4 Events Scheduled in Oregon
Events marking the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
are scheduled in Portland, Corvallis, Eugene and Ashland this weekend.
For details, click this link:
http://www.peace-action.org/nukes/campaigns/hndays.
If you know of other actions in Oregon, you can register them at the same address.

As many of you know, PeaceJam.org has been redesigned. The site has been combined with the Global Call to Action site and does a fine job of letting PeaceJam Affiliates, Chapters and Clubs showcase their Global Call to Action projects. If you haven't yet, please sign up and start contact your local PeaceJam Affiliate organizers (that's currently me (alan) for PeaceJam Northwest) so that I can create a site for your clubs/groups.

Dear PeaceJammers and Friends:

We urgently need your help to demand the immediate release of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi!

On Thursday, April 14 Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and taken from her home, where she has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, to the notoriously brutal Insein Prison. Ms. Suu Kyi was charged with violating the terms of her house arrest following a bizarre incident in which an uninvited American man swam across a lake to her home last week.

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Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, has been removed from her home and placed in prison only two weeks before her house arrest sentence was to expire.

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Thankyou Everyone for your support of Iranian-American Journalist Roxanna Saberi. She has been released and allowed to leave Iran immediately.

More information can be found at these pages:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103999681

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/mid… Continue