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from Paul C. Gorski
October 5, 2008

 <http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2008/october/04/nac04.htm> La Carpio:
Exposing The Hidden Violence Of Poverty and ...
Inside Costa Rica - San Jose,Costa Rica
... reveals that in fact there exist great inequality, violence,
discrimination, environmental injustice and insecurity, and basic needs that
go unmet. ...

 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/hist-o04.shtml> The Historical
and International Foundations of the Socialist ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
In this sense, the ‘successes’ achieved by the bureaucracy in the buffer
zone constitute, at most, the price which imperialism paid for services
rendered on ...

 <http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=27104> Compulsory
registration of Tamils, another act of oppression - TNA MP
TamilNet - Sri Lanka
Compelling all Tamils from North and East currently residing in Western
province to register with police is another act of oppression, and has
caused fear ...

 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05shelf.html?ref=business>
Minding the Inequality Gap
New York Times - United States
By STEPHEN KOTKIN DURING the first 70 years of the 20th century, inequality
declined and Americans prospered together. Over the last 30 years, by
contrast, ...

 <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBuTc_CPgjA-zDiXjyMzzTtnZXVg>
Thousands rally in London to end child poverty
AFP
LONDON (AFP) — Thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to urge
the government to commit more money to tackling child poverty, which it has
...

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/lawreports/joshuarozenberg/31323
31/Man-accused-of-denying-the-Holocaust-may-escape-extradition-from-Britain.
html> Man accused of denying the Holocaust may escape extradition from ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
New laws should make it easier for the Germans to have Fredrick Töben
extradited for 'racism and xenophobia'. But the Extradition Act was not
drafted with ...

<http://www.alternet.org/democracy/101537/the_bush_league:_how_the_gop_rolle
d_back_federal_voting_rights_enforcement/> The Bush League: How The GOP
Rolled Back Federal Voting Rights ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Bush Administration's strategy on voting rights was to reverse the civil
rights movement's gains. In 2002 conservative political journalist John
Miller ...

 <http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2008/10/groundbreaking.html>
Groundbreaking mental health legislation passes
Chicago Tribune - United States
“This historic legislation is a victory for millions of Americans living
with mental illnesses who face unfair discrimination in co-payments,
doctor’s visit ...

 <http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/04/18542849.php> A CALL TO
ACTION:FIGHT RACISM. FIGHT FOR VETERANS RIGHTS!
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
“This fight is about racism and the Filipino veterans victimized by such
racist laws since 1946 when the rescission act was passed. ...

 <http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-03-voa48.cfm> Human Rights Group
Warns Press Freedom Under Threat
Voice of America - USA
By Lisa Schlein An international Human Rights Organization, Article 19, says
the ability of journalists to exercise their profession and their freedom of
...

<http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/10/03/end-injustice-against-women-
workers> End injustice against women workers!
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
The whole approach of the trade unions towards resolving this historic
injustice in Local Government started with a compromise accepting that each
of the ...

 <http://www.northjersey.com/news/nationalpolitics/30239644.html>
‘Working-class’ Palins worth $1.2 million
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
Palin this week characterized herself as "an everyday, working-class
American" who knows how it feels when the stock market takes a hit. ...

 <http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/current/Crises.100308.htm> Economic
Crises Hits the Working-Class Hardest
La Prensa San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
The financial crisis has hit the hardest amongst working-class families with
little or no savings, those with chronically ill children and single
mothers, ...

 <http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct08/Harris.Op103.cw.html> Inequality
at work continues to worsen, says economist
Cornell Chronicle - Ithaca,NY,USA
Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and
Labor Economics, was the speaker at "Opportunity 103: Inequality at Work,"
the ...

 <http://www.latinamericapress.org/articles.asp?art=5719> Community fights
mine for water
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
The Latin American Water Tribunal, an independent international organization
of environmental justice created to solve water conflicts in the region, ...

<http://portal.unesco.org/education/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=57941&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U
RL_SECTION=201.html> UNESCO conference on adult learning, equity and
sustainability in ...
UNESCO (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France
Gender disparity also remains a persistent problem: of the 124 million
adults in East Asia without basic literacy and numeracy skills, 71 per cent
are women ...

 <http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49287L20081003>
Poverty-linked diseases come back in Argentina
Reuters - USA
By Karina Grazina BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Poverty-related diseases such as
Chagas, rabies and yellow fever are making a comeback in Argentina because
...

 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200810030116.html> South Africa: Struggle
With No Borders - Capitalism, Nationalism ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
It is within such a context that the South African state has constructed and
fed the idea and practice of xenophobia. At its conceptual heart, xenophobia
is ...

 <http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-102161> The Bailout, Lou Dobbs & Marie
Antoinette
ireport - USA
Truth be told, I think that his obsessive focus on so-called illegal
immigration betrays a level of paranoid xenophobia that indicates a dire
need for ...

 <http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/781/> Dubai: Land of Luxury, Land of
Slavery
Raise the Hammer - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Dubai outlawed slavery forty-five years ago. Prostitution, too, is
supposedly illegal. But beneath the ultra-modern skyscrapers, the luxurious
hotels and ...

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurel-thatcher-ulrich/uneasy-twins_b_131411.
html> Uneasy Twins
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Gender issues animated anti-slavery and pro-slavery discourse in the years
leading up to the Civil War, and in the late nineteenth-century helped to
justify ... 

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