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US: Eliminate Forced Labor and Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan

Salem-News Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts Hillary Clinton over forced labor in Uzbsikstan.

(HONG KONG) - Child labor in Uzbekistan... a problem that its own government seems to have no interest in controlling. Children as young as 10 are forced to participate in a mandated cotton production system. The U.S. government should raise a voice in this matter and call for an end to this practice.

Year after year, the Uzbek govt. mandates that farmers grow cotton, and children plant, weed and harvest to meet their assigned quotas.

Prostheses that Cause Breast Cancer

Jaume Serra, plastic surgeon at the Hospital Virgen del Consuelo, says that when an implant is torn, the silicone gel gets closer to the nearest tissues.

(MADRID, Spain) - A lot of women are asking themselves if their prosthetics is the Prosthesis Poly Implant (PIP), which has been withdrawn from the market.

Galician authorities found that a company was producing a silicone prosthesis that was not approved, containing a gel of lower quality, a greater irritation power, and a 5% rate of breakage

Chemeketa President Cheryl Roberts Withdraws Candidacy from Bellevue College

Despite her withdrawal, Roberts expressed gratitude for staff, student and community support of her candidacy.

(SALEM) - Cheryl Roberts, president of Chemeketa Community College, has officially withdrawn her candidacy for president of Bellevue College.

Roberts cites Bellevue's extensive search process interfering with her current commitments at Chemeketa as the reason for her withdrawal.

Marijuana Therapy: The Oregonian April 22 Blesses with Full-Page Ad

Is marijuana vilification finally over?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Oregon's premiere newspaper, The Oregonian, up till this Sunday edition, has been vilifying marijuana and all of its aspects for about twelve years. This, in spite of the fact that it has been known as a highly safe, highly effective medicine for about four thousand years- and there are currently some 55,000 medical patients in Oregon.

For years, all of us advocates have been asking whoever we could ask for some sort of legislation which would take marijuana out of the grasp of the Mexican marijuana cartels.

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.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - The Nukes of Hazard: Nuclear Power Remains Too Costly

The latest stories about nuclear power and danger.

(WASHINGTON DC) - In this week's roundup of nuclear-related stories and developments from around the globe, we learn that senators are calling for an end to the US nuclear industry welfare program.

Authors of a new report call proposed nuclear plants 'the poster child' of failing, expensive power projects.

FNS Feature: The Surprise that Keeps Surprising

"Without economic development here, we cannot help our people.." - Javier Perea, elected Mayor of Sunland Park.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - It was a stunning political development.

The often-fractious Sunland Park City Council took action by a vote of 3-2, with one abstention, to install 24-year-old New Mexico State University graduate Javier Perea as mayor.

Injunction Filed Against CU by Boulder 4/20 Protesters

Corry's restraining order was filed on behalf of several non-student community members.

(BOULDER, CO) - Attorney Robert J. Corry, Jr. filed an emergency temporary restraining order in Boulder District Court today, asking the court to prohibit the University of Colorado from closing its campus to the public on 4/20.

The CU administration has said they will be shutting down the entire campus to non-students for the entire day on Friday in order to stop a legal protest that is protected by the First Amendment.

Salem Teacher Charged With Sex Abuse

Salem Police detectives arrested Michael Montgomery at home in Salem.

(SALEM) - During the evening of Friday, April 13th, an officer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife spotted a vehicle parked in a prohibited area in Baskett Slough.

Officer Rachel York determined Michael Montgomery, 49 years of age, a teacher at Sprague High School, was in the vehicle along with a minor female who is a student.

`No Coal Eugene` Opposes Coal Trains and Use of Nonrenewable Energy

The group says dirty industries are not welcome in Eugene’s backyard.

(EUGENE, OR.) - Monday at approximately 11:50 a.m., members of No Coal Eugene drove a massive, handcrafted “coal train” through the University of Oregon campus.

The train stopped foot traffic and released “coal dust”, representing how a real coal train will interfere with people’s mobility and harm their health.