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Our Oregon Begins Signature Gathering on Corporate Kicker Reform

Initiative Petition 35 would finally send kicker funds to K-12 schools.

(PORTLAND, OR) - For more than a decade, school advocates, teachers, and parents have talked about the need for kicker reform.

Our Oregon is launching a signature gathering effort to qualify an initiative for the November ballot that would send money to K-12 classrooms by reforming the corporate “kicker” refund.

VA`s Agent Orange Registry

The registry data helps VA understand and respond to these health problems more effectively.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Please pass this on even if you don't qualify, you may know someone who does qualify and may be in need of help.

OregonElectors: Saving Rural Post Offices

News from Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley's office.

(WASHINGTON DC) - This week, the Senate is debating closing thousands of rural post offices across America. Senator Merkley is fighting to keep Oregon's rural post offices open.

In many small towns, post offices are a critical piece of the local economy. It would be a huge mistake to close them.

4,000K Walk for Diabetes Awareness Urges Return to Traditional Food Sources

Historic walk because of diabetes crisis, and for a return to traditional sources of food

(WASHINGTON DC) - The story from Survival International involves the devastating impact of corporate food on an indigenous community.

It relates very directly to what is happening right now in the US as the corporate food industry is using government to destroy traditional sources of food...

An Apology for the New Republic

My father, without hesitation enlisted in the European World War I “for King and country,” just as he cheered on my late oldest brother to follow suit some two decades later.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837.

Blackout on Syrian Armed Opposition Obligations

Syria must conform to the provisions of the negotiated cease fire agreement; opposition fighters need to be issued the same demands.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The UN Secretary General is a citizen of South Korean-- a country in a close military alliance with the US and which hosts US military bases-and he seems to regard the US as his sponsor.

At the very least, his record demonstrates he is very sensitive to the urging of the US and its supporters.

When the Price of War Gets Personal: This Causes PTSD

Although the Infantry had its share of glory, many men had to pay for it.

(MOLALLA, OR) - Phil Leveque, who fought in the 89^th Infantry Division (some members shown to the right), wrote, We were driven by the belief that we had to defeat an obscene enemy to get to go home.

It was General Ridgeway of the Paratroopers said with conviction... "The best military weapon is the American Infantryman."

Vietnam`s Helicopter Valley: Graveyard of Marine CH-46`s

Five Marine helicopters downed in 'Operation Hastings' were an unforgettable loss.

(SALEM) - Vietnam's 'Helicopter Valley' will always be synonymous with loss and sacrifice of Marines who fill some of the riskiest occupations ever imagined.

A Killer Job Opportunity

Who know more than those who witness the addiction, withdrawal and in thousands of cases, the deaths of family members?

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - To: Victims and their families who have lost loved ones to the lethal drug, OxyContin because of the mass criminal marketing and manufacturing of the drug

Judiciary Guilty of Criminal Acts

John Hemming MP opens 2-week demo at Royal Courts of Justice.

(LONDON) - The Campaign for Truth and Justice is staging a demonstration every day from 9.30am to 4.30 to, once again, highlight the plight of victims of miscarriges and perversion of justice.

On its home page, the Campaign spells out in general terms what Victims Unite[2] publishes by way of Cases as Stories[3]: unlawful imprisonments, human rights abuses, fraudulent bankruptcies and child snatching[4] as the tip of an iceberg of white collar crimes, where the Judiciary covers up the crimes committed by public authorities.