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LIBERIANS IN MINNESOTA GEAR UP FOR MAJOR MEETING
AAP SETS RECORDS STRAIGHT WITH THE OLM
OLM leaders sink Power Drunkenness?
African Food Distribution Expends to St. Paul
CDC is ready, says Christopher Wisner
IMPORTANT MEETING FOR LIBERIANS IN MINNESOTA  The OLM Community Intervention Committee (CIC) is inviting all Liberians resident in the state of Minnesota
to a very important town hall meeting the People’s News has learned. According to a press release sent to our news desk,
the meeting is scheduled for Sunday, April 18, 2010 at the Brookdale Covenant Church in Brooklyn Center, MN at the hour of
5:00 pm. FULL STORYVOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE AWAITS OLM BOARD IF
 With just 18 months to the conduct of the 2011 General and Presidential
Elections in the country, it seems that all is now going well with the National Elections Commission in terms of support.
Yesterday, the Commission signed a Project Document with its development partners for the smooth conduct of the pending elections.
According to Moustapha Soumare, Deputy SRSG of UNMIL & Resident Representative of UNDP, under the Project Document, the
total estimated cost of the project is US$39.3 million. full story
PRO USA is a non-political, non-governmental organization with the overarching objective to empower Liberian youths through sport and other developmental initiatives. full story Liberian Christian Community holds Prayer Virgil for Haiti  The Liberian Christian Community in Minnesota will this Sunday, January 24, hold a Prayer Virgil at the Miracle
Empowerment Center on 5801 John Martin Drive, Brooklyn Center, MN 55430. The service is expected to commence at 6 pm. The
service which is intended to identify with the suffering people of Haiti will have a fund raising component for the victim
of the recent Earthquake in that country and will bring several members of the Liberian Christian community together. full story OLM BOARD OPENS UP ON KERPER DWANYEN MALPRACTICES  The leadership crisis in the Liberian community in Minnesota has now reached an explosive level, with both groups, the Executive
Committee and Board of Directors of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM), unleashing scathing critiques on each
other’s performance and intents. full storyLIBERIANS IN MINNESOTA TAKE STEPS TO RESTORE BOARD CHAIRMAN
The meeting, which was held under a peaceful atmosphere, raised concerns as to why Mr. John Tarley was removed as Chairman of the Board, without due process. full story Corruption Entangles OLM, as Board Chairman Tarley Seeks Reinstatement
OLM BOARD CHAIR, ARTHUR ZAKAMA, UNDER FIRE
The OLM Constitution-Let's Do It The Right Way  In continuation of my discussion on the topic "The OLM Constitution-Let's Do It The Right Way", I promised to create
another forum for a review of the most talked about issue in the Liberian community in Minnesota now a day-"OLM Referendum".
It is in this prospective that I'm hoping that you join me in identifying a suitable and common procedure leading to holding
a successful referendum on the OLM Draft Constitution. full articleFORMER OLM BOARD CHAIR, CALLS FOR THE DEFERMENT OF THE SO-CALLED REFERENDUM
Warlord or peacekeeper? Liberians differ on leader's past An election commission will decide soon whether it can bar Kerper
Dwanyen from heading a group of Liberians in Minnesota.By RANDY FURST, Star Tribune As far as Robert Sayon Morris is concerned, the Liberian community made a wise choice in picking Kerper Dwanyen as president of the state's Liberian organization. "He is well-known in the community, and he will be someone who is able to deliver," said Morris, 49, a software developer who stopped by the African Food Market and Deli in Brooklyn Park on Friday to get some lunch. But Gabriel Kular, 29, a cashier, backed the incumbent, Martha Sinoe, who lost. "She's been helping the community since she became president." Besides, he said, "I won't support anyone who's a warlord." ZAZAY'S NO NONSENSE LAWYER SILENCED THE OLM AND THEIR LAWYER! I BIG DIVISION TO UNDERMINE NEW OLM BOARD? By PN Reporter  Ramsey, MN/ What should have been a traditionally smooth election left the newly-elected Board of Directors
of OLM deeply divided. Confirmed reports indicate that true partisanship took over the interest of an already polarized Liberian
community in Minnesota. An observer said that the new board does not represent the unity and political diversity of our community.According to a statement read over the phone by Marie Y. Hayes, outgoing Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
current Board of Directors organized a full session to elect the leadership of the new Board of Directors of OLM. The current
board members that participated in the session included: Mrs. Marie Hayes, Mr. Abdullah Kiatamba, Mr. Harris Meh, and Mrs.
Georgette Gray.
STANFORD PEABODYS DIRTY HANDS AND LIES I
 write to first of all thank you for the great work you are doing to inform us on activities taking place in the Liberian
community in Minnesota and other parts of the United States. I make it my duty to visit your website everyday to follow what
is going in Liberia and the world. The stories and articles on your site are always interesting to read. But let me say this, I have been following the dirty and nasty politics by Mr. Stanford Peabody and Ben Browne on their Bushchicken Website. I think these guys are trying hard to damage your good reputation you have built over the years as a public servant. You have served your community by doing good works. Why are people trying hard to pay you back with lies and character assassination? Is this the THANK YOU for all of your sacrifices? GIBSON KERPOE MADE WAY WITH $30,000 FROM LIBERIA When I heard that Mr. Gibson Keypo was doing auditing job for OLM I knew We know
that the same Gibson Keypo man was one of the Assistant Managers at the National Housing Saving Bank in Monrovia. But that
is not all. Mr. Keypo is got away with more than thirty thousand dollars from that bank. Those funds were from poor people
who were working hard to feed their families. A few months later the bank went broke. When Mr. Alex Johnson heard that Mr.
Keypo was an auditor in Minnesota he was very disappointed. He said he worked with Mr. Keypo at Housing bank. He said Mr.
Keypo is a crook and he is very corrupt. T & J CONDEMNS PEABODY'S BUSHCHICK DECLARES community gossip site" Firstly, we wish to inform the general public that there is no ill-will on
our part at
 T & J towards Bush Chicken. However, we also wish to inform those concerned individuals that we were left with no other
alternative when the management of what has now become a community gossip site, as opposed to being a fair and balance news
site, refused to publish our rebuttal to a series of articles posted on their website about our company. We purposely waited for sometime to elapse, to allow us the opportunity to consult some of the elders in the community before
responding. Kerper Dwanyen Goes to Court: Rubber Stamp Board approves The People's New
s has learned that the Board of Directors of OLM has approved a decision proposed by Mr. Kerper Dwanyen, President of OLM,
to take legal action against officials and members of the just ended 2007 OLM Elections Commission. Mrs. Georgette Gray, an
experienced and courageous member of the Board of Directors, voted against the decision, questioning the intent and timing
of the process. According to our sources, Mrs. Gray wondered why would an administration pursue legal action when it still has the means and opportunity to bring all the parties to the table, to find a reasonable solution to the problem. She is also reported to have said,” The function of a Board of Directors is not to approve everything the President says, without first guiding the president and looking at all alternative options, especially given a divided community as a result of a bitter fought elections”. OLM BOARD OPENS UP ON KERPER DWANYEN'S MALPRACTICES The leadership crisis in the Liberian community in Minnesota has now reached an explosive level, with both
groups, the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota
(OLM), unleashing scathing critiques on each other’s performance and intents. MASSALEY ACCEPTS ULAA PEACE PLAN  Let me take this time to extend my appreciation to you for the initiative by the Liberian Embassy to seek peace
in the Union of Liberian Association in the Americas, Inc. (ULAA), and to end the quiremire in the union. I am thankful to
the embassy staff and to you in particular for hosting the February 4, 2009 meeting of some key players in ULAA, and for your
mediation effort.
John Bartees Appointment in OLM Receives Major Blow  The United Christian Fellowship Church (UCFC) has declined to host the induction ceremony
of Mr. John Jenkins Bartee, the man OLM’s President Kerper Dwanyen appointed to serve as Vice-President of the organization. The Peopletopeople news has confirmed
that Pastor Charles Goah declined to host the event, because he believes the appropriate procedures established to confirm
such a nomination was not followed and that he does not want to be a party to any process that is characterized by political
gimmickry.
ULAA Administration Leads by Example?Contributes $1000 to Philadelphia Fire Victims
The Interim National Executive President of the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA), Dr. Mator M. F. Kpangbai, extends profound sentiment of felicitation to all Liberians and friends of Liberia for their support and solidarity demonstrated during the homegoing of the victims of the Philadelphia fire tragedy. In a joint Interim National Administration and Board meeting a forthnight ago, Dr. Kpangbai extended personal thanks to Hon. Jessie S. Phillips, ULAA External Affairs Committee Chairman, for the outstanding leadership he demonstrated while in representing the Interim National Administration and coordinating its activities with the fire victim families.  |
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David D. Kpormakpor, Former Head of Liberia Council of State, is Dead
OPODL Hosts Forum, Dinner for Minister Brownie Samukai in Minnesota Saturday
US Rep. Erik Paulsen Engages Liberians on Peace and Unity
Ramadan Greetings from Kamaty Diahn
New human rights Commissioners submitted to senate
African Youth Charter Document Submitted to Liberian Legislature for Ratification
RAMADAN GREETINGS FROM THE LCM
Keith Ellison gives Barb Davis White TKO
Another Nimba lawmaker rejects Prince Johnson
EU gives Liberia additional 13 million in aid   The European Union's executive on Friday sent Liberia an extra 10 million euros (13 million dollars) in aid to provide health
care to an estimated 500,000 people. full storyDENY MASSELLYS PETITION .Edward Carter Reacts to Masseley's petition.
U L Alumni Chorus Donates to the University of Liberia
Weah Flip-Flops On FBI Drug Sting
ULAA PREXY APOINTS 34TH GEN. ASSEMBLY COMTEE
Emmanuel and Martha tie the Knot
Bensonville City Magistrate fired
Kimmie Weeks: Liberia's young hero
CNN) -- Great survivors were molded from Liberia's bloody war that ended just six years ago. Among the violence and tragedy, new leaders emerged, including youth activist Kimmie Weeks. "Going through the war and having that experience of nearly dying, essentially made me a stronger person," he told CNN.  At the age of 9, civil war entered Weeks' life. He had to flee his family home during the fighting, turning his life upside down. Weeks published a report on the Liberian government's involvement in training child soldiers in 1998 and was then forced into exile in the U.S. The experience of finding other children his age engaged in the fighting, and being so close to death himself, was a profound one. Since the war in Liberia he has dedicated his life to saving the country's children from war and its devastating long-term effects with Youth Action International. OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAY FULL PRESS CONFERENCE
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 Fellow Episcopalians: You are invited to the 4th
Annual Gathering of Liberian Episcopalians in the United States scheduled to be held from April 17 - 19, 2009 at Virginia
Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. The Bishop of (the Episcopal Diocese of) Liberia, The Rt Revd Jonathan Bau-Bau Bonaparte Hart will be our special guest. This
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The Liberians in Minnesota are gearing up for an important Community Townhall meeting scheduled for Sunday, April 18, 2010
at the Brookdale Covenant Church in Brooklyn Center commencing at 5:00 pm. The meeting is intended to resolve a leadership
crisis that ensued on the OLM Board of Directors, few days after it was inducted into offices.
The AAP would like to address itself to a press statement by a self-proclaimed management of the organization of Liberians
in Minnesota in which OLM accused AAP of several wrong doings with reference to grants applied for with Foundations
named in her baseless accusation. AAP would like to address itself to the allegations as followed: 
Mr. Clarence Yaskey, who recently emerged as "Board Chairman" after a coup d'état, is now
stifling dissenting opinions on the OLM Board, while turning himself into a ruthless dictator. Many observers believe that
the board is fast becoming a "So- say-one-so-say-all" environment. Worse,
any one who exercises his/her independence and expresses dissenting opinion is targeted for punishment, if not isolation.
African Food Distribution will this weekend expend its food distribution to St. Paul the Mount Airy News has learned. According to a release issued by the Community Relations Coordinator of the Emergency Foodshelf Network (EFN) 
A top ranking official of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Mr. Christopher Wisner has reaffirmed his party’s
commitment to transform Liberia. In an exclusive interview with the People’s
News Mr. Wisner who is contesting for the National Chairman of the party in the Diaspora, said his party is ready and has
the political will and mechanism to bring about the kind of change that transform Liberia from what he calls, “
Economic dead drums to Economic prosperity.
Members of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota have voted to restore Mr. John Tarley to office as Chairman of the OLM
Board of Directors. The decision was reached over the weekend at a meeting convened
by the Community Intervention Committee (CIC) held at the Brookdale Covenant Church in Brooklyn Center. 
He goes back home at the end of the day---most days--leaving in his wake hours of damages he has already inflicted on Liberian
businesses and the names of those with whom he disagrees. He is almost everywhere and watching nearly every move—from
OLM politics to the plan of a new Liberian enterprise in Minnesota. 
A high power delegation of the US based Liberian sport promotion organization, PRO USA, has arrived in Liberia
to launch its second annual initiatives in the country. 
Several Members of the Liberian Community in Minnesota or the OLM have taken steps for the restoration of the OLM Board Chairman,
Mr. John Tarley .
I just received a copy of a letter Mr. Bartee is planning to send to the Minneapolis Police Department asking for protection
on Sunday August 23, 2009, at the referendum the Liberian community is holding. I am very disappointed that you, who went
from church to church, from one tribal organization to another, 
I thought to share with you, especially Liberians in Minnesota what I assume that most Liberians in the State of Minnesota
prefer from what we refer to as a community organization or association. I know that each one of you have your individual
preferences and opinions, but take these as my personal opinions, recommendations, and desires. When I was in the process
of moving to the twin cities from Chicago, my first inquiry related to where I, a single mother at that time, could find information
about resources to settle my family of four. Someone told me to contact specific individual as well as other State organizations;
that although there is an organization for Liberians, I would not find such resources there. 
something was wrong. You cannot have a man who does not have a good record to do audit. 
Reports reaching the Peoples news confirm that David D. Kpormakpor, the former chairman of the council of state collective
presidency that ruled Liberia from March 7, 1994 until 1 September 1995 is dead. He was 75. According to the family source
late Kpormakpor died late Thursday, August 19,2010 following a period of illness. He died at his resident in Staten Island,
the United States of America. 
The Organization for the Promotion of Development in Liberia, OPODL, has scheduled a town hall-style forum and an honoring
evening dinner for Brownie Samukai, Liberia’s Minister of National Defense, in Maple Grove, Minnesota, on August 21,
2010 (Hilton Garden Inn, 6350 Vinewood Lane, Maple Grove, MN 55311). The Town hall is geared towards discussing and updating
Liberians on the current security situation in Liberia. Security is one of the leading issues on the minds of Liberians everywhere,
especially in the Diaspora and, Minister Samukai, a foremost expert on this matter, is the right person to address our numerous
concerns. 
Minnesota’s Third District US Rep. Erik Paulsen and The Advocates for Human Rights will engage Liberians in Minnesota
in a community dialogue meeting today on ways of addressing the issues of peace, unity and reconcilaition in the community
the Peoples news has learned. According a letter sent to the People-to-People Media Network, the meeting
which takes place today, Wednesday August at the Brooklyn United Methodist Church (7200 Brooklyn Boulevard, Brooklyn
Center, MN 55429) bring together several Liberian resident in the twin cities. 
"O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint."
Holy Quran (2:183). It is with profound conviction and best wishes that I wish my brothers, sisters, and elders in the Muslim
community a rewarding journey as they embark on this third day of the holy month of Ramadan. 
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has submitted to the Senate for confirmation seven nominees of the Independent National Human
Rights Commission. They include Cllr. Punchu Leonard Bernard, Chairperson, Cllr. Dempster Brown and Thomas Abu Bureh, Commissioners.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has submitted to the National Legislature for ratification, the African Youth Charter. According
to an Executive Mansion release, the Charter was submitted on Monday, August 9, 2010. 
The President of the Liberian Community in St.Paul, MN (LCM) has expressed Ramadan greetings to all Muslims as they
commence the fast month. Ramadan is the holiest of months in the Islamic calendar. Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one
of the Five Pillars of Islam. 
Liberians in Minnesota celebrate victory with U.S. Rep. Keith
Ellison and former US Senator Mark Dayton. These are two men who care about the things – immigration, community welfare
and so on - that concern them. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison cruised
to victory in the Democratic primary for his metro-area district in Congress over minister Barb Davis White. 
The Presidential bid of Nimba County Senator Prince Johnson has experienced its third setback in less than two weeks within
the Nimba Legislative Caucus. Another Nimba lawmaker Representative Edwin Gaye on Monday called on Senator Prince Johnson
to withdraw from the impending Presidential race.
Civility dictates that I must congratulate Abraham Massaley for his bold and patriotic
stance to exercise his constitutional rights by petitioning the Supreme Court to issue a Writ of Prohibition against the Election
Commission to restrain the implementation of the Threshold Resolution relative to reapportioning and restricting Electoral
Constituencies in Liberia. 
The University of Liberia Alumni Chorus made a donation of US $10,000.00 as a scholarship fund to the University of Lliberia,
the Peoples news has learned. The Alumni Chorus established the scholarship fund at the University of
Liberia in honor and memory of it's deceased director and former associate professor of music at the university. 
Although he declared in an official press statement that he was never questioned during the FBI drug sting at the home of
his long-time pal James P. Bestman, football legend now leader of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has
changed track, admitting that he was in fact interrogated by US federal agents, thus disputing his earlier claims. 
The National Executive President of the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA), Dr. Mariah
Y. Seton, has effective immediately made the following appointments to the membership of the National Planning Committee for
the 34th Annual General Assembly, scheduled to be held in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, between Friday, September 24 &
Sunday, September 26, 2010. 
It was a red carper day for Martha and Emmanuel in celebration of Love. Yes, it was colorful and vibrant, accompanied with
the prompt and pageantry befitting such occasion. The long awaited day was July
31, 2010 at 3:00 pm, at the Historic little Rock Baptist church on 9000 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. 
