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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
May 14, 2008

Budgetary allocation a must to end gender discrimination
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Speakers at a meeting yesterday demanded specific budgetary allocation and investment for women to ensure their rights and eliminate discrimination against ...

Racism Stings Obama Campaigners
AOL News Newsbloggers - Dulles,VA,USA
Running just below the surface in the campaign and in the media, is the undercurrent of racism still to be found in pockets around the country - rural, ...

Racism played role in attacks, report confirms
Georgina Advocate - Keswick,ON,Canada
Racism played a role in the harassment and assaults against Asian-Canadian anglers at Lake Simcoe last year, a new report states. ...

Racism in the trenches of the Obama trail
United Press International - USA
Barack Obama, D-Ill., say racism is common on the campaign trail. Obama, who draws massive crowds wherever he goes, has largely avoided the issue of race ...

I Ain't Gonna Work No More
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Why was I always so proud to be working class and still to this day so confident of it's potential to change the world for the better? ...

Youthful rebellion
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
In London, about 100000 protesters marched on the US embassy to denounce American imperialism. In Japan, students trashed Tokyo University. ...

Councillor resigns over child poverty report
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
"I'm not going to support a council that doesn't recognise child poverty in New Zealand," Councillor Casey said. She said even basic things like where ...

Poverty pushes up SA's child mortality
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
By Ashley Keyser Poverty is the underlying cause of child deaths in South Africa, according to a recent study released by the Medical Research Council. ...

LGBT Human Rights
Amnesty International Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Around the world, the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are violated daily. People are beaten, imprisoned and killed by ...

Capitalism, the Kentucky Derby, and Animal and Human Rights
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other Animal Rights activists (and I consider myself an animal rights activist) have called for the ...

Call to Defend Gay Asylum Seekers Whose Lives Are at Risk
UK Gay News (press release) - UK
LONDON, May 12, 2008 - The desperate plight of LGBT asylum seekers will be explored in a panel discussion organised by The Gay and Lesbian Humanist ...

The McCain Global Warming Plan: Like Bush, More of the Same ...
California Progress Report - Oakland,CA,USA
By Carl Pope While Senator McCain deserves credit for his work on early global warming legislation in the Senate and for bringing attention to the need for ...

Global warming disappears glaciers in Peru mountains
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
Broggi glacier disappeared because of global warming and climate change, said Marco Zapata, head of the Glaciology Unit at IRENA. "Not all glaciers recede ...

RACE, RELIGION AND TERROR: ANTI-SLAVERY ACTIVIST JOHN BROWN ...
Colorado State University (press release) - Fort Collins,CO,USA
Brown was an American abolitionist in the 19th century who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. ...

Human trafficking: modern-day slavery
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
... the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean region are being exploited by individuals and groups who make big money by this form of slavery. ...

An Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism Rebels Against Tyranny
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Ziga Vodovnik: From the 1980s onwards we are witnessing the process of economic globalization getting stronger day after day. ...

When will the gender equity rhetoric become reality?
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya
But a look at the composition of the committees, especially the critical ones, reveals a regrettable and sustained trend of gender, geographical and ...

Racism in Perth
Mathaba.Net - London,UK
... but the level of racism maintained today is swept under the carpet, and does not surface in Australian media coverage, according to Asian Australians. ...

Raul Castro's daughter spearheads anti-homophobia drive
AFP - 
HAVANA (AFP) - President Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, is organizing Cuba's second anti-homophobia festival this week to boost public awareness of the ...

Working Class Mothers Resist Imperialism! Justice for all Mothers
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada
by Grassroots Women On the occasion of Grassroots Women's 5th annual Mother's Day March and Rally, working class mothers and supporters are taking to the ...

Poverty and the law of unintended consequences
Tehran Times - Iran
According to the latest reports, 35 percent of Iranians are living below the poverty line. It has been estimated that 29.4 percent of Iranians were living ...

Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests
New York Times - United States
The United States prison system keeps marking shameful milestones. In late February, the Pew Center on the States released a report showing that more than 1 ...

LEIGH CARLSON-COX: BEGIN DIALOGUE TO HEAL NATION'S RACIAL WOUNDS
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita,KS,USA
The legacy of oppression remains today, despite attempts by some of white privilege to deny that there is any racial and ethnic problem in our nation and ...

The science of struggle and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.
People's Weekly World - USA
We all should despise cultural oppression and domination. It is not broadly recognized that the great swath of the American people are victimized by it, ...

Americans aren't focusing on country's biggest problems
Southtown Star - Chicago,IL,USA
But what about public policies that increase social stratification and inequality? Republicans, following Milton Friedman's Chicago School of economics, ...


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