Immigration & Refugees
Caravan for Immigration Reform
Announcement, 16-03-2010 - 02:57
Caravan for Immigration Reform
We can’t wait anymore.
We need to reform immigration for America now!!!
March 21, 10:30 am
Be a part of the National March for America on March 21 here locally!! Join thousands of supporters of Immigration Reform around the United States for this historical event!! Hundreds of bus loads of supporters are going to Washington DC to lead America in immigration reform. We're doing our part here locally.
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CPJ PRESENTS: Immokalee U.S.A.
CPJ Events, 31-01-2010 - 19:51
CPJ PRESENTS: Immokalee U.S.A.
Join us for a free showing on large-screen TV of a documentary, Immokalee U.S.A., at 7 pm Thursday, February 4, in Lidgate Hall behind the main building and sanctuary of the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ, 1801 E. Jackson St., Medford.
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Ashland Concert for Haitian Earthquake Relief
Musicans Rally for Haitian Relief Tonight!, 21-01-2010 - 22:02
UPDATE: SUCCESSFUL CONCERT HELD THUR. JAN. 21.. REPORTS SAY OVER $12,000. RAISED
When trying to contact Ashland's Caldera Tap House the following automatic email comes back...
"Hey, this is David with Caldera Tap House! We are away from the offices and pub for the next day doing a benefit at the Ashland Armory for a Haiti relief concert being held tonight. Check out the (following) info if you would like to attend."
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I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), 21-01-2010 - 20:03
I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer
This message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich is a godsend for Southern Oregonians who have been fighting for Single Payer health care reform! It has been nerve racking to watch activists who have been tricked into supporting insurance companies and the greedy healthcare (non)system. What a HUGE waste of time, money, and energy! HCAN in particular has sold out the working class with a campaign based on lies and deception. Now we can only hope for one thing to happen in Washington DC. We need nothing short of a quick death to the current corporate sponsored healthcare reform, RIP.
"We stand with Dennis Kucinich. We will keep on working and do whatever it takes to bring about the change that sends insurance companies packing. Let them insure cars and houses but keep them the hell away from our bodies and our health!"--Wes Brain, Rogue Valley Single Payer activist.
"I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer", Dennis Kucinich
Click here to view video: 
http://3bl.me/qfsyr5
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mutual aid for haiti
stu o'neill, 19-01-2010 - 14:41
(rogue imc editor note- stu o'neill is a long time activist & community organizer in southern oregon)
hi friends,
i know folks are probably feeling inundated with requests to support the relief effort in Haiti, but i wanted to direct your attention to a project that is seeking support right now. a good friend of mine is helping pull together this group and they could really use your help. these are folks who were on the ground in New Orleans after Katrina and were a part of the Common Ground Relief effort that has served so many people in that city. please check out their website and consider sending your contributions to this crew. feel free to share this with your friends and family. i may be sending out periodic updates as they come in. if you are not interested in receiving those, please let me know and i will make sure to remove you from future emails.
in solidarity with the people of Haiti, stu o'neill
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief in Haiti http://www.mutualaiddisasterrelief.com/
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Time for Senator Wyden to be a Fair Trader...
STOP DESTROYING THE WORKING CLASS, 02-01-2010 - 20:59
Senator Ron Wyden gets very high marks for much of his work. However for Trade Issues his grade is a big fat F! His support of corporate America at the expense of workers has led to the loss of living wage jobs for Oregonians which in turn has destroyed families and put strains on communities from Astoria to Lakeview and from Pendleton to Brookings. Profit over People hurts us deeply.
Senator Wyden: STOP supporting greedy corporations. START supporting working people. NOW is the time to turn the economy around. We need FAIR trade not FREE trade. Stop following Senator Gordon Smith, he is gone, we sent him packing... Follow the good lead of Smith's replacement and join Senator Jeff Merkley's positive stand for Oregon.
Senator Ron Wyden: NOW is the TIME to support "THE TRADE ACT"
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Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement
O U T * W I T H * T H E * O L D * a n d * I N * W I T H * T H E * N E W, 23-12-2009 - 17:29
If you do only one more political thing this year as we put 2009 to bed--RIP, let it be to listen to Bernie Sanders on the floor of the United States Senate speak about Health Care Reform which boots out corporate greed! Sanders speech is being heralded the "New Social Movement" and this couldn't come at a better time...
For 2009 reflect for just a minute on all the garbage we have been subjected to pertaining to Health Care Reform and realize that from the start the campaign has been designed by the corporate greedy who literally buy reform that makes them lots & lots more money. Profit over people wins again. The campaign for healthcare reform loses, but out of it we have the "New Social Movement"
So let us do put 2009 to bed and permanently behind us. It has been a horrible year, however we deserve to end it on a high note. We need this. If you do only one more political thing this year listen to Bernie Sanders uplifting speech describing a wonderful vision for 2010. Not a campaign, a movement!--In solidarity, Wes Brain, Chair, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, CARRY ON!
The Bernie Sanders speech is at: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=9083042
Following distributed by "All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676" "Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement" by Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates. Keep on reading....
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year
J O B S * W I T H * J U S T I C E, 21-12-2009 - 21:54
DECEMBER 21, 2009--Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice (SOJwJ) announces: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year.
The Chamber's narrow, radical agenda advocating for anti-worker, profit-focused solutions to the broken health care, labor, and environmental systems garnered them the most votes for the national Jobs with Justice "Scrooge of the Year" award.
Southern Oregon has been alarmed at local Chambers of Commerces with First Amendment violations waged by the City of Ashland's Chamber after its sponsorship of the 2007 Fourth of July Parade. In 2008 SOJwJ and ACLU of Southern Oregon gave the Ashland Chamber of Commerce a Free Speech lesson http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/07/13203.shtml
This year's Scrooge contest pitted the Chamber of Commerce against Bank of America, nominated for their role in the sub-prime lending crisis and failure to extend credit to small businesses. SOJwJ previously shouted out a patriotic warning about BoA on Dec. 12, 2008 with the People's Bail-Out Rally in Medford, Oregon http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/12/14290.shtml
Keep readin' for the full story about the just-elected "2009 National Scrooge of the Year"
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MASS FIRINGS - THE NEW FACE OF IMMIGRATION RAIDS
DAVID BACON * PHOTO-JOURNALIST, 12-12-2009 - 01:30
"No one in the Obama or Bush administrations, or the Clinton administration before them, wants to stop migration to the U.S. or imagines that this could be done without catastrophic consequences. The very industries they target for enforcement are so dependent on the labor of migrants they would collapse without it. Instead, immigration policy and enforcement consigns those migrants to an "illegal" status, and undermines the price of their labor. Enforcement is a means for managing the flow of migrants, and making their labor available to employers at a price they want to pay"--David Bacon (excerpt from the full article which can be read below)
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Medford Walmart heads towards Oregon Supreme Court
Medford Citizens for Responsible Development, 11-12-2009 - 23:21
Medford, Oregon, December 11, 2009--Medford Citizens for Responsible Development (MCRD) has not given up on the fight against powerful Walmart's legal team and the Superstore planned for South Medford. The fight continues and so do the worries about traffic congestion. Building such a monster store will bring on a super traffic nightmare, yet Medford refuses to do a traffic study which is required in their code. The area is already becoming a traffic nightmare even without building a Walmart Superstore.
MCRD has now petitioned the Oregon Supreme Court requesting a review of the earlier Court of Appeals Decision to Overturn a LUBA Ruling in the Matter of Requiring a Traffic Study for the Wal-Mart Superstore. (LUBA is Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals)
We anticipate a decision by the Court to consider our appeal within 30 to 60 days.
Attached below is the petition for review delivered by MCRD's attorney to the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this week.
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New Report--Tax $$ goes to Sweatshops
BUILDING SWEATFREE COMMUNITIES IN ASHLAND, OR & AROUND THE WORLD, 10-12-2009 - 18:36
"Toxic Uniforms: Behind the ‘Made in USA’ Label" is a new report released on December 10, 2009, International Human Rights Day
This report is highlighted by the Ashland Sweatfree Campaign who successfully worked with the City of Ashland, which first adopted a sweatfree resolution and followed up with a no-sweat-shop policy for the procurement of uniforms & garments for city employees. In April, 2009 the campaign brought to Ashland a speaking tour with Rafael Irizarry, a garment worker at Propper International in Puerto Rico, who is featured in this new report. Photos of Irizarry taken during his Ashland visit can be viewed below.
Ongoing educational work by the Ashland Sweatfree Campaign has included an art exhibit of women garment worker paintings on display in the Ashland Council Chambers in November, 2009. The Campaign is a project of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and its ad-hoc committee is composed of the following Ashland residents: Pam Vavra, Rich Rohde, Brenda Gould, Steve Ryan, Eric Navickas, Jason Houk and Wes Brain.
Two photos taken April 4, 2009 during the speakers' tour at Southern Oregon University- http://rogueimc.org/en/2009/03/14781.shtml In the first photo Rafael Irizarry holds up a garment made in his Puerto Rico workplace for the United States military. The second photo shows Rafael Irizarry front row on the far right.
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D5 Mobilization to Portland against the WTO
SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 04-12-2009 - 07:25
SOUTHERN OREGONIANS ARE HEADING TO PORTLAND DEC. 5 TO JOIN THE CONVERGENCE
Vans & Autos will car-pool up and back the same day ($30. roundtrip in a van includes pizza).
Call NOW to reserve a seat 541-482-6988 or email 
brain@mind.net
D5: Mobilization Against the World Trade Organization http://www.December5.org
Saturday, December 5th * March & Rally * Downtown Portland
12:00 Noon - Gather at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (under the Hawthorne Bridge)
1:00 pm - March to the World Trade Center, Federal Building and Wells Fargo Building
2:00 pm - Indoor Rally and Concert at Portland State University
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WTO 10 yrs. ago SAT on Rogue Valley Access TV
SOUTHERN OREGONIANS REPORT BACK--ON FILM, 04-12-2009 - 06:31
"WACHET AUF, The People's March in Seattle"
Saturday, 12/5/09, 4:04 PM
Cable Channel 15 - Jackson and Josephine Counties
10 YEARS AGO -- 1999 in SEATTLE -- CITIZENS SHUT DOWN THE WTO
*Southern Oregon Citizens Report Back on the Battle in Seattle*
This video offers first hand testimony from Southern Oregon citizen activists who just days before had been in the streets of Seattle, Washington
This is a Must See! The 10 year anniversary broadcast on 12/5/09 coincides with Southern Oregonians going north again on Saturday, 12/5/09 - http://www.december5.org/
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CRP Founder Returns to Medford
Mary Madsen, 12-11-2009 - 05:15
Sasha Crow, co-director of Collateral Repair Project, has spent the last 5 months working among the Iraqi refugee community in Amman, Jordan. She returns to Medford on Nov 13th to report back to the community and fundraise for CRP.
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Everyday Dirt & Other True Stories of Not Going to Gaza
Anonymous, 08-11-2009 - 18:55
Interfaith Peace-Builders believes in the power of eye-witness experience and transformation. Given the opportunity to speak directly with Israelis and Palestinians, delegates return to the United States better informed, more energized, and with a deeper understanding of the possibilities for true justice in the Middle East.
Read on to see a poem written by an Interfaith Peace-Builder
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Sweatshop Art Exhibit in Ashland - photos
ASHLAND SWEATFREE CAMPAIGN'S ART EXHIBIT, 05-11-2009 - 22:50
HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS SHOWING JANET ESSLEY'S WONDERFUL PAINTINGS WHICH ARE NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
STOP BY FRIDAY NIGHT BETWEEN 5 & 7PM WHEN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL OPEN UP WITH THIS EXHIBIT TO PARTAKE IN ASHLAND'S MONTHLY "FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK"
- click a photo for larger view -
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ART EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS SWEATFREE CAMPAIGN
ASHLAND, OREGON SAYS: "NO TAX $$$ FOR SWEATSHOPS", 31-10-2009 - 20:50
SWEATSHOP PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY IN ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS at 1175 E. Main St. -- November 3rd through 6th. Anyone attending the November 3rd 7pm City Council meeting will be able to view the paintings. The Council Chambers will be open to the general public for viewing November 5th and 6th from 11am to 2pm and for First Friday, November 6th from 5-7pm. November 6th is Ashland's monthly "First Friday Art Walk."
*Janet Essley Paintings*
Presente: “She is here with us.”
Honoring the Women Around the World Who Make Our Clothing is a series of paintings depicting women who sew the garments we wear every day.
Essley's paintings are an educational tool displayed to spotlight work Ashland is doing to ensure uniforms for police, firefighters and other public employees are free from sweatshop labor. The city first passed a sweatshop free resolution in December, 2008 followed by a procurement policy in June, 2009.
Arrangements for this exhibition have been made by the Ashland Sweatfree Campaign, a project of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. A special thanks for endorsement of this exhibit goes to Ashland's Public Arts Commission. An additional thank you goes to artist Janet Essley who has donated her wonderful paintings in order to raise awareness of this growing campaign.
The following Janet Essley paintings were photographed by Paul Woolery.
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SCARY HOW CONGRESS LET 666 IN THE DETAILS ..
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS, 21-10-2009 - 17:53
~ SATANS WARRIORS IN OUR U.S.CONGRESS ARE PLAYING THE DEVILS ADVOCATE WITH 45 million POORER AMERICANS HEALTH AND WELL BEING ~
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"A Union Man" Tribute on RVTV Sept. 9 @ 6PM
In Honor of a Working Class Hero, 08-09-2009 - 10:15
"A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin"
Wednesday, September 9 @ 6PM
Cable Channel 15, Rogue Valley Community Television
Available in Southern Oregon throughout Jackson and Josephine Counties
These television broadcasts (also broadcast Sept. 2) are a tribute to one huge working class hero, Julius Margolin. Julius recently passed away August 24, 2009 and this documentary showing his remarkable life is presented to honor a very special man
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Labor Day 2009 Picnic--YOU are invited
CELEBRATION TO BUILD WORKING CLASS POWER, 03-09-2009 - 16:20
Here comes Labor Day! Its our annual Labor Day Picnic and celebration brought to Southern Oregon by the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council.
We are building a new tradition in Southern Oregon. These times of economic strife for so many hard working families are times for reflection. We celebrate the working class as we build a voice for working people. We build power when we learn how to speak with one voice.
Please join us this Labor Day Monday, September 7, 2009 for our annual picnic here in Southern Oregon-
* * * LABOR DAY PICNIC 2009 IN SOUTHERN OREGON * * *
*Starts at 11:00 a.m.
*Tou Velle State Park
8425 Table Rock Rd.
Central Point, Oregon
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Unions Counter Lies About British Healthcare
All Unions Committee For Single Payer HR 676, 24-08-2009 - 04:24
Rabid right wingers and Republican office holders continue to spread outright lies about British healthcare in an effort to influence the debate in the U.S. over healthcare reform.
Here in the Rogue Valley both the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council and Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice have resolved to support the ONLY REAL Healthcare Reform: Single Payer HR 676.
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LABOR DAY -- Origins and what about May Day?
Jim Cook, 20-08-2009 - 20:22
Just as the dog days of summer are upon us we are again looking towards our annual celebration of the working class. Here comes Labor Day! This post comes from Jim Cook a long time union and community organizer who upon retirement left Oregon, USA for Ajijic, Mexico. Jim authored this article for the Service Employees International Union #503 (my union) and for the Oregon Peaceworker newsletter... Please take a look at Brother Jim Cook's very interesting work.--Wes Brain, Chair Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
"Mexico and the rest of the world celebrate Labor Day on May 1. Why doesn’t the US?" by Jim Cook
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BUILDING A PEOPLE'S ECONOMY - KSKQ radio
Produced by Roberta Hall - Corvallis, Oregon, 16-07-2009 - 21:21
community radio on the cutting edge
a campaign titled BUILDING A PEOPLE'S ECONOMY
Rural Organizing Project is putting together a statewide team of the brightest thinkers and best organizers throughout Oregon
listen to>> Dan Leahy, a community organizer and recently retired professor from Olympia Washington -- who has been called a Howard Zinn of social movements, a Utah Phillips in prose. Joe Magner of Anabyte Recording and Electronics recorded the event and Roberta Hall produced it.
"LIVE" Friday, July17 1:00pm PST, KSKQ 94.9 lpfm in Ashland, Oregon. Our community radio station can be heard anywhere via the internet at http://www.kskq.org
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SING OUT concert video & audio here
K S K Q - 94.9 FM - Ashland, Oregon, 09-07-2009 - 04:03
"SING OUT FOR SINGLE PAYER ROAD SHOW"
Ashland, Oregon July 7, 2009
VIDEO AND AUDIO are available on the Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice website: http://www.sojwj.org/
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