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Good news on the Korea FTA!

P E O P L E * O V E R * P R O F I T !, 12-11-2010 - 02:25

* NO KOREAN FTA * Hell yeah! You did it, everyone. President Obama stepped back from the edge of the cliff in South Korea, at least for the moment. Nice work! If we're able to hold him off through the summer, we may just have put the final nail in the coffin of the NAFTA model. Let's keep it up -- and THANK YOU!... Arthur Stamoulis

Keep reading for the latest on the Korea Free Trade Agreement
Statement follows by Arthur Stamoulis, Director, Citizens Trade Campaign
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TARP BAILOUT $$ HAS DESTROYED U.S. ELECTIONS

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS, 12-09-2010 - 01:34

THE FAMOUS WHITE~HOUSE DUO OF GEORGE BUSH JR & KARL ROVE MADE SURE BEFORE LEAVING WASHINGTON DC THAT OUR FUTURE AMERICAN ELECTIONS WOULD NEVER BE DECIDED BY ANYTHING OTHER THEN TARP BAILOUT PONZI $$ ...little American voting taxpayers !!!
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Move Your $MONEY$ Southern Oregon

SWITCH TO A LOCAL BANK OR CREDIT UNION!, 09-07-2010 - 00:48

Ashland, Oregon * Independence Day, 2010

Southern Oregon's MOVE YOUR MONEY campaign debuted on the main drag during Ashland's Fourth of July parade. The parade entry from Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice (SOJwJ) included the Jefferson State Rollers. The helpful swarm of female roller derby skaters blasted Ashland with thousands of tri-fold Move Your Money brochures which rank regional banks and credit unions with the big Wall Street banks. Any guess which work best for the local economy?

People want to support local economic development and are tired of Wall Street excesses that have crippled our country. Move Your Money is a campaign to move money away from the big greedy Wall Street Banks and put the bucks where they will do the most good right here at home.

Check out July 4 parade photos and look at the PDF brochure for a detailed description of Move Your MONEY Southern Oregon.

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Against Patriarchy, Beyond Feminism

APBF, 19-06-2010 - 20:00

July 9th-July17th 2010:

All events at the M11 (1212 S. 11th St. Suite 24, Tacoma) unless otherwise noted. All events are free.
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2010 Trans & Womyn's Action Camp

TWAC, 18-05-2010 - 23:18

TWAC = The lovely sound of smashing patriarchy!
Want to learn about non-violent direct action, community health, organizing skills, and more in a safe(r) and inclusive environment?
We are only 7 weeks away from this years Trans & Womyn's Action Camp in Cascadia.
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Stop Walmart Rally Tue morning before Supreme Court Hearing

WALMART DESTROYS LOCAL ECONOMIES--HURTS PEOPLE, 18-05-2010 - 03:51

* * S T O P * * W A L M A R T * * Stop Walmart -- Miles Field Rally -- Near Medford's south I-5 Interchange
Tuesday May 18, 7AM to 8AM (rally followed by OR Supreme Court Hearing 9AM @ N. Medford High School)
Near Hwy. 99 & Stewart, sidewalk along 99 south of Veterans Park & the Oregon National Guard Armory
Right where Miles Field USE TO BE! (before Walmart & City of Medford corporate cronyism)

-- CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST PROVIDED --
-- -- -- Hot Coffee and snacks -- -- --

STOP WALMART! -- STOP THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE -- STOP WALMART!

COME SUPPORT MEDFORD CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT (MCRD)
This over six-year-long David v. Goliath struggle is pitting our community against a multinational conglomerate that is dead set on destroying our community.

Peter Buckley issues the Walmart warning back in 2005 -- watch video clip
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TAX WALL STREET DAY OF ACTION - Apr. 15, 2010

SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 14-04-2010 - 21:09

Banksters' storefront in Ashland For 30 years, corporate CEOs and Wall Street speculators have put the squeeze on workers with globalization, privatization and union-busting.

They used their rising profits to buy Congress, convincing them to hand out tax breaks to the rich and gut banking regulations and consumer protections. Then they invented unscrupulous mortgage and investing practices, turning our financial system into a casino. When their speculation didn't pay off, they got Congress to bail them out to the tune of $15,000 for every household in America.

A tax on the speculators of the Wall Street casino could put 3 million people to work fixing our infrastructure, teaching our children, making our factories sustainable and improving our public services.

* * * * TAKE ACTION TO MAKE THEM PAY * * * * WE NEED JOBS NOW! * * * *

TAX DAY: APRIL 15, 2010
1PM - US POST OFFICE, 120 N. 1st St.
ASHLAND, OREGON

Currently there are 29 actions around the country * to learn more or find an action near you:  http://www.taxwallstreet.org
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I Will Continue To Fight For Single-Payer

Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), 21-01-2010 - 20:03

Congressman Dennis Kucinich 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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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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D5 Mobilization to Portland against the WTO

SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 04-12-2009 - 07:25

Democracy Demands It! SOUTHERN OREGONIANS ARE HEADING TO PORTLAND DEC. 5 TO JOIN THE CONVERGENCE
Vans & Autos will car-pool up and back the same day ($30. roundtrip in a van includes pizza).
Call NOW to reserve a seat 541-482-6988 or email  brain@mind.net

D5: Mobilization Against the World Trade Organization
 http://www.December5.org

Saturday, December 5th * March & Rally * Downtown Portland

12:00 Noon - Gather at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (under the Hawthorne Bridge)
1:00 pm - March to the World Trade Center, Federal Building and Wells Fargo Building
2:00 pm - Indoor Rally and Concert at Portland State University
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WTO 10 yrs. ago SAT on Rogue Valley Access TV

SOUTHERN OREGONIANS REPORT BACK--ON FILM, 04-12-2009 - 06:31

"WACHET AUF, The People's March in Seattle"
Saturday, 12/5/09, 4:04 PM
Cable Channel 15 - Jackson and Josephine Counties

10 YEARS AGO -- 1999 in SEATTLE -- CITIZENS SHUT DOWN THE WTO
*Southern Oregon Citizens Report Back on the Battle in Seattle*
This video offers first hand testimony from Southern Oregon citizen activists who just days before had been in the streets of Seattle, Washington

This is a Must See! The 10 year anniversary broadcast on 12/5/09 coincides with Southern Oregonians going north again on Saturday, 12/5/09 -  http://www.december5.org/
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"A Union Man" Tribute on RVTV Sept. 9 @ 6PM

In Honor of a Working Class Hero, 08-09-2009 - 10:15

Julius Margolin - A Union Man "A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin"
Wednesday, September 9 @ 6PM
Cable Channel 15, Rogue Valley Community Television
Available in Southern Oregon throughout Jackson and Josephine Counties

These television broadcasts (also broadcast Sept. 2) are a tribute to one huge working class hero, Julius Margolin. Julius recently passed away August 24, 2009 and this documentary showing his remarkable life is presented to honor a very special man
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BUILDING A PEOPLE'S ECONOMY - KSKQ radio

Produced by Roberta Hall - Corvallis, Oregon, 16-07-2009 - 21:21

community radio on the cutting edge

a campaign titled BUILDING A PEOPLE'S ECONOMY

Rural Organizing Project is putting together a statewide team of the brightest thinkers and best organizers throughout Oregon

listen to>> Dan Leahy, a community organizer and recently retired professor from Olympia Washington -- who has been called a Howard Zinn of social movements, a Utah Phillips in prose. Joe Magner of Anabyte Recording and Electronics recorded the event and Roberta Hall produced it.

"LIVE" Friday, July17 1:00pm PST, KSKQ 94.9 lpfm in Ashland, Oregon. Our community radio station can be heard anywhere via the internet at  http://www.kskq.org

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* C H A M P I O N S * a n d * A N G E L S *

"Mourn the dead, but fight like hell for the living"--Mother Jones, 29-06-2009 - 07:15

* Joanie McGowan* The Rogue IMC Editorial Board was recently contacted by Joe and given an update for the "...memorial site for my good friend Joanie McGowan..." He went on to tell about a bad link, and that "the real memorial site is alive and well at  http://joaniemcgowan.com ... May her spirit live on in peace"

Joanie McGowan's Birthday is Monday June 29, 2009 and so Joe's note couldn't have come at a better time to remember Joanie and also to remember the others who we have lost here in our Southern Oregon community. Champions and Angels, we are talking about Champions and Angels.

* * J O A N I E * M C G O W A N * * T A N Y A * W R A Y * * D A V E * M A R S T O N * *
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Independent Media Week April 19 - 25, 2009

$ $ INDEPENDENT MEDIA IS NON-COMMERCIAL $ $, 17-04-2009 - 21:35

INDYMEDIA WEEK Apr 19 - 25 Ashland, Oregon’s 5th annual Independent Media Week will showcase a coalition of independent media producers, local activists and community groups organized around the theme “A well-informed citizenry is a cornerstone of democracy.”

In April 2005, the City of Ashland officially proclaimed its first Independent Media Week during the time when local activists were encouraging Jefferson Public Radio to broadcast Amy Goodman's “Democracy Now!” Activists at the time were also working to launch KSKQ, our local low-power FM community radio station. The keynote speaker at the headline event in 2005 was Amy Goodman.

Every year since the City of Ashland has proclaimed a week in April to highlight independent media. This year at the April 7th council meeting the City of Ashland proclaimed April 19-25, 2009 “Independent Media Week.” This year's keynote speaker at the Friday, April 24 main event is Peter Phillips from "Project Censored"  http://www.projectcensored.org

BTW, to update that 2005 campaign: Jefferson Public Radio refused to broadcast Democracy Now!, but it is heard daily on community radio KSKQ!

Independent Media Week 2009 website:  http://www.kskq.org/imw

Keep reading for the whole week of events...
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ROP State-wide Rural Caucus in Salem March 15

* B U I L D I N G * R U R A L * P O W E R *, 11-03-2009 - 17:29

March 15th 1pm, Statewide March on the Capitol: Stop the Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan; Keep the Guard in Oregon.

ROP Statewide Rural Caucus March 15th brings people together to meet the challenges of the economic crisis and build progressive power for Rural Oregon.

Organizing with Hope in Times of Crisis.
What & When: Rural Caucus and Strategy Session Sunday March 15th 9am–7pm & Democracy Bailout Monday March 16th 9am-1pm.

Where: Salem, Oregon
March 15th at Willamette University (Montag Den)
March 16th at UCC Church (700 Marion St NE)

Who: Rural Organizing Project & 65 member Human Dignity Groups from 30+ counties in Oregon

Why: There is incredible hardship in rural Oregon right now but also a chance for true social change and economic restructuring. ROP members from all corners of Oregon will come together to strategize on the future of the progressive movement in rural Oregon, share skills to advance organizing in local communities & demonstrate our collective power.
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Uphold the Militant Tradition of IWD

Jose Maria Sison, 02-03-2009 - 02:35

Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Day

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Women Hold Up Half the Sky!

Libros Revolucion, 27-02-2009 - 06:42

On March 8, at 2:00 p.m. at the Student Union Theatre at the California State University, Los Angeles, there will be a presentation by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA “Women Hold Up Half The Sky – Only Communist Revolution Can Emancipate Women!”
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INAUGURATION PARTY - ANNE FEENEY IN CONCERT

7PM, 1/20/09 * SISKIYOU PUB IN ASHLAND, OR, 17-01-2009 - 17:20

unionmaid, hellraiser & labor singer Anne Feeney comes to Southern Oregon January 20th for an Inauguration Party and a concert of labor music starting at 7 p.m. at the Siskiyou Pub in Ashland, Oregon.

"OUT with the OLD and IN with the NEW"

This event is FREE and has been underwritten with sponsorship from the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council and Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice.

"Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America."--Utah Phillips

*LIVE BROADCAST* *LIVE BROADCAST* *LIVE BROADCAST* *LIVE BROADCAST*
If you cannot make it in person and for our friends all around the world- - -
KSKQ will remote broadcast "live" at 7 p.m. - 94.9 fm in Ashland, Oregon and
on the internet at  http://www.kskq.org
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Fight the H8! Rally-Medford, OR - Photos Set#2

Rogue Independent Media Center Volunteer, 16-11-2008 - 06:04

SECOND SET OF PHOTOS
THE NO H8 RALLY
HELD IN MEDFORD, OREGON
ON 11/15/08

CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO MAKE IT LARGER
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