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Greek fascist Goverment capture another journ
antifa, 25-02-2010 - 17:04
Greek fascist Goverment capture another journalist
FREE SAVVAS CHATZIPARASKEVAS!!!!!!
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US, French, & UK Imperialist Hands off Niger!
Steven Argue, 22-02-2010 - 04:22
In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties (including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th.
Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup.
Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism. Meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, life expectancy is only to 45-years old, and adult illiteracy is 71%.
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Move to Amend coming to Ashland Oregon February 25, 2010
Vanessa Houk, 22-02-2010 - 03:27
The Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to give unlimited amounts of money to politicians has many of us scrambling to do something to protect democracy. On Thursday February 25, David Cobb and Riki Ott, coalition organizers in the Campaign to Legalize Democracy will be at the Bellview Grange (1050 Tolman Creek Rd. Ashland) at 7 pm.
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Anne Feeney & Patrick Dodd Feb. 20 in Ashland
Labor Music that Fires You Up!, 17-02-2010 - 04:13
Anne Feeney and Patrick Dodd visit the Rogue Valley Saturday, February 20th.
Hear activist Anne Feeney in concert supporting "Jobs and the Economy" at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Headwaters Environmental Center, 84 Fourth St., Ashland. Singer-songwriter Patrick Dodd opens the show. $5 suggested donation at the door.
All humans welcome! Remember, "Corporations are NOT People!" and will not have ANY constitutionally protected rights at this event, NONE!
Anne & Patrick are brought here by sponsors: Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council.
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CPJ PRESENTS: Immokalee U.S.A.
CPJ Events, 31-01-2010 - 19:51
CPJ PRESENTS: Immokalee U.S.A.
Join us for a free showing on large-screen TV of a documentary, Immokalee U.S.A., at 7 pm Thursday, February 4, in Lidgate Hall behind the main building and sanctuary of the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ, 1801 E. Jackson St., Medford.
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Anne Feeney live on KBOO Feb 1st
Unionmaid, Hellraiser & Labor Singer, 30-01-2010 - 18:20
Anne Feeney starts her Northwest tour "Live" on KBOO radio
Monday, February 1st, 2010 6:00 PM EST
Anne Feeney on the KBOO Labor Show!
KBOO with Bill Zimmerman Portland, OR 
http://kboo.org
This interview will be streaming... tune in!
Labor Radio Collective "Together We Make A Difference" http://3bl.me/4z8w5v
***ATTENTION SOUTHERN OREGONIANS***
Anne will be coming to the Rogue Valley on February 20th! Keep reading to get tour dates/locations...
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Healthcare NOW! - Time to Start from Scratch
January 27, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!, 28-01-2010 - 04:31
Southern Oregonians are pleased with the leadership of Healthcare NOW! Great to see this breath of fresh air at a time when the pit of reform is such a dramatic disaster--rogue imc vol..
We've heard President Obama assert during his campaign that if he were starting from scratch he would implement a single-payer plan. He recently stated: "I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is unless you have what's called a single-payer system in which everyone's automatically covered, you're probably not going to reach every single individual." In addition, President Obama knows that we have to get the spiraling healthcare costs under control.
The current bills before the House and Senate can neither cover everyone nor make healthcare affordable. Only Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer plan such as HR 676, can do the job.
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I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), 21-01-2010 - 20:03
I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer
This message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich is a godsend for Southern Oregonians who have been fighting for Single Payer health care reform! It has been nerve racking to watch activists who have been tricked into supporting insurance companies and the greedy healthcare (non)system. What a HUGE waste of time, money, and energy! HCAN in particular has sold out the working class with a campaign based on lies and deception. Now we can only hope for one thing to happen in Washington DC. We need nothing short of a quick death to the current corporate sponsored healthcare reform, RIP.
"We stand with Dennis Kucinich. We will keep on working and do whatever it takes to bring about the change that sends insurance companies packing. Let them insure cars and houses but keep them the hell away from our bodies and our health!"--Wes Brain, Rogue Valley Single Payer activist.
"I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer", Dennis Kucinich
Click here to view video: http://3bl.me/qfsyr5
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Vote YES for the Unemployed Rally in Ashland
Y E S * O N * B A L L O T * M E A S U R E S * 6 6 * & * 6 7, 16-01-2010 - 08:04
No More Tax Breaks for Big Banks: Oregonians Protest US Bank’s Opposition to Ballot Measures 66 & 67
Ashland, OR – Over 60 unemployed people will hold a rally where they will urge Oregonians to vote YES for tax fairness. They will also deliver a petition with over 1,000 signatures, protesting US Bank’s opposition to Ballot Measures 66 & 67. The rally will be held in front of US Bank at 30 North 2nd Street Ashland, OR at 9 am Tuesday, January 19. Tax Fairness Oregon is coordinating this effort with Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Sisters Of The Road, and Street Roots.
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Time for Senator Wyden to be a Fair Trader...
STOP DESTROYING THE WORKING CLASS, 02-01-2010 - 20:59
Senator Ron Wyden gets very high marks for much of his work. However for Trade Issues his grade is a big fat F! His support of corporate America at the expense of workers has led to the loss of living wage jobs for Oregonians which in turn has destroyed families and put strains on communities from Astoria to Lakeview and from Pendleton to Brookings. Profit over People hurts us deeply.
Senator Wyden: STOP supporting greedy corporations. START supporting working people. NOW is the time to turn the economy around. We need FAIR trade not FREE trade. Stop following Senator Gordon Smith, he is gone, we sent him packing... Follow the good lead of Smith's replacement and join Senator Jeff Merkley's positive stand for Oregon.
Senator Ron Wyden: NOW is the TIME to support "THE TRADE ACT"
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Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement
O U T * W I T H * T H E * O L D * a n d * I N * W I T H * T H E * N E W, 23-12-2009 - 17:29
If you do only one more political thing this year as we put 2009 to bed--RIP, let it be to listen to Bernie Sanders on the floor of the United States Senate speak about Health Care Reform which boots out corporate greed! Sanders speech is being heralded the "New Social Movement" and this couldn't come at a better time...
For 2009 reflect for just a minute on all the garbage we have been subjected to pertaining to Health Care Reform and realize that from the start the campaign has been designed by the corporate greedy who literally buy reform that makes them lots & lots more money. Profit over people wins again. The campaign for healthcare reform loses, but out of it we have the "New Social Movement"
So let us do put 2009 to bed and permanently behind us. It has been a horrible year, however we deserve to end it on a high note. We need this. If you do only one more political thing this year listen to Bernie Sanders uplifting speech describing a wonderful vision for 2010. Not a campaign, a movement!--In solidarity, Wes Brain, Chair, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, CARRY ON!
The Bernie Sanders speech is at: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=9083042
Following distributed by "All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676" "Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement" by Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates. Keep on reading....
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year
J O B S * W I T H * J U S T I C E, 21-12-2009 - 21:54
DECEMBER 21, 2009--Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice (SOJwJ) announces: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year.
The Chamber's narrow, radical agenda advocating for anti-worker, profit-focused solutions to the broken health care, labor, and environmental systems garnered them the most votes for the national Jobs with Justice "Scrooge of the Year" award.
Southern Oregon has been alarmed at local Chambers of Commerces with First Amendment violations waged by the City of Ashland's Chamber after its sponsorship of the 2007 Fourth of July Parade. In 2008 SOJwJ and ACLU of Southern Oregon gave the Ashland Chamber of Commerce a Free Speech lesson http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/07/13203.shtml
This year's Scrooge contest pitted the Chamber of Commerce against Bank of America, nominated for their role in the sub-prime lending crisis and failure to extend credit to small businesses. SOJwJ previously shouted out a patriotic warning about BoA on Dec. 12, 2008 with the People's Bail-Out Rally in Medford, Oregon http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/12/14290.shtml
Keep readin' for the full story about the just-elected "2009 National Scrooge of the Year"
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Eagle Point School Board Trashes Workers
GRINCH HURTS WORKERS RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 20-12-2009 - 01:56
Sodexo successfully gets the Eagle Point School Board to turn over its nine food service managers to this greedy company who makes money by paying workers less, decreasing their benefits and taking away their voice at work. This is what union busting is all about.
The December 17, 2010 School Board meeting was timely for union busting since a new Oregon State law (HB2867) about "transparent outsourcing contractual requirements" does not take effect until January 1, 2010. This is just plain sleazy!
Wow--this is what being a Grinch looks like, trashing workers just before Christmas. The vote was divided with 3 voting for Sodexo and 2 voting for the workers. Three lumps of coal for the three Board Members who voted to trash workers!
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EPEA PROTEST CONTRACTING KITCHEN STAFF
Rebecca Konefal, 15-12-2009 - 06:56
On Thursday, December 17, 2009, members of the Eagle Point Education Association will gather at 6:30 p.m. at the District 9 Board Meeting (in the Eagle Point High School Cafeteria) to protest the newest contract proposal offered by the District--contracting out the Food Service Managers to Sodexo.
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MASS FIRINGS - THE NEW FACE OF IMMIGRATION RAIDS
DAVID BACON * PHOTO-JOURNALIST, 12-12-2009 - 01:30
"No one in the Obama or Bush administrations, or the Clinton administration before them, wants to stop migration to the U.S. or imagines that this could be done without catastrophic consequences. The very industries they target for enforcement are so dependent on the labor of migrants they would collapse without it. Instead, immigration policy and enforcement consigns those migrants to an "illegal" status, and undermines the price of their labor. Enforcement is a means for managing the flow of migrants, and making their labor available to employers at a price they want to pay"--David Bacon (excerpt from the full article which can be read below)
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Medford Walmart heads towards Oregon Supreme Court
Medford Citizens for Responsible Development, 11-12-2009 - 23:21
Medford, Oregon, December 11, 2009--Medford Citizens for Responsible Development (MCRD) has not given up on the fight against powerful Walmart's legal team and the Superstore planned for South Medford. The fight continues and so do the worries about traffic congestion. Building such a monster store will bring on a super traffic nightmare, yet Medford refuses to do a traffic study which is required in their code. The area is already becoming a traffic nightmare even without building a Walmart Superstore.
MCRD has now petitioned the Oregon Supreme Court requesting a review of the earlier Court of Appeals Decision to Overturn a LUBA Ruling in the Matter of Requiring a Traffic Study for the Wal-Mart Superstore. (LUBA is Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals)
We anticipate a decision by the Court to consider our appeal within 30 to 60 days.
Attached below is the petition for review delivered by MCRD's attorney to the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this week.
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New Report--Tax $$ goes to Sweatshops
BUILDING SWEATFREE COMMUNITIES IN ASHLAND, OR & AROUND THE WORLD, 10-12-2009 - 18:36
"Toxic Uniforms: Behind the ‘Made in USA’ Label" is a new report released on December 10, 2009, International Human Rights Day
This report is highlighted by the Ashland Sweatfree Campaign who successfully worked with the City of Ashland, which first adopted a sweatfree resolution and followed up with a no-sweat-shop policy for the procurement of uniforms & garments for city employees. In April, 2009 the campaign brought to Ashland a speaking tour with Rafael Irizarry, a garment worker at Propper International in Puerto Rico, who is featured in this new report. Photos of Irizarry taken during his Ashland visit can be viewed below.
Ongoing educational work by the Ashland Sweatfree Campaign has included an art exhibit of women garment worker paintings on display in the Ashland Council Chambers in November, 2009. The Campaign is a project of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and its ad-hoc committee is composed of the following Ashland residents: Pam Vavra, Rich Rohde, Brenda Gould, Steve Ryan, Eric Navickas, Jason Houk and Wes Brain.
Two photos taken April 4, 2009 during the speakers' tour at Southern Oregon University- http://rogueimc.org/en/2009/03/14781.shtml In the first photo Rafael Irizarry holds up a garment made in his Puerto Rico workplace for the United States military. The second photo shows Rafael Irizarry front row on the far right.
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D5 Mobilization to Portland against the WTO
SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 04-12-2009 - 07:25
SOUTHERN OREGONIANS ARE HEADING TO PORTLAND DEC. 5 TO JOIN THE CONVERGENCE
Vans & Autos will car-pool up and back the same day ($30. roundtrip in a van includes pizza).
Call NOW to reserve a seat 541-482-6988 or email 
brain@mind.net
D5: Mobilization Against the World Trade Organization http://www.December5.org
Saturday, December 5th * March & Rally * Downtown Portland
12:00 Noon - Gather at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (under the Hawthorne Bridge)
1:00 pm - March to the World Trade Center, Federal Building and Wells Fargo Building
2:00 pm - Indoor Rally and Concert at Portland State University
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WTO 10 yrs. ago SAT on Rogue Valley Access TV
SOUTHERN OREGONIANS REPORT BACK--ON FILM, 04-12-2009 - 06:31
"WACHET AUF, The People's March in Seattle"
Saturday, 12/5/09, 4:04 PM
Cable Channel 15 - Jackson and Josephine Counties
10 YEARS AGO -- 1999 in SEATTLE -- CITIZENS SHUT DOWN THE WTO
*Southern Oregon Citizens Report Back on the Battle in Seattle*
This video offers first hand testimony from Southern Oregon citizen activists who just days before had been in the streets of Seattle, Washington
This is a Must See! The 10 year anniversary broadcast on 12/5/09 coincides with Southern Oregonians going north again on Saturday, 12/5/09 - http://www.december5.org/
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The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant
Ashlander, 02-12-2009 - 01:11
Citizens for Peace & Justice will present this 40-minute documentary film at 7 pm this Thursday, Dec. 3, in Lidgate Hall of the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ, 1801 E. Jackson St.
CPJ Film Nites are free and open to the public. Films are shown on a large TV screen from a DVD player. Discussion of the film usually follows its showing.
The Last Truck focuses on the workers of the General Motors Assembly Plant in Moraine, Ohio – which opened in 1981, and churned out an average of 280,000 small trucks and SUVs a year – from the announcement a year ago that the Plant would be closing, to its last day on December 23, 2008, just two days before Christmas.
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Letter from Leuthold Dairy Farm and M 66-67
David Delk -- Alliance for Democracy-Portland, 30-11-2009 - 21:07
I just received today's USPS mail and got this letter from Leuthold Dairy Farm and owner Carol Marie Leuthold. A second letter also from Leuthold is addressed to my wife and step-daughter. WOW, they must have really done some outreach. Then I look at my email and get this message from a friend upstate in Oregon who sends out a warning about this mass mailing which has been delivered to my home in Ashland.
The message from David Delk exposes this campaign to hurt Oregon. I'm forwarding important information below for you to see.
READ ON TO SEE WHAT THE BIG CORPORATE HACKS ARE UP TO NOW--Wes Brain, community activist
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Mumia’s Life Is On the Line!
Internationalist Group, 27-11-2009 - 18:39
The threat to Mumia Abu-Jamal's life is increasingly ominous. His lead attorney, Robert Bryan, warns: "There is an escalated effort by the authorities to see him die at the hands of the executioner. This is the most dangerous time for Mumia since his 1981 arrest." The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Jamal's two appeals. If it were to rule in favor of the prosecution's appeal, this would open the way for Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell to issue a third warrant of execution, which he has vowed to do. Contrary to the misplaced expectations of many, the Obama administration is not about to save Mumia. Around the world, hundreds of thousands have marched for this courageous champion of oppressed. Trade unions representing millions of members have rallied to the defense of Mumia. It is urgent to expand this support into powerful labor/black action, appealing to the integrated union movement to join with the black, Latino and immigrant poor to demand that he be liberated.
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Defeat Obama's insurance industry bailout!
S I N G L E * P A Y E R * H E A L T H C A R E, 25-11-2009 - 17:16
SINGLE PAYER ACTIVISTS TO CONGRESS: DEFEAT DEMOCRATIC HEALTH BILL
Single Payer Action calls on Congress to defeat the Obama insurance industry bailout bill.
Start from scratch.
And pass single payer for the American people.
"I'm lining up with Representatives Greg Walden and Dennis Kucinich on this one. Please join me in encouraging Oregon's Senators to vote down Obama's horrible bill. Thanksgiving should not be about giving more to the death squads"--Wes Brain, Chair, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
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