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from Paul C. Gorski
March 28, 2008
 
LGB teens at massively higher drug risk (
http://www.gay.com/news/election/article.html?2008/03/27/4 )
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are 190 percent more likely to abuse
illegal substances than heterosexual youths, MedicalNewsToday.com
reported Wednesday. ...
 
American sexism hurting Clinton run for presidency (
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/4900455.html )
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Little mention is made about the equally pervasive sexism in America
-- and in the world. The prejudice against women is so entrenched it
often goes ...
 
FACTBOX - Sports related racism in Europe (
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldOfSport/idINIndia-32727120080328
)
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Abuse directed at British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton shows the
country is still struggling to come to terms with racism. Insults from
spectators at ...
 
Racism Still a Threat to South Africa’s Democracy (
http://www.sangonet.org.za/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9117&Itemid=1
)
SANGONeT - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
The issue of racism has once again been front page news in recent
weeks. Its damaging manifestation is a reminder that it is one issue
we cannot afford to ...
 
Increased knowledge about global warming leads to apathy, study shows
( http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/tau-ika032708.php )
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
COLLEGE STATION * The more you know the less you care * at least that
seems to be the case with global warming. A telephone survey of 1093
Americans by two ...
 
Monk group and 88 Students slam UN efforts on Burma (
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=1088 )
Democratic Voice of Burma - Oslo,Norway
In conclusion, the groups said that the people of Burma would
continue to fight the oppression of the junta through peaceful means,
including by voting No ...
 
1930s: The women were fearless (
http://www.workers.org/2008/us/womens_history_month_0403 )
Workers World - USA
By Martha Grevatt The 1930s were years of fierce class struggle and
great advances for the working class. Probably no decade before or
since has witnessed ...
 
White working-class pupils are lowest achievers (
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/white-workingclass-pupils-are-lowest-achievers-801765.html
)
Independent - London,England,UK
By Sarah Cassidy, Education Correspondent White working-class pupils
are the lowest-achieving group in English schools because they have
low aspirations and ...
 
Stages Of Revolution In The International Working Class Movement (
http://www.countercurrents.org/basu270308.htm )
CounterCurrents.org - India
Such a reformist position is of course not new within the
international working class movement; in fact it is strikingly similar
in several crucial respects ...
 
US Labor in Trouble and Transition: A Review (
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sherman270308.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
The text focuses on the course of working-class struggle over the
last twenty-five years in the US, not exactly an inspiring time filled
with bold movements ...
 
Six US States Apologize for Slavery (
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BF029C5B8-F3D0-45B2-B724-61BCEC18D5E1%7D&language=EN
)
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Washington, Mar 27 (Prensa Latina) Florida is the sixth US state to
apologize for the history of slavery in the US, but refused to pay
compensation to the ...
 
The Apex of Slavery (
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2008/03/apex-of-slavery.html )
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Or so says Benjamin Skinner, author of the new book A Crime So
Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery. Skinner's opinion is
informed by his ...
 
UN rights council passes Islamic resolution on religious defamation (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/27/news/UN-GEN-UN-Rights-Council.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
The UN Human Rights Council, which is dominated by Arab and other
Muslim countries, adopted the resolution on a 21-10 vote over the
opposition of Europe and ...
 
Advocates challenge Polish homophobia (
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2829 )
Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco,CA,USA
Daniel Domagala, with the Polish group Campaign Against Homophobia,
said that most Poles do not support the homophobia of their president.
...
 
Weight Bias Is As Prevalent As Racial Discrimination, Study Suggests
( http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080327172129.htm )
Science Daily (press release) - USA
27, 2008) * Discrimination against overweight people--particularly
women--is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by
the Rudd Center for ...
 
Jim Miles Book Review: The New Imperialists (
http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=4592&blz=1 )
UN Observer - 
The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United
States is an imperial power as accepted and supported by various
neocon pundits and ...
 
PBS series on inequality and health kicks off tonight (
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/03/pbs-series-on-inequality-and-health.asp
)
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
Speaking of health disparities related to social factors, tonight
marks the launch of a PBS series titled "Unnatural Causes: Is
Inequality Making Us Sick? ...
 
The latest on Connerly's crusade (
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/03/020138.php )
Power Line - Minneapolis,MN,USA
That may be partially true at some level, but the official
justification for the most common racial preferences under attack is
not “inequity” but diversity ...
 
U.Va. Library Acquires Papers of Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond (
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4633 )
University of Virginia - Charlottesville,VA,USA
March 26, 2008 * The University of Virginia Library has acquired the
personal papers of civil rights activist and U.Va. history professor
Julian Bond. ...
 
Racism, media steretypes, and the Middle East (
http://www.vanderbiltorbis.com/news/2008/03/26/Newsfeatures/Racism.Media.Steretypes.And.The.Middle.East-3284690.shtml
)
Vanderbilt Orbis - Nashville,TN,USA
... depictions of Arabs have typically been of backward, ruthless
desert dwelling foreigners, and yet no one calls out this obvious
racism. ...
 
Feminism Keeps My Marriage Together (
http://www.alternet.org/sex/80417/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Feminism helps us face the challenge of being complex people in a
society that reduces us to pink and blue. When it comes to
heterosexual marriage, ...
 
A Very Great Evil ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff199.html
)
Lew Rockwell - Burlingame,CA,USA
Oppression and domination are the life-blood of tyrants. Empire
abroad and oppression at home, in all its forms, are brothers under
the skin, ...
 
"Five years of deception" (
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A217341 )
The Independent Weekly - Durham,NC,USA
America is the problem, our arrogance, our oppression, and our
aggression. And we can fix America. We can overcome our arrogance and
admit that we were ...
 
Is the World Making Progress on Fighting Global Warming? (
http://www.alternet.org/environment/78545/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The most important change was the new stance taken by the countries
of the global South, the Group of 77, or G77. Their earlier focus had
been on unity. ...
 
Curse of poverty (
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=103212 )
The News - International - Pakistan
Poverty of course exists around us, in many ugly forms. Most of us
have become immune to the sights of child workers, women forced to
prostitute themselves ...
 
Activist files complaint against Polish president (
http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=29743 )
pride source.com - Farmington,MI,USA
The Polish gay group Campaign Against Homophobia commented: "The
message and the choice of images used in the address is a clear sign
of ignorance and overt ...
 
"European Universalism Is Used to Justify Imperialism": An ... (
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/doubre260308.html )
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
This book, European Universalism, is thus an effort to describe the
rhetoric used by the powerful 1 : European universalism is used to
justify imperialism, ...
 
Social inequality leads to gap in US life expectancy (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/life-m26.shtml )
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... which found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy
that coincide with the growth of social inequality over the last two
decades. ...
 
Income Inequality In India (
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=38905 )
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
The period since the neo-liberal economic reforms were introduced in
India has been one of dramatically increased income inequality. ...
 
The ‘Double Hit’ on Women’s Salaries (
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/25/salarygap )
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
And while this can’t be definitively tied to sexism, there aren’ta
lot of likely alternative explanations. But the study also found that
some of the ...
 
 
 

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