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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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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

S. Oregonians with Vermont Workers Center Tour "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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CP&J's 10th Anniversary PEACE RALLY & PROGRAM

CITIZENS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE, 05-04-2013 - 16:40

Congrats to CP&J!! —Thanks for carrying the torch for so long 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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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

Standing Up to the Oregonian newspaper 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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Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons

Interview by Angola 3 News, 15-02-2013 - 23:03

Author and longtime activist Nancy Kurshan’s new book, entitled Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, has just been released by the Freedom Archives. Kurshan’s book documents the work of The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), which she co-founded in 1985.
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Reforming Prison’s Harshest Tactic

Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by A3 News), 09-02-2013 - 17:56

State Capitol, Baton Rouge, LA, April 17, 2012 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

Herman Wallace (left) and Albert Woodfox (right) 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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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

Everybody In — Nobody Out 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

OCPP Director Chuck Sheketoff 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

Samuel Metz, MD "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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I Ain't Getting Squat for Christmas

Happy Holler Days from Broadway Phil & the Shouters, 25-12-2012 - 04:24

Broadway Phil Published on Dec 1, 2012
Happy Holler Days from Broadway Phil & the Shouters! This is our newest single from the upcoming Shouter album, "Home." It's the blues, Baby!

"I Ain't Getting Squat for Christmas"
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxSwilroeI
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