Civil & Human Rights
War or Peace: ethical human rights approach.
Anthony Ravlich, 22-09-2012 - 19:06
Desc neoliberalism and an ethical human rights, development and globalization as a choice between war and peace. Concern at effects of neolib on Christchurch rebuild following earthquakes. Suggests NZ pursue an independent path from the IMF’s neoliberal policies with right to property removed from latter and included in international human rights law.
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War or Peace: ethical human rights approach.
Anthony Ravlich, 19-09-2012 - 01:06
Expresses the opinion that the choice between neoliberalism and an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization is a choice between war and peace. And also a concern at the effects of neoliberalism on the rebuilding of Christchurch following massive earthquakes. Considers New Zealand should pursue an independent path from the IMF and its neoliberal economic policies.
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Walmart Warehouse Workers STRIKE & Walmarch!
News forwarded to Rogue Indy by RAW: (Rogue) Residents Against Walmart, 17-09-2012 - 21:21
Warehouse Workers United website 
http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNwIK9t1Lw&feature=plcp
Posted on September 17th, 2012
Hundreds to Greet Marchers at LA City Hall, Demand Responsibility from Walmart; LA County Fed’s Maria Elena Durazo, Dolores Huerta, Rep. Judy Chu to Join
The “WalMarch,” a 50-mile, 6-day pilgrimage of warehouse workers, is drawing national attention on deplorable working conditions inside Southern California warehouses that serve major retailers including Walmart. Workers are asking for basic yet critical improvements on the job: fans to combat the 100 degree heat, functioning equipment, clean water, regular breaks, and an end to inhumane work quotas and retaliation for speaking up about safety conditions.
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Labor Day Special: The American Dream & Its Reality: Pushing Back Against The Plutocracy!
BUILDING BRIDGES RADIO, MIMI ROSENBERG & KEN NASH, 02-09-2012 - 19:14
No, say it ain’t so – can it really be that the Democratic National Convention(DNC) had the chutzpa to convene, of all days, on Labor Day, in a nonunion convention hall, in a right to work state? Well, it’s true! So, there’s all the more reason to join and build bridges with the worker advocates converging in Charlotte this week.
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Interview with Hamja Ahsan & Aviva Stahl
Angola 3 News, 23-08-2012 - 03:24
An important ruling is expected early in September from the European Court of Human Rights, regarding whether or not US prisons respect human rights enough for the UK to extradite ‘war on terror' suspects to the US. We interview activist/journalist Aviva Stahl from CagePrisoners.com alongside Hamja Ahsan, the brother of Talha Ahsan.
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Witness Venezuela’s Elections This October! (
Bolivarian Circle of New York Alberto Lovera, 22-08-2012 - 04:22
This October, witness one of the most important elections in the history of Venezuela—and of the hemisphere. On October 7, the people of Venezuela will exercise their right to vote and decide whether to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution through the reelection of President Hugo Chavez.
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Academics defy State Capture for human rights
Anthony Ravlich, 19-08-2012 - 02:24
Top academics defy State capture to discuss ethical human rights, development,globalization to replace neoliberalism. Ethical approach (includes all human rights) emphasizes bottom-up development to unleash human potential whereas neoliberalism (omits many human rights)emphasizes top-down control of development which, in my view, crushes human potential.
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Jose Maria Sison - jingoist, pseudo-democrat,
Roxana Malaya, 07-08-2012 - 10:26
Like Stalin, Sison's understanding of Marxism is pseudo-scientific and quasi-religious
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USA: Human Rights Activist to be Jailed
Steven Argue, 03-08-2012 - 20:34
The case of Ed Frey is reminiscent of an earlier Santa Cruz case where Sandy Loranger did time in jail for feeding the homeless soup. When the judge offered her counseling instead of jail Sandy Loranger replied, "If feeding my fellow man is a crime, I am beyond rehabilitation."
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STOP Imperialist War against Syria
Jose Maria Sison, 03-08-2012 - 06:30
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces.
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New idea for a better world.
Anthony Ravlich, 29-07-2012 - 09:06
A new idea, an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization to replace neoliberalism, gives people a choice.The ethical human rights approach is being supported on the social networking sites by the US government, the UN while the NZ government maybe sympathetic. Also, promotes the inclusion of children's rights in NZ bill of rights.
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Oregon Supreme Court win on MERS
Keith S. Dubanevich, Oregon Dept. of Justice, 18-07-2012 - 18:50
Breaking news: The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that MERS is not the real beneficiary and thus does not have standing to pursue foreclosures. Attached is the opinion.
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Hard Travelin' Tour celebrating Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday is a BIG HIT in Ashland
CONCERT RAISES FUNDS FOR HEALTH CARE FOR ALL—OREGON, 09-07-2012 - 20:16
The Hard Travelin' Tour, summer of 2012 is Anne Feeney, Mark Ross and Adam Moss singin' songs written or inspired by Woody Guthrie in this year of his 100th Birthday (officially July 14, 2012)
Ashland, Oregon--July 7, 2012
Southern Oregon's concert dazzles over 120 people crammed into Ashland's UCC Congregational Church on Saturday night. This was the Rogue Valley's first very HOT summer day and all those bodies in a non-airconditioned space made for one heck of a celebration. The church was plumb full of sweaty smiling people celebrating with laughter and lots of song...
Sponsoring Organizations: Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Southern Oregon Central Labor Council, Occupy Medford, Citizens for Peace and Justice and Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice.
Proceeds raised benefit Healthcare For All—Oregon.
Following is a report from Allen Hallmark who provides several photos of this grand occasion... click a pic to make it larger
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Tribe Seeks River Closure for Sacred Ceremony
Vanessa Houk, 07-07-2012 - 17:12
Underneath the craggy Two Sisters Mountain along the McCloud River in Shasta Lake, the ancient lands hold space for the Winnemem Wintu tribe (the middle water people) and their coming of age ceremony, but it’s uncertain if the US Forest Service will honor their claim. For more than six thousand years the Wintu people have called that area their home. As Chief Caleen Sisk explains, “Our beginning of life comes from Mt. Shasta, so all those stories up and down the river have meaning – from Yellow Jacket Mountain, to Fox Mountain, to the Sucker Pools, all these have stories that belong to the Winnemem people and songs that go with them.”
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John Beeson: SO's 1st Civil Rights Advocate
Vanessa Houk, 07-07-2012 - 17:08
It’s the sort of place where the wind whispers secrets and birds come to rest in the trees before a long flight. It’s a place where lives are put to rest, but stories lay waiting to be re-told. It’s a place where elderly Pacific Madrones and mature Pines lean in together as if they are comfortable neighbors. The Stearns Cemetery in Talent is a place where several notable Southern Oregon pioneers are buried, including John Beeson who is remembered as Southern Oregon’s first civil rights advocate.
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HCAO response to Supreme Court ruling on ACA mandate
Health Care for All—Oregon, 28-06-2012 - 17:05
The following press release is forwarded by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. It can also be seen at this website http://www.singlepayeroregon.org
June 28, 2012
For immediate release
Contact: Joanne Cvar, Chair HCAO Communications 
cvar@peak.org 541 563 3615
Mike Huntington, MD, HCAO president; mchuntington@comcast.net, 541-745-5635 (H) 541 829 1182 (C)
HCAO response to Supreme Court ruling on ACA mandate
Health Care for All Oregon welcomes the survival of important patient protections and rights under today’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. These protections include the ban on refusal of coverage for pre-existing conditions, the required full coverage of limited basic primary care, and the extension of coverage of adult children under parental insurance through age 25. These elements move the human right to health care in the U.S. forward.
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Co-op Annual Report: Board Candidates a Loss for Labor
Jason Houk, News Director KSKQ and Jobs with Justice Organizer, 25-06-2012 - 04:14
(*Note from Rogue IMC volunteer: This is an ongoing saga about Union Busting illegally being conducted by the Ashland Food Co-op. The fiasco continues...)
The Co-op board has a duty to rein in the unlawful activities of their management staff. The National Labor Relations Board affirmed 13 unfair labor practice complaints and this is a MAJOR red flag that something is wrong.
It is certain that the co-op board would not tolerate theft by their General Manager and that accusations of sexual harassment or racism would be taken seriously. On the matter of violating labor laws and the rights of co-op workers, however, the board is painfully neglect in their
responsibility.
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Our Dysfunctional Health Care System and What We Can Do About It
HOW TO GET CORPORATE GREED OUT OF HEALTHCARE, 22-06-2012 - 16:37
Real Health Care Reform, an educational television program on Rogue Valley Community Television
"Our Dysfunctional Health Care System and What We Can Do About It"
RVTV cable ch. #15, Wednesdays at 6PM, June 27 with repeats July 4, 11, & 18
This special hour-long edition features talks by two distinguished physicians and scholars who toured Oregon recently speaking about health care reform. A special thank you to producer Roberta Hall who has made this show available in Southern Oregon
Marcia Angell and Arnold Relman—both are past editors of the New England Journal of medicine, and staunch supporters of a single payer system---and we have a good video of their talk
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6 of Morong 43 rejoin the Philippine rebels
Jaime Laude, 09-06-2012 - 10:29
Six of the so-called Morong 43 have rejoined the armed struggle and have linked up with their Southern Tagalog-based comrades, a senior military commander said Thursday.
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2nd Complaint filed in USA v. Sheriff Arpaio
scott huminski, 02-06-2012 - 12:55
Fed Court Issues order in USA v. Arpaio,
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