Cuba: Dissidents work for racial integration

By: Human Rights Tribune, September 4, 2008

Dissident groups in Cuba are attempting to open up a debate on the problem of racism in the country, in order to promote "full integration" of all the island’s citizens, without discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity or skin colour.

http://www.humanrights-geneva.info/Cuba-Dissidents-work-for-racial,3421

United States: Kids' protest highlights rich-poor schools gap in Illinois

By: TCSM, September 4, 2008

On what was supposed to be their first day of school this week, about 1,000 Chicago Public School students got a different sort of education.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0904/p02s01-usgn.html

United States: Journalist's account of brutal arrests

By: Truthdig, September 3, 2008

Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I was arrested with my two colleagues, 'Democracy Now!' producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while reporting on the first day of the RNC. I have been wrongly charged with a misdemeanor. My co-workers, who were simply reporting, may be charged with felony riot.

http://www.truthout.org/article/why-we-were-falsely-arrested

Unites States: The fight for women's voting rights

By Marin Independent Journal, August 26, 2008:

August 26 marks the 88th anniversary of the signing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, an act that granted women citizens the right to vote in all elections. Very few people understand the scope and complications of the suffrage movement. Yet it was full of drama and replete with incredible women of courage and determination who kept the effort going in the face of relentless opposition.

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-fight-womens-voting-rights