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A Theatrical Summer in Gaza

The plays are being performed twice a day every day until mid-August for whoever is in Gaza and whoever can get to Gaza. All are welcome.

(GAZA CITY) - As soon as school ends, the entire Gaza Strip will begin the season of summer camps. There are plenty of options for kids, all organised by one group or another. Especially interesting is the Summer Games of UNRWA, now in its fourth year.

In 2007, UNRWA offered a wide range of activities, including swimming, crafts, kite-making and kite-flying, gymnastics for both boys and girls, and theatre, to name a few.

Oregon`s Death Camps: The Prison System

The death rates in the prisons are excessive and a result of the punitive medical care being dispensed or not dispensed to the prisoners.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I am not going to identify the prison nor the guard with a moral conscience from which this information comes.

It has come to my attention that the perverse medical care in the Oregon Prison system is in effect severely mistreating sick patients in effect making it a part of the punitive actions against these prisoners.

Afghanistan Needs A Hero: How A Unifying National Leader Can Bring Peace

Nearly a decade has passed since the U.S. bypassed the king, and at this instant national unity and government legitimacy seem like pipe dreams.

(SEATTLE) - There is only one prescription for peace in Afghanistan - a formula clearly laid out to me recently by renowned experts and authorities on Central Asia, including the former highest ranking officer of Pakistan's armed forces.

What Afghanistan requires is a legitimate leader who can unify the nation - one that is chosen by the Afghan people according to Afghan custom, as opposed to being handpicked by U.S. diplomats or as the result of fraudulent elections.

Palestinian Political Prisoners and Looking Back to Where I Have Been

Palestinians under 16 are tried as adults, but for an Israeli Jew it is 18 years of age. Israelis under 12 can be arrested but not detained. Arab kids under 12 can be arrested, detained, interrogated, prosecuted and sentenced for throwing stones.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In 2006 I traveled to Ramallah to the Headquarters of ADAMEER, and met with spokesmen who delivered a powerful message in a soft spoken voice:

Groups to Protest ICE Program that Divides Families and Threatens Community Security

March and Rally calls for end to ICE program that divides families, it happens today at 4:30 p.m.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - CAUSA Oregon will conduct a joint demonstration with Rural Organizing Project (ROP) and SEIU Local 503 OPEU outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office in Portland. During a march and rally, members of the groups will call for an end to a program that threatens community safety and security.

Started in October 2008, "Secure Communities" is a national immigration program that targets non-citizens who are arrested by the police.

Oregon Jobs Data Show Why Recovery Act Extensions Are Needed

Statement by OCPP Policy Analyst Joy Margheim.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Today's state unemployment data confirm why it's so important for Congress to move quickly to extend Recovery Act provisions that bolster the economy and cash-strapped states.

Oregon's unemployment rate has stayed essentially flat for the past 7 months, averaging 10.6 percent over that period, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

International Red Cross: Israel`s Gaza Blockade Breaks Law

ICRC says for first time blockade breaks international law, Urges Hamas to allow Gilad Shalit contact with family.

(GENEVA Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip violates the Geneva Conventions and called for its lifting.

The neutral humanitarian agency also urged Hamas militants holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured nearly four years ago in a cross-border raid, to allow his family to have regular contact with him, in line with international law.

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(TILLAMOOK, Ore.) - I think we all suffer from a kind of blindness from familiarity. We see and live in our surroundings so long and our minds are so focused on immediate needs and tasks that we don't really see what's there.

Since the dawn of time artists have been "showing" us what has been under our noses all along by taking the familiar and emphasizing some aspect of it to reawaken our eyes.

US Wants South Korean Sinking Story Told Their Way: Russia and China Disagree

The lack of evidence linking Pyongyang to the sinking, coupled with the history of US deceptions in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, makes it more likely that the Cheonan was sank by the US or South Koreans, accidentally or deliberately.

(LONDON) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has “...warned Chinese officials that China could put itself in a ‘dangerous position’ if it refuses to accept North Korea’s role in the sinking of the Cheonan.

This is an apparent reference to the South Korean joint civilian-military investigatory report”, according to the 2point6billion.com website.

Border Police, Community Meet on Immigration

“This isn’t the situation we were expecting from the (Obama) administration.” - Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network,

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In an unusual encounter, police chiefs from the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico borderland met with community members this past weekend to discuss immigration, racial profiling, identity cards, Arizona’s SB 1070 law, use of lethal force, and overall police-community relationships.