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from Paul C. Gorski
June 17, 2008

 <http://www.nbc6.net/news/16625618/detail.html> Man Files Religious
Discrimination Suit Against Disney
NBC6.net - Miami,FL,USA
MIAMI -- A Sikh man has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Disney World,
charging he was turned down for a job at the Magic Kingdom due to his
religious ...

 <http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1791> Children with gay parents can be
victims of homophobia
Proud Parenting - USA
However they are still subjected to homophobia by peers. The Leader-Post
reports on research involving children of lesbian/gay parents: "Katherine
Arnup, ...

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/17/MNK811AIQE.DTL&
tsp=1> Gay and lesbian weddings begin around California
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
(06-17) 08:22 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- County offices around the state are
beginning the first full day that same-sex marriage is legal in California,
...

 <http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0617/breaking54.htm> Over
100000 NI children 'live in poverty'
Irish Times - Ireland
“Having more than 100000 children living in poverty in the 21st century is
totally unacceptable,” the report said. A typical refill of home heating oil
now ...

<http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/movingamerica08/educationr
eform617> Civil Rights Activists, Teachers Call on Candidates to Address ...
Black America Web - Dallas,Tx,USA
A national coalition of black civil rights leaders, elected officials and
educators are mobilizing to reform public school education and challenge ...

 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/education/17school.html?ref=nyregion>
Courting Minority Students to Study the Environment
New York Times - United States
... and social justice. “People coming from urban areas are as interested in
issues of the environment,” said Clare Ginger, a professor of environmental
...

 <http://nefac.net/en/node/2386> Queer Liberation and Anarchist Communism
NEFAC - Montréal,Québec,Canada
... liberation both in themselves and in their intersectionalities with
capitalism, the state, white supremacy, and all other forms of human
oppression. ...

 <http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/30589.php> OBAMA, IMPERIALISM
AND THE PARADOX OF PLENTY AMID POVERTY
Cleveland Indy Media - Cleveland,OH,USA
Yet really, the two phenomena are flip sides of the same coin, the
desperation of the doomed social system of settler colonial empire and white
supremacy. ...

 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7025/1/340/> John
McCain Debates Himself on Social Security
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The statement contradicts, however, earlier comments McCain has made in
support of the privatization of Social Security. In 2004, for example,
McCain said, ...

<http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/NATIONAL01/106
160064/-1/frontpage> Unmasking Racism in Nursing
Nurse.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Y.) has peeled back the subtle layers of racism that still exist in this
country and brought the issue to the forefront. As nurses, we like to
believe we ...

 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0617/p01s01-uspo.html> How Clinton and Obama
boosted feminism, civil rights
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
By Ariel Sabar | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Reporter
Arial Sabar discusses what the candidacy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
could ...

 <http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7017/1/340/> How the
Media got 'Class' Wrong in the Democratic Primaries
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Mike Tolochko The struggle for the votes from the working class has never
been more openly discussed. In the mainstream media, we've heard the phrase
...

 <http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/06/18/42sax_ep.h27.html> Where the
Girls Aren’t
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
In its study, entitled "Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity
in Education," the AAUW reports that both girls and boys are doing better in
...

<http://www.srpressgazette.com/sports/sexual_3970___article.html/official_di
strict.html> Ex-NASCAR official is seeking $225-M
Santa Rosa Press Gazette - Santa Rosa,FL,USA
An aspiring racing official filed a lawsuit Tuesday in US District Court for
the Southern District of New York for alleging racial and sexual
discrimination ...

<http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr009=xsp81h7612.app7b&page=N
ewsArticle&id=9302&news_iv_ctrl=1501> The Ongoing Struggle for LGBT Equality
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
On May 15, the California Supreme Court struck down laws banning same-sex
marriage, opening the door for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-neffinger/who-me-sexist-confessions_b_10
6998.html> Who, Me, Sexist? Confessions of a Cable-News Commentator
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
In calling attention to that dynamic, without further explanation, did I
imply that that sexism was OK by me? Does talking about sexism without
explicitly ...

 <http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2341440,00.html> 100
million people 'pushed into poverty'
News24 - South Africa
... food crisis "threatens to destroy years, if not decades, of economic
progress" as "100 million people are being pushed back into absolute
poverty". ...

 <http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/children.poverty.report.2.748815.html>
Report: Children In Poverty Increasing In Colorado
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
According to the latest census figures, 180000 Colorado children are living
in poverty. That's nearly 16 percent of all children in the state and it's
up 73 ...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200806160002.html> Uganda: Rwanda Girls
Trafficked for Sex Trade
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Ugandan children, the report states, are trafficked within or taken to
Canada, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia for sexual
slavery. ...

 <http://www.workers.org/2008/editorials/under_the_radar_0619> Under the
radar
Workers World - USA
US imperialism wants to make Czech territory house radar that is part of an
anti-missile shield, allegedly against rockets launched from the Middle
East. ...

 <http://pd.cpim.org/2008/0615_pd/06152008_2.htm> Left Bashing At Whose
Behest?
People's Democracy - 
The drumbeaters of US imperialism and the cheer leaders of India Inc.
continue to mount a scurrilous attack through a web of fabrications against
the CPI(M) ...

 <http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080615/NEWS07/806150571>
Broad scale of US injustice revealed
Detroit Free Press - United States
BY TOM LASSETER • MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS • June 15, 2008 GARDEZ, Afghanistan
-- The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the
spigot to ...

<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=737c868f-7431-46d5-a
871-7138349db38e> To call feminism man-hating is to spread an old and nasty
lie
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Last week, along with the dismissal of feminist men as "castrati," we
learned that feminism had focused its "hatred" on heterosexual white males.
...

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/755/39010> Class war and the `American
redneck'
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
George Bush would never have been elected US president without the support
of millions of poor working-class whites living in the US South. ... 

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