"Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi speaks up for justice in Iran. http://www.rferl.org/content/feature/1755897.html"
Video overview of the 2009 PeaceJam Northwest Conference with Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi from Iran. 300 participants engage in 600 hours community service at 10 seperate non-profit organizations in Corvallis, increase their leadership skills during a variety of 15 seperate workshops, interact and be inspired by Dr. Ebadi, and of course have lots of fun with new friends.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has sometimes been described as a “trash island,” but that’s a misconception, says Holly Bamford, director of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program. If only things were that simple.
It cannot have pleased Myanmar’s ruling family — the collapse of a 2,300-year-old gold-domed pagoda into a pile of timbers just three weeks after the wife of the junta’s top general had helped reconsecrate it with a diamond orb and a sacred golden umbrella.
There is no country in Asia more superstitious than Myanmar, and the collapse of the temple was widely seen as something more portentous than shoddy construction work.
It comes at a moment when the junta has put on trial the country’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after an American intruder swam across a lake and spent a night at the villa where she has been under house arrest for most of the past 19 years.
All Things Considered, May 28, 2009 · Journalist Roxana Saberi, who spent four months in an Iranian prison, returned to the United States on May 22. Until now, she has not spoken to the media at length about her ordeal, during which she says she faced “severe psychological and mental pressure” to confess to being a spy.
Later, during their lunch of shrimp cocktail, grilled lamb and caramel flan, a French diplomat reportedly delivered a 15-minute lecture on human rights directed at Myanmar.
Police Col. Win Naing Tun told the court that Suu Kyi breached the conditions of her house arrest by receiving books and documents from the outside, the newspaper said. The order also bars her from communicating with the outside world by phone or mail and from meeting diplomats and politicians.
Human rights campaigners are encouraging well-wishers to enter 64-word messages of support for Suu Kyi before her June 19 birthday on the “64 words for Aung San Suu Kyi” web site (www.64forsuu.com).
