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Rising Moon Organics Goes Waste Free At OCF
Jake, 27-06-2008 - 11:59
Rising Moon Organics (RMO) has served the finest ravioli and desserts at the Oregon Country Fair (OCF) since 1992. RMO was formerly one of many food booths producing mountains of trash over the 3 day festival, but changed their approach in 1993 to pursue a trash-free mission.
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I Remember America
Janet C. Phelan, 04-06-2008 - 11:12
A poem remembering America, as it was, or as it appeared to be...
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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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Updates/Housing NE Unconventional Action Conv
Upstate Uprise Unconventional Action Faction, 07-01-2008 - 01:13
1/19-1/21 UnconventionalAction.org
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"The Story of Stuff"
Annie Leonard, 25-12-2007 - 06:33
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
This is not a "bah-humbug" message this holiday season, but one of reflection that I wish to share... We can enjoy the holidays while at the same time considering "The Story of Stuff" I say this with self-reflection because to be perfectly honest I ran over to the Rogue Valley Mall just two days ago looking for "last minute stuff"--wes
What is the Story of Stuff?
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Watch This Video
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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Bali: A Missed Opportunity
Dr. Walden Bello, 24-12-2007 - 17:43
The gap between the urgent threat of global warming and the collective will to do something about it has never been greater. The recently concluded Conference on Climate Change in Bali was a grand opportunity to act. Instead, it was another missed opportunity. Unfortunately, the United States played a very negative role, standing in the way of consensus at every turn. And unfortunately, the rest of the world thought that seducing the US into a new agreement on climate action was top priority, resulting in a Bali Roadmap that was very sketchy.
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Celebrate & Defend our Bill of Rights!
December 15th is the Bill of Rights Birthday, 11-12-2007 - 14:47
Dissent Is Patriotic
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee's e-mail newsletter, December 2007, Vol. 6, No. 8
This is the plain text version of the newsletter, For a version which contains live links go view the newsletter on BORDC's website http://www.bordc.org/newsletter/bordcnews6-8.php.
In this issue:
*Legislation: Protect America - with the Constitution!; Targeting "Thought Crime"; American Freedom Agenda Act
*Guantanamo: What Would it Take to Make This the LAST Anniversary?
*Grassroots News: Long Beach, CA - In Memoriam: Edith Pollach; Wichita Falls, TX - 414th Resolution!; Public Outrage for Criminals Appearing in Public in FL, CO and NY; Bill of Rights Day and Human Rights Day; and news from Port Townsend, WA, West Hartford, CT, and San Jose, CA
*In Brief: Brandon Mayfield Speaks; New Group Forms to Abolish Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act; Muslim Charity Organizer Released on Bail; Anti-Torture Group Receives Award
*Book and Film Reviews: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib by Rory Kennedy
*BORDC News: Our First Field Organizer!; BORDC Welcomes New Administrator; Volunteers Needed; Law Students Invited to Apply for Haywood Burns Fellowship
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Senator Gordon Smith Sells Out Oregon Workers
P O W E R * T O * T H E * P E O P L E *, 21-11-2007 - 17:26
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SENATOR IS? AND WHAT HE'S DOING THERE?
This message comes to Southern Oregon by way of Kari Chisholm and his post on Blue Oregon
http://www.blueoregon.com/2007/11/its-monday-do-y.html
We need to hold Senator Gordon Smith accountable for selling off the future of ordinary working people in Oregon.
THIS STORY IS LOCAL FOR SOUTHERN OREGON JUST AS MUCH AS ANYWHERE ELSE IN OUR STATE. WE ALL WILL FIGHT FOR LIVING WAGE JOBS & THE AMERICAN DREAM IN SPITE OF GORDON SMITH!
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"A Coup Has Occurred"
Daniel Ellsberg, 26-09-2007 - 08:52
By Daniel Ellsberg September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007)
Daniel Ellsberg is author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
Editor's Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.
I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.
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NEWS INTERNATIONAL
WORLD NEWS - INTERNATIONAL, 19-07-2007 - 15:11
MINISTRA DE SALUD DE BOLIVIA DEL MAS DISCRIMINÓ A DESTACADO MÉDICO ESPECIALIZADO EN EL EXTERIOR
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NEWS INTERNATIONAL
WORLD NEWS - INTERNATIONAL, 17-07-2007 - 13:16
MINISTRA DE SALUD DE BOLIVIA DEL MAS DISCRIMINÓ A DESTACADO MÉDICO ESPECIALIZADO EN EL EXTERIOR
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Greg Walden Town Hall Mtng. in Medford July 3
* W H E R E ' S * W A L D E N ? * P A T R O L *, 29-06-2007 - 21:43
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Sneaky Greg Walden Townhall Comes on July 3rd - Brings Protest and Testimony
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Medford peace group to protest Walden’s “town hall” meeting
CPJ once again asks the time-honored question: “Where’s Walden?”
Citizens for Peace & Justice will rally outside the Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium on Oakdale in Medford from 10 to 10:30 am next Tuesday, July 3rd, before Rep. Greg Walden, R-OR, begins his “town hall” meeting to protest its inadequacies.
The reason for the protest is that Walden responded to calls for a town hall meeting on the cost of the Iraq War to Oregon by scheduling a one-hour meeting from 10:30 to 11:30 am on a weekday when few working people can attend. He also scheduled a similar meeting in Grants Pass for 1:30 pm to give him a good excuse for the Medford meeting not to run long.
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pockets of peace demonstrations all over!
Wes Brain, 05-02-2007 - 11:39
One of the most amazing aspects of the peace movement in this country, to me, is just how many demonstrations take place in lots and lots of places besides Medford, Portland, San Francisco, NYC, Chicago, Boston and such... There are small demonstrations taking place literally all across this land and if we think it is hard getting out the word about our movement in Medford and NYC just imagine how folks feel in Bandon, Oregon or Coupeville, Washington. Thats right, Coupeville is what I said. I have stood on the corner with a diligent group on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound and proudly participated in the weekly vigil there...
WE ARE EVERYWHERE ! ! !
Here is a story on the Portland IMC which helps make my point...
"Peace Demonstration - BANDON, OR!"
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/353400.shtml
peace,
wes-
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PDX says: Bring Troups Home, Fund Human Needs
CITY COUNCIL MODEL FOR YOUR TOWN!, 30-11-2006 - 19:30
Here is a story from our sister city at the other end of the I-5 corridor. We are talking PDX-Portland. Looks like a resolution for other cities to pass. How about it, ASHLAND?
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By a 5-0 unanimous vote, the Portland (OR) City council today adopted a resolution to bring the troops home from Iraq and fund human needs!
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MAKES MUCH SENSE! WE CAN NOT EVEN FUND A GOOD BUS SYSTEM IN THE ROGUE VALLY. THE LIBRARY SYSTEM IS UNDER ATTACK AND THE WALMART ECONOMY IS TAKING HOLD IN OUR END OF THE STATE. THE TIME FOR PEOPLE TO STAND UP AND WIN IS NOW!
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Brad Will, IMC journalist murdered in Oaxaca
Wes, another imc volunteer, 30-10-2006 - 09:32
Here is Brad Will's last dispatch where he reports on the darkness that is all but ignored by the commercial news. His news report is testimony in and of itself as to the importance of independent media. Go light a candle for Brad Will. Long Live Independent Media!
Brad was an independent video journalist, a volunteer with the Independent Media Center in NYC. We have lost a journalist who helped shine light on news that is under-reported or not even told at all. Shame on the United States mainstream media for their corporate censorship when it comes to this 5 month long teacher and community struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico. So, so many don't even know. Were it not for imc reporters like Brad Will: No One Would Know.
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URGENT.
Rosemary E. Whitelaw., 04-10-2006 - 07:26
SCOTTISH RITUAL FREEMASONRY.
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Court Victory for FTAA Protesters
National Lawyers Guild via Miami IMC, 30-09-2006 - 19:11
A number of citizens from Southen Oregon went to Miami, Florida in November of 2003 to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The Miami Model is the law enforcement program which denied protesters their rights by burying the U.S. Constitution while the FTAA secret meetings took place. The military lock-down of a major U.S. city remains for the most part an untold story because it got very little mainstream media coverage. Since then through efforts of Homeland Security domestic police departments have been becoming militarized, from sea to shining sea. We now have a situation where the Miami Model may soon be coming to YOU!
Here is some important news of one victory as abused Miami FTAA protesters seek justice through the courts...
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Emergency Mt. Ashland City Council Meeting
From Green Grandmothers and Friends, 25-09-2006 - 20:37
There is new information which with your help can save our Ashland Water Shed. The Roadless Rule has been re-instated by the federal government, and Mt. Ashland is on the list of protected roadless areas. Because the expansion project of the Mt. Ashland Association has not yet begun and almost one half of the expansion project is in the McDonald Roadless Area, there is the possibility of stopping the clear-cutting.
There will be an emergency meeting of the Ashland City Council on Tuesday, September 26th at 1:00 PM at 51 Windburn Way across from Lithia Park regarding the Mt. Ashland water shed issue.
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Israel: the Origins of a Terrorist State
Hamidul, 22-06-2006 - 05:20
State terrorism, carried out by the Israeli government, is cold. It
is a "rational" decision of both a state and a military apparatus of
occupation, well equipped, well financed and - unfortunately -
backed by the only superpower in the world. The state terror and war
crimes perpetrated by the Israeli government are legitimised
as "self defence"
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Keating's Green campaign for gov heats up
Dave Mazza, 06-06-2006 - 11:40
While Republicans and Democrats have been vying for the chance to run for governor, a smaller, more quiet campaign has slowly been coming together in preparation for a big push this summer and fall. Joe Keating's run to be the state's top executive under the Pacific Green Party banner may not have the the money and staffs found in the two big parties, but there's no shortage of ideas and enthusiasm.
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