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WORLD NEWS - INTERNATIONAL, 17-07-2007 - 14:16
MINISTRA DE SALUD DE BOLIVIA DEL MAS DISCRIMINÓ A DESTACADO MÉDICO ESPECIALIZADO EN EL EXTERIOR
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SOJwJ photos: Ashland's 4th of July parade
FREE SPEECH (IF YOU PAY FOR IT), 08-07-2007 - 13:16
SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE PAYS ASHLAND'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR FREE SPEECH. *NOTE* More on this cost of free speech found further below
Here are photos which show some of the happenings and goings-on this Independence Day 2007 in the small Southern Oregon town called Ashland...
CLICK ON ANY PHOTO FOR LARGER VERSION
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Greg Walden Town Hall Mtng. in Medford July 3
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Sneaky Greg Walden Townhall Comes on July 3rd - Brings Protest and Testimony
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Medford peace group to protest Walden’s “town hall” meeting
CPJ once again asks the time-honored question: “Where’s Walden?”
Citizens for Peace & Justice will rally outside the Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium on Oakdale in Medford from 10 to 10:30 am next Tuesday, July 3rd, before Rep. Greg Walden, R-OR, begins his “town hall” meeting to protest its inadequacies.
The reason for the protest is that Walden responded to calls for a town hall meeting on the cost of the Iraq War to Oregon by scheduling a one-hour meeting from 10:30 to 11:30 am on a weekday when few working people can attend. He also scheduled a similar meeting in Grants Pass for 1:30 pm to give him a good excuse for the Medford meeting not to run long.
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Follow up to 'Green Scare Fallout' Letter
D. Qotsaisaw, 06-06-2007 - 14:15
With the grace of time and some decent conversations, I’d like to offer a positive take on the issues I posted in my previous Op/Ed letter, ‘Green Scare Fallout in the Rogue Valley.’
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"Let's keep our Library System intact"--Anne Billeter
Anne Billeter's Letter to the Editor gets ink on the Rogue IMC (just push print), 06-06-2007 - 00:16
The taxpayers have said “No” to additional taxes. Let’s not dismantle a great library system until all of the options have been considered. Let’s not blame the library for a county funding crisis. Let’s hear from the County’s Blue Ribbon Committee. Let’s learn about all of the possibilities and find a way to keep our library system intact. We owe it to ourselves, to our children, and to our grandchildren. Our libraries were vital and vibrant participants in our communities, contributors to our cultural and economic wealth, a symptom of wellness we can ill afford to lose.
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Anne Billeter was Jackson County Library Manager of Children’s and Young Adult Services and of the South Region branches (Ashland, Phoenix, and Talent).
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UPDATE: Anne Billeter interview on the 6/8/07 edition of the Brain Labor Report 
http://www.kskq.org/audio-archive/blr/blr20070608.mp3
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"Drown it in a bathtub!" - The Jackson Co. Library System
Media Watch Dawg, 28-05-2007 - 11:02
CLASSIC BY-THE-BOOK PRIVATIZATION PREYS ON JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON
Grover Norquist is the right wing mover and shaker who is famous for his widely quoted comment that he wants to shrink government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
Corporate newspaper whore, the Medford Mail Tribune produced its Saturday 5/26/07 edition as a HUGE front page advertisement for LSSI. LSSI is the company that wants to run OUR Jackson County Library System. The Mail Tribune's "news" is a sham as this smoke and mirrors' story could just as easily have been written by Grover Norquist himself.
Here is the story, front page above the fold and with lots of big black ink. Read it and weep.
Outside contractor for libraries?
In possible alternative, Maryland firm would run operations http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/NEWS/705260308
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A Big Problem with an Easy Fix
Robert Casserly, 20-05-2007 - 12:23
Each spring, local citizens surrender thousands of cats and kittens to the local animal shelter.
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Refuting the Deafs: Chavism and Anarchism...
El Libertario's editorial staff, 20-05-2007 - 11:28
* From the publishers of El Libertario goes our reply to the habitual expressions that the coarse right or the easy-going left used to attribute us; the same left that, inside and outside of Venezuela allows that the mirage of the Chávez pseudo-revolution impressed them. We could and would like to say very much more about this subject, however currently here there is the essential and concise information about our point of view that, even when it was expressed several times it does not implies that it does not have to be repeated.
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"Conscious Camping More Responsible" Protest
Vegan1forPeace, 19-05-2007 - 09:34
A Friday afternoon protest in the Ashland Plaza calls for support of conscious camping, land to allow a village modeled on Dignity Village, and shame upon those manifesting violent hate speech against the conscious campers and homeless on the Tidings online discussion boards.
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Almost "knocking socks off" with desire armed
unorganized unorganization of unorganizerz, 04-04-2007 - 21:41
Starting in '83-'93 he began following visions of liberatory grandeur with surprising results of sortz. Again, in the mid-two-thousand 'otz", he experienced "far out" possibilities --with *not fully contained* imagination, armed. Armed? Yes, metaphorically "armed" with cruciaL aRtz depth interaction freely
being.
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Oregon passes House Joint Memorial on Iraq
State Representative District 5 Peter Buckley, 22-03-2007 - 14:29
On Tuesday of this week, I voted on the behalf of the people of our district to insist that Congress act to end our country’s occupation of Iraq. The vote was 33 to 25 to approve. The text of House Joint Memorial 9, which I co- sponsored with many of my colleagues in the Oregon House, can be found below.
We have paid and we continue to pay a terrible price for what I believe to be an unnecessary and immoral war. I’m grateful that my colleagues have joined in the effort to send Oregon’s message to Washington, DC, and I stand with my colleagues in our determination to do everything in our power to care for the women and men who have fought this war when they are at long last returned to us.
Thanks & Onward,
Rep. Peter Buckley
email: 
rep.peterbuckley@state.or.us
phone: (541) 488-9180
web: http://www.leg.state.or.us/buckley
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Future Uncertain for Internet Radio
Bill Goldsmith, 04-03-2007 - 20:07
These concerns about internet radio are on the minds of a number of folks who work with KSKQ our lpfm radio station in Ashland which currently is streaming over the internet. http://www.kskq.org A special thanks to Hal Anthony from Hugo who posted this message below (and thnx, Hal for using Rogue Indymedia!)--rogue imc volunteer http://www.radioparadise.com/index.php
The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the
payment of royalties by Internet Radio, and they ignored all of the facts
presented by webcasters (including RP) and gave the record industry
exactly what they asked for: royalty rates so high that they will put RP
and every other independent webcaster out of business. See Kurt Hanson's
newsletter for 3/2/07 for the details on how the rates work and what they
will mean to stations like RP. http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml
You can participate in the discussion about this issue in our Listener
Forum. http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=Forums&file=showtopic&topic_
id=9567
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Brazil: The "brake" is COPOM.
Bernardo Kucinski, 28-02-2007 - 13:01
The logic of the the Growth Acceleration Program opposes classic economists as Michael Kalecki and John Keynes. The GAP that does not contain a expansionist monetary policy is not the GAP, is the anti-GAP, as, by the way, the last act of the Copom made clear.
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Hidden terrorism: the last days
HRLF, 07-02-2007 - 05:15
The Israelis are trying, by a hopeless campaign, to convince the world of their loyalty and cleanliness, but they already revealed, through nearly sixty years of repression, their real intentions.
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Brazil: To whom belongs the future?
Sergio Ferolla and Paulo Metri, 13-01-2007 - 11:15
In socially mature countries , consolidated and really sovereign, the prospections of the future are made by groups of university thinkers, of governmental and enterprise institutions, as well as groups associated to national NGOS.
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Why Your Group Should Host a Holocaust Debate
Ken Meyercord, 12-01-2007 - 20:03
Poking holes in the holocaust story is a poke in the eye of the warmongers
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Navickas Brings Integrity To Ashland Council
art bullock, 08-01-2007 - 18:23
The night was dark. The time was 10:25pm. Council meetings end at 10:30, adjourned or not. 5 minutes isn't long enough for the complicated land swap next on the agenda. Mayor John Morrison starts anyway. Planning Dept's Bill Molnar gives staff's presentation, using remaining time.
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NEW ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL LAYS IT DOWN
Mayor John Morrison, 02-01-2007 - 22:20
"It's the vote of the year, I vote yes" - John Morrison's deciding vote.
new dawg law gets voted in. . . . . . .
actually, almost voted in... the actual vote at the Ashland City Council meeting of 1/2/06 was for staff to draft a localized law for Ashland that would be based on a new California law. This isn't over, yet. Stay tuned........
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Are We Committing Genocide in Iraq?
Ken Meyercord, 31-12-2006 - 10:29
Is the current violence in Iraq "sectarian" or something more sinister?
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Brazilian Oil: Patriots and Treasonous ones..
Sergio Ferolla and Paulo Metri, 31-12-2006 - 08:59
Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese.
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