Race & Class
City of Ashland Chamber of Commerce VIOLATES the First Amendment!
ACLU & Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, 03-07-2008 - 11:32
ASHLAND, OREGON, Independence Day 2008--
Ashland Chamber of Commerce told it CAN NOT Block Freedom of Speech!
The Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice (SOJwJ) and the ACLU have told the Ashland Chamber of Commerce they are in violation of our First Amendment. They can not charge 4th of July parade participants different fees based on the content of the entrant's message. This discrimination has been the practice of the Chamber and it must stop NOW!
From the Demand Letter sent to the Ashland Chamber of Commerce: "The ACLU and the SOJWJ, therefore, respectfully demand that, first, the Chamber alter its fee structure so as not to discriminate based on the content of entrants' message, and second, the Chamber refund the additional payment of $70 paid by SOJwJ for the 2007 Ashland Fourth of July Parade. If the Chamber fails to do both of these things, the ACLU of Oregon and SOJwJ are prepared to file a lawsuit to obtain this relief, plus the recovery of reasonable attorney fees."
Continue to read the full letter...
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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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Walden supports Big Oil - hurts Oregonians
GREG WALDEN HAS GONE TOO FAR!!!, 19-06-2008 - 16:13
SOUTHERN OREGONIANS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR A LONG TIME, "WHERE'S WALDEN?"
This Bush clone (Greg votes again and again for corporate interests and hurts ordinary people) has stooped to a new low and Oregonians need to see how this clown has let our communities down again...
WATCH THIS VIDEO!
"Walden's Priorities"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgA7iz0-2Co
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GED LAWYERS NEVER LEAVE US PRISONS !
Lawyers For Poor Americans, 12-06-2008 - 12:12
WHEN GODS FACE BECAME VERY RED !
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Medford, Oregon Says NO to Racial Based HATE!
Written by Wes-, 09-06-2008 - 10:31
-Medford, Oregon, Saturday June 7, 2008
We were a couple minutes late when we found parking on Saturday near Union Park in west Medford, Oregon. As we exited the car and made our way towards the gathering in the city park the entire neighborhood was bathed in song. It kept getting louder as we got closer. What an experience to walk along on this warm sunny Saturday and to hear a chorus of voices singing: "WE SHALL OVERCOME"
Brenda and I joined in the crowd of 100 who stood in a circle right there in Union Park. Dave Marston with guitar in hand led the gathering with songs of support. Medford's public response to racism was strong and clear. There will be Zero Tolerance for racism here!
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City Loses Legal Case, Public Interests Win
ofthepeopleeditor@gmail.com, 07-06-2008 - 17:38
Colin Swales, Philip C. Lang, Art Bullock Win At LUBA
On 2007Jun3, LUBA announced that Colin Swales, Philip C. Lang, and Art Bullock won their case appealing council's approval of an office development on the corner of Glenn St and North Main St. LUBA is Oregon's Land Use Board Of Appeals, which reviews local government decisions on developments.
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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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Crimes Against Nature
Maria Smith, 28-05-2008 - 21:32
Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years.
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Dick Cheney Made Millions with Saddam Hussein
Martin A. Lee, 28-05-2008 - 21:30
Here's a whopper of a story you may have missed amid the cacophony of campaign ads and stump speeches in the run- up to the elections.
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Jewish Voice for Peace and the New Blood Libe
Bluetruth, 27-05-2008 - 12:36
JVP has chosen to perpetuate the tradition of the blood libel, hiding behind anti-Zionism as a politically correct shield. As self-described experts on anti-Semitism, their leadership can’t claim to be ignorant of what they are doing.
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Homeless No More
Janet C. Phelan, 22-05-2008 - 19:37
The laws impacting the homeless are changing. Why?
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US CONGRESSIONAL INJUSTICE RACIST,OR NEGLECT?
GLENN, 15-05-2008 - 13:52
NO $$ NO JUSTICE NO LOBBY, NO US SENATE ASSISTANCE ! NO $$ NO LOBBY == 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS FALSELY IMPRISONED IN US. ****TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN PRISON INMATES NEED INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGAL FEES IN HELPING THEM ATTEMPT TO EXONERATE THEMSELVES FROM THE US PENAL COLONIES !!
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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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I'm voting for Hillary
cc, 11-05-2008 - 18:19
Black men could vote (1870) 50 years before women could (1920), so there is no denying that racism has been in public policy longer than sexism/male supremacy. In that, maybe it's evident that racism has also been in the public eye longer. For nowadays, racism is recognized more easily the moment it happens, and more people check themselves to see if they’re being racist.
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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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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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May 1 march for immigrants rights
! ! MAY DAY ! ! MAY DAY ! ! MAY DAY ! !, 26-04-2008 - 08:38
PLease join Unete and Razas Unidas for our annual May Day March for Immigrants Rights. We will gather at Alba park at 4:00pm for a few brief speeches and inspiration followed by a march through Medford pausing at the Ginger Rodgers square to pay honor to the more that 4500 people who have died since the construction of the Wall of Shame between Mexico and the US. We still need people to hold crosses at the square. Please let me know if you are available. There will be folks doing voter registration at the event as well. Thank you for your support of immigrants.
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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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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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"In Memoriam: 4,000 US Soldiers Dead in Iraq"
Allen Hallmark report with photos, 05-04-2008 - 20:30
April 5, 2008
Medford, Oregon
Thanks to the 45 to 50 folks who turned out on another gray, rainy, cool day to participate in the "In Memoriam: 4,000 US Soldiers Dead in Iraq" event. While it wasn't a big crowd, it was an enthusiastic one. The mall security made us abandon our plans to have our program before the march in the little parking lot, so we moved out to the sidewalk and it was fine.
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April 5th Tribute to 4000 Dead U.S. Soldiers
Allen Hallmark for CP&J, 31-03-2008 - 09:56
Dear Friends of Citizens for Peace & Justice,
Please join us at 1 pm this Saturday, April 5th, at the Rogue Valley Mall in the parking lot north of the Shell station off Crater Lake Highway. We'll gather for the reading of the names of Oregonians who have died in Iraq and Afghanistand and a song or two each by Beth Baker and Pete Herzog. Then we'll walk around the perimeter of the mall property with our signs and our chants.
See our website: http://www.medfordcpj.org for more information.
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Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia!
Internationalist Group, 30-03-2008 - 18:51
On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now!
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