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Lisbon's likely to request a third revision to its deficit targets agreed with EU and IMF creditors, as part of its 78-billion euro international bailout. That as the country's financial crisis continues to gain momentum. But while budget cuts will have little affect on the rich, further belt tightening by working class Portuguese people is leaving them desperate for their future.

"We have a problem here in America with student loans, first of all they're gigantic, they've already passed credit card debt, there's already a trillion dollars of student loans, that's obviously a huge burden on so much of the country. And it's about to get worse because on July first the interest rates are set to double" Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses this impending disaster and speculates on how Democrats and Republicans will deal with this issue.

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Bertha: Mother of 5, Arrested on Her Way to a Family Baptism in Front of Her Three Daughters.
Sign and Share the Petition at bit.ly/BringBerthaHome
Six months ago, Bertha Alicia Avila Medrano (A# 076-257-333) was arrested while driving her three daughters to California to attend a family baptism. Jennifer (16), Rosaly (9), and Xitlaly (5) now wake up every morning with the image of their mom being taken away in handcuffs. Bertha has been detained in Eloy for 6 months, in the same detention center where two detainees committed suicide less than a month ago, far from their families and communities.
Bertha needs your help, so that she can get back home where she belongs. She is a dedicated volunteers at children's schools and her church, known for her generous smile and how much she gives back to make her community a better place for everyone. Her two oldest children attend Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, where they are in the top 1% of their classes, committed to becoming a doctor and an engineer with their mother's loving support.
Please sign today, and let ICE know that Bertha should be free, with her family where she belongs. http://bit.ly/BringBerthaHome

Call ICE Director John Morton at 202.732.3000
Sample Script:
"Hi, I am calling to ask that you release Bertha Alicia Avila Medrano aka Teresa Rojas Aguila (A# 076-257-333). She is the mother of 5 U.S. Citizen children and active volunteer at her children's schools and her church. She is a valuable member of our community, and we want her back home where she belongs. Please release Bertha immediately!"

Defense attorney and drug law specialist Victor Sherman calls the war on drugs a "complete waste of time." He speaks about the justice whack-a-mole happening...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reads "The Cure at Troy," from his translation of the Greek play "Philoctetes," in honor of the Innocence Project.

Days before the Chicago school board was to vote on closing 54 schools, thousands took to the streets for three days of marching to demand education justice.

Seattle Public Schools waved the white flag with an announcement that high schools can opt out of the MAP standardized test.

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Through the U.K. firm Reprieve, Shaker Aamer appeals to the public to call the U.S. embassy demanding action VIDEO

Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong who is Diné (Navajo & Apache) talks about uranium, land theft, and pipelines on the program. Program begins with Mazin Qumsiyeh and others forced off the road in Bethlehem by IDF soldiers. Also interviews with Suha Francis of Addameer prisoner support groups and Riham Barghouti about a divestment project of Adalah-NY. The Struggle show #486

Bennie Starks was released from prison in 2006, after being locked up for 20 years for a crime he never committed.

http://www.democracynow.org - We are speak with CodePink co-founder Diane Wilson, who is on day 25 of a water-and-salt only hunger strike in solidarity with Guantánamo prisoners. Earlier this month, she was arrested after chaining herself to the White House fence in a CodePink demonstration urging the president to close Guantánamo. We are also joined by Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights. Her client, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, is one of the Guantánamo detainees currently on a hunger strike. She is lead counsel for CCR in the Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta case, which seeks accountability for the killing of three American citizens in U.S. drone strikes in Yemen.

The latest developments in the death penalty from the Death Penalty Information Center.

The more Jodi Arias talks to the press and public, the more crazy and calculating she looks. We look at her presenting her "good deeds" for the jury and how ...

A parent leader of the struggle to save one of 54 schools on the chopping block in Chicago talks about what's at stake.

One of the nation’s most prestigious law schools is asking to weigh into a battle over whether a teenager’s confession was illegally coerced by investigators who told him he would be repeatedly gang raped in prison.

Report says culture of complacency within the local authority allowed paedophile gangs to prey on girls

A decade of global data attempts to analyse the details of bullying. But what can the figures really tell us about an issue that is so difficult to record?