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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
March 17, 2008
 
Taking Direct Action Against Chevron Pt. 2 (
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/16/taking-direct-action-against-chevron-pt-2/
)
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington,DC,USA
This facility refines over 1 million gallons of Iraqi oil a month,
plus oil from their “global marketplace” of conflict and oppression
zones like Ecuador, ...
 
News and Analysis from the Left (
http://uncapitalist.com/blog/?itemid=1669 )
UnCapitalist Journal - USA
By Dark Wraith From Pakistan to Kenya, from Armenia to Burma, peoples
of the world are rising up against the fist of oppression, rebelling
against tyranny, ...
 
Slavery thriving in secret ( http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8588926
)
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"If it can happen in Woodland Hills, it can happen anywhere," said
Kay Buck, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Coalition to
Abolish Slavery and ...
 
'Poverty and Justice Bible' isn't on conservative's wish list (
http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/poverty-and-justice-bible-isnt.html
)
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The Bible Society of the United Kingdom has published a new Poverty
and Justice Bible, which emphasizes those passages that speak to God's
"heart for the ...
 
Leading US lenders accused of racism (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/17/cnblack117.xml
)
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By James Quinn, Wall Street Correspondent A group of 15 leading
American mortgage lenders is being accused of racism over the way in
which the banks lent ...
 
Human rights in Iraq disastrous after war: Amnesty International (
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C03%5C17%5Cstory_17-3-2008_pg7_51
)
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
“Saddam Husseinin’s administration was a byword for human rights
abuse,” said Amnesty’s director for Middle East and North Africa,
Malcolm Smart. ...
 
Reeves: A call for US to practice human rights at home (
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2008/03/17/bus/reeves.a.call.for.us.to.practice.human.rights.at.home.html
)
Sun.Star - Philippines
By Robert L. Reeves THE United States does not practice what it
preaches in the area of human rights. In a report to the United
Nations Human Rights Council ...
 
Iraq, Afghanistan: The Bitter Fruits of War and Occupation (
http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article13.php?id=762 )
Socialist Alternative - Seattle,WA,USA
By Niall Mulholland Five long, bloody years of war and occupation,
led by US imperialism, has left Iraq as a dangerous, violent and
divided society, ...
 
Barack Obama and the Crisis of US Imperialism (
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/15/18485851.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The reality is, if he became President of the United States he would
be subservient to the white imperialist bourgeois state! "It doesn’t
matter about his ...
 
UN Criticizes US Discrimination toward Black Katrina Victims (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6603/1/322/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The most recent scrutiny comes from the United Nations Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which monitors
compliance with the ...
 
Clinton Rebukes President Bush For Intervening In EPA's New Ozone ...
( http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010348518 )
AHN - USA
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) had only scathing words for President George
Bush on Friday about the White House's reported intervention to keep
the Environmental ...
 
Need to confront sexism continues (
http://www.uticaod.com/archive/x1126219084 )
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Yet, sadly, too many of these women are encountering both subtle and
not-so-subtle examples of sexism as they seek to do their jobs out in
the community. ...
 
Study links subprime mortgage crisis to US poverty & hunger (
http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=7541
)
Dallas Baptist Standard - Dallas,TX,USA
The report, titled “Home Ownership, Subprime Loans and Poverty,”
found a strong correlation between poverty rates and percentages of
mortgages that are ...
 
Calum Irving on homophobia (
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2123343.0.rebuttal.php
)
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Three-quarters of all gay young people attending faith schools
experience homophobic bullying, and they are even less likely to
report it than gay pupils at ...
 
University leaders in fierce racial debate (
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=727772 )
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
University vice-chancellors are at loggerheads over a controversial
call by some of their colleagues urging them to admit publicly that
racism exists on all ...
 
Recalling basketball greats held back by racism (
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/03/15/recalling_basketball_greats_held_back_by_racism
)
Boston Globe - United States
Due solely to astonishing, overt racism, his NBA career consisted of
58 games in that 1961-62 season. Hill may have been one of the
greatest basketball ...
 
New bill proposes marriage rights for gay couples (
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=136471 )
Norway Post - Bærum,Norway
Lesbian spouses and cohabitants have the same access to assisted
fertilization as heterosexual couples and cohabitants. - after birth
through assisted ...
 
Politicians 'Anti-Gay' Speech Sparks Outrage (
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4444956&page=1 )
ABC News - USA
Her speech, first posted online earlier this week by the Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund, has generated national attention. The
recording has been viewed more ...
 
Beatings, slavery haunts Kosovo Albanian women (
http://www.serbianna.com/news/2008/01728.shtml )
Serbianna.com - MI,USA
Many Muslim women of Kosovo are routinely beaten, enslaved and for
many that are saved from violence and slavery, the untold many do not
make it say women ...
 
Barack Obama and the Politics of Dignity (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-fuller/barack-obama-and-the-poli_b_91649.html
)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
The introduction of the word "sexism" provided the lens that brought
gender inequity into focus and made it indefensible. To fight back
against indignity, ...
 
FEATURE-Trauma, poverty shred young Iraqis' dreams (
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSKAM837346 )
Reuters - USA
Haider Abdul-Muhsin, a psychiatrist at Baghdad's Ibn Rushid hospital,
said that disillusionment -- and poverty -- force many teenagers and
young adults to ...
 
An Open Letter to All Feminists: Statement of Solidarity with ... (
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cm130308.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
This is a moment when US imperialism brazenly uses direct colonial
occupation, masked in a civilizational discourse of bringing Western
"freedom" and ...
 
 
 
 

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