Immigration & Refugees

May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports

Internationalist Group, 04-05-2008 - 20:51

On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party.
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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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May 1 march for immigrants rights

! ! MAY DAY ! ! MAY DAY ! ! MAY DAY ! !, 26-04-2008 - 08:38

PLease join Unete and Razas Unidas for our annual May Day March for Immigrants Rights. We will gather at Alba park at 4:00pm for a few brief speeches and inspiration followed by a march through Medford pausing at the Ginger Rodgers square to pay honor to the more that 4500 people who have died since the construction of the Wall of Shame between Mexico and the US. We still need people to hold crosses at the square. Please let me know if you are available. There will be folks doing voter registration at the event as well. Thank you for your support of immigrants.
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All Out on May Day!

Internationalist Group, 26-04-2008 - 06:24

On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy.
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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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Panel On Homelessness In Ashland Consensus?

Vegan1forPeace, 23-02-2008 - 09:09

The League of Women Voters of Ashland's panel discussion on "Homeless in Ashland" seemed to reach a consensus that the current paradigm of how services are provided doesn't have a solution. The leading promises are programs that give the homeless power and responsibility in providing services.
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Corruption in Finland - State Hiring Scandal

N Rockefeller, 07-02-2008 - 03:28

The Finnish Chancellor of Justice is currently investigating for
possible irregularities and discriminatory treatment after the Swedish
School of Social Science released documents relating to their decision
to reject an internationally renowned SPACEPOL expert's candidacy for a
limited track researcher position. According to SPACEPOL CEO Gunnar K.
A. Njalsson, the released documents expose a process of candidate
evaluation riddled with inconsistencies and lack of academic integrity.
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Evening with Border Angels Thursday, Feb 7th

Liisa, 06-02-2008 - 19:49

Unete Presents and evening presentation by the BORDER ANGELS

Join us in warm welcome to this goodhearted organization that looks out for our Indigenous People who risk their lives to make a better life for their families and communities.
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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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Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany

Fountainhead, 12-12-2007 - 12:04

An intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany.
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Free Trade: Do Smith & Wyden support Oregon workers?

Derek Volkart, 03-12-2007 - 08:25

Peru Free Trade Agreement threatens jobs

The U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement, if passed in the Senate, would offshore even more Oregon jobs while accelerating poverty in Peru. One might call the Peru Trade Agreement a lose-lose for American and Peruvian workers.

We have seen Congressman Walden vote against Oregon worker interests and soon we will see where Senators Smith and Wyden stand. Perhaps readers have an opinion for the senators (Smith, 503-326-3386; Wyden, 503-326-7525).
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Report from Amman

Mary Madsen - Collateral Repair Project, 25-11-2007 - 17:32

Dear Friends,

As many of you know I have just returned from Amman, Jordan, where I spent 3 weeks documenting stories for the Collateral Repair Project. I went there with my friend and the founder of CRP, Sasha Crow. In Amman, we met with and were accompanied by our Iraqi counterpart, Faiza Alaraji, herself a refugee from Baghdad.

I will be giving a "Talk Back" on this experience on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 pm. at SOU in Stevenson Union, Room 330. I hope many of you can attend.

Collateral Repair Project
 http://www.collateralrepairproject.org

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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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SOUTHERN OREGON LOCALS UNDERTAKE IRAQI OUTREACH PROGRAM

Bashar Mutlak, 31-10-2007 - 09:18

Local Medford Resident and Co-Director of the Collateral Repair Project, Mary Madsen, along with Founder/Co-Director, Sasha Crow, have pledged to bring the voice of the Iraqis to the forefront of the international community. On October 28th, 2007, Mary and Sasha traveled to Amman, Jordan to interview and film hundreds of Iraqi refugees and families living in exile, in a bid to create a wealth of knowledge and awareness within North America and internationally through the Collateral Repair Project  http://www.collateralrepairproject.org
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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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Portland:“Hammerskin” Racists Will be Opposed

Ad-Hoc Committee Against Racism and Fascism, 25-09-2007 - 17:42

Portland, Oregon – The Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi skinhead organization, aims to attract hundreds of hardcore racists to the group’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, to be held October 5 – 7 of this year in the greater Portland area. A coalition of Northwest anti-racists has coordinated its own three days of community responses to the Hammerskin gathering.
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"EYES WIDE OPEN - I don't want to be a soldier"

ROGUE VALLEY COMMUNITY TELEVISION (RVTV), 29-07-2007 - 23:05

New Music Video Debuts Wednesday August 1, 2007 - Right Here in Southern Oregon !

"EYES WIDE OPEN - I Don't Want To Be A Soldier"
for the first time ever will be cablecast on Television. Please help get the word out...

ANYBODY IN JACKSON AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY with CABLE TV CAN WATCH THIS --

Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 6:00 PM; Repeats Wed. Aug. 8, 15 & 22 - all at 6:00 PM
Cable Channel #15 -Jackson and Josephine Counties

This special 5 minute music-video shares some special heartfelt sentiment and real wisdom from 91 year old Julius Margolin and his younger side-kick George Mann who sing a great song "I don't want to be a soldier" - and the song is played over the video of the thoughtful travelling exhibit called EYES WIDE OPEN which observes Oregon's Fallen Soldiers and ALL who have lost lives in the Iraq war.

HERE IS THE INTERNET VERSION OF THE VIDEO
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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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KSKQ LIVE REPORTS-US Social Forum in Atlanta

KSKQ-SOUTHERN OREGON'S LOW POWER FM RADIO, 23-06-2007 - 10:43

This week the United States Social Forum is taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and KSKQ is providing LIVE streaming radio reports

LIVE REPORTS VIA THE BRAIN LABOR REPORT
Here is the schedule. Remember ALL shows are LIVE 7:00AM - 7:30AM Pacific West Coast Time, and then archived as mp3 files on the Brain Labor Report webpage

Listen LIVE to KSKQ:  http://www.kskq.org
Archive @ Brain Labor Report:  http://www.kskq.org/blr

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Nancy Price, Co-Director of Alliance for Democracy

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Linda Richards, WILPF & Rogue Valley peace activist

Friday, June 29, 2007
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director of Jobs with Justice
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Israel Occupies Palestine, 40 years now

* F O T O * * F E E D B A C K *, 10-06-2007 - 21:03

PASSION RULED TODAY - A FOTO FEEDBACK - SET #1

--Saturday June 9, 2007
A Couple Dozen Concerned Citizens Assembled in Ashland Oregon to Call Attention to the 40th anniversary of Israel's Occupation of Palestine.

Folks became fired up and passionate when Gerald Cavanaugh spoke and a self described "Californian" started interupting. From that point onward- there appeared to be less listening and more polarization. It was a microcosim of how the entire Israel/Palestine issue is so damn contentious and how citizens are seemingly incapapable of having honest factual communications.

HERE IS THE FIRST SET OF PHOTOS, CLICK ON ANY TO MAKE LARGER
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Israel Occupies Palestine, 40 years now (part 2)

* F O T O * * F E E D B A C K *, 10-06-2007 - 20:45

PASSION RULED TODAY - A FOTO FEEDBACK - SET #2

--Saturday June 9, 2007
A Couple Dozen Concerned Citizens Assembled in Ashland Oregon to Call Attention to the 40th anniversary of Israel's Occupation of Palestine.

Folks became fired up and passionate when Gerald Cavanaugh spoke and a self described "Californian" started interupting. From that point onward- there appeared to be less listening and more polarization. It was a microcosim of how the entire Israel/Palestine issue is so damn contentious and how citizens are seemingly incapapable of having honest factual communications.

HERE IS THE SECOND SET OF PHOTOS, CLICK ON ANY TO MAKE LARGER
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Hugo Hellraiser gets Fired Up over Granny D

Hal Anthony, 10-06-2007 - 17:56

"Are you brave enough to do something--to even say something--about it? Or
is the truth too big for you?", challenges our beloved 97 years young
activist Granny D about the causes of immigration.

Read Granny D's advice about the causes, not the symptoms, of immigration
woes. She will educate you. Then, take advantage of her wisdom, adopt some
of her bravery for yourself, and invest two minutes of your own.

You and I will not match Granny D's courageously walking for fourteen
months, as she did while she turned 90 in 2000. But what we can do is call
1-800-828-0498 and simply tell our senators and congressman to act on our
behalf and correct themselves on corporate subsidies. Tell them to support
the citizenry, and not to listen to the corporate lobbyists. Tell them to
put www.grannyd.com in their computer, too.

"Are you brave enough to do something?" 1-800-828-0498. I know we can make a
difference. Granny D's recent message will certainly motivate you. Read
on...

--Hal

Below READ Granny D's remarks in New Hampshire this Saturday, June 9, 2007:
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Domestic Violence Hearing

Brenda Gould, 28-05-2007 - 07:53

All Community Members and Service Providers are invited to speak at a Public Hearing on Domestic Violence presented by the Governor’s Council on Domestic Violence on Friday, June 1, from 9:30 until Noon. For Spanish-speakers who wish to testify, an afternoon session will be held from 2:00 until 4:00 P.M. and an interpreter will assist. The hearing is a fact-finding session for the Council which has 21 members statewide and takes testimony around the state.
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SOLDARITY IN ROSEBURG FOR MERCY NURSES & WIB

SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 05-05-2007 - 12:43

"MERCY, GET USED TO IT YOUR WORKERS HAVE ORGANIZED. THEY AIN'T GOING AWAY

The fight you are making here in Roseburg represents what is best about the American Labor Movement and what is best about America. Standing up for yourselves. Standing up for your patients. Standing up for one another. Standing up for your families. Mercy Hospital ought to be proud of you."--Stwart Acuff, Organizing Director AFL-CIO

LABOR AND COMMUNITY UNITED TODAY IN ROSEBURG - One Hundred and Fifty People Stand with Mercy Nurses with strong solidarity for worker respect and a fair contract NOW!!! What a glorious occasion to see so many assemble to rally for the public good and the Mercy Hospital Nurses.

Over a dozen carpooled north from the Rogue Valley representing Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and its affiliates.

Southern (Oregeon) hospitality played on out when a half dozen of our group from down south joined Women in Black for their weekly stand in Roseburg, Oregon. Twenty Five stood tall in a globally recognized way to silently call very steadily for peace. Solidarity for PEACE happened in Roseburg today, too.
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Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice update

Jason Houk, 01-05-2007 - 22:15

This last Sunday, dozens gathered for the Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice press conference and 1st official meeting since receiving its national charter. Channel 12 news was on hand to record the charter declaration and musical guest.
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