Feds kick Ashland, Oregon protesters off public property at OUR U.S. Post Office

OUR POST OFFICE ACTS LIKE IT IS PRIVATIZED (a fascist right wing goal), 16.04.2010 22:07

Does this sound like the United States, or the Soviet Union?--Ivend Holen

We had a wonderful action today... This looked a lot like the corporate walk of terror we had tried to pull together last halloween... Great Job everybody!. Channel 12 mistakenly put together their story saying that our "Tax Wall Street to fund jobs" message and our "bank locally" message were the same for all the tea bagger gatherings in southern Oregon. We love it. Nine people fighting corporate greed stole the show!--In solidarity, Wes Brain
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Hi: The one sour note of yesterday's rally was when we were "kicked off" US Post Office property. See John Darling's article in the Ashland Daily Tidings:  http://3bl.me/ndwyg7

One of the superintendents came out of the Ashland Post Office to inform us that unless we stayed off US Post Office property he would call the US Postal Inspectors to arrest us. I asked him if the Post Office was not public property, and he said that it is not in Ashland, since they lease the property from the private sector.--Ivend Holen

Click pics to make BIG -- Keep reading for more story...

SERIOUS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Houk Family in Force

Wells Fargo gets an earfull

BoA Mortgages Evil Exposed

Corporate Greed

"No pictures"

The Ashland protest started at the Post Office for the first hour, then at 2pm a walk of corporate terror commenced with the following stops: US Bank, Chase, Ashland Chamber of Commerce, Wells Fargo, all of which were within a couple block area.

The bottom feeder of corporate terror was the last stop and the march down to A Street to Bank of America's Mortgages was a pretty good trek. Upon arrival Jason Houk addressed the occasion by reading a Foreclosure Notice addressed to BofA Mortgages.

After reading the charges I followed Jason inside to officially serve the papers to the corporate blood suckers. We were immediately told to leave so we left the Foreclosure Notice and then took a photograph. The last photo show's a BoA employee immediately after she sad, "no pictures"

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?? PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ??
Ivend continues his account re: the ownership question of...

As you may have heard, the US Post Office has plans to sell the Medford and Central Point post offices as a "cost saving" strategy, and then lease back the buildings. When that occurs the public will be restricted to leafletting or holding signs on the narrow stretch of sidewalk along the public streets. The public will be prohibited from entering the Post Office or setting foot on adjacent parking areas to inform their fellow citizens of public concerns.

Does this sound like the United States, or the Soviet Union?

Ivend Holen

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* Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice Shout-Out *
TAX WALL STREET DAY OF ACTION - Apr. 15, 2010
 http://3bl.me/9zexk4

April 15, 2010-Today, in 40 cities across the country, Jobs with Justice activists and allies took action to demand good jobs -- and a way to pay for them. Activists held rallies calling on Congress to create millions of good new jobs, tax the Wall Street speculators who broke our economy, reign in the Big Banks and protect consumers.

A tax on the speculators of the Wall Street casino could put 3 million people to work fixing our infrastructure, teaching our children, making our factories more sustainable and improving our public services.

TELL CONGRESS: TAX WALL STREET TO PAY FOR JOBS!
For 30 years, corporate CEOs and Wall Street speculators have put the squeeze on workers with globalization, privatization and union-busting. They used their rising profits to lobby Congress for tax breaks for the rich, banking deregulation and cuts to consumer protections. They invented unscrupulous mortgage and investing practices, turning our financial system into a casino. When their speculation didn’t pay off, they got Congress to bail them out to the tune of $15,000 for every household in America.

Just how unfair has our tax system gotten?
Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no U.S. income tax between 1998 and 2005. Corporations likeExxonMobil and Wal-Mart find ways to evade taxes and get taxpayer money to pick up their tab.

Wall Street speculators pay themselves record pay and bonuses and spend millions lobbying against financial regulations—subsidized by the rest of us.
Tax rates on millionaires keep dropping.

Meanwhile, the income gap between the richest 10 percent of Americans and the rest of us has been widening for 30 years. Unemployment rates are still hovering around 10 percent.
It’s time for Wall Street’s Big Banks to pay their fair share

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Today in Washington, D.C., Jobs with Justice Executive Director Sarita Gupta joined Wall Street and economic experts and consumer, development and global health advocates for a press conferenceto push for a Financial Speculation Tax. The tax is a very small levy on financial short-term transactions, which will curb excessive speculation by Big Banks, but with minimal impact on long-term investors. It also would raise an estimated $100 billion a year.

In Florida, South Florida Jobs with Justice sent a delegation to Rep. Kendrick Meek’s office to thank him for co-sponsoring the Local Jobs for America Act, and Central Florida Jobs with Justice encouraged Rep. Suzanne Kosmas to sign on. The Local Jobs for America Act will create a million jobs in local communities this year, ensuring that com munities can still operate essential services and helping to prevent state and local tax increase.
To see a full list of actions and to learn more, visit  http://www.TaxWallStreet.org.

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Pics from Post Office Action 17.04.2010 - 04:24 Demonstrating on sidewalk in front of post office. Daily Tidings Report John Darling was asked to stay off Post Office property Hello Our demonstration was a great success. Thanks to the folks who came out to represent Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and coalition organizations. Our reception was frosty at the Post Office and banks (except Wells Fargo). The public was more than supportive. Jason Houk> Homepage:: http:// The closing down of public space 17.04.2010 - 14:38 Over many years on each "Tax Day", a group of citizens have stood in front of the Ashland Post Office peacefully and quietly distributing a leaflet on "Where your income tax money really goes." Prepared by the War Resisters League, the information is accurate, well-analyzed, and makes a compelling case for the conclusion that Americans spend far too much, more than the rest of the world in fact, on militarism. Today, however, the local post office decreed that we could not distribute our information at the entrance to the post office but had to stay on the sidewalk, being isolated from and thus unable to pass our literature to the great majority of people entering the building from the parking lot. This deplorable decision is but one more action that makes it so difficult for citizens who do not own a newspaper or television station to get contrarian views out to the general public. And one more symptom of the decline of free speech and democracy in America. Gerald Cavanaugh 560 Oak St. Ashland OR 97520 541-482-6543 Gerald Cavanaugh> Homepage:: http://