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  • France : Riots Are a Class Act - And Often They’re the Only Alternative
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this
    by Gary Younge
    ’If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters ... Power concedes (…)

  • Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice. Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Eggen
    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation’s anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens of veteran lawyers and has damaged morale for many of those who remain, according to former and current career employees.
    Nearly 20 percent of the division’s lawyers left in fiscal 2005, in part because of a buyout program that some lawyers believe was aimed at pushing out those who did (…)

  • Too Pretty A Picture
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E.J. Graff
    Isteeled myself as the camera panned slowly over a vast, sprawling mine operation. I’d come to see the new Charlize Theron movie, "North Country," which is supposed to be based on a real story of sexual harassment at the Eveleth Taconite Co., in Minnesota’s Iron Range. I was expecting the film to bring alive the hostile environment the women hired there in the 1970s and ’80s had endured. If it was at all true to life,the moviecould be rough going. But I hoped it would expose (…)

  • ROSA PARKS: WHY ONE PERSON MATTERS
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Ask any non-American to name three leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and chances are they’ll stop after one: Martin Luther King.
    But in fact the movement had many leaders.
    Malcolm X went from being a street-wise Boston hoodlum to one of America’s most influential black nationalist leaders, advocating black pride, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He was assassinated in New York City in 1965.
    Stokely Carmichael saw nonviolence as (…)

  • Is Paris burning or Watt?
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William Bowles • Wednesday, 10 November 2005
    "We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs and friendships of the time before life began. Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called (…)

  • France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOCELYN GECKER
    France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
    The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…)

  • Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spreading Rampage in Country’s Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect
    By Molly Moore
    LE BLANC-MESNIL, France - Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
    He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the (…)

  • PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Patrick Apel-Muller
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (…)

  • French Muslims face job discrimination
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Days of rioting in the bleaker suburbs of Paris have highlighted discontent among many French youths of North African origin.
    As part of a series on French Muslims, the BBC News website’s Henri Astier looks at the issue of discrimination, a leading source of frustration in France’s unemployment-riddled ghettos.
    Sadek recently quit his job delivering groceries near Saint-Denis, just north of Paris. He was tired of climbing stairs with heavy bags.
    Sadek, 31, has a secondary school (…)

  • Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet—and Ignored
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dave Zirin
    What’s the sound of a good story smothered? Ask Sheryl Swoopes. Swoopes is the most prominent women’s basketball player of her generation: a five-time all-star, three-time Olympic gold medalist and the WNBA’s only three-time MVP. And in a tribute only corporate America could render, Swoopes is the only female player to have her own basketball shoe: Nike’s Air Swoopes.
    The 34-year-old Houston Comet veteran just delivered what could be the most significant body blow to (…)