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Houston Janitors Strike for Economic Justice
Mark Vorpahl, 27-07-2012 - 13:58
Echoing the story of David vs. Goliath, janitors in Houston are on strike and taking on such corporate giants as JPMorganChase and Exxon Mobile in an effort to pressure the janitorial companies they employ to agree to the workers' modest demands. It is these big business behemoths that are the real powers behind cleaning contractors such as ABM, GCA, ISS etc. By striking against these contractors, and publicly targeting these contractors' employers, the janitors are using their collective power in a showdown that has great significance for not only the Labor Movement but all workers.
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Pensions Under Attack
Mark Vorpahl, 19-07-2012 - 01:11
On Friday, July 6, President Obama signed into law a bill that would renew transportation programs and extend low interest rates on student loans for one year. While this minimal gesture resulted in, no doubt, sighs of relief from those burdened by student debt, tucked away within the bill's pages was a little-noticed proposal to further erode the funding of workers' pensions. The bill was a brilliant sleight of hand where what it appeared to be giving with one hand distracted the public from what it was taking away with the other.
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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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A Conversation Worth Having
Tobias Michaels, 05-07-2012 - 02:29
The Nation magazine recently held a roundtable blog discussion that debated the effects of the failed Wisconsin recall. The discussion is important because of the seriousness of its subject. Such open and frank conversations have been sadly quite rare, so it is something of a credit to the Nation that they hosted this discussion.
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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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Sweatfree Communities—Stop Global Sweatshops!
SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 01-06-2012 - 02:26
Dear Organizers, Leaders and Activists:
T-shirts for our causes should support the cause of empowering the workers who make the apparel!
As we order T-shirts for our progressive causes we can choose to make a real difference when we choose Alta Gracia.
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The Left, Labor and Occupy
Internationalist Group, 14-05-2012 - 10:29
Barely half a year after it burst on the scene, the Occupy Wall Street movement is splintering left and right. This was inevitable in a movement that was united only in what it opposed and could never put forward a positive program, whether of reformist "demands" on the capitalist state or of revolutionary action against it. Liberals, who latched onto Occupy hoping it could pressure the Democratic Party in a more populist direction, want to expel "black bloc" anarchists. Reformist social democrats rail against "ultraleftists" in Occupy and cozy up to the labor tops. On the other side, many (but not all) anarchists oppose unions. Some are simply arrogant petty-bourgeois labor haters. Others are grappling with real problems, but with skewed analysis and dead wrong conclusions. Discussion of recent workers' struggles, from Wisconsin to West Coast longshore, underlines that the key question is leadership, but not just replacing one set of bureaucrats with another. Unions have always faced vicious anti-labor laws, but we have the power to defeat them. It is necessary to drive out the pro-capitalist bureaucracy, the labor lieutenants of capital, in order to turn the unions into instruments of revolutionary class struggle.
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If the elections could overturn this barbaris
Rebel wolves, 09-05-2012 - 09:30
An English translation of anarchist analysis of the elctorial process in greece with links to the many texts coming from the various Anarchist collectives, groups and assemblies down the bottom.
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May Day at the Co-op - Solidarity Shop-in!
J U S T I C E * F O R * C O - O P * W O R K E R S, 26-04-2012 - 18:57
ASHLAND, OREGON
Celebrate May Day, International Workers Day and show support for workers at the Co-op that support a union to foster democracy in the workplace. Help us kick off the month of May as “Wear your union colors when you shop the Co-op!” Call for management neutrality and a truly free and fair election.
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On the 100th Birth Anniversary of Kim Il Sung
Jose Maria Sison, 17-04-2012 - 13:52
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), convey our warmest greetings of solidarity to you, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Korean people as we join the celebration of the 100th birth anniversary of the great revolutionary leader President Kim Il Sung on April 15, 2012. This is a highly significant day in Korea’s resplendent 5000-year history and is a strong inspiration to the peoples of the world.
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Understanding Trade, our Local Economy and WALMART
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, 02-04-2012 - 00:56
THE SOUTHERN OREGON WALMART CAMPAIGN
As Walmart celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, we will paint the true story of Walmart and how they undermine our values and re-write the rules of our society. We have plenty of fodder here in Southern Oregon! Walmart continues to be prolific with stores in Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Talent, Eagle Point and now being constructed is the monstrous new eyesore, the Walmart superstore going up near the South Medford interchange of Interstate-5.
NEW LOOK — OLD CAMPAIGN
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice is itching to organize and involve area activists in taking a new look at an old campaign. We the 99% are ready to focus on the 1% who have stolen our democracy. There is no better place to start than Walmart. Look at this new website which shows us the Walmart — 1% connection: 
http://www.jwj.org/blog/1-behind-walmart
SOJwJ is looking for a few hard-core-planners who are ready to roll up sleeves and get to work. We will creatively put together a big educational lesson plan for Southern Oregon: "Understanding Trade, our Local Economy and WALMART." Serious inquiries only!
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Lynch Law U.S.A.: Murder of Trayvon Martin
Internationalist Group, 29-03-2012 - 03:22
Outrage over the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin compounds daily as the killer remains free, facing no criminal charges for gunning down the unarmed black youth from Miami Gardens, Florida. On February 26, George Zimmerman, a white self-appointed captain of a "neighborhood watch" team in a gated community in the Orlando suburb of Sanford, shot Martin, a black high-school student, who was returning to the home in the development where he and his father were staying. Police and local prosecutors never charged Zimmerman and accepted his cynical claim that he shot the unarmed youth in "self-defense." Thousands have demonstrated around the country, particularly after police tapes of 911 calls by Zimmerman were released, showing that he was stalking Martin. But the main thrust of liberals is to divert the protests into a movement for gun control laws and to get rid of "Stand Your Ground" laws such as Florida's which make it legal to shoot in self-defense. The ruling-class response deliberately tries to obscure the key fact that this was racist murder. Trayvon Martin was killed for the "crime" of "walking while black."
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Filipino Women March against US Military
Unity Statement, March 8, 2012, 12-03-2012 - 06:06
Filipino Women March against US Military Expansion in the Philippines and the Pacific
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Ashland Food Co-op found in violation of federal labor law
HEY HEY, HO HO — UNION BUSTIN'S GOT TO GO!!, 09-03-2012 - 06:07
NLRB FINDS MERIT TO 13 UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CHARGES AT ASHLAND FOOD CO-OP
Ashland, OR – March 8, 2012 - A majority of workers at Ashland Food Co-op have been united since June of 2011 to improve their working conditions by organizing a union with United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555. Ashland Food Co-op management learned of workers’ desire to organize and reacted swiftly with heavy handed tactics to try and sway workers away from unionization. The Employer’s actions included soliciting and promising to remedy grievances, providing benefits to employees that it previously refused to provide, disciplining union activists, threatening employees with more severe discipline if they voted for a union, instituting a rule that prohibited employees from discussing the union and then enforcing this rule only against employees who supported the union, and soliciting employees to sign an anti-union petition
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Co-op Workers Speak Out: Union Yes at AFC!
Justice for Co-op Workers, 24-02-2012 - 21:32
Ashland Food Co-op workers share their perspective on how forming a union will strengthen Co-op workplace democracy and allow for real workers rights and protections on the job.
VIEW THIS VIDEO ON YouTube...
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Wall Street Excess and Main Street Distress:
Walden Bello, 12-02-2012 - 01:33
Apple’s march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers
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New Coalition to advocate for Universal Health Care in Oregon
Oregon Single Payer Coalition, 06-02-2012 - 05:56
For Immediate Release
February 3, 2012
Oregon Single Payer Coalition
Contact: Michael Moore, OSPC president (503) 707-1239
Joanne Cvar, OSPC communications chair (541) 563 3615
Portland, Oregon – Delegates from 28 unions, nonprofits and grassroots organizations gathered in Portland on Friday, January 27, to form a new coalition that will advocate for universal health care in Oregon and the U.S. Seven labor unions joined with 21 community organizations to sign the membership agreement, approve bylaws, and elect an interim executive committee.
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Occupy DC Organizers to visit Ashland
Jason Houk, 02-02-2012 - 23:25
Solidarity 4 will bring activists and allies together for potluck, speakers and Trade Justice Road Show.
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