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		<title>Rich Siegal , In Palestine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each and every awakening from zionism is a step towards justice.  My heart sings when i come across people who&#8217;ve changed their minds about Isreal and its myths.  Please watch these videos for a gentle story about how these men came to understand the horror visited upon the Palestinians for the last 61 years.
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Former UN worker escapes flogging but says she would rather go to jail than pay fine imposed for breaching decency laws




 James Sturcke, Matthew Weaver and agencies
 guardian.co.uk,			 				            Monday 7 September 2009 15.15 BST
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		<title>India&#8217;s generation of children crippled by uranium waste</title>
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Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations




 Gethin Chamberlain, Bathinda
 The Observer,			 			       			Sunday 30 August 2009
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lockerbie bomber has left Scotland on board a plane bound for Libya after being freed from prison on compassionate grounds.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988.
The decision to release Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was made by the Scottish Government.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Herbet,   New York Times
Published: August 7, 2009
“I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me,” wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crankyoptimist.wordpress.com&blog=3668276&post=1054&subd=crankyoptimist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of Jenin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Do you think the Israelis liked what I did? Some would have preferred it if I&#8217;d blown myself up&#8217;
The remarkable story of Ismail Khatib, a Palestinian father from the West Bank city of Jenin, continues. After his son Ahmed was shot by israeli soldiers in November 2005, the Khatib’s courageously donated their beloved 12 year-old’s organs [...]<br /><a href='http://crankyoptimist.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/the-heart-of-jenin/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/TvOQTrcQ/2009_05_02_22_30_jenin.original.jpg' /> </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crankyoptimist.wordpress.com&blog=3668276&post=1048&subd=crankyoptimist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust survivor assaulted because of her work for Palestinians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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At 85 Hedy Epstein, a survivor of the 2nd WW has never stopped in her fight for Peace and Human Rights for all people &#8211; as she says in this interview &#8211; “not only for jewish people”.
“The Free Gaza video is an interview with a great woman, Hedy Epstein, just turned 85. She has dedicated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crankyoptimist.wordpress.com&blog=3668276&post=1044&subd=crankyoptimist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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By:
Jasmina Tesanovic
On 15 July Natalya Estemirova, 50, was kidnapped and murdered by
unknown assailants in the Chechen capital Grozny. The mother-of-one
worked for the human rights organisation Memorial and was a close
friend of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, also murdered in 2006.
A human rights activist is killed like a dog, executed, dumped and
humiliated in front of the eyes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crankyoptimist.wordpress.com&blog=3668276&post=1039&subd=crankyoptimist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian women&#8217;s rights activist Shadi Sadr beaten, arrested and disappeared</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Escalation in arbitrary arrests and disappearances of individuals and human rights defenders
July 17, 2009
Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and prominent women’s rights activist working with the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested today by plain clothes security officers and taken to an undisclosed location.  The men pulled her into a car as she walked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crankyoptimist.wordpress.com&blog=3668276&post=1036&subd=crankyoptimist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Losing my religion for equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 Jimmy Carter 
July 15, 2009

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Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God.
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