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Statement from Senate Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum on passage of Tuition Equity Bill

This is important legislation, but nothing is dramatically altered by SB 742. Only about 100 students will be affected by this bill the next 7 years.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Below is a statement from Senate Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum on the passage of SB 742, legislation that grants in-state tuition to students entering the Oregon University System that have attended and graduated from an Oregon high school, been admitted to an Oregon University, and who are actively working toward U.S. citizenship:

This bill gives students fair tuition rates, nothing more.

Aurora Borealis & Magnetic Storms in an Accelerating, Expanding Universe

Scientists have considered magnetic fields as a dirty word and have almost completely ignored it until lat summer, while I have been trying to apprise them of its importance for over three decades.

(SAN DIEGO ) - For over 30 years scientists kept telling me that comparing electricity and magnetism is like comparing apples and oranges and that the magnetic fields of planets are so weak they are totally irrelevant.

There is a very simple explanation for this acceleration of the expansion of the universe.

Linfield Gallery Hosts First Northwest Showing of Abu Ghraib Exhibit

The exhibit runs through April 30.

(MCMINNVILLE, Ore.) - Saturday marks the opening reception of a remarkable Linfield Gallery exhibit featuring portraits and words of former Abu Ghraib detainees.

Africa: Faces in Words

Weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant.

American Veteran Plays Music for Agent Orange Victims

“As long as I’m still alive, I will continue raising fund to help poor people in Quang Ngai and share the pain of AO victims” - Roy Mike Boehm.

(MADISON, VietNamNet Bridge) - Veterans and members of the US-based Madison Quakers charity organization on March 27 evening played violin, flute, guitar and mandolin to raise funds for Agent Orange victims in the central province of Quang Ngai.

For the past 16 years, Roy Mike Boehm, a US veteran quietly came to Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province to play violin to pray for the souls of the victims of the My Lai massacre.

Politics/Human Rights News: Acapulco`s Sixth Spring

Daily episodes of narco-violence are only one problem in a city largely popular with tourists.

(ACAPULCO) - Six springs ago, winds of change descended on the old Mexican coastal resort of Acapulco and the state of Guerrero.

In a historic event, an opposition politician, former Acapulco Mayor Zeferino Torreblanca, was sworn in as the Governor of Guerrero.

Daniel Assange Never Thought WikiLeaks Would Succeed

“His actions as a personal individual and his actions in a grand political sense are completely disconnected things, and they should be considered in that sense.” - Daniel Assange

(MELBOURNE) - When Daniel Assange was 16, his father Julian asked him to be a part of WikiLeaks, the controversial group of internet freedom fighters that was then in its infancy.

Sceptical of the project’s likelihood of success, and not on the best of terms with his father, Daniel said no.

Does President Obama Listen to His Own Words?

If Obama wanted to protect the Palestinian victims, he wouldn’t have to bomb anyone.

(WEST KINGSTON R.I.) - Yesterday, Mr. Obama went on TV to explain his military action to protect people in Libya.

There is no doubt that Muammar Kaddafi is a tyrant abusing the people of Libya.

Our Involvement in Libya (Truth in Advertising?)

It is the citizens of the world who ultimately have to pay the price for any action such as this...

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - When the news of the most recent wholesale atrocities perpetrated by Gaddafi regime on the people of Libya first broke, I wondered whether the world powers would step in to stop the slaughter we all knew would come.

Like many others throughout the world, I was relieved to see that U.S., British, French, and some of the Arab countries had decided to intervene in a multilateral effort.

Land Day and Attacks on my Talks

Includes a brief section from Dr. Qumsiyeh's book.

(BETHLEHEM) - Tomorrow, we commemorate Land Day throughout Palestine and around the world. Below is a small section from my book “Popular Resistance in Palestine” about the history of Land Day.

In Palestine, the uprising is building momentum despite efforts by Israeli officials and some Palestinian officials to suppress it and/or distort its message (which is about a reconstitution of a Palestinian National Council to represent all 12 million Palestinians).