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Week in News...

Women's eNews reports how the wails of a 12-year-old woman in Pakistan, whose labor was used to pay back a family loan, sound off the alarm of abused maids.

New York City Teacher's Union takes it up with Bloomberg. But they should watch their backs fo' shizz, because he does own a radio station among other things...

NYPIRG joins the fight against greedy publishers who exploit every penny out of college students and successfully create the Textbook Access Act.

You can now tell your pastor to stop threatening you with cancer for regulating your reproduction (i.e. I'll take the sex now, skip the baby, Kthanks).

A stimulus package that contributes to education rather than the "CEO Yacht Fund"
Speaking of, Paul krugman explains why Obama should not be seeking bipartisanship from Republicans "who take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh."

New York Times discovers something we already know, Black Americans are miserably underrepresented in AP testing. What they missed? Schools need money to pay for AP classes, and guess what? Bush's "All Disabled Kids and Minorities Left Behind" didn't help.

Johannes Mehserle, the BART officer who shot and killed an unarmed and unprovoking young Black American, Oscar Grant, is released on bail.

French Students Protest a bill that "does nothing to address student poverty and will create a two-tier system that focuses funding on a few elite institutions."

At Kansas high school, students organize counter to Fred Phelps’ anti-gay protest, hundreds turn out.

To head Obama's Office of Civil Rights? Veteran Education Advocate.

Week in Blogs...

Speaking of patrolling people's genders, UltraViolet writes an open letter to the Indian government after young adult women were beaten in the Indian state of Karnataka for "dressing indecently."

Samhita at Feministing describes why abstinence-only education is for the birds.

Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog breaks down Election Integrity at the 2008 Presidential Election

An AngryBlackBitch on SCHIP, The State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Brilliant at Breakfast and what the AP isn't telling us about the stimulus bill.

Pandagon breaks down how fucked up it is that Fundamental Christians organizations are taking it upon themselves to "educate" (i.e. provide with misinformation) Black American Youth about sex.
and, in response to Courtney Martin's "A Day in the Life of a Feminist," Pandagon writes their own version of the same.

Vivirlatino on "Immigration Reform," propaganda, and racism. In short, we're targeting the wrong people!

Adam Fletcher at YoungerWorld on how democratizing American means inclusion of young people.

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