Opinion
Prohibition of Interst in Islamic Banking
Gabriel Sawma, 24-08-2010 - 03:45
Since the early 70s, Islamic economics was introduced to world of finance as a new instrument, whose purpose was to follow an economic system based on Islamic Shari'a or the law of Islam. One of the main elements of the system is the prohibition on interest rates.
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M74-Oregon Law to Regulate Medical Marijuana
* * V O T E R * P O W E R * *, 20-08-2010 - 05:15
MEASURE 74 is on the Oregon ballot.
Voter Power succeeded in qualifying Initiative 28 for the November Oregon ballot. When the initiative petition qualified, it became Measure 74.
This new law will improve our medical marijuana program by adding dispensaries and legal producers to the current system.
You can find out more about the initiative at 
http://www.regulatemedicalmarijuana.org
Help us pass M74 – Dispensaries in Oregon
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The Power of the Purse
Nancie Koerber, Foreclosure Defense Advocate, 27-07-2010 - 04:23
The Power of the Purse.
With so many businesses shutting down on our main streets here in Southern Oregon, is there anything we can do about it?
We can always shop local but even more powerful is to bank local. Credit Unions and local owned banks keep our money local and build the economy.
Keep Reading to learn what Wall Street will do with $100.00 of your hard-earned cash.
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Declining To Work
Sudhama Ranganathan, 29-06-2010 - 11:23
One of the most shameful reasons for any political organization’s inability to get something done is when it is borne from a lack of willingness to work. Laziness and sloth are despised in every corner of society from successful business people to street corner drug dealers. People look down on those who refuse to work and live up to their potential for many reasons from the spiritual to the down to earth practical. Either way it is an automatic turn off at a gut level for so many of us whenever we see it in people. To see it in someone supposed to be in a leadership position is even more so.
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Cost of war hits $1 trillion
Leah Bolger from Corvallis, Oregon, 03-06-2010 - 16:47
"For $1 trillion, we could immediately give every one of the 15.4 million unemployed people in the United States a $50,000 job and still have $235 billion left over."-Leah Bolger
Leah Bolger is Vice President nationally of Veterans for Peace. VfP has a strong presence including here in our Southern Oregon region
Veterans for Peace http://www.veteransforpeace.org
Rogue Valley VfP #156 http://rv-vfp156.org
Below you can see Bolger's strong statement regarding the "COST OF WAR"
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PESTICIDE FREE PARKS - Opportunity in Ashland
Tom Dimitre, Rogue Group Sierra Club, 23-05-2010 - 13:29
The Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission will hear comments and is scheduled to make a decision regarding the current draft of their Integrated Pesticide Management (IPM) policy.
WHEN: MONDAY - MAY 24 -- 7:00 pm
WHERE: City Council Chambers, 1175 E. Main St., Ashland
Please make every effort to attend and speak.
The Ashland Parks and Recreation Department's draft policy will not lead us to pesticide free parks. The draft policy will continue the current practice of spraying our parks, playgrounds, schools (Parks Dept. is contracted by schools to spray) and public areas. There simply is no
language that bans or requires the reduction of pesticide use.
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Expresiones conectadas con una nueva era (Die
Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega, 06-05-2010 - 08:52
Doce expresiones, extraídas y actualizadas del Libro “Diez Horas con la Globalización”, asociadas a cambios de paradigmas anunciadores de una nueva era -anomalía en el sentido que Thomas Kuhn le da al término, y que a diferencia de las anteriores grandes revoluciones de la humanidad-Neolótico y Revolución Industrial, no solo es más global sino sobre todo mucho más rápida)
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MUST read!
From a wise man in Josephine County, Oregon, 29-04-2010 - 01:00
No one produced anything...
No one earned anything...
However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, Is how a Stimulus Package works.
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Poem for May Day
Craig Louis Stehr, 27-04-2010 - 20:00
Poem for May Day
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Feds kick Ashland, Oregon protesters off public property at OUR U.S. Post Office
OUR POST OFFICE ACTS LIKE IT IS PRIVATIZED (a fascist right wing goal), 16-04-2010 - 22:07
Does this sound like the United States, or the Soviet Union?--Ivend Holen
We had a wonderful action today... This looked a lot like the corporate walk of terror we had tried to pull together last halloween... Great Job everybody!. Channel 12 mistakenly put together their story saying that our "Tax Wall Street to fund jobs" message and our "bank locally" message were the same for all the tea bagger gatherings in southern Oregon. We love it. Nine people fighting corporate greed stole the show!--In solidarity, Wes Brain
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Hi: The one sour note of yesterday's rally was when we were "kicked off" US Post Office property. See John Darling's article in the Ashland Daily Tidings: http://3bl.me/ndwyg7
One of the superintendents came out of the Ashland Post Office to inform us that unless we stayed off US Post Office property he would call the US Postal Inspectors to arrest us. I asked him if the Post Office was not public property, and he said that it is not in Ashland, since they lease the property from the private sector.--Ivend Holen
Click pics to make BIG -- Keep reading for more story...
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DR.KEVORKIAN SPEAKs WITH TEXAS GOVERNOR PERRY
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS, 13-04-2010 - 04:39
DEAR DR. JACK KEVORKIAN,
TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY APPEARS TO HAVE ATTEMPTED TO MODEL HIS TEXAS DEATH ROW PRISONS AFTER THE STATES OF WASHINGTON AND OREGON STATE ASSISTED SUICIDE NEWLY ENACTED STATE LAWS ?
PLEASE SIR, IF YOU COULD FIND THE TIME TO CALL, INFORM AND EXPLAIN TO GOVERNOR RICK PERRY OF TEXAS THE VARIOUS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATE SANCTIONED EXECUTIONWS OF POSSIBLE INNOCENT INMATES ON HIS TEXAS DEATH ROW AND THESE WILLING TERMINAL RESIDENTS IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST ???
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BEVERLY JOHNSONS $$$ ~ TROY DAVIS POVERTY =
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS, 18-02-2010 - 21:36
IF ONLY TROY DAVIS AND MUMIA ABU~JAMAL HAD THE MULTI~MILLIONS OF $$$ AVAILABLE THAT BEVERLY JOHNSON HAS TO PROVE HER INNOCENCE,THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OR BE CURRENTLY FACING THEIR POSSIBLE FALSE EXECUTIONS WITHOUT EVER BEING GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO FAIR AND JUST TRIALS WITH PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION AFFORDED THEM IN GEORGIA OR PENNSYLVANIA !!!
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The Weakness Of Coattail Elections
Sudhama Ranganathan, 14-02-2010 - 14:26
In the 2008 elections there was a great push from the public for change in Washington. We had not seen elections like this in quite some time if ever. The record breaking numbers of voters was a signal of that intense and widespread desire. There weren't many candidates among the array of prospects who stood out as symbols of that need for a shift.
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Close loophole for banks and insurers-HB 3615
* O U R * O R E G O N *, 08-02-2010 - 20:47
YES on HB 3615 -- Protection from predatory lending and unfair insurance practices
In Oregon, if you buy a car and drive away with a lemon you're protected.
If the appliance dealer sells you a refrigerator that never works you're protected.
But, if your bank sells you a deceptive loan forget it, there's no protection under the UTPA.
Join us in telling lawmakers we need better protections for all of us living on Main Street not Wall Street.
HB 3615 will finally close the gap by adding a few simple words "loans, extension of credit and insurance" to the definition of goods and services covered by the UTPA. That's it!
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FORECLOSURE WARS -- Do not lose your home!
Southern Oregon Homeowner Foreclosure Support Group, 01-02-2010 - 19:43
"If you are in foreclosure you are not alone. We are getting traction on this foreclosure disaster—
We have gotten some of our foreclosures stopped and cancelled and are obtaining transparency on our loan issues in Jackson County so we can put together smart foreclosure defenses." --Southern Oregon Homeowners Foreclosure Support Group
FORECLOSURE WARS! -- WORKSHOP IN SOUTHERN OREGON
Date: Saturday February 6, 2010
Time: 9:00am to noon
Location: TBA (space limited) must pre-register
Donation: $20.00 per household (no children please) This donation covers cost to put on the program. No one will be turned away for the sake of money.
RSVP: 541-664-8332
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Healthcare NOW! - Time to Start from Scratch
January 27, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!, 28-01-2010 - 04:31
Southern Oregonians are pleased with the leadership of Healthcare NOW! Great to see this breath of fresh air at a time when the pit of reform is such a dramatic disaster--rogue imc vol..
We've heard President Obama assert during his campaign that if he were starting from scratch he would implement a single-payer plan. He recently stated: "I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is unless you have what's called a single-payer system in which everyone's automatically covered, you're probably not going to reach every single individual." In addition, President Obama knows that we have to get the spiraling healthcare costs under control.
The current bills before the House and Senate can neither cover everyone nor make healthcare affordable. Only Improved Medicare for All, a national single payer plan such as HR 676, can do the job.
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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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