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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
June 29, 2008


Immigration: It's Been Over 20 Years Since Congress Considered ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's been two decades since Congress last considered a proposal to grant amnesty to undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet, in 2005 and 2007, ...

France: How the unions broke an offensive of the working class
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
Such a struggle depends, however, on the existence of a revolutionary political leadership in the working class. Sarkozy found no such opponent in the trade ...

Police Race Probe 'Blocked' By 20 Forces
Sky News - Isleworth,England,UK
... intervene in a police race row following claims that at least 20 forces tried to block an inquiry into discrimination against ethnic minority officers. ...

Teen prostitutes - Negril - trafficking hotbed, girls in poverty ...
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
A REPORT on human trafficking in Jamaica, commissioned by the National Task Force against Trafficking in Persons within the Ministry of National Security, ...

Australian socialist conference highlights Tamil rights
TamilNet - Sri Lanka
The theme of the Resistance 2008 conference in Australia this year was "war, racism, environmental destruction, homophobia, and sexism. ...

Fuel for Inequality
New York Times - United States
By ROBERT B. REICH AS if the widening wage gap weren't bad enough, the bottom half of the American work force - everyone who will earn less than about ...

Spare Us Paternalism Say Organizing Chicago Sex Workers
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
It has duped many, including the media, into seeing "sex slavery" where labor, immigration, gender and human rights abuses exist and occluded the plight of ...

Con Edison Workers and the Real Face of Privatization
NYC Independent Media Center - New York,NY,USA
Nearly every study of privatization, particularly privatization in the healthcare industry, has demonstrated that spending on administration increases. ...

The Injustice Continues: New Indictment Brought Against Political ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Months after completing a sentence he never should have had to serve in the first place, Sami Al-Arian faces new trumped up charges by the Bush DoJ. ...

It's not positive, it's just discrimination
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The greatest muddle surrounds the question of "positive discrimination", itself a mish-mash of good intentions and blurry outcomes. ...

Female Discrimination in Education (Feature)
Nepal human Rights News - Kathmandu,Nepal
Gender discrimination in education is prevalent in Nepal, and poverty is the root cause. Some young girls live in low-quality, impoverished homes with ...

GLBT group praises Michelle Obama
Baltimore Sun - United States
... Democratic nominee Barack Obama for her speech this week at the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council in New York. ...

New York State's Women Getting Poorer
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Among the states, New York ranked 40th in the share of women living above the poverty line, a decline from its 30th place spot in 1989, according to the ...

Neglected Infections Of Poverty Must Be Addressed In United States
Medical News Today - UK
These "neglected infections of poverty" are reported in an analysis published on June 25, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. ...

Gay pride marches in Europe marred by homophobia
AFP - 
PRAGUE (AFP) - Tens of thousands joined gay pride marches across Europe on Saturday but homophobics spoiled the party in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria ...

Relentless Homophobia Rages in the Balkans
Balkan Travellers - Sofia,Bulgaria
Violent attacks or not, what ultra-right groups say out loud still seems to be what the majority of the population thinks and homophobia and lack of ...

GenY Finds Coming Out Still Difficult
365Gay.com - USA
In the first national survey on homophobia in Canadian schools, released last month by Egale Canada, participating LGBTQ teens _ lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

Gap between rich and poor widens
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The ONS said the growth in inequality was also caused by an increasing chasm between the highest and lowest salaries and slower growth in the levels of ...

Millionaire gets prison in slavery case
United Press International - USA
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY, June 27 (UPI) -- A wealthy immigrant from India was sentenced Friday to three years and four months in a US prison for helping his wife ...

Scotland Yard racism dossier "astonishing"
Reuters UK - UK
By Andrew Hough LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's most senior Asian policeman has compiled an "astonishing" dossier of evidence which supports his racism claims ...

Brazilian Secret 93 Million Don't Want to Talk About Is Racism
Bloomberg - USA
``We have the strongest apartheid ever because people deny racism exists,'' says Humberto Adami, head of the nonprofit Institute for Racial and ...

Sexism in politics resonates in office politics
MSNBC - USA
"There's huge role modeling that Hillary Clinton has accomplished, especially for young women, . but at the same time we did see the impact of sexism and ...

A Public Health Nightmare: Is inequality making us sick?
Baltimore Times - Baltimore,MD,USA
This week, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum was the site of a partial special screening of a four hour series, "UNNATURAL CAUSES.is inequality making us sick? ...

Oh I get it. The Left just doesn't want to win this year.
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Nader seems to be saying that doing what is required to win is wrong, that as he says, "talking white" or appealing to "white guilt" in his quest to win the ...

PALESTINE & NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Cleveland Indy Media - Cleveland,OH,USA
While oppression of Palestinians and colonization/occupation may be mentioned occasionally, the influence of Israel and its US supporters pushing for wars ...

Feds sued over alleged mining of immigrants' data
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
By TOM HAYS AP Writer NEW YORK-The US government secretly gathered personal data on more than 130000 immigrants in the run-up to the war in Iraq, ...

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