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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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The Role of Neoconservatives - and Israel's Right Wing - in the War in Iraq
Anonymous, 26-01-2010 - 22:29
Review of the Transparent Cabal
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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
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Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement
O U T * W I T H * T H E * O L D * a n d * I N * W I T H * T H E * N E W, 23-12-2009 - 17:29
If you do only one more political thing this year as we put 2009 to bed--RIP, let it be to listen to Bernie Sanders on the floor of the United States Senate speak about Health Care Reform which boots out corporate greed! Sanders speech is being heralded the "New Social Movement" and this couldn't come at a better time...
For 2009 reflect for just a minute on all the garbage we have been subjected to pertaining to Health Care Reform and realize that from the start the campaign has been designed by the corporate greedy who literally buy reform that makes them lots & lots more money. Profit over people wins again. The campaign for healthcare reform loses, but out of it we have the "New Social Movement"
So let us do put 2009 to bed and permanently behind us. It has been a horrible year, however we deserve to end it on a high note. We need this. If you do only one more political thing this year listen to Bernie Sanders uplifting speech describing a wonderful vision for 2010. Not a campaign, a movement!--In solidarity, Wes Brain, Chair, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, CARRY ON!
The Bernie Sanders speech is at: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=9083042
Following distributed by "All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676" "Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement" by Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates. Keep on reading....
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year
J O B S * W I T H * J U S T I C E, 21-12-2009 - 21:54
DECEMBER 21, 2009--Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice (SOJwJ) announces: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Elected 2009's National Scrooge of the Year.
The Chamber's narrow, radical agenda advocating for anti-worker, profit-focused solutions to the broken health care, labor, and environmental systems garnered them the most votes for the national Jobs with Justice "Scrooge of the Year" award.
Southern Oregon has been alarmed at local Chambers of Commerces with First Amendment violations waged by the City of Ashland's Chamber after its sponsorship of the 2007 Fourth of July Parade. In 2008 SOJwJ and ACLU of Southern Oregon gave the Ashland Chamber of Commerce a Free Speech lesson http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/07/13203.shtml
This year's Scrooge contest pitted the Chamber of Commerce against Bank of America, nominated for their role in the sub-prime lending crisis and failure to extend credit to small businesses. SOJwJ previously shouted out a patriotic warning about BoA on Dec. 12, 2008 with the People's Bail-Out Rally in Medford, Oregon http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/12/14290.shtml
Keep readin' for the full story about the just-elected "2009 National Scrooge of the Year"
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MEASURES 66 & 67
P E T E R * B U C K L E Y - intro by RIMC vol, 12-12-2009 - 21:42
Peter Buckley, Oregon State Representative District 5, has always reported to his constituents and he keeps an open door to hear the needs and concerns of ordinary people, not just the ones with the big bucks. In this report Peter lays out FACTS about Measures 66 & 67. With a vote coming later in January it is incredible some of the lies coming from the corporate right.
Nearly a million households in Oregon received the "Letter from Leuthold Dairy Farm on M 66-67" and the smell of an underhanded campaign was quickly sniffed out. The Rogue IMC was one of the first in Oregon to quickly call attention to Leuthold Dairy's twisting of the truth with this story: http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2009/11/15624.shtml
So check out FACTS about M 66 & 67 with the following report from Rep. Peter Buckley--above introduction provided by a Rogue Indy volunteer
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MASS FIRINGS - THE NEW FACE OF IMMIGRATION RAIDS
DAVID BACON * PHOTO-JOURNALIST, 12-12-2009 - 01:30
"No one in the Obama or Bush administrations, or the Clinton administration before them, wants to stop migration to the U.S. or imagines that this could be done without catastrophic consequences. The very industries they target for enforcement are so dependent on the labor of migrants they would collapse without it. Instead, immigration policy and enforcement consigns those migrants to an "illegal" status, and undermines the price of their labor. Enforcement is a means for managing the flow of migrants, and making their labor available to employers at a price they want to pay"--David Bacon (excerpt from the full article which can be read below)
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students militantly protest university fees
DAVID BACON * PHOTO-JOURNALIST, 22-11-2009 - 14:38
an intro to photo-journalist David Bacon's report...
PATHETIC MAINSTREAM NEWS IN SOUTHERN OREGON
The local TV news out of Medford, Oregon Friday night (11/20/09), I think it was channel 12 but could have been any of them, reported that two students had been arrested protesting a tuition hike at UC Berkeley... Not only were the numbers of students drastically undercounted (there were actually close to 4 dozen cited by police), but most importantly, the local news report made students' protests sound trivial. There wasn't any clue as to the breadth of actions at public universities across the entire state of California. Nor was there a mention of the fact that the solidarity actions were taking place at universities around the country such as in the States of Illinois and New York.
Don't get your news from the corporate hacks!
IndyBay has some broad coverage- http://www.indybay.org/education/
KEEP READING TO SEE DAVID BACON'S PHOTO-JOURNALISM... (click a pic to make larger)
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Ten Days Left to Apply to the 2010 School of Authentic Journalism
Jose Smith, 22-10-2009 - 17:21
It is a herald of the hour we live in that the New York Times has to lay off eight percent of its news reporters but the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism is out scouting and recruiting for a different kind of journalism that is growing and on the ascent.
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Scientist Threatened by Monsanto (Glyphosate)
GRAIN: Seeds of Information, 30-08-2009 - 20:43
An Argentinian scientist publically discusses his research on impacts of herbicide glyphosate on amphibian fetuses, claiming results indicate glyphosate can damage brain, heart and intestinal tissues of the fetus. Monsanto is heavily dependant on glyphosate, and has verbally attacked the scientist with ridicule and personal threats..
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LABOR DAY -- Origins and what about May Day?
Jim Cook, 20-08-2009 - 20:22
Just as the dog days of summer are upon us we are again looking towards our annual celebration of the working class. Here comes Labor Day! This post comes from Jim Cook a long time union and community organizer who upon retirement left Oregon, USA for Ajijic, Mexico. Jim authored this article for the Service Employees International Union #503 (my union) and for the Oregon Peaceworker newsletter... Please take a look at Brother Jim Cook's very interesting work.--Wes Brain, Chair Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
"Mexico and the rest of the world celebrate Labor Day on May 1. Why doesn’t the US?" by Jim Cook
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Building an effective anarchist movemen
Alan MacSimoin, 27-07-2009 - 20:36
Text of talk delivered at a recent day of workshops and meetings organised by the Belfast branch of the WSM on the theme of the tasks facing anarchists in Ireland. The strengths and weaknesses of anarcho-syndicalism and the relevance of the platform in the 21st century.
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