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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
March 11, 2008
 
Anti-gay Tirade by OK State Rep. Sally Kern Sparks National Firestorm
( http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20080311002715839 )
BBSNews - Charlotte,NC,USA
The remarks, recorded in audio, have received national attention
after first being released by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. As
head of the Human Rights ...
 
Global Warming Denier Group Set To Recycle Attacks on Al Gore (
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/10/cei-attacks-gore/ )
Think Progress - Washington,DC,USA
The Washington Monthly reported, “The Competitive Enterprise
Institute has been a particularly aggressive advocate of the notion
that global warming is a ...
 
'Torture-tainted evidence' mars US legal image: rights group (
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilxw3zmT4wQaGyrHexYLTvFwFnxg )
AFP - 
The Human Rights First report "makes ill-founded assumptions about
the evidence upon which our military prosecutors will rely," said
Commander Jeffrey ...
 
UN Committee responds to US racism toward Indian Peoples (
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=4533&blz=1 )
UN Observer - 
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination voiced strong concerns regarding environmental racism
and the environmental ...
 
Justice Department rife with racism, lawyer says (
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=f06d86d4-d399-4734-95d9-172d3d012fbf
)
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
OTTAWA -- Two weeks after rattling Justice Canada's cage with an
incendiary allegation of "overt racism," Mark Persaud is talking about
his decade working ...
 
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Nearly sold into sex slavery for $8000 (
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/03/united-arab-e-1.html
)
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
She came all the way from Eastern Europe to treat her daughter's
asthma. Instead, once in Dubai, the 27-year-old Moldavian woman found
out that she was ...
 
SPLC Report: Immigration Debate Fueling Hate Groups (
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7994877&nav=menu33_2 )
WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA
"The tone of the immigration debate in this country has really become
vile and that is helping these (hate) groups grow," said the project's
director, ...
 
Homophobic abuse endemic in schools, says teacher survey (
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2264048,00.html )
Guardian - UK
A "conspiracy of silence" in schools and colleges means homophobia is
now seen as so normal that some teachers believe they risk disrupting
classes - and ...
 
US racial discrimination must be remedied, UN says Post-Katrina ... (
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20080310k )
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
On Friday, March 7, in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued its Concluding
Observations charging the US ...
 
40th anniversary of King assassination (
http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_8522002 )
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By AP The National Civil Rights Museum is seen in Memphis, Tenn. in
this Nov. 2, 2007 file photo. The National Civil Rights Museum, built
around the motel ...
 
Women in Civil Rights Pt. II (
http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-03-10-0010.html
)
WSAV-TV - Savannah,GA,USA
Jackson's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement began at the
tender age of nine- when she joined the local chapter of the NAACP.
...
 
Exterminating Public Schools in America (
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8288 )
Center for Research on Globalization - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Indeed, their measures would mean privatization of education,
effectively terminating the right to a public education, as we have
known it. ...
 
Overwhelmingly white, the green movement is reaching for the rainbow
(
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2004259901_pacificpgreen09.html
)
Seattle Times - United States
For us, says director Ticiang Diangson of Seattle Public Utilities'
environmental-justice/service-equity division, the environment "is
really about our ...
 
Walking the Lonely Road: A Review of Paul Robeson’s Words of Freedom
(
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/walking-the-lonely-roada-review-of-paul-robesons-words-of-freedom/
)
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Unlike some of his contemporaries that also had the white man’s ear,
Paul Robeson was never afraid to share his opinion about that history
of oppression and ...
 
End disabled poverty (
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/dearcarrie/2008/03/09/end-disabled-poverty-50081-20586707/
)
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
AS the North West campaigner for a leading disability charity, I am
writing to urge readers to sign up to a major campaign to end
disability poverty. ...
 
Rural poverty shame of North families (
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=rural-poverty-shame-of-north-families&method=full&objectid=20587382&siteid=50081-name_page.html
)
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
by Phil Doherty, Sunday Sun NEARLY one third of all households in
rural areas of the North are living below the poverty line, we can
reveal. ...
 
US image problem; Watching human rights (
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/09/opinion/edlet.php )
International Herald Tribune - France
Sixty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, its values have been reduced to political and ideological
slogans. ...
 
Join the fight to end mental health stigma and discrimination (
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/454644/get-moving-marketing-officer?RSSSearch=77797339&gusrc=gu_jobs_box_World%20news&link=World%20news_jbx_vac
)
Guardian - UK
This is your opportunity to join one of the most ambitious, exciting
projects in England, that will tackle stigma and discrimination, raise
public awareness ...
 
Women vow to fight against abuse, job discrimination (
http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/09/top16.htm )
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
PARIS, March 8: Calls to end forced marriage, domestic abuse and job
discrimination marked International Women’s Day on Saturday as
demonstrators took to ...
 
Letter: St. Cloud State grapples with discrimination, bias (
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/articles/index.cfm?id=14351&section=Opinion
)
Bemidji Pioneer - Bemidji,MN,USA
And we will unapologetically and loudly keep standing together
against all forms of discrimination and bias. St. Cloud State
University must be a place ...
 
Capitalism gone crazy (
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20080307T200000-0500_133277_OBS_CAPITALISM_GONE_CRAZY.asp
)
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
Its perpetrators dumb down their own societies, enforcing classism
and racism, but also impose this mess globally through the World Bank,
...
 
Student poverty and prostitution (
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/743/38445 )
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
Such collective action helps raise prostitutes’ self-confidence and
organisational skills, enabling them to fight more effectively against
their oppression. ...
 
Surging inequality and subprime-lending abuse (
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/64B51DA476AF6466862574050073D705?OpenDocument
)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
However, missing from these discussions is the central role of what
MIT economist Lester Thurow described years ago as a "surge in
inequality. ...
 
International Women's Day denounces inequality (
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5676342/International-Womens-Day-denounces-inequality
)
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
In Europe thousands of women took to the streets and French President
Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to introduce fines to combat pay inequality.
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