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Faith Leaders Launch `Coming Out as a Person of Faith` Exhibit

Premiere on Thursday; exhibit will travel to churches throughout Oregon.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A multimedia exhibit premiering Thursday tells the stories of faith leaders and people of faith who now support the freedom to marry.

The exhibit, a project of the Basic Rights Oregon Education Fund, will travel to churches throughout Oregon.

Oregon Prisoners Driven to Suicide by Torture in Solitary Confinement Units

Torture by design: Oregon Corrections officials know what they’re doing.

(ONTARIO, OR) - I am not one prone to fits of temper. But a few days ago I almost lost it.

My outrage was prompted by witnessing the steady deterioration of a prisoner, resulting from particularly acute mental torture inflicted in Oregon’s Disciplinary Segregation Units, which duplicate almost exactly conditions of torture outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1800s.

FBI Urged to Track Hate Crimes Against Sikhs, Hindus

Over 6,600 hate crimes were reported in 2010 alone.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Several community organisations, including a South Asian coalition, have launched a signature drive to press lawmakers to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track hate crimes against Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans.

While the FBI has various categories to track hate crimes, crimes directed at these three communities are not currently tracked, according to the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT).

Is Christopher Dorner, Larry Davis Reincarnated?

There is a Christopher Dorner waiting to happen in every city, in every state in America.

(OKINAWA) - When I first heard the news about former LAPD police officer Christopher Dorner, another name immediately came to mind; Larry Davis.

19 year old Larry Davis, who later changed his name to Adam Abdul-Hakeem, was a former police informant, small time drug dealer and aspiring rapper who went to war with the NYDP in 1986 after a controversial and highly disputed shootout within his sister’s apartment.

New Ap Instantly Alerts Bondsmen and Attorneys Upon Arrest

Don’t spend hours waiting to make one phone call –with Off to Jail App you can have your closest friends or family already waiting there to pick you up when you're released.

(HOOVER, Al.) - You never know when it might happen. Maybe you're in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe you just made a bad decision. Suddenly those red and blue lights are flashing behind you and you're off to jail.

Who will you call? When will they pick you up? How long will you be stuck there? With Off to Jail App you're covered!

WHDN Boston: Is Obama Ordering Military To Fire On U.S. Citizens?

Garrow says that his source made the disclosure in order to "sound the alarm" over the administration's plans.

(BOSTON) - Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama Regime’s newest “litmus test” for military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.

Lyrics & Free Studio Quality Recording of An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King

The new recording by Vic Sadot features beautifully moving viola by Eric Golub.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Get the Free MP3 of the song by Vic Sadot that highlights what came out in the trial that the book presents.

The new recording by Vic Sadot features beautifully moving viola by Eric Golub. Six Black and six White jurors unanimously convicted Loyd Jowers and un-named government co-conspirators.

Racist T-Shirt Portraying Obama as a Witch Doctor is Popular at SC Tea Party Convention

Let’s hope that these people don’t represent South Carolina, where this kind of thinking comes from.

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Obama’s healthcare bill has upset millions of Americans and some of them are responding in ways that are downright disrespectful and racist. A new t-shirt that is popular at the Tea Party convention in South Carolina features President Obama with a bone through his nose. The shirt says that Obama is “your new doctor, coming soon to a clinic near you!”

Bob Cramer, the man who created the t-shirt, says that the shirt “isn’t racist, it’s political.” Cramer says that decals he made of the picture on the t-shirt sold out very quickly.

NPS/Presidential Inaugural Committee Revokes ANSWER Coalition Permit for Unemployed Speakout

Unlike 2009, the Obama Administration is seeking and accepting large donations from corporations and banks for the 2013 Inaugural events.

(WASHINGTON DC) - At the direction of the Obama Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) the National Park Service has revoked the permit of the ANSWER Coalition to hold a large scale Speak-out of America’s Unemployed for Jobs and Justice in Freedom Plaza.

It was set to happen during the Inauguration Day events on January 21, 2013.

America Can be a Scary Place for Americans

Larissa Nearing’s story is a poignant illustration of what can happen when you are busy living your life.

(SAN DIEGO) - We are a nation of rules and laws, with over 40,000 new laws that went into effect on January 1, 2012, alone.

With such a minefield, even for the most sober citizen, it is easy to slide down the rabbit hole.