The participants overwhelmingly (up to 72 percent) guessed that the people
in power were white, even when the students were told that the company was
...

<http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&STORY_ID=5113&PUB_TEMPL
ATE_ID=7> Hierarchies of oppression: a highway to nowhere
Xtra.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
"I have always thought of marginalization/oppression to be, not a stagnant
body of water, but a series of cascades from the most mainstream to the most
...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/econ-j17.shtml> US: Amid surging
prices, Fed raises specter of renewed class struggle
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Such drastic cuts in real wages—representing a massive transfer of wealth
from the working class to the very rich—are sending shockwaves through the
whole ...

 <http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/6296> Live Working or Die
Fighting: How the working class went global
Socialist Party - UK
Mason's central argument is that, to a greater or lesser extent, the
working-class struggles of the 21st century are repeats of battles that have
already ... 

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