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from Paul C. Gorski
June 8, 2008
 
Soaring price in Bangladesh reduces more people to poverty (
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/08/content_8327364.htm )
Xinhua - China
DHAKA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh has been witnessing additional
2.5 million households to fall below the poverty line (one US dollar
per capita a day) ...
 
Women: Hillary blazed new trail despite sexism (
http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/hillary2008-06-07T21-31-30 )
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA
Did the insults that accompanied her run - the shouts of "Iron my
shirt," the Hillary nutcracker, the mocking T-shirts - lay bare a vein
of sexism that many ...
 
Women's rights are human rights (
http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=725&cat=10 )
Sunday News - Zimbabwe
There have been no significant efforts, at least to my knowledge, to
educate the public on the concepts of human rights, women’s rights and
the rights of ...
 
Contaminated Education? Toxic Schools and the Leasing Loophole (
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/local/contaminated-education-toxic-schools-and-the-leasing-loophole
)
Brooklyn Rail - New York,NY,USA
We Act for Environmental Justice, an environmental and social justice
organization, points out that contaminated schools “is of particular
concern in urban ...
 
Your Whiteness is Showing (
http://www.counterpunch.org/wise06072008.html )
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
By TIM WISE This is an open letter to those white women who, despite
their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their
commitment to ...
 
The new American slavery | US national debt goes unchecked, tops ...
(
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/editorials/local_story_158134554.html
)
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
When the Constitution was written, the blessings of liberty did not
extend to those oppressed by the institution of slavery. Slavery was
abolished by the ...
 
The Anti-Slavery Activism of William Wilberforce (
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91280024 )
NPR - USA
Scott Simon speaks to the author about how Wilberforce's personality
and religious faith informed his anti-slavery activism.
 
The End of US Imperialism? (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6976/1/338/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Norman Markowitz Gerald Horne concludes his fine new book, “Blows
Against Empire” with a chapter titled “US Imperialism Unbound? ...
 
Obama's bid a milestone in fighting racism: UN expert (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjJyB-qoJ3s-VMIckuSxN37qQapw )
AFP - 
WASHINGTON (AFP) * A UN official writing a report on racism in the
United States has described Barack Obama's presidential bid as a
"profoundly important" ...
 
Social movement to remove gender discrimination underscored (
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/06/08/news0804.htm )
The New Nation - Bangladesh
A four-day workshop on gender equality for journalists ended here
tonight calling upon all to work unitedly to identify all places of
gender discrimination. ...
 
Plan to halve child poverty still off course (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/07/socialexclusion.taxandspending
)
guardian.co.uk - UK
Ministers are bracing themselves for new figures on Tuesday showing
they are still nowhere near meeting their target of halving child
poverty by 2010. ...
 
Clinton's Run, My Seminar On Sexism (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603534.html
)
Washington Post - United States
By Sarah Odell Hillary Rodham Clinton followed me to college, and it
was through her run for office that I learned what even Wellesley
couldn't teach me: ...
 
Civil rights group to protest as first checkpoint introduced (
http://www.examiner.com/a-1429567~Civil_rights_group_to_protest_as_first_checkpoint_introduced.html
)
Examiner.com - USA
A coalition of civil rights leaders today is expected to denounce
Mayor Adrian Fenty's plan to quarantine crime-ravaged neighborhoods as
a knee-jerk ...
 
Black activists go blogging in challenging the status quo (
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-blackbloggers_wittjun06,0,4302661.story
)
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Howard Witt | Tribune correspondent HOUSTON - The first time Eddie
Griffin set out to fight for civil rights, back in 1972, he joined the
Black Panthers, ...
 
Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society on Media Justice ... (
http://i3.democracynow.org/2008/6/6/adrienne_maree_brown_of_the_ruckus
)
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
... focusing on forest issues and, you know, really strictly
environmental work and has grown and grown into focusing on human
rights, social justice. ...
 
The Anti-Imperialism of the Iraqi Resistance (Part 2) (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/06/18504783.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by RWF ( restes60 [at] earthlink.net ) The US is holding hostage some
$50bn (£25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
to pressure the ...
 
The meaning of revolutionary internationalism (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr009=qyactzko81.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=9308&news_iv_ctrl=1261
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
In addition, Cuba served as a safe haven for revolutionaries on the
run from imperialism, many of them from the Black liberation movement
including Robert ...
 
Violence against women : ‘Urban women faced greater risk of ... (
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C07%5Cstory_7-6-2008_pg7_39
)
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
By Ali Usman LAHORE: Violence against women has been more common in
urban areas where 275 cases were reported from January to March 2008,
while 186 such ...
 
Letter from Gitmo -- Camp "Injustice" (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-d-romero-and-hina-shamsi/letter-from-gitmo---camp_b_105692.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... concern for human rights speaks volumes about us as Americans.
This is not who we are and this is not who we should be. And that,
indeed, is an "injustice."
 
Chris Matthews Racism Watch (
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/06/06/chris-matthews-racism-watch/
)
Feministe - USA
My white privilege left me with a big old blind spot there. But after
having it pointed out, I sure as hell can’t deny it. And I also can’t
believe that ...
 
The globalization of inequality (
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-06-2008/105455-globalizationinequality-0
)
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
Where, now, is Globalization and all the wonderful benefits it is
supposed to bring? After seeing the shocking images of starving
children with pencil-like ...
 
UN probes racism in America (
http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1509&Itemid=42
)
The South Florida Times - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
BY TV FLOYD MIAMI * Local activists in the fight against racism
tag-teamed with an international expert who’s expected to shed light
on a social ill ...
 
 

 
 
 
 

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