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The Silencing of Women` Voices

In recent years, a third variant of violence, connected to organized crime disputes, has added an “extra” deadly element to an already violent scene.

(CIUDAD, Juarez) - On the second Tuesday in March; International Women’s Day 2011, the voices of many prominent human rights defenders will be absent from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Within the past 14 months, human rights campaigner Josefina Reyes, poet Susana Chavez and activist mother Marisela Escobedo all have been murdered, while Cipriana Jurado of the Worker Solidarity and Research Center and Paula Flores have been forced to flee the city.

15 March Palestine: End of Division

Large numbers are ready to hit the streets in Gaza, Ramallah, Israel, and the world; ready to explode into a strong and rational demand for the “End of Division” i.e. the end of the division between Fatah and Hamas.

(GAZA CITY) - The mighty flow of blood and hope from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria and Libya has also washed over young Palestinian minds in Gaza.

What started as a stream has become a torrent and will soon spill it banks.

Palestine and Europe

Catch the latest as Professor Qumsiyeh reports the latest from Europe.

(BETHLEHEM) - People around Europe are mobilizing in the hundreds for the Trip to Palestine in July. I gave talks in filled rooms in Southampton and Paris.

I am now in London and then onto the USA to give talks on popular resistance and to recruit more people for this trip.

Child Deaths

Even in death Ibrahim was still moving. Israeli soldiers were using his body for target practice.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The nation was shocked by the horrific shootings in Tucson on Jan. 8. It is particularly tragic when a child is killed. Christina Taylor Green was a gentle 9-year-old whose dreams of helping others were ended by an assassin’s bullet.

Two years earlier, on Jan. 4, 2009, another 9-year-old was killed.

Time for Americans to Face the Truth (VIDEO)

Video: By Joe Mowry and Tony Lawson (of Veterans Today)

(CINCINNATI) - Few Americans remember Operation Cast Lead. Jews in America were told Israel had to finish off Hamas in order to protect itself.

We can’t get into exactly how fanciful and utterly false everything American Jews are told or even the childishly ignorant statements President Obama and Secretary Clinton make on a regular basis. They make me cringe. They should make all of us here in America ashamed, Jews and non-Jews alike.

Crying Baby Draws Blunted Response in Depressed Mom`s Brain

Researchers use fMRI at the University of Oregon to see how brains differ in depressed and non-depressed mothers, identifying key differences; findings could pave way to more focused treatment approaches.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Mothers who are depressed respond differently to their crying babies than do non-depressed moms.

In fact, their reaction, according to brain scans at the University of Oregon, is much more muted than the robust brain activity in non-depressed moms.

Akron Mom Incarcerated? Kids To A Better School?

The new American criminal: a mom who dared to challenge the law in to free her children from what she believed to be a failing environment.

(CLEVELAND) - A felony charge against a poor mother because she tried to enroll her daughter in a better-performing school?

Currently residing in a housing project, unable to move or pay tuition, Kelly Williams-Bolar, of Akron, Ohio used her dad's address to get her children in a school she felt would best benefit them.

Marine`s Encounter with an Angel

Mom. Something happened to me that I don’t dare tell anyone else for fear of their disbelief... - Marine's letter home

(SALEM, Ore.) - I don’t know if you believe in angels. I’ve never met one but when I’ve been in a tight spot and asked for help from my guardian angel, he always came through.

Does this prove that angels exist? No. But, if you need proof, you wouldn’t believe this story no matter what I said.

Why are We Allowing Our Children to be Hurt Like Angellika?

OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR FOR A CHILD: BLOWING BUBBLES IN HER MILK

(SALEM, Ore.) - Tuesday there will be a press conference at the Oregon State Capitol announcing the publication of DRO's report on the restraint and seclusion of children with disabilities in Oregon schools and how House Bill 2939 aims to prevent and reduce these practices.

Included with this report is one strong reason why; her name was Angellika Arndt, she was seven years old when she was killed in a made act of restraint...

`A Hopeful Palestinian Boy`

Follow up to yesterday's article; Giffords, Hurndall and Palestinian Children...

(SACRAMENTO) - My article about Palestinian children and others shot in the head by Israeli forces came out yesterday in CounterPunch.
Below is an especially moving response:

...The reason I'm writing you is to relate that sometimes the Israeli bullets kill children many years later. I met this Palestinian kid, Deya Ali, when I was active in the Palestine movement. He was shot by a settler. He was brought here in 2003  and received treatment at Mountain Side Hospital among others.