Opinion
WILL US CONGRESS SUPPORT THE INNOCENT ?
Lawyers For Poor Americans, 25-06-2008 - 12:17
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
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What's Wrong With Ashland's City Government?
ofthepeopleeditor@gmail.com, 07-06-2008 - 17:47
Council Compounds Lawbreaking With Fiscal Irresponsibility
LUBA's ruling this week that council violated the law on the Glenn St project brings into stark relief the murky problems of Ashland's city government. LUBA is Oregon's Land Use Board Of Appeals, which reviews local government decisions on developments.
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INDY ALERT!-Terror Drills June 4-19 -
Dr.J.Fetzer, Maj.W.Fox, Cpt.E.May, .D.Buswell, 01-06-2008 - 13:44
Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, joins other distinguished veterans in issuing the INDY ALERT, advising the public to keep an eye on just-announced Bush administration terror drills in Indianapolis with 2200 Marines.
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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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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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Something smells different in Cuba
Movimiento Libertario Cubano, 01-05-2008 - 11:19
ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.
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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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All Out on May Day!
Internationalist Group, 26-04-2008 - 06:24
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy.
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Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present
El Libertario, Venezuela, 18-04-2008 - 08:52
* This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. We hope that this serves as a useful point of reference for those who are interested in the subject.
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Jackson County Commissioner Candidates Speak Out
Brain Labor Report on KSKQ, Ashland's lpfm radio station, 09-04-2008 - 12:56
Jackson County, Oregon
All three Democrat candidates for Jackson County Commissioner who face off in the May 20 primary are interviewed this week on the Brain Labor Report. Listen to the voices of Scott Keith, Jim Olney and John Morrison as each answers the same set of questions which cover topics such as privatization of public services, economic development and the value of independent media.
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Jackson County votes for Censorship & Ignorance
INDEPENDENT MEDIA WEEK - 2008, 06-04-2008 - 11:07
Jackson County (located in Southern Oregon on the California border and I-5 corridor) gained new distinction in April, 2008 when elected officials decided NOT to support a proclamation for "Independent Media Week - 2008". By a vote of 2 to 1 Jackson County Commissioners were succinct with their 2007 decision to embrace censorship. Last year the entire Jackson County Library System was shut down for 6 months with officials citing a "lack of funds" as the reason. The library system later opened with greatly reduced hours and services, but only after privatizing the entire operation.
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