Q&A: A Death Row Story of Resilience, Faith, Hope

Q&A: A Death Row Story of Resilience, Faith, Hope

Posted using ShareThis

Reflections of a Cultural Mutt: Anna in the Middle East

Reflections of a Cultural Mutt: Anna in the Middle East

Posted using ShareThis

News from the World March N.2 - March 2009

Jon in however you can to end violence, war and nukes!

US - how can we be so anti-family?

clipped from www.nytimes.com After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Their Children

US Declares Health Emergency over Swine Flu Outbreak

Thanks to globalized factory farming!

clipped from www.nytimes.com

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Senate panel votes down death penalty repeal - Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Senate panel votes down death penalty repeal - Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

Posted using ShareThis

Thornton Republican Examiner: Death penalty put to rest in Colorado

Thornton Republican Examiner: Death penalty put to rest in Colorado

Posted using ShareThis

Change to Win and AFL-CIO & Immigration Reform

clipped from www.hispanicbusiness.com Joseph T. Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and chair of the Change to Win Immigration Task Force, and John Sweeney, International President of the AFL-CIO, today unveiled a unified framework for comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Saltwater Buddha: a surfer's quest to find Zen on the sea

Looks like a real winner - check it out!

T. Alexander Aleinikoff - The Right Time to Start Talking About Immigration Reform - washingtonpost.com

T. Alexander Aleinikoff - The Right Time to Start Talking About Immigration Reform - washingtonpost.com

Posted using ShareThis

Egypt may be ground zero

clipped from www.nytimes.com Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms Amr Dalsh/Reuters A woman in Menoufia, Egypt, bringing a chicken for a vaccination. Bird flu still exists in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and on the India-Bangladesh border.

Department of Homeland Security ordered to reopen immigration cases - Los Angeles Times

Department of Homeland Security ordered to reopen immigration cases - Los Angeles Times

Posted using ShareThis

Jobs in Mexico is fine but at US Autoworker's and our expense?

I hope our bailout of GM doesn't help them ship more jobs to Mexico. They can do that with their money but not mine - thank you.

clipped from www.epi.org

Stones Thrown at Afghan Women Protesters

And we have troops there to protect their way of life. I thought troops were sent to get Osama bin Laden out - beyond that we ought to go until the Afghans are serious about joining the 21st century.

Coexistence in Israel - YMCA Peace Preschool

Amazing!

Close Call - Detained, then released and got a work permit!

What a change sanity and a new administration makes.

clipped from www.cnn.com

How America turned to torture - The Boston Globe

How America turned to torture - The Boston Globe

Posted using ShareThis

How Dangerous are the Taliban to the US?

Foreign Affairs article and response both of which are well worth reading - if you are rethinking our involvement in Afghanistan.

clipped from www.foreignaffairs.com The very notion that al Qaeda needs a secure geographic base to carry out its terrorist operations, moreover, is questionable. After all, the operational base for 9/11 was in Hamburg, Germany. Conspiracies involving small numbers of people require communication, money, and planning -- but not a major protected base camp.

Israel's IDF shoot American - Tristan Anderson

Out of control police and military are no longer tolerable anywhere..

clipped from www.youtube.com

How out of control is ICE and Border Patrol?

Much more than many expected. Watch this video and be transformed!

clipped from www.youtube.com

Beach Trash to Boutique Buys - Kenya Rocks!

Cool idea to turn beach trash into art objects and fair trade items.

clipped from www.ipsnews.net TRADE-AFRICA: Flip-flops Transformed Into Toys to Save Turtles By Najum Mushtaq UniquEco transforms trash. Credit: Najum Mushtaq/IPS NAIROBI, Apr 13 (IPS) - Art and fashion, environmental conservation, poverty alleviation and fair trade come together at UniqEco’s Marula Studios in an upscale suburb of Nairobi. A visit to its workshop and display centre is a delight to the eyes as well as an occasion to learn about the problem of marine pollution and its eco-friendly, community-based and business-savvy solutions.

Former head of Texas Criminal Justice: time to reform system!

clipped from dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com Re: "Restoring Justice -- Lawmakers move urgent reform closer to reality," Sunday Editorials. I join you in thanking and congratulating state Sen. Royce West and Sen. Rodney Ellis for their leadership in helping innocent people who may have spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit, and for establishing an innocence commission to lessen the chances of an innocent person being sent to prison -- or worse, to death row.

Life is Fragile

This type of algae should not be here this time of year. Is time running out?

clipped from www.yomiuri.co.jp Snow ice algae give snow a pink hue at a gentoo penguin nesting site near the Gonzalez Videla Base

Japanese Raccons found with Bird Flu

What this shows is that the h5n1 virus is present in many different species. It breaks out in a form that is deadly to both animals and people when the host animal is gathered together in large numbers. When chickens, ducks, or geese are factory farmed (thousands raised at same time and housed for egg laying or held for delivery to live markets), the natural system "thinks" the species's population is too large and is exhibitig stress that calls for a "system" response to bring the flock back into balance. The system response to re-create balance is influenza which kills weaker or stressed birds and reestablishes balance. Repeated human intervention causes greater system responses until it may reach pandemic levels.

clipped from www.yomiuri.co.jp This is the first time mammals in this country have been found with bird flu virus antibodies, which develop as a result of infection. Before the discovery, only birds had been found with bird flu antibodies. The research team, which presented a paper on its findings at a conference of the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science in Utsunomiya on Saturday, warned that infected raccoons could introduce the virus into chicken farms and noted that countermeasures were needed. It is believed that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus is highly likely to mutate into a new type of influenza. In Japan, there have previously been reports of domestic chickens, wild whooper swans, jungle crows and mountain hawk-eagles infected with the virus.

Bird Flu Cases in Egyptian Children May Be a Crucial Step in Pandemic Launch

Uh oh! The rapid expansion of the global poultry market is continuing to fuel the next pandemic, it appears.

clipped from www.cidrap.umn.edu John Jabbour, a World Health Organization (WHO) emerging diseases specialist based in Cairo, said the Egyptian government and the WHO are planning a study to find out if subclinical or asymptomatic cases have been occurring, according to the story. Jabbour said the occurrence of asymptomatic cases would be worrisome because it could give the undetected virus more time to mutate in human hosts, Reuters reported. "If there is any subclinical case in Egypt, the aim is to treat immediately to stop the reproduction of the virus," he told Reuters. "Because whether [through] mutation or reassortment, this will lead to the pandemic strain."

Way of the Cross/Way of Justice

Not in Our Name is theme for 2009

POLITICS-US: New Budget, Not Quite a Fundamental Shift

POLITICS-US: New Budget, Not Quite a Fundamental Shift

Posted using ShareThis

‘I’ve Got My Freedom, And That’s It’

Miguel Roman, convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1988, was cleared when new DNA tests showed that he could not have been the attacker.

clipped from www.ctlawtribune.com Images AP Miguel Roman, convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1988, was cleared when new DNA tests showed that he could not have been the attacker.

Reuters AlertNet - Nappies and spaghetti: the challenges of getting aid into Gaza

Reuters AlertNet - Nappies and spaghetti: the challenges of getting aid into Gaza

Posted using ShareThis

Moving Beyond Icebreakers - Example Two - "Zip Zap Zup"

Awesome way to get teens involved in making their community safe for them.

Syncrude Canada -Crudely Kills Ducks

Figure out a way to keep duck out of your oil soaked pond. You make enough money, so why not dome it when it is not frozen!

clipped from www.worldwatch.org Oil sand developer Syncrude Canada revised upward an estimate of the number of ducks that died in an Alberta tailings pond last April, from 500 to more than 1,600.

Transboundary animal diseases a huge danger to Asia

“Over the past 10 years, disease outbreaks have affected millions of poor households dependent on livestock for livelihood and food security; [their] occurrence is now considered an emergency,” Carolyn Benigno, animal health officer with the FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, told the conference.

clipped from www.irinnews.org

OneVoice Movement To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

OneVoice Movement To End The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Posted using ShareThis

Toddler confirmed to have died of bird flu | The Jakarta Post

Toddler confirmed to have died of bird flu | The Jakarta Post

Posted using ShareThis

Israel Foreign Minister to US: Forget US Agreement!

Oops! New Israeli Foreign Minister caught saying what he stands for!

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Hardline nationalist Lieberman was a controversial foreign ministry choice Israel's new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians. "The Annapolis conference, it has no validity," Avigdor Lieberman said. He was speaking at a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry, prompting his predecessor Tzipi Livni to interrupt and diplomats to shift uncomfortably.

Iraqi Heavy Metal - music - not cluster bombs

International Rescue Committee helped them and it's a good story.

clipped from www.theirc.org CRISIS WATCH | Special Report | Iraq | Iraqi Refugees Iraqi Metal Band Reunited Forced by death threats to split up and flee Iraq, the members of "Heavy Metal in Baghdad" band Acrassicauda lived as refugees in Syria and Turkey for nearly three years. When the United States offered them asylum, the International Rescue Committee brought the musicians back together and is helping them restart their lives in safety and freedom.