http://kuer.org en http://kuer.org/post/soccer-star-soap-opera-roots-aims-olympics Indiana University soccer star Orianica Velasquez is on a mission — to get to the London Olympics with Colombia's women's soccer team. And she wants to send a message about the country where she was born.<p>"My dream is to get a medal for Colombia," she says, adding that she wants to show the world "it's just not violence, it's just not drugs — we can play soccer and we can do great things because we have great people there."<p>The coach of the Colombian women's team, Ricardo Rozo, says he didn't discover Velasquez's raw athletic talent on the field — he discovered it on TV. Mon, 07 May 2012 23:11:00 +0000 Jessica Naudziunas 4344 at http://kuer.org Soccer Star With Soap Opera Roots Aims At Olympics http://kuer.org/post/milk-not-jails-makes-partners-out-farmers-and-ex-cons What's plentiful in upstate New York? Cows and prison inmates, to name a few things.<p>Reformists in the two communities don't make natural allies, but organizer Lauren Melodia is trying to do just that.<p>"I was living in this prison town, and at the same time, the dairy industry was in a lot of turmoil," Melodia tells The Salt. "We thought this [dairy] might be the perfect ally in trying to build a different economy in upstate New York, and shift some of the economic dependency away from the prison system."<p>So Melodia formed the non-profit Milk Not Jails. Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:21:00 +0000 Jessica Naudziunas 2801 at http://kuer.org Milk Not Jails Makes Partners Out Of Farmers And Ex-Cons