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JUSTICE: the People's News Saturday, May 19, 2012 Life At Jefferson's Monticello, As His Slaves Saw It During his lifetime, he kept more than 600 slaves at Monticello. Isaac Granger was an enslaved blacksmith at Monticello. Jefferson made Granger's father, George Granger Sr., Monticello's overseer, the only enslaved man to rise to that position and to ... 90m Pakistanis living below poverty line: Daniyal Islamabad: Chairman of Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami Hakoomat (JPJM) has said that number of people living below poverty line in Pakistan has reached to 90 million during last four years and further two million would face the same in coming months as ... No poverty in N.C.? Those under bridges will be so relieved He claims there is no "extreme poverty in North Carolina." Thousands living in their cars, under bridges, in homeless shelters or without electricity and food will be happy to learn this. He's obviously drunk the conservative Kool-Aid, taking issue ... Spain: Right wing on warpath By Dick Nichols, Barcelona Since its November 20 election triumph, the administration of Spanish Popular Party (PP) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has launched such a blitzkrieg of neoliberal policies, less democratic rights, state centralism and ... Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin for Labor Rights and Democracy ... is broad recognition among Wisconsinites that restoring collective-bargaining rights is the place to begin renewing a tradition of cooperation, efficiency and good government to a state that has long recognized that labor rights are human rights. Worldwide conversation among feminists 'absolutely necessary' Today's Zaman Kathy Davis, senior researcher at the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, called a border-transcending discussion among feminists both possible and crucial. In fact, as the feminist scholar points out in ... Human Rights: U.S. Soldier Massacres 16 Afghan Civilians Including Women And ... The Daily Activist Human Rights – The void between the US and Afghanistan has widened this weekend with the murder of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier. He opened fire in a village near his base in the south of the country, leaving nine children and three women ... Are disparities creating an educational caste system? Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Yet, a new survey by the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found that 3000 high schools serving nearly 500000 students don't even offer algebra II. “Without algebra II, you probably don't go to college,” said Patte Barth, ... Carol Hunt: Schools and church hotbeds of homophobia Irish Independent Last week about 3000 schools nationwide took part in the Stand Up To Homophobic Bullying campaign. An initiative of the BeLonG To Youth group, to all intents and purposes it was a terrific success and the added involvement of rugby star Ben Cohen and ... Homeless youth: the next battle for gay equality Albany Times Union VERENA DOBNIK, AP Two boys hold hands at the Ruth Ellis Center, a drop-in shelter for LGBT - lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender youth in Detroit, Friday, March 2, 2012. "Ruth's House," is the the only nonprofit agency in the Midwest that focuses on ... Minority students as targets? Los Angeles Times An Education Dept. report only skims the surface of the question of whether there is racial inequity in schools' disciplining of students. Minority students are more likely to be disciplined than whites are relative to their overall numbers in public ... Here's Where The Gap Is Widest Between Rich, Poor WITN In general the South is home to the biggest concentration of counties with high levels of household income inequality, according to a Census Bureau report released Thursday. Sparsely populated East Carroll Parish, La., topped the list with the highest ... Welcome to the 1 Percent Recovery truthout As the one percent reap 93 percent of the income gains from the recovery, we're rapidly returning to pre-New Deal levels of inequality. No one knows which agency will oversee the final environmental review. As the 1% reap 93 percent of the income gains ... Women's Rights Are Human Rights truthout In today's world, where the wars and economic policies of neoliberalism force millions of people to leave their homes and countries, it is the women that make up the bulk of those refugees. Given that females continue to be the primary caregivers of ... The Spring of Sexism Huffington Post So when Rush uttered another in his long string of sexist slurs -- 'slut' -- this time, it become a battle cry for activism. Ironically, when the bombastic Ed Schultz used the same word on MSNBC just nine months prior, our country could barely muster a ... Income Inequality Is Real, It's Global, and It's Worst in the US The Atlantic Allan Meltzer makes the case that we are not and never have been -- at least when it comes to income inequality. Here's his chart from the Wall Street Journal showing trends in the income share of the top 1% for a handful of developed countries over ... Income Gap Widest in Republican-Leaning States BusinessWeek By Frank Bass on March 09, 2012 Income inequality in the US is most prevalent across a large swath of counties ranging from the Deep South to the Appalachian Mountains, according to a Census Bureau report released yesterday. Six of the 10 counties with ... Black Students Still Face Inequality In Public Schools Technorati In 1955, when desegregation and equal opportunity in education was more than just a glimmer of a dream, a brave new future was suddenly within view for Black children growing up in the Baby Boomer era. It was a victory in the fight for equality. Animal Rights: Undercover Footage of Animal Abuse Now Illegal In Iowa The Daily Activist Animal Rights – Freedom of speech has been curtailed in Iowa, at least when it comes to undercover footage of cruelty and abuse to animals at meat and animal processing plants, and the massive farms which produce genetically modified crops across the ... |
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