Food & Agriculture
Year 1870: Mothers Day Proclamation
Anna Howe, 04-05-2008 - 17:29
A copy of the Original Mothers Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe -
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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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Food Prices and Commodity Speculation
Michael Niemann, 15-04-2008 - 16:02
The wheat flour I use to bake bread has increased by thirty-eight percent in just one months. What happened? In addition to all the other factors, the increased number of speculators in commodity markets are driving prices up.
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Petition to End Sweatshops and Slavery
mega, 07-04-2008 - 14:31
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) - an organization of low-wage workers based in Immokalee, Florida - has launched a national petition campaign to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages & working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery & human rights abuses from Florida's fields.
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FREE TRADE FORUM in Medford 3-29-08
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign & Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, 28-03-2008 - 09:06
Don't Miss Event: Southern Oregon Assembly on Free Trade and Job Loss
Join displaced workers from Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford and elsewhere to discuss the negative impacts that free trade agreements like NAFTA are having on southern Oregon communities -- and what we can do together to finally put an end to destructive trade policies once-and-for-all.
When: Saturday, March 29 2:00 pm
Where: Medford County Library, 205 South Central, Medford
Continue Below for recent "fair trade interviews" on the Brain Labor Report radio show
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Water: Report on League Meeting
Pure Public Water for All, 20-03-2008 - 13:10
I missed this meeting due to work, but just got a report back. At the meeting, a question was asked about water privatization. The League Response was that the topic could not be discussed at the meeting because the topic was too controversial. Apparently those were the ground rules............
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Seeds of Sustainability Spring Faire Tomorrow
SeedShare, 14-03-2008 - 20:08
Seeds of Sustainability Spring Faire
Saturday March 15th, 11am - 6pm
Free Admission At Pioneer Hall, across from Lithia Park. Launch
Celebration for The Ashland Wellness Guide’s Neighborhood Garden
Project Faire hosted by The Ashland Wellness Guide
http://www.ashlandwellnessguide.com
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Taking GE Foods off Store Shelves
Liisa, 11-03-2008 - 19:35
Believing that genetically engineered foods are untested for
health effects on humans, the Ashland Food Co-op has launched a
program to get all such products off its shelves this year - and other
area markets, including Shop N Kart and Food For Less, say they are
steadily increasing offerings of GM-free food.
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Stop Toxic Imports Rally - Report Back from Medford, Oregon
Organized by SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 07-03-2008 - 13:08
INDEPENDENT MEDIA GETS THE "INSIDE" SCOOP - rogueimc.org
Representatives from over a dozen unions and community organizations stood up tall and spoke loud & clear in telling U.S. Senator Gordon Smith from Oregon:
STOP TOXIC IMPORTS NOW!
and
SUPPORT the FOOD AND PRODUCT RESPONSIBILITY ACT (S.2081)
Photos and Video included in this report come from the 2/29/08 Rally in Medford, Oregon with special appreciation for citizen journalists Allen Hallmark (photos) and Steve Ryan (video). Mainstream cameras (local tv channels 5 & 10) never went inside, they missed the inside scoop. See it here:
3 min. U-Tube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8OcWaPdjiA
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Being It Eco Village
Vegan1forPeace, 05-03-2008 - 17:42
I'm proposing a name for the proposed eco village up at the old quarry site, "Being It Eco Village" in honor of Bennett Tanner. I've also begun trying to picture what the village might look like, with a 24 foot dome as the community center, 10'x10' huts on 12'x12' spaces, and a garden which is drip irrigated by a pond on the site.
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STOP TOXIC IMPORTS Rally Feb. 27 in Medford
Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice, 11-02-2008 - 09:11
STOP TOXIC IMPORTS Rally
10:30 a.m., Feb. 27, Medford, Oregon
Location: Senator Gordon Smith's Medford Office, Security Plaza 1175 East Main
The issue of lead in toys has gotten quite a bit of coverage in the media. But the problem of Toxic Trade goes far beyond toxics in toys.
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice is joining with the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, the United Steelworkers and with labor and consumer protection
advocates: Congress is on notice that our trade laws must champion safety
and environmental standards as well as workers' rights.
We urge Senator Gordon Smith to Stop Toxic Imports and Support the Food and Product Responsibility Act (S. 2081)
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Shocked by Undercover Slaughterhouse Video
Mark Hawthorne , 03-02-2008 - 23:27
HSUS' recent undercover investigation of a California slaughterhouse is making headlines around the world. Here are 5 things you can do to help end this kind of animal torture.
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Santa Cruz Media Summit: Live this weekend Jan. 25-27
T R U T H * E M E R G E N C Y, 24-01-2008 - 16:36
Following posted by a Rogue IMC volunteer as a service for independent media here in Southern Oregon...
http://truthemergency.pnn.com/4641-front-page
Update by Peter Phillips and David Kubiak
Many economists now doubt that government measures can prevent a
major recession given the severe slump in the housing market, the
subprime mortgage crisis, growing unemployment, declining consumer
spending, and record high oil prices. Even harder times for working
people are undoubtedly at hand, yet mainstream corporate media
continues to lavish more attention on the Super Bowl and celebrity
misadventures than measures to protect Americans from grave personal
economic harm. We are spun, mislead, propagandized and amused to
death by our media conglomerates and as a result the US has become
the best entertained and least informed society in the world.
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Forget oil, the new global crisis is food
Financial Post , 07-01-2008 - 08:16
A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group said at the Empire Club's 14th annual investment outlook in Toronto on Thursday.
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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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Action Alert: Say No to Monsanto in Ohio
BGH Free, 15-12-2007 - 09:37
If you are wondering why Oregonians should care. Products that currently have labeling saying such things as BGH Free which are made in Oregon are sold in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania. If such a ban on labeling is to occur that could effect what we see on our labels here.
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GE Corn Contamination is spreading globally
Indigenous Farming Community Group, 06-12-2007 - 13:29
Mexico GE Corn contamination is spreading globally.
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Action Alert - Vote Solar
Ryan Lee Illyes, 02-12-2007 - 09:04
Don’t Let Congress Pull the Plug on Solar Energy, Jobs and Economic Growth.
Local Renewable Energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuel or energy imported from other regions.
Keep Our Country strong Like a Rock.
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Biodiesel once, twice recycled? GMO smog?
Beware GMO/GE monopolies (ADM, ConAgra, etc.., 25-11-2007 - 12:52
Background on risks of promoting biodiesel as petroleum alternative, guarding against biotech's corporate takeover of corn, soy and other potential biodiesel sources. Local control of used fryer oil or rendering corporation monopoly??
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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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ACT TO RESTORE ROGUE RIVER SALMON!
W A T E R W A T C H, 26-10-2007 - 15:29
ACT TO RESTORE ROGUE RIVER SALMON!
SUPPORT THE CORPS PLAN TO NOTCH ELK CREEK DAM
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment proposing to remove a portion of the uncompleted Elk Creek Dam to provide upstream and downstream fish passage through the dam. The draft, entitled Elk Creek Project Fish Passage Corridor, is available at: www.nwp.usace.army.mil/pm/e/en_plan_assess.asp . The construction of Elk Creek Dam was halted by litigation in 1986. The partially completed dam blocks fish passage on Elk Creek, a very important salmon and steelhead producing tributary of the Rogue River. A strong showing of support for the Corps’s notching proposal is needed to keep it on track.
Read More and Do This Important ACTION ITEM
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Video: Chicago FCC Media Ownership Hearing
W H O * O W N E S * T H E * M E D I A ?, 23-10-2007 - 18:56
T H E * U P P N E T * C O N N E C T I O N
Got this from labor videographer, access television producer and UPPNET board member Larry Duncan who lives in Chicago. It is important media coverage that is being shared at a grass roots level. This is rollin' our own, folks! It works. Larry Duncan sent this out to the Union Producers and Programmers Network, UPPNET http://www.uppnet.org/
Here is access television coverage of the FCC Media Ownership Hearing which recently took place in Chicago. Check out streaming videos of the hearings. Thanks for sending this, Larry! --wes brain
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Suterra Issues Cease & Desist to Indybay.org
imcista, 14-10-2007 - 17:19
Suterra LLC, a manufacturer of "biorational" pest control products based in Bend, Oregon, has issued a cease and desist order to Indybay demanding that information about a "secret" ingredient in the CheckMate OLR-F mating disruption pheromone be removed from the site.
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2004 Reclaim the Commons video
email, 08-10-2007 - 00:47
3 days in San Francisco
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Cannabis Ingredient May Prevent BSE
norml.org.nz , 30-09-2007 - 16:14
Cannabidiol may be effective in preventing bovine spongiforme enzephalopathy (mad cow disease) Scientists at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, may prevent the development of prion diseases, the most well-known being "mad cow disease" or BSE (bovine spongiforme enzephalopathy).
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1st NATIONS DAY & NATIVE ECO SYMPOSIUM F S Su
Ter'rence via Larry Morningstar, 26-09-2007 - 01:09
FIRST NATIONS DAY AND NATIVE ECO SYMPOSIUM
Friday-Sunday, September 28th - 30th
Briscoe Art Wing, 265 N. Main St, Ashland
Red Earth Descendants (R.E.D.) will host their first annual EcoSymposium/First Nations Day Celebration Sept. 28 – 30 at Briscoe Art Wing, 265 N Main in Ashland, Oregon. This free event includes prayer, ceremony, music, and nationally recognized Native American and Environmentalist speakers concerned about "our Earth and our Future Generations." Sessions on the four elements Air, Earth, Water, and Fire will take place Fri. and Sat., Sept. 28 and 29, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 30, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Fri, Sept 28
"Local Activism" will be the focus of the EcoSymposium session on Friday, September 28. After a reception beginning at 6:00 pm, speakers will include Chant Thomas (Dakubetede Environmental Education Programs); David She'om Rose (South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy), Devon Strong (Four Eagles Farm, bison ranching), Julie Norman (Siskiyou Project, biodiversity & watershed protection), Lois & Leonard Houston (Blackfoot & Takelma, South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership, beaver restoration), Stan Petrowski (South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership, watershed restoration), and more.
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Substance in hashish could alleviate allergy
THE JERUSALEM POST , 19-08-2007 - 19:17
A chemical found in the cannabis (hashish) plant can help the body's immune system alleviate a common skin disease called allergic contact dermatitis, according to a group of researchers from Israel, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the US.
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