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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Video shows some victims of latest Syria massacre
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Community helping community
Rise up! It sounds like a call to action and it is -- a call to the community to step up and help families in their own community.
The organization Rise Up has been around for about 20 years in Johnson City, helping kids with after school programs and adult mentoring.
This week they've been getting a little bit of help themselves. A church youth group from Pittsburgh is hard at work getting General Shale stone work ready for a special gathering place at Johnson City's Rise Up.
They're all over the building and grounds doing what they can to help an organization that helps kids.
Andy Malcolm is one of its program directors. "We pick up kids at five different schools here in Johnson City. We take kids from kindergarten through twelfth grade. We do homework skills with them. We tutor them, we work on character education with them, we have them do community service," Malcomb said.
Just like the kids from Pittsburgh are doing, but they'll be on their way the end of the week. Rise Up will be here serving kids not only with the after school program but with a special mentoring program for a long time. "Our goal is to get those kids into the military or some kind of vocational training or into college after they graduate high school," Malcomb says.
And even after that. Malcolm tells the kids from Pittsburgh at lunch about just one of the kids they've been following for years. The story isn't falling on deaf ears.
"When they tell us the stories like they did today at lunch, just to hear how they helped kids and that this stuff we're doing will make them helping so much better and easier for them to help," Nicole Berner with the Discovery Christian Church youth group said.
"[It] just gives them some place they can like cope with things and they get to learn a little bit, have some fun and maybe it will help bring out the future in their lives," says Ben Meyers with the group.
It's an age-old idea that still holds true today. "It's a community of people that have come together to impact their own community and the kids and families in our community here," Malcomb added.
A little bit of help goes a long way with this group.
For more information about Rise Up, click here.
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Russian NGOs Say New Bill Will Hurt Cancer Care, Environment ...
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RFE/RLCivil society workers in Russia say a bill proposing new restrictions on the country's corps of nongovernmental organizations will have far-reaching consequences for ordinary citizens.
The bill, which seeks to increase bureaucratic burdens on local NGOs that receive foreign funding, was passed on July 13 by Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma.
Russia has seen repeated attempts in the past decade to curb the activities of NGOs.
But many NGO workers say that this time around, the stakes are higher for ordinary Russians, who have gained a clearer sense of the important services their organizations provide.
Nyuta Federmesser is the president of the hospice charity Vera, which provides end-of-life care for elderly patients and enables the purchase of so-called "orphan drugs" for the treatment of uncommon diseases -- a concept that was virtually unheard of in Russia even a decade ago.
"It was lobbying -- and lobbying by NGOs specifically -- that led to laws being passed that allow the legal import of orphan drugs to treat rare diseases," Federmesser says. "Our foundation is currently lobbying very actively for changes to be made to legislation on the circulation of narcotic medications.
"Apparently our work is political, judging by [the NGO bill]," she continues. "And all along I thought it was simply aimed at improving quality of life for cancer patients and people who are sick and dying."
Kremlin Clampdown
After an emotional season of opposition protests, the Kremlin appears intent on clamping down on a wide spectrum of perceived critics -- including internationally funded NGOs that under the new legislation will be branded as "foreign agents."
??The Duma also passed legislation recriminalizing slander and libel, as well as a controversial information law that critics say could make it easier for authorities to censor websites.
But as Russia's flourishing Internet community of activists and civic-minded citizens continues to grow, it is unclear if the Kremlin will be able to put the genie of public engagement back in the bottle.
Sergei Borisov heads the OPORA national organization of small and medium-sized businesses. He says Russia has already put down too many global roots to return to life as an isolated and autocratic state.
"We're already living in a global world," Borisov says. "We've opened the door to the [World Trade Organization], and soon we'll be a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe. We're working more and more closely with our foreign colleagues. So to make a watershed decision that isn't clearly spelled out and is open to a variety of interpretations is absolutely unreasonable. Why smear our civil society institutions like this?"
The NGO bill has yet to get the nod from the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, and be signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.
But few doubt the upper chamber will pass the bill or that the president, who earlier this week dismissed suggestions that the legislation required additional clarification, will hesitate before putting pen to paper.
'Panicky Fear'
Igor Chestin, the director of the World Wildlife Fund in Russia, says the rush to pass the legislation is the result of what he calls lawmakers' "panicky fear" of NGOs.
He says the bill was so hastily contrived that it even fails to anticipate the fact that even Russian-funded institutions may be branded with the "foreign agent" seal.
"The Russian Geographical Society, for example, receives money from Russian businesses that are registered offshore," Chestin says. "The Sochi 2014 [Olympic] organizing committee will also become a 'foreign agent.' So will the Hermitage Museum, whose foundation is actually headed by a foreigner. The list goes on and on. These are consequences that people simply haven't thought about -- probably because they're not very capable in such matters."
Chestin, whose organization has been at the vanguard of Russia's fledgling environmental protection movement, for now appears to be adopting a playful approach.
"We've decided to turn the phrase 'foreign agent' into a kind of mark of quality," he says. From now own, he explains, WWF's materials will be published with the disclaimer, "We're not crooks and thieves. We're foreign agents."
Source: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65661
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Bosnians bury 520 Srebrenica victims
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina?? They came again, on the 17th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, to bury their dead in the town whose name is now synonymous with genocide.
Some 30,000 Muslims traveled to a memorial center in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Wednesday to bury 520 newly identified victims ? the remains of thousands of 8,000 Muslim men and boys slaughtered in July 1995 by Serb forces.
The annual ritual was as heartbreaking as ever.
Izabela Hasanovic, 27, spent the last minutes crying over one of the coffins before it was lowered into the ground.
7 years on, families mourn as 520 Srebrenica victims are buried
"My father, my father is here," she sobbed. "I cannot believe that my father is in this coffin. I cannot accept it!"
Another woman dropped on her knees next to a coffin, pressing her lips against the green cloth covering the wood.
"It's your sister kissing you. It's me," she whispered to the coffin, caressing it with both hands until others lowered it.
Then the valley echoed with the sound of dirt pounding on over 500 coffins from thousands of shovels as a voice read out the names of the victims and their ages from loudspeakers.
Among them were 48 teenagers as well as 94-year-old Saha Izmirlic, who was buried next to her son who also died in the massacre. On the other side of her grave, an empty space is waiting for her grandson who has not yet been found.
Srebrenica was a U.N.-protected Muslim town in Bosnia besieged by Serb forces throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Serb troops led by Gen. Ratko Mladic overran the enclave in July 1995, separated men from women and executed 8,372 men and boys within just a few days. Dutch troops stationed in Srebrenica as U.N. peacekeepers were undermanned and outgunned and failed to stop the slaughter.
Srebrenica: The story that will never end
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The bodies of the victims are still being found in mass graves throughout eastern Bosnia. The task has been made even more difficult by the fact that the perpetrators dug up mass graves and reburied remains in other mass graves to try to cover their tracks. The victims have been identified through DNA analysis and newly identified ones are buried at the Srebrenica memorial center every year.
So far 5,325 Srebrenica massacre victims found this way have been laid to rest.
Mladic still a hero
Mladic was arrested last year in Serbia and is on trial now at the tribunal in The Hague. He faces 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, especially the Srebrenica massacre. He denies wrongdoing.
But despite the charges, to many Serbs Mladic remains a national hero.
Horrors of Srebrenica massacre set out at Mladic trial
"Serbs believe he is an honorable and fair man," said Bosnian Serb Novica Kapuran from the town of Pale, near Sarajevo. "He is being blamed for something he has not done."
That attitude angers Muslim Bosniaks.
But Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue in New York, who came to attend the funeral in solidarity with the victim's families, told The Associated Press that Bosnian witnesses should simply continue testifying and keeping a record.
Schneier said he knows from dealing with Holocaust deniers that "to the advocates of a revisionist history, you cannot even present the facts, because they will not accept them."
Photos: The charges against Ratko Mladic (on this page)
The rabbi urged the world to stand up in the face of injustice, "hear the cry of the oppressed and to respond. "
"Silence on the part of the international community ... only strengthens the perpetrators," he said.
In Washington, President Barack Obama issued a statement honoring the memory of the "8,000 innocent men and boys" who were massacred in Srebrenica 17 years ago.
"The name Srebrenica will forever be associated with some of the darkest acts of the 20th century," Obama said.
Obama said the U.S. "rejects efforts to distort the scope of this atrocity, rationalize the motivations behind it, blame the victims, and deny the indisputable fact that it was genocide."
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Motorola Atrix HD hands-on and initial review
It's been a while since I got a chance to review a Motorola phone, and I think the Atrix HD is going to be a great way to reacquaint myself. The moment you put it in your hands, you remember just how well Motorola builds their phones. Everything feels solid, looks good, and this puppy is Fast (with the capital F).
Blur has been redesigned to go with Ice Cream Sandwich, and my first impression is that they've really come a long way with it. This Blur is not something i would hate to use, and I've already found something I wish my own phone could do -- gestures to open a quick-view panel for things like unread messages, favorite contacts, or your inbox. Swipe up from the home screen icon and you're presented with a handy pop-up with pertinent information. Well done Motorola.
Of course, it takes more than an hour to determine everything we like, and don't like about a phone. We like to share our first impressions (were we haven't been jaded or enamored by anything just yet) and we know a lot of you guys and girls are itching for some info about this one.
Hit the break to see a short video and a couple pictures, and fill the forums with questions you need answered in our full review!
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