Opinion
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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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
➤ For Immediate Release ➤
➤ Medford, Oregon ➤
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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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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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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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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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Why We Defend the ILWU and All Workers
Internationalist Group, 06-01-2013 - 04:06
In recent weeks, a showdown has loomed on U.S. docks between the shipping bosses and port workers that has rattled the capitalist ruling class. On the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the International Longshoreman's Association prepared to strike container shipping while the employers threatened to lock out 14,500 ILA members. On the West Coast, the grain shippers been demanding a giveback contract from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which would effectively bypass the union hiring hall, slash workers' vital safety protections and gut union power. Yet in the midst of the Northwest grain battle, an Occupy activist Peter Little publishes an article vociferously arguing against the call to defend the ILWU. While posing as ultra-left, this policy if actually carried out would aid the employers who are hell-bent on destroying ILWU union power on the waterfront. And blaming sellouts on the nature of unions lets the bureaucrats off the hook. We in the Internationalist Group say: all those who stand with the exploited and oppressed must come to the defense of the ILWU in this fight. And that defense includes forthrightly opposing the capitulations and betrayals by the labor bureaucracy which sells out vital union gains in the vain hope of an impossible "cooperation" with capital, endangering the workers organizations they preside over.
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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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If Not Now, When? (talking Single Payer Health Care)
By Samuel Metz, MD, 25-12-2012 - 04:43
"No one will ever tell us it’s safe to move forward. No one will ever tell us that it’s finally time for single payer. We can’t wait for someone else to give us permission."—Samuel Metz
READ This Article by Dr. Metz who is a spokesperson for Health Care for All—Oregon
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Robin Hood Tax — Make Wall Street Pay!
P E O P L E * O V E R * P R O F I T !, 14-11-2012 - 03:07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — November 13, 2012
Actions in Four U.S. Cities Coincide With Anti-Austerity Protests Across Europe
U.S. Robin Hood Tax Campaign Says No to Social Service Cuts, Calls for Wall Street Sales Tax to Spark Recovery
Says Yes on H.R. 6411: “The Inclusive Prosperity Act” http://www.robinhoodtax.org
(reposted on Rogue IMC in recognition of S. Oregon support for making Wall Street Pay!)--rogue imc volunteer
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Plight of Middle East Refugees—Program & Dinner Nov. 9 in Medford
Allen Hallmark / Citizens for Peace & Justice, 06-11-2012 - 15:56
Dear Friends of Citizens for Peace & Justice,
This is your special invitation to join CPJ and the Collateral Repair Project for a free dinner program, featuring a first-hand report on the growing refugee problems in the Middle East. Mary Madsen, co-director of the Collateral Repair Project, just back from Amman, Jordan, will discuss how the influx of thousands of Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the civil war in Syria has added to the already dire conditions for Iraqi War refugees in Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East. (continued below...)
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Medea Benjamin's keynote address at the Peace House 30th anniversary celebration
Allen Hallmark, 22-10-2012 - 15:23
An abridged introduction from author Allen Hallmark follows...
Today I decided to share an article about Medea Benjamin's speech last Friday evening (Nov. 19, 2012). I believe that what she had to say about Pakistan and drone warfare is important enough to ask you to consider reading this longish article, which I composed this morning from my notes. Thanks.
Medea Benjamin is one of the co-founders of CodePink and Global Exchange and has been a powerful advocate for peace and economic and social justice for the past 30 years. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize along with other women in 2005 and was the 2010 recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize.
Medea is just back from Pakistan where she was a leader of a delegation of peace and justice advocates who went there to show Pakistanis that there are many Americans who want the U.S. to stop killing Pakistani civilians with drone attacks. She received the Marjorie Kellogg National Peacemaker Award at the Peace House 30th Anniversary Dinner at Southern Oregon University on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2012. Ms. Benjamin’s most recent book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, was published earlier this year and informed the speech she gave at the Peace House dinner. Keep reading to see my summary of her speech...
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12 Steps to Overcoming Addiction to Voting for the “Lesser” of 2 Evils
The World Can't Wait, 22-10-2012 - 02:41
Brought to Southern Oregon by a Rogue Independent Media Center volunteer. This twelve step program is needed for the Rogue Valley where the lesser evilism epidemic is ramping up and swiftly running out of control.
Pass this along... As a result of these steps, you can now carry the message to those who still suffer from an addiction to the Democratic Party. Nothing is as liberating as resisting an evil when you know it’s wrong.
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12 Steps to Overcoming Addiction to Voting for the “Lesser” of 2 Evils
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Stop the crimes of your government. Learn how at http://www.worldcantwait.net
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Undignified Corporate Takeover ➡ Ashland Community Hospital
S T O P * D I G N I T Y * H E A L T H, 19-10-2012 - 20:55
Here is the latest on the "Corporate Takeover" in (so-called) progressive Ashland, Oregon!
Following you will find a well written update on how things stand regarding the current takeover of our community hospital. Our city council is run by the chamber of commerce and they line up time and time again to do the bidding for the 1%. The privatization of what we locally have owned continues and it hurts to see this happening not just here, but everywhere.
Wes Brain, Community Organizer
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
www.sojwj.org
Keep reading and see the Update about "Ashland City Council: Vote NO on Dignity Health's acquisition of Ashland Community Hospital"
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Single Payer Champion State of Oregon Representative Michael Dembrow
Diane Lund-Muzikant — The Lund Report, 18-10-2012 - 19:57
Oregon activists are lining up for our state's grassroots campaign: Health Care is a Human Right!
State Representative Michael Dembrow is the "Oregon Single Payer Movement Champion" for sure. Read this article to get just a taste of what is yet to come when All Oregonians line up for this important change in health care—rogue imc volunteer
Health Care for ALL-Oregon is a grassroots campaign — http://hcao.org/
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Ashland PAC for 1%'ers seeks to buy election
GOOD EYES Pam Vavra spotlights corporate plan, 07-10-2012 - 14:46
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The Rogue Independent Media Center reposts the following warning sent to the ACA listserv [ashland-community-action] by Pam Vavra. See how money is being used to buy local elections in Ashland, Oregon. The pathway is called a political action committee and this one has been cleverly named: "Ashland Residents for a Great City Council"
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Walmart's "Grand" Opening
Siskiyou13, 24-08-2012 - 01:09
A recent letter to the Editor of the Medford Mail Tribune entitled, "Now We Know" from resident Don Young went as follows:
"Hmm. Five thousand Walmart customers and 25 Occupy protesters. Now, we know who are the real 99 (and one half) percent."
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Paul Ryan --The Media's Favorite 'Wonk'
FAIR — Fair & Accuracy In Reporting, 14-08-2012 - 20:35
In short, there are two versions of Paul Ryan: He is either a wonky, spreadsheet-obsessed policy expert, or he's crafted a budget that favors the wealthy and makes little practical or even mathematical sense. Economists and budget experts tend to believe the latter; journalists overwhelmingly see the former.
SOJwJ shares this analysis which came from FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Having trouble viewing this? View it on the FAIR website: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4596
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The Dark Heart of the Libor Scandal
Mark Vorpahl, 06-08-2012 - 16:15
Though, for most, the London Inter-Bank Offer Rate (Libor) interest rate fixing scandal appears to be distant and far too complex to understand, its potential consequences may be as economically devastating as a world war.
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