Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 843

Portland Undocumented Families Demand that Sheriff Staton Stop Enforcing ICE Holds

Congressional representatives from both parties pledged this week to enact common sense immigration reforms that prevent family separation in 2013.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Undocumented families and allies will rally on Monday.

They're highlighting discrepancies between a growing national movement away from blanket policies to honor ICE detainers, bipartisan support for family unity, and Multnomah County Sheriff Staton’s insistence on enforcing ICE holds for minor offenders.

America Goes to Great Lengths to Placate Israel

Israel has an illegal nuclear arsenal.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Twice last week the US took positions completely contrary to the rest of the world, thereby endangering your life.

The first anti-world position culminated this week, but began in 2010 when the member states of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty approved a conference to be held in 2012, with the goal of creating a Nuclear Free Middle East. Good idea; you bet!!

Kenya`s Citizens are Dying to Stay Out of the Hospitals

40,000 poor people are being held inside Kenya's hospitals for nonpayment

(SALEM, Ore.) - If Kenyans are too poor, they simply do not seek healthcare.

You would probably choose to avoid the doctor too, if the hospital refused to release patients who didn't pay their bill on the spot.

Silenced Voices and The Petrie Report discussed on TVI`s Crossroads Program

Beate Amestad & UN Report (EP35) - CrossRoads "TVI"

(TORONTO) - Manjula Selvarajah of TVI, interviews Beate Arnestad, who produced the film "Silenced Voices", story of 3 exiled journalists from Sri Lanka.

Burmese Rohingya Group Meets with Executive Director of Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center

Rakhine Buddhist mobocracy and mob attacks on behalf of the government are eliminating the Arakan Muslim population for which the current Burmese.

(MILWAUKEE, WI) - The Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA) held a meeting this week with staff from the Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center.

BRAFA's Chairman further clarified at the meeting that the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Arakanese Rohingya Muslims is a man-made tragedy...

100-year-old Holocaust Survivor To Light Chanukah Menorah Saturday Night In Columbus Ohio

Weinrib has been meeting with students at Olentangy Liberty High School to share the lessons of his six years in ten concentration camps as a young man.

(COLUMBUS) - The festive menorah lighting to mark the beginning of Chanukah on Saturday evening, will be bittersweet for Columbus resident Abe Weinrib.

Israel Plans a `Doomsday Settlement` for E1

Netanyahu retaliated for the UN vote by announcing he had authorized the building of 3000 new Jewish housing units in Area E1, a plot of land east of Jerusalem.

(CHICAGO) - Israel’s response to the United Nations’ overwhelming vote to admit Palestine to the UN was easily predictable.

Israel had been waiting for just this moment to announce it would build a settlement in Area E1 (East One).

Canada`s Official Whitewash of its own Genocide Exposed

Participants in the "Truth and Reconciliation" Forums tell their Experience of Fraud, Shutdown, Cover-up.

(VANCOUVER, B.C.) - Two participants at Canada's expensive "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC) forums went public today to expose the corrupt proceedings.

Survivors describe in the enclosed interviews a regime of silencing and intimidation at the TRC...

Medical Marijuana Permits in Oregon: Recommendation is Not Required

Anderson Cooper picked this up and asked me, "How many prescriptions have you written"? I told him, "None" and he said, "The New York Times said you did."

(PORTLAND, OR) - The upcoming legalization of marijuana for "recreational purposes" and the frantic, "The sky is falling" response by the newspapers and TV have prompted this article by me, about the meaning of all of the terms associated with this quasi-legislation.

First of all, the state issues permits not licenses.

Up Close Look at Israel`s Carnage in Gaza

The footage from the assault on Gaza was recorded by an Indonesian film crew...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - In the U.S., few people take the time to examine the struggle of Gaza from an inside perspective.

What the video below conveys, Something the Americans termed 'shock and awe' (the unleashing of heavy weapons on a civilian community) really amounts to horror and raging, epic fear and grief, shock and disbelief.