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Agreement Reached on US 20 Eddyville-Pioneer Mountain Road Construction Project

Construction on Hwy 20, a popular route to the Oregon coast, will restart this summer.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Terms of the agreement include that YRC will pay ODOT $15 million dollars, both parties will waive claims against each other, and the Notice of Default ODOT issued to YRC in March of this year will be rescinded.

Fox News Falling: It Really is Time for the Media Revolution

Media moguls are miscreants in minds of millions.

(SALEM) - I just can't believe the Murdoch empire is preparing to fall from the wall like Humty Dumpty. The analogy is priceless, once that monster called News Corp is toppled, there will be no way to put it back together.

TV networks and national newspapers and magazines lead American belief systems and values toward a cliff. No party is guilty for lying more, than FOX News.

Tamils for Obama to Clinton: Stop Rape in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka sexual violence is being used as a tool of political oppression. Tamil women in the northeast, usually war widows without homes and confined to “transit camps,” are visited and raped at will by Sri Lankan armed forces.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Secretary Clinton spoke to the UN Security Council in September 2009 and urged the members to take a stand against sexual violence used as a tool of war.

In Sri Lanka, armed forces are using it as a tool of political suppression. In a letter to Clinton on May 1, Tamils for Obama requested that Clinton use her influence to stop it.

US: Support Democratic Republic of Congo Govt in Arrest of Bosco Ntaganda

War crime general Bosco Ntaganda lived openly in Goma, eastern Congo, until recent weeks, where he has existed without fear of arrest.

(HONG KONG) - Bosco Ntaganda’s avoidance of arrest is emblematic of continued lawlessness in eastern Congo.

Don`t Let Israel Criminalize Human Rights Advocacy
Support Dr. Meir Margalit

Support Human Rights Defender Dr. Meir Margalit against attempt of criminalization of his support for rebuilding of demolished Palestinian homes

(JERUSALEM) - Human rights defender, Dr. Meir Margalit has spent two decades as an elected member of the Jerusalem City Council, promoting building and planning rights of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.

Pelosi Steps in the Ring for Medical Marijuana Users

As an Oregon AG candidate declares he will enforce federal law in the state of Oregon, top federal lawmaker calls for an end to medical persecution.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement Wednesday in response to recent federal government actions threatening safe access to medicinal marijuana.

She voices strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana to alleviate the suffering of patients in California.

President Paul Kagame Visiting William Penn University

The stain on the hands of William Penn University would be unfathomable if you allow President Kagame to continue as commencement speaker.

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Paul Kagame will be addressing William Penn University for their commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 on May 12th, 2012.

It is apparent that this school has no idea of his record of human right abuses.

Genocide in Lyari by Police & Terrorists

Join in a rally for solidarity on Downing Street in London, Sunday 06th May 2012; it goes from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

(LONDON) - Police and terrorists are carrying out one of the most ferocious and callous armed operation in the Lyari area of Karachi since 27 April 2012.

In this targeted operation more than million Baloch and Sindhi people have been left to suffer and die without food, water, electricity and medicines. Thousands have left Lyari to find security.

Gotcha Again America

Looks like those days we have feared, where China takes the US without a single shot, may have begun.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - We were told that the vast amounts of stimulus monies that had been set aside and earmarked were to be dedicated to bringing our economy back from the brink.

Why are these funds being spent to help Chinese industries and to provide jobs to Chinese workers when U.S. industries are hurting so badly and U.S. workers are losing their homes?

Colombia: Correct Serious Flaws in Transitional Justice Bill

William Gomes contacts Colombian officials over a proposed rule change that would allow war criminals to avoid prosecution.

(HONG KONG) - There is no question that Colombia’s armed conflict led to countless abuses, and it is perfectly legitimate for its justice system to prioritize cases involving the worst crimes and most culpable individuals.

However a new transitional justice reform proposal, would allow Colombian authorities to completely abandon prosecutions and suspend sentences in cases of serious abuses.