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Creating New Partners and Homes for Over 340 Zimbabwean Families

In 2009, tensions erupted after labor disputes. The result was a wave of farm evictions, building destruction and homelessness.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Forced evictions and violence last year in Chipinge, Zimbabwe displaced more than 340 families, driving them into emergency displacement camps, International Organization for Migration (IOM) has begun resettling the families in the village of Mugondi.

Since October 2009, IOM and partners have been the support and assistance for the displaced families...

Oregon Faith Leaders Urge a Public Accounting for Forced Experimentation on Human Subjects by CIA

‘Torture is a Moral Issue,’ Say Oregon Christian, Muslim and Jewish Leaders, Call on Sen. Wyden to Take Lead Role in Making Sure It Never Happens Again.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - More than 70 Oregon faith leaders today joined together, calling on Senator Wyden to help ensure that Congress not only investigates accountability for Bush-era torture, including new allegations of forced human experimentation on detainees, but also makes the findings public.

Senator Wyden has previously expressed his support for declassifying information on Bush-era interrogation practices.

Gilad Atzmon Discusses Tolerance, History and Revisionism on Aspen Grassroots TV

The original program was just under one hour, and has been edited into six parts.

(ASPEN, Colo.) - This set of six video clips covers an almost taboo controversy to do with freedom of speech. In the discussion, I stress the ethical and logical need for history to be open to revision.

Participants were Gilad Atzmon, Harvie Branscome, who was the program Moderator, Steve Kaufman the founder and director of Access Roaring Fork (accessrf.org/) and Michael Conniff of KUUR-FM in Aspen, Colorado.

Will America Free Omar Khadr From Gitmo?

Realistically, Obama needs to score a few points with his American constituency to whom he made a lot of implied promises which they are waiting to see materialize.

(DUBAI) - Come August, a military commission in Guantánamo will try Omar Khadr, a Canadian national captured outside Kabul in 2002.

He was a boy, aged 15 then. Now a burly, bearded 23-year-old who has spent one-third of his life at Guantanamo.

Police Tasers and Excessive Force in America

Taser makes 'less than lethal' products that resemble real guns.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In August 2008, just before heading to Iraq for the first time to cover the war there, I wrote an article about police tasers in America; taking a speculative look at a practice but also citing many hard facts.

Amputee Has His Artificial Leg Ripped off by Police

57-year old farmer Slammed in Makeshift Cell during G20 Summit.

(NIAGRA, Ontario) - John Pruyn wasn’t much in the mood for celebrating Canada Day this year.

How could he be after the way he was treated a few days earlier in Toronto by figures of authority most of us were brought up to respect, our publicly paid-for police forces who are supposed to be there to serve and protect peaceful, law-abiding citizens like him.

Needed, A Just Accommodation

Displacing, assimilating or exterminating populations has been the course of human history from the beginning. Israel is no different than anyone else.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - Needed, A Just Accommodation As most everyone who follows the news is aware, on May 31 the Israel Defense Force attacked a humanitarian aid ship headed for Gaza, killing at least nine people.

The world went into an uproar over this attack, and Israel's global propaganda machine went into high gear to control the damage.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Bit of Background

Almost 58 percent of Palestinians live in poverty, and about half of this group lives in extreme poverty.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Much of the reportage on the Israeli commandos attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israel's Gaza strip invasion, the 2006 war with Lebanon, and its continued settlement building, gives the impression that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is 21st century phenomenon.

What is sometimes lost in such coverage is the deep background the events described above are but the latest chapters in a long saga stretching back to the creation of Israel in 1947.

Shocking Torture Video from Darfur

Another U.S. supported government caught camera torturing boys.

(UMSAUNA, South Darfur / PORTLAND, Or) - This video smuggled out of Umsauna, South Darfur, shows government soldiers (GoS) beating and torturing innocent civilians, asking them where JEM leaders are located.

After two days of a deadly battle, fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) managed to claim Umsauna back from the GOS, 5 days ago - the town is now in their full control.

Salem Police Taser Use Blamed in $6M Wrongful Death Lawsuit

The lawsuit claims Rold's civil rights were violated, the police officers' negligent actions caused his death and excessive force was used against him.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The family of a Salem man who died after Salem police hit him with a Taser has filed a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the city, several city employees and police officers.

The suit is seeking upwards of $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $4.5 million in punitive damages, as reported by the Statesman Journal.