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DNC Disruption Tour comes to Ashland
Noah Balloon, 17-06-2008 - 20:36
UNCONVENTIONAL ACTION is an anarchist/anti-authoritarian collective organizing to disrupt the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Denver and the Twin Cities. A number of representatives will be in Ashland this Saturday the 21st to give a workshop at the Lithia Park gazebo (6:30pm) on anarchist theory and protest strategies. This is also a vegan potluck!
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Starbucks Fires Barista for Union Activity
Grand Rapids Starbucks Union, 08-06-2008 - 19:55
Grand Rapids firing comes in the midst of Unfair Labor Practice charges being investigated by the NLRB against Starbucks.
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Workers walk off MGM Mirage Dubai World CityC
MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Constructio, 03-06-2008 - 16:56
Union leaders: We’ll picket until contractor meets demands for increased safety
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"My Spring Break with Utah Phillips"
Matt Mankins, 29-05-2008 - 09:30
"They fight with money and we resist with time, and they're going to run out of money before we run out of time."-U. Utah Phillips
Utah Phillips passed away on Friday, May 23, 2008. He died quietly in his sleep.
Three years before Southern Oregonians Matt Mankins and Eric Robinson travelled to Nevada City, CA to see Utah Phillips. Eric is a nephew of Utah's and Matt wanted to meet him. This story is about their journey and their visit with the folk singing legend. Matt Mankins penned this account which was first published in "The Soapbox" (spring 2005) the underground rag produced by the Media Collective at Southern Oregon University. We are glad to share Matt's words with you now.-Rogue IMC volunteer...
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Exxon admits climate deniers hurt global warm
James Stanley, 28-05-2008 - 21:35
Exxon has admitted - for the first time - that the climate deniers it funds are causing problems for action on climate change.
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Presidential Candidates Get Specific on Trade
Arthur Stamoulis / Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, 14-05-2008 - 09:11
National polling results released May 1 by the Pew Research Center found, "There is now broad agreement that free trade negatively affects wages, jobs and economic growth in America. By greater than six-to-one, the public says free trade agreements result in job losses rather than in new jobs." More so, a greater majority of independent voters had a negative view of the impact of free trade than registered Democrats.
Southern Oregonians are active in the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign (ORFTC) and citizens in the State of Jefferson (Northern California, too!) stand in unity with the FAIR TRADE WORK being done by ORFTC. Check out the newest report...
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Rally to Stop Colombia Trade Deal in Medford
"Free Trade", 05-05-2008 - 20:54
This WEDNESDAY: Rally to Stop the Colombia Trade Deal in Medford
Help take a stand for human rights and Oregon jobs by joining us at one of two rallies against the Colombia Free Trade Agreement:
Wednesday, May 7 * 12 noon Outside Senator Wyden's Medford Office Federal Courthouse * 310 W 6th St * Medford, OR
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May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports
Internationalist Group, 04-05-2008 - 20:51
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party.
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Cynthia McKinney Letter to ILWU
jackson county pacific green party, 30-04-2008 - 07:41
While many unions pass resolution after resolution while doing little to actually stop the bloodshed, for generations the ILWU has shown that we can resist the war-mongering corporate politicians, and their profiteering attempts to divide the labor movement and weaken our capacity to organize and resist their destructive actions.
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MAYDAY! March for Immigrant Rights and Fight Wal*Mart!
S O U T H E R N * O R E G O N * J O B S * W I T H * J U S T I C E, 29-04-2008 - 21:36
Join us on May Day at 4 pm at Alba Park for a march and rally in downtown Medford, Oregon to support our immigrants.
"May 1 march for immigrants rights"
http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/04/11838.shtml
And at 7 pm also on May Day! (is this orwellian or what?) we see the Wall*Mart fight come back to the City of Medford from Oregon's LUBA. Join us for a strong delegation that demands a traffic study and whatever it takes to keep this mega anti-worker employer the hell out of Southern Oregon. WALL*MART will NOT gain more roots here! ! ! !
"May Day! May Day! Wal-Mart is back!"
http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/04/11876.shtml
Wal-Mart is back! Public hearing this Thursday May 1st at Medford City Council 7 pm
What are you doing on May Day? Think of a way, even if you can't skip out from work to help us do the suggestions above, find your own way to do something positive! May Day! May Day! May Day! is a universal warning. Stand Up and join us now!
In solidarity,
Wes Brain, Chair
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
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MGM MIRAGE STOP THE UNION - BUSTING
The United MGM MIRAGE Casino Security Guards, 29-04-2008 - 02:57
MGM MIRAGE NAMED AS LAS VEGAS UNION-BUSTER OF THE YEAR
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