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Petition to Support a Referendum in Sri Lanka Concerning Self-determination for Tamils

Like Sudan, Sri Lanka has endured a decades-long civil war in which the government brutalized and murdered a powerless minority.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Seeing recent success in the United Nations regarding recognition of the Genocide that took place in 2009 in northern Sri Lanka against Tamil civilians, a petition drive is being launched.

Organizers are hoping to see major world support in the continuing investigation of the government's suspect role in the murder of 40,000 civilians.

Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka Subject of Channel 4 Documentary

Channel 4's Jonathan Miller discusses upcoming hour-long documentary.

(LONDON) - A special investigation by Channel 4 featuring devastating new evidence of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka is screened at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, as pressure mounts for action.

The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Genocide 101: Tragedy in Uzbekistan

Examining the events of 13 May 2005 and the correlation with events in Sri Lanka, Palestine, Iraq, and other nations.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In a series of recent articles I have written about the Genocide of Tamil people in northern Sri Lanka, I have learned a great deal about not just this tragedy, but also similar terrible events in places like Uzbekistan.

The largest commonality in each of the modern cases of Genocide is religious oppression. The second swath of common ground is the use of the term "terrorist" to describe the people dying en mass.

APN Applauds Israel-Palestinian Vision in Obama`s Middle East Speech

“We now call on President Obama to follow these words with concrete actions to make his vision of peace a reality..."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Responding to President Obama’s Middle East speech today, APN President and CEO Debra DeLee said:

“Today, President Obama signaled to the world that he is still serious about Israeli-Palestinian peace and that he is a true friend of Israel. We welcome his clear statement that the U.S. position is that a permanent status peace agreement will be based on the 1967 lines...

To Gaza with Love

Teachers, students, retirees, everyone: end a personal letter to the people of Gaza.

(NEW YORK) - The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in an act of friendship and solidarity.

These letters will be carried as our cargo on the U.S. Boat to Gaza when it sets sail in June 2011 in the next International Freedom Flotilla Stay Human.

Bottle Bill Modernization Moves Closer to Finish Line

House Bill 3145 passes Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; headed to floor.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The effort to modernize Oregon’s Bottle Bill, HB 3145, moved closer to the finish line today as it passed out of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee.

This came on the heels of the Oregon House recently approving the bill by a strong bipartisan 47-12 margin.

Interview by Tim King with Agron Belica, Dr. Jay R Crook, and Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Includes the release of Agron Belica's new song: 'Sermon from the Throne'.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Tim King: Agron, you mention in your song that the Prophet Yahya (John the Baptist) was not beheaded. Explain to me the words in your song, “The Quran does not agree, and history never said it”

Agron Belica: The Quran does not agree—does not accept the beheading of Yahya (PBUH). If a Muslim accepts this fabricated story of the beheading, then he should know it is inconsistent with the text of the Quran...

Salem-News.com: More Like Film than Video

This world has turned generic. We are on the avoidance course.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Motion picture film captures life as the human eye sees it. Video replicates an image in an electronic fashion. Video traditionally runs at exactly 30 frames a second.

Film has a variable rate. It is roughly 24 frames per second but it varies. It's a bit flexible.

Look East to China the next Bin Laden

“Hillary is now moving China into the role of Emmanuel Goldstein. Hate has to be mobilized, before Washington can move the ignorant patriotic masses to war.”

(MELBOURNE My Catbird Seat) - PC Roberts has a keen knack for seeing things and fitting them into their broader scope, which helps connect the dots and illustrate the entire picture as he does in this article: China: The New Bin Laden.

It is so much simpler if one starts and sticks with the facts.

`I Got Vision and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals`

If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel’s borders on Sunday to “retake Palestine” from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. - Uriel Heilman writing from Tel Aviv

(CHICAGO) - Butch Cassidy is talking to the Sundance Kid: ”Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”

The line comes in one of many memorable moments in the 1967 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman as Butch, and Robert Redford as the Kid.