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Dalai Lama brings message of hope
KAREN JEFFERY, 11-06-2013 - 19:07
Saturday May 11 was the first day of a four-day event in and around Portland, with a stop in Eugene for a public talk on "Universal Responsibility and the Inner Environment: the Nature of the Mind." Booths representing Oregon non-profits or selling food, music, and Tibetan cultural items surrounded the inner stadium. Music and dance, from colorful Tibetan cultural dancers to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, filled in before and after events.
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Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety
Angola 3 News interviews Shawn Griffith, 23-05-2013 - 16:48
If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy. The author, Shawn Griffith, was released last year from Florida’s prison system at the age of 41, after spending most of his life, almost 24 years, behind bars, including seven in solitary confinement.
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Linking Up The Workers Of The World
Steve Zeltzer, 07-05-2013 - 14:04
Communication Technology And Linking Up The Workers Of The World
New International Labor/Labour Streaming Channel Launched On May 1, 2013
By
Steve Zeltzer 
lvpsf@labornet.org
ILMN Organizing Committee
In an inauspicious launching on May, 21, 2013, the first international labor streaming portal was launched with live labor programming from Japan and programming from the rest of the world. The International Labor Media Network which initiated the channel 
http://ilmnetwork.org/
The development of smart phones which in reality are mini-computers that also can stream
live to the web provide the global conditions for a 24 hours labor/labour channel with
programing from throughout the world.
The programming on May day included from the UK, Japan, Turkey, Hong Kong and China.
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Independent Media Week Schedule
Jason Houk, 13-04-2013 - 03:45
Here is the latest schedule of movies and events for Independent Media Week 2013.
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Representative Doggett Introduces Stop Tax Ha
Chris Besse, 12-04-2013 - 19:15
Act Will Protect Global Poor: Curbs Use of Tax Havens and Requires Country-by-Country Reporting
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Pope Francis Concern for Poor Drives Review o
Bryant Lewis, 11-04-2013 - 20:29
Jubilee USA Executive Director Releases Statement on Pope’s Focus on Corruption and Illicit Capital Flight Impacts on Poor
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THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE *FREE* DURING INDEPENDENT MEDIA WEEK
H E A L T H * C A R E * F O R * A L L * O R E G O N — R O G U E * V A L L E Y, 11-04-2013 - 06:04
"THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE" IS FEATURED IN SOUTHERN OREGON DURING INDEPENDENT MEDIA WEEK-2013. * * ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE! * *
* * * SCREENINGS HELD AT SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY — ASHLAND, OREGON * * *
SUNDAY APRIL 14 2:30PM- (doors open at 2, program starts at 2:15) MEESE ROOM IN THE HANNON LIBRARY
TUESDAY APRIL 16 3:00PM- (video screenings start at 2) ROOM SU330 IN THE STEVENSON UNION
"A very powerful and moving documentary that everyone in Oregon and the country needs to see."--Mark S. Kellenbeck
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Argentina Payment Plan Would Protect Poor
Bryant Lewis, 10-04-2013 - 15:31
Hedge Fund Holdout - NML Capital - has Until April 22 to Respond
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Rogue Advocates Appeals Jackson County’s Decision on Mt. View Paving
R o g u e * * A d v o c a t e s, 08-04-2013 - 19:41
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Rogue Advocates Appeals Jackson County’s Decision on Mt. View Paving
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Rogue Advocates is filing appeals today of Jackson County’s March 25th approval of Mountain View Paving’s application for non-conforming use and floodplain development permits.
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CP&J's 10th Anniversary PEACE RALLY & PROGRAM
CITIZENS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE, 05-04-2013 - 16:40
Citizens for Peace and Justice invites you to attend our 10th Anniversary PEACE RALLY & PROGRAM
Saturday, April 6, 2013 — Starts at Noon!
Vogel Plaza in Downtown Medford
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Oregon House Bill 3260
The Oregon House Health Care Committee, 31-03-2013 - 03:11
Oregon House Bill 3260
The Oregon House Health Care Committee will soon consider a study of health care financing options. HB 3260 is sponsored by state Representatives Michael Dembrow and Jennifer Williamson and by Senators Chip Shields and Laurie Monnes Anderson.
On April 5th (Friday) at 1 p.m. in Hearing Room D, the Health Care Committee of the Oregon House of Representatives will hold a hearing on the bill which, if passed, would require the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study comparing at least four methods for financing health care -- and then recommend the best system for financing universal health care in Oregon.
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9th Annual Independent Media Week - 4/14-4/20
Jason Houk, 28-03-2013 - 18:30
Ashland Oregon will celebrate the 9th annual Independent Media Week this April 14-20, 2013.
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End 41 years of solitary for Albert Woodfox
Robert H. King of the Angola 3, 24-03-2013 - 23:20
Below is a new statement, just released by Robert H. King urging people to support Amnesty International's newly-launched campaign supporting Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3. This month, Woodfox's conviction was overturned by US District Court Judge James Brady. In response Amnesty International has launched an online action campaign urging Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell not to appeal this ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court.
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Cash Mob set for Grass Shack Café in Phoenix
Jason Houk, 20-03-2013 - 20:37
We’ve all seen local small business owners struggling to keep their doors open and the cash mob movement is a way to draw attention to the importance of buying local. This is the second annual national Cash Mob day celebration in southern Oregon and a Phoenix based Mom and Pop restaurant, The Grass Shack Café has been chosen for the first cash mob of the year.
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Oregon Public Employees Under Attack, still...
SEIU #503's Director Heather Conroy sets Oregonian straight on so-called "Facts", 27-02-2013 - 00:16
Today the Oregonian ran yet another flawed, misinformed story this time flagging that Oregon PERS members benefits are more generous than those of neighboring states and making a stink that Oregon public workers don't contribute to their retirement based on a flawed study released by the Center for Public Policy at PSU.
Oregon PERS retirees net better benefits than in neighboring states, PSU study finds http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/02/oregon_pers_retirees_net_bette.html
In response to today’s divisive and misinformed editorial about PERS, SEIU Local 503 Executive Director Heather Conroy issued the following statement:
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Reforming Prison’s Harshest Tactic
Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by A3 News), 09-02-2013 - 17:56
The Angola 3 case may help change the arbitrary and sometimes abusive use of solitary confinement.
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Freedom for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3?
Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by A3 News), 05-02-2013 - 00:37
After four decades of solitary confinement in the nation's most populated maximum-security prison -- and one of its most historically brutal -- a member of the internationally known "Angola 3" has reasonable cause to expect that he will soon be released, his attorneys and supporters say. The request to set free Albert Woodfox, 65, is being heard by the same federal judge who in 2008 ordered that Woodfox be released, a ruling that Louisiana prosecutors successfully appealed and blocked.
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The Black Panther Party’s Living Legacy
Angola 3 News, 04-02-2013 - 21:30
Last month, the "Dismantling Racism" class from St. Catherine University in Minnesota was taken on a Black Panther History Tour in Oakland and Berkeley, California, led by Billy X Jennings from It's AboutTime BPP Alumni & Legacy. Angola 3 News came along and filmed the tour. This is part one.
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PHILIPPINES - Akbayan Celebrates Compensation
Akbayan (Citizens Action Party), 27-01-2013 - 01:24
Akbayan Celebrates Compensation Act to victims of Martial Law
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Southern Oregonians Mobilize to Salem for Healthcare Reform
H E A L T H * C A R E * F O R * A L L * O R E G O N, 18-01-2013 - 00:45
Sign Up to Rally for Universal Health Care in Salem on Feb. 4, 2013
Get on the bus in Ashland, Medford or Grants Pass!
Rally for Universal Health Care in Oregon
Monday, February 4 – State Capitol
Kick off the 1st day of the legislative session and the push for universal health care for everyone in Oregon. Representative Michael Dembrow has re-introduced the Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Act. It is time to get behind the bill and push for passage. This is a tremendous job and to do it, we need to create a massive grassroots movement that is impossible to ignore.
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Congress Needs to Extend Emergency Unemployment Insurance - Now
Chuck Sheketoff--Oregon Center for Public Policy, 31-12-2012 - 04:12
THIS IS A STORY FOR ALL OREGON -- Here in Southern Oregon ordinary working people and their families are suffering—rogue valley independent media center volunteer
"CONGRESS NEEDS TO EXTEND EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE - NOW"—by Chuck Sheketoff
Tens of thousands of unemployed Oregonians need Congress to act now to extend Emergency Unemployment Insurance.
Emergency unemployment compensation is helping 29,240 Oregonians who, despite looking for over 26 weeks, have not been hired. That is about the number (29,600) of Oregonians OCPP estimates will abruptly lose benefits on December 29 if Congress does not act to extend the program, reducing the number receiving unemployment compensation support of any kind by a third.
The disappearance of this safety net, however, will have an even wider impact. Also affected will be those who will exhaust their 26 weeks of state benefits after December 29. OCPP estimates that about 12,100 Oregon workers will be in this situation during just the first three months of 2013
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KSKQ Audience to Expand
Jason Houk, 27-12-2012 - 16:46
Ashland’s community radio station is about to get much louder. On October 31, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an application to increase the strength of the broadcast signal for KSKQ 89.5 FM. The upgrade to 560 watts will allow KSKQ to reach much of the Rogue Valley, including Medford, Talent, Phoenix, Central Point, White City, and Jacksonville.
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Bangladesh fire fuels fight for worker safety
vanessa Houk, 27-12-2012 - 16:32
Separated by more than a hundred years and eight thousand miles, the recent clothing factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 are tangled threads that connect across continents and are interwoven into a history of greed and corruption. In the United States, the aftermath of the Triangle fire led to tougher fire code regulations and labor standards that protect workers to this day. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, factories continue to have dangerous working conditions and US companies still import their goods on a daily basis.
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