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14 Oregon House Reps are ALEC Members

ALEC has boasted that about 17% of its bills are passed each year.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Washington D.C.-based ALEC—the American Legislative Exchange Council, has just been charged in a Whistleblower complaint to the IRS by the nonpartisan advocacy group Common Cause.

ALEC is suspected of, “misuse of charity laws, massive under reporting of lobbying, and obtaining improper tax breaks for corporate funders at taxpayer expense.”

The Victims Shall Not be Forgotten

The victims of violence and their memories won't be swept under the rug in a campaign by some Mexican officials to minimize bad news to lure new foreign investment.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Every night this week, a street in central El Paso will light up with the names of more than 10,000 people killed in the violence that’s ravaged Ciudad Juarez and Mexico since 2008.

US: Eliminate Forced Labor and Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan

Salem-News Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts Hillary Clinton over forced labor in Uzbsikstan.

(HONG KONG) - Child labor in Uzbekistan... a problem that its own government seems to have no interest in controlling. Children as young as 10 are forced to participate in a mandated cotton production system. The U.S. government should raise a voice in this matter and call for an end to this practice.

Year after year, the Uzbek govt. mandates that farmers grow cotton, and children plant, weed and harvest to meet their assigned quotas.

Senate Passes Merkley Amendment to Save Oregon`s Rural Post Offices

The amendment was passed by voice vote.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The U.S. Senate approved Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley’s amendment to prohibit the closure of rural post offices.

No War on Iran: Occupy AIPAC

It happens 4 p.m., April 29, 2012.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A coalition of peace, human rights, and Palestine solidarity organizations announced today that they would hold a demonstration outside the annual Oregon fund-raising dinner of the AIPAC on Sunday, April 29.

Welcome to Palestine 2012: Israeli Apartheid Exposed

Includes links to relevant issues...

(BETHLEHEM) - Welcome to Palestine is an initiative that aims to highlight Israel’s cruel and brutal siege of the West Bank.

Extractive Industries Monitoring Training for Afghan Journalists

The aim is to develop interest within journalist community to take active part in monitoring of natural resources revenues.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - One of the viable sources of revenues to replace the aid money in post 2014 era in Afghanistan is the mineral resources of the country.

Government began developing the sector and has been tendering major concessions.

One Nation, Under Surveillance

From AntiFascistCalling, Weaponized Data: A New Front in Global Capital's Control Grid.

(WASHINGTON DC) - From driftnet surveillance to data mining and link analysis, the secret state has weaponized our data, "criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial," as Cryptohippie famously warned.

No longer the exclusive domain of intelligence agencies, a highly-profitable Surveillance-Industrial Complex emerged in the 1980s with the deployment of the NSA-GCHQ ECHELON intercept system.

`Any Indian Citizen Can Detain Douglas Devananda if he Trespasses Into Indian Waters`

Devananda, leader of Eelam People’s Democratic Party and an ally of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was involved in a neighbourhood brawl in Chennai and once opened fire at a crowd.

(CHENNAI, India Weekend Leader) - Sri Lankan Minister Douglas Devananda’s reported threat to cross into Indian territorial waters with 5000 Sri Lankan fishermen has once again raked up the demand for arrest of the minister in Tamil Nadu.

This is where he is wanted in connection with a 1986 murder case.

Sushma`s Team Puts the Focus on What Rajapaksa Needs To Do

All that is required is to checklist the items on a timescale to monitor progress made; but the question is, who will do it -- President Rajapaksa's government? Tamil polity? India? UNHCR?

(CHENNAI, India) - There is no change in Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa's game plan in dealing with Indian leaders -- agree with what they say and carry on as before.

Thus, we can expect the 'un-reconciled' reconciliation process in the island-nation to drag on further, says Col R Hariharan.