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from Paul C. Gorski
June 22, 2008

 <http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/human-interest/?id=85352> Polish gays
and lesbians stay in the closet at work
Thenews.pl - Warsaw,Poland
According to the Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH), 85 percent of Polish
gays and lesbians do not reveal their sexual orientation at work for fear of
...

 <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/756/39073> The pope is wrong -- put a
condom on!
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
On World Youth Day on July 19, protesters are planning to send this message
to the pope: “Gay is great and homophobia is unacceptable. ...

 <http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/06/40th_anniversar.html> 40th
Anniversary of Poor People’s March on Washington is ...
California Progress Report - Oakland,CA,USA
Today, those figures have been reversed as California now has a greater than
average percentage of children living in poverty (19 percent in California
...

<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080622/NEWS/80622
0362/1001/news> Civil rights killings need closer look, some say
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
The FBI is examining more than 100 unpunished killings from the civil rights
era, many of them deaths with little to go on, but the June 21, 1964, ...

<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0622ednbymasters062
2.html> ASU adds master's in human rights, social justice
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
People who aspire to apply social-justice and human-rights approaches to
health, education, labor, international development, family welfare and the
...

 <http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/325> The
real “upside” of income inequality
Democratic Underground - Washington,DC,USA
What the AEI really means when it talks about the “upside” of income
inequality is that the upside is 
 income inequality itself. ...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/21/18509837.php> Sadrist Condemns
'Eternal Slavery' to US; 1 US Troop Killed, 5 ...
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by juan cole (reposted) Congress passed a $161 bn. budget for the Iraq War,
with a bit for Afghanistan in it, but failed to get language about a
timetable ...

<http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/jeb-sprague/2008/06/haiti-the-bat
tle-against-privatization-and-neoliberalism> Haiti: The Battle Against
Privatization and Neoliberalism
The NarcoSphere - New York,NY,USA
Grassroots Haitian trade unionists are in the midst of an ongoing struggle
against privatization and neoliberalism. In April-May 2008 the International
...

 <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,560994,00.html> South
American Leaders Protest EU Immigration Rules
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
A new set of rules for illegal immigrants passed by the EU has upset human
rights groups as well as leaders in South America. Hugo Chavez has even made
a ...

<http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1213871185122&
pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout> Racism Rears in Cornwall
Islam Online - Doha,Qatar
CAIRO — Racism is rearing its ugly face in Britain's south-western county of
Cornwall with a series of Islamophobic attacks against British Muslims of
Asian ...

 <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/22/content_8414588.htm> Zuma:
Poverty behind South African xenophobic attacks
Xinhua - China
JOHANNESBURG, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Poverty and poor service delivery were
major factors behind recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the ruling
party ...

 <http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Child-poverty-link-revealed.4206575.jp> Child
poverty link revealed
Scotsman - United Kingdom
TACKLING women’s low pay is key to ending child poverty in the UK, a new
report said today. Research by the TUC, the End Child Poverty coalition and
the ...

<http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080620/NEWS01/80620027
/1263/update> César Chávez granddaughter talks about gay civil rights
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
César Chávez championed the rights of the poor and oppressed. And if the
iconic farmworker leader were alive today, he’d advocate for gay civil
rights, ...

<http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/21/Inequality_is_greatest_threa
t_to_security/UPI-93171214032152/> Inequality is greatest threat to security
United Press International - USA
LONDON, June 21 (UPI) -- The greatest threat to global security is the rapid
increase in inequality, according to a report by the British think tank
Royal ...

<http://www.theledger.com/article/20080621/NEWS/806210360/1326&title=Tracing
_a_Legacy_of_Slavery> Tracing a Legacy of Slavery
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
By FRAZIER MOORE AP What if you found out that your Rhode Island ancestors
were the largest slave-trading family in US history? Spurred by this
troubling ...

<http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/letters/x1816436030/Betancourt-Dr
ug-sentencing-inequity> Betancourt: Drug sentencing inequity
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
Twenty-two years ago this week, Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose. His
death stunned the sports world and left an indelible mark on our justice
system. ...

 <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3427199,00.html> Study: Racism in
Germany Increasingly Mainstream
Deutsche Welle - Germany
He and Elmar Braehler from Leipzig University's Institute for Clinical
Psychology and Sociology said their work revealed that racism in Germany is
...

<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=105&art_id=nw2008062013523
3888C119214> Racism 'alive and well' in SA varsities
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Racism is still "alive and well" at formerly white universities, a one-day
colloquium on anti-racist strategies in the higher education sector heard in
...

 <http://www.ocregister.com/articles/women-study-faculty-2072892-uci-bryant>
Women professors at UCI face discrimination
OCRegister - Santa Ana,CA,USA
The lead researcher for the study, entitled "Gender Equity in Academia: Bad
News from the Trenches," said that the issue is national in scope. ...

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