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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
July 24, 2008
 
Black In America: The Agitator's Daughter (
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/07/sheryll-cashin-interview-000921.php
)
The Daily Voice - New York,NY,USA
He founded a black-led third party in Alabama during the height of
George Wallace's hegemony and succeeded in transforming "white
supremacy" politics in the ...
 
How globalization has enhanced unethical practices in banks ... (
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/money/2008/july/24/Money-24-07-2008-004.htm
)
Daily Sun - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
The combined effects of globalization and the banking sector reforms
known as consolidation heightened the practice of outsourcing by the
banks. ...
 
Kevin Betsy Discusses Encounters With Racism in Soccer (
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080723091335zzzz.nb/topstory.html )
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
By Dan Tennant-Ralphs Walsall midfielder Kevin Betsy has spoken about
the racism he has encountered on the pitch. The 30-year-old talked
about experiencing ...
 
California Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling Reinforces Top Bay ... (
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/california-supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling,479290.shtml
)
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
We believe that the physiological and psychological concerns of all
prospective parents are pretty much the same and warmly welcome gay
and lesbian couples ...
 
The ugly face of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsyism ... (
http://www.zaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=148296
)
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... groups or other organized, extremist gangs who tend to be at the
same time racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and
homophobic. ...
 
Hidden poverty of Welsh country folk (
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=14770
)
News Wales - Knighton,UK
It is clear that the impact of poverty on people in rural Wales is
not fully appreciated by government. the rural development
sub-committee of the National ...
 
Civil Rights Movement stands on the grunt work of lesser known ... (
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/article/article.asp?NewsID=90025&sID=13&ItemSource=L
)
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The esteem of the late King and the magnetism of his name drew more
publicity and attention to the Civil Rights Movement than other
activists drudging along ...
 
Inequality rules in NSW, and we're poorer (
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/inequality-rules-in-nsw-and-were-poorer/2008/07/23/1216492541154.html
)
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
But inequality of earnings - or the gap between the most lucrative
pay deals and the most miserly - remains most severe in NSW. A
separate chapter in the ...
 
Housekeepers Sue LI Couple Over Domestic Slavery Conviction (
http://www.wnbc.com/news/16963320/detail.html )
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
NEW YORK -- A wealthy Long Island couple convicted of brutally
enslaving two Indonesian women are now being sued by their former
domestic servants. ...
 
Nas To Deliver Petition Protesting Against Fox News "Racism" (
http://angryape.com/news/2008/07/23/nas-to-deliver-petition-protesting-against-fox-news-racism
)
AngryApe - Manchester,UK
MoveOn.org also said, "FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and
fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its
advertisers, ...
 
Nas, joins protest charges racism at Fox News (
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/13415/ )
People's Weekly World - USA
The media corporation's use of racism is the focus of the activity
organized by ColorofChange.org, Moveon.org and Hip Hop artist Nas.
...
 
Reaching beyond racism (
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0723/p19s01-hfcs.html )
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
While the cause of racism may often be identified as prejudice within
certain groups, it can be traced back much further. The Bible records
an illustration ...
 
HIV-positive teachers need more support, not discrimination (
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/features/HIV-positive_teachers_need_more_support_not_discrimination_68645.shtml
)
Daily Monitor - Kampala,Uganda
HIV positive teachers often experience high levels of stigma and
discrimination within schools and outside of school settings. ...
 
Poll Indicates Majority of French Now Favor Adoption, Marriage for
... ( http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072204.html )
Lifesite - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
He has now announced a policy of promoting the decriminalization of
sodomy worldwide, as well as support for the "International Day
Against Homophobia" ...
 
EXCLUSIVE: My boyfriend was murdered in Turkish "honour killing" (
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8449.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Homophobia in Turkey has always been rife, but according to Mr
Yildiz's partner, it has gotten worse over the last four years. He
describes homophobia in ...
 
Child poverty plagues Ziebach County, poorest in the nation (
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/07/22/news/local/doc488404f1831e1686210137.txt
)
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
More than 70 percent of all children in Ziebach County live in
poverty, according to 2005 US Census Bureau data analyzed by the Rural
Life Center at South ...
 
Sexism 'alive and well' in Aust workplaces (
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/22/2310830.htm?site=idx-act
)
ABC Regional Online - Australia
Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick says
sexism is still "alive and well" in Australian workplaces. Ms
Broderick has travelled the ...
 
A Discussion of Differences in African-American and White Wealth ...
( http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2008/07/wealth.html )
Center For American Progress - Washington,DC,USA
Yet the American Dream measured against another metric, inequality in
wealth, or what you own rather than what you earn, may reveal a much
starker picture. ...
 
Thirty-year gap in US life expectancy highlights inequality (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr009=w28ky7c1f4.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=9589&news_iv_ctrl=1261
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
A recent study reveals a 30-year gap in average life expectancy
between Mississippi and Connecticut, the poorest and richest US states
respectively in terms ...
 
INSIDE ASIA Confronting income inequality in China (
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/21/business/rtrinside22.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
"As the old adage suggests, 'shortage is not a problem, but
inequality really matters,"' he writes. For policy makers, the task of
tackling inequality is ...
 
Hands of slaves tied by poverty (
http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/297091915315184.php )
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
These are among the thoughts that surface whenever the abolition of
slavery and emancipation are discussed in the context of their
aftermath as the ...
 
Review: The World Without US (
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/07/review-world-without-us.html )
Dakota Voice - Rapid City,SD,USA
The narrator, Anderson, grew up in Romania during the Cold War and
communist oppression. He tells childhood tales of how the Romanian
people had hoped ...
 
State and Revolution (
http://socialistworker.org/2008/07/22/state-and-revolution )
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
But it is important to test these approaches against the actual
experience of the working-class movement historically. The Russian
revolutionary VI Lenin ...
 
Hate crimes * the ugly face of racism, anti-Semitism, anti ... (
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/20073 )
eGov monitor - London,UK
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
presents facts and analysis about such crimes in its country reports
and recommendations on ...
 
 
 
 

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