Wisconsin Solidarity Rallies in Southern Oregon
STANDING UP & SPEAKING OUT, 24.02.2011 04:48
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice announces Wisconsin Solidarity Rallies at Noon this Saturday in Medford and Ashland
Wisconsin Solidarity Rallies - Southern Oregon Day of Action - Save the American Dream
Noon, Saturday, Feb. 26
Medford: Vogel Plaza, Central Ave. in downtown Medford next to Craterian Theater
Ashland: Downtown Plaza
NEWS FROM MADISON, a report comes from Rogue Valley nurse Ann Carlson who is an activist with the National Federation of Nurses. Ann has been inside the state house. Keep reading for Ann's report....
Photos by Matt Witt show Oregon-Wisconsin solidarity signs in Salem this week, click for larger view-
Southern Oregon in Solidarity with Wisconsin
2/21/11 Education Rally Salem, OR
2/21/11 Education Rally Salem, OR
Workers' Turning Point is NOW
Madison, WI, 2/24/11 4:44 p.m. PST--"Hi Wes, just got back from the demonstration at the state capitol in Madison--so inspiring and invigorating. Supporters from all over the country parading through all day to support the large numbers of workers camping in the rotunda of the Wisconsin state house 24/7 for days. While I was there it was firefighters, Letter carriers, CWA, iron workers, AFSCME,pilots, (and more)in addition to us, the National Federation of Nurses.
Hundreds and hundreds seem to be there permanently.
Doesn'tlook like it is going to end anytime soon. Let them know that So Oregon is supporting them, and that we get it! Apparently being watched worldwide. Surprised I didn't see you there."--Ann Carlson
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JOIN A RALLY TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH WISCONSIN!
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SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 2011
SOJwJ Statement: "We stand in solidarity with Wisconsin where we are seeing more of the same old politics. Wisconsin demonstrates political payback to corporate CEO's who spent more than $1 billion to elect politicians. While WE suffer the same politicians support tax breaks for corporations and CEO's. We need to be focusing on creating jobs and restoring the middle class. Politicians like Wisconsin's Governor Walker know unions are a check on corporate power, so they are working to weaken or eliminate them. Southern Oregonians know that nurses, firefighters and teachers are essential to the well-being and safety of our families and communities. This is why we choose to gather on Saturday and show solidarity with MoveOn.org rallies all across the country."--Wes Brain, SOJwJ
People all over the country are standing up and speaking out against these attacks. In Madison and cities and towns across the nation, tens of thousands of people have come out to stand up for people who work hard for a living and make our communities safer and stronger. In Wisconsin and in a lot of other states, it's time for bipartisanship and for the politicians for start working together to create jobs. It’s time to stop the partisan attacks and work together to rebuild the middle class.
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JOIN A RALLY TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH WISCONSIN!
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Wisconsin Solidarity Rallies - Southern Oregon Day of Action - Save the American Dream
Noon, Saturday, Feb. 26
Medford: Vogel Plaza, Central Ave. in downtown Medford next to Craterian Theater
Ashland: Downtown Plaza
In solidarity,
Wes Brain
Community Organizer
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice 
http://sojwj.org
298 Garfield Street
Ashland, OR 97520
541-482-6988
FOLLOW THE JOBS WITH JUSTICE BLOG http://www.jwjblog.org/
WE ARE WISCONSIN http://www.wearewisconsin.org/
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On Wisconsin! News and What to do in Solidar 26.02.2011 - 04:19 On Wisconsin! News and What to do in Solidarity. http://my.firedoglake.com/kaytillow/2011/02/25/on-wisconsin-news-and-what-to-do-in-solidarity/ In a message to the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care—HR 676, Jim Cavanaugh, President of the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL), said: "For at least three decades now the working class has been under severe attack. In Madison, and throughout Wisconsin, we have declared that enough is enough and now is the time to turn it around." The SCFL represents 97 unions and 45,000 workers in Madison and the six county area. At SCFL’s monthly meeting Monday, February 21, 2011, delegates voted for the following: "The SCFL endorses a general strike, possibly for the day Walker signs his 'budget repair bill.’” An ad hoc committee was formed to explore the details. Unions in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and across the country are rising to defend the rights of workers to organize and bargain to achieve dignity and a decent life. Wall Street, not public workers, nor unions, nor government spending, caused the fiscal crisis that is stressing our states. Workers should not have to pay to clean up Wall Street's mess. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/greenspans-incompetence-badgers-wisconsins-workers Working people know the truth and are rallying to defend the gains made through generations of struggle. As workers stood up, hundreds of thousands joined them. High school students left their classes to march with their teachers. Hear some of them speak here: http://www.laborradio.org/wisconsin/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10208169 Inspired by labor’s new fighting spirit against Gov. Scott Walker’s assault on public employees, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse voted 249-37 in favor of union representation through American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin. http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/25/uw-la-crosse-faculty-joins-aft-in-midst-of-walkers-attacks/ Physicians demonstrated their support. Dr. Lou Sanner, a family medicine physician at University of Wisconsin Health, told the Associated Press he was one of the doctors involved in writing hundreds of sick notes for protesters because they were suffering from stress. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/health_med_fit/article_7d742504-3df2-11e0-9f0c-001cc4c03286.html?sourcetrack=moreArticle . Rejecting the governor’s effort to split off the Firefighters’ Union by exempting those workers from his attack on union rights, the Firefighters joined the demonstrations and played their bagpipes in solidarity at street intersections. On Thursday, February 24, Madison's mayor and police chief called on Gov. Scott Walker to explain statements he made in a secretly recorded phone conversation that he "thought about" planting troublemakers among the thousands of demonstrators at the Capitol. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_40c3dfbe-402c-11e0-8c68-001cc4c002e0.html When Gov. Scott Walker discussed strategies to lay off state employees for political purposes, to coordinate supposedly “independent” political expenditures to aid legislators who support his budget repair bill, and to place agent provocateurs on the streets of Madison in order to disrupt peaceful demonstrations, he engaged in what a former attorney general of Wisconsin says could turn out to be serious ethics, election law and labor violations. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/article_0657a7e5-a7ca-59df-abf0-3222b8c8ef98.html Representative Sandy Pasch, a Democrat representing Wisconsin’s 22nd Assembly District, condemned the governor’s budget adjustment bill not only for destroying bargaining rights but also for threatening 65,000 Wisconsinites with loss of health care coverage in the state’s vital Medical Assistance programs. Conscious of that threat and in the best tradition of labor fighting for the uplift of all, the SCFL passed a motion to block the governor’s changes that would cut Medicaid and defund education. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/article_428b06d0-3bb1-11e0-bc42-001cc4c002e0.html A Call for solidarity Jim Cavanaugh says here’s how all of us can help: “Constant and repeated rallies and other demonstrations of support ARE very helpful.” “Also, this is costing a lot of money … so, financial support for the State Fed's defense fund is also appreciated.” You can donate on line. Go to the website http://www.wisaflcio.org/ , scroll down the home page a little ways to the “Donate.” Or CHECKS can be made payable to the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Defense Fund, 6333 W. Blue Mound Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53213. To stay informed, listen to the pro-labor daily 3-minute updates from Workers’ Independent News here: http://www.laborradio.org/ WIN, located in Madison, tells the story through workers’ voices. Distributed by: All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676 c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO) 1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218 Louisville, KY 40217 (502) 636 1551 Email:  nursenpo@aol.com http://unionsforsinglepayer.org/ 02/25/2011 Unions for Single Payer>  Homepage:: http://
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