Immigration Rights Rally/March in Medford

Rogue Indy Reporters, 20.04.2006 - 00:00
4/21/06 Alba Park, Medford, Oregon

A crowd estimated between 300 and 500 stood strong in a march & rally in downtown Medford. After the opening rally at the gazebo in Alba demonstrators proceeded down Main Street first to Vogel Park. The march moved onto Central with banners held high in the air. The procession turned at 6th Street and then again onto Riverside to 10th around the Library and then down Central again back to Vogel Park.

Accompanying chants included

"Si Se Puede" (Yes We Can)
"El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido" (The People United, Will Never Be Defeated)
"Hoy Marchamos, Manana Votamos" (Today We March, Tommorow We Vote)

Check out photos and short streaming Quicktime video

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Ashland Downtown Planning

Downtown Planning Committee, 19.04.2006 - 20:12
On April 25th and 26th George Crandall, FAIA and Don Arambula, ASLA, principals of the nationally-known urban consulting firm, Crandall Arambula, will be in town for briefings with stakeholders and a general public meeting. The consultants were chosen by the City Council to produce a scope of work that clearly identified thesequence of steps involved to produce a new Downtown Master Plan.
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Got Roadless? Oxygen Collective's show coming to Medford 4/21

o2, 17.04.2006 - 00:37
The Final chapter of the saga of the Biscuit Burn is still unwritten. Ecologists prove logging it is unhealthy, firefighters warn it's dangerous, economists assure it's wasteful. Dozens of arrests have stymied the threat to a fraction of their promise. Still, Bush and Big Timber come back for more - this time Kalmiopsis Roadless Areas auctioned off under the guise of salvage!

The Oxygen Collective is directly challenging the Bush Administration's rapidly advancing plans to salvage log forests in Oregon's largest unprotected roadless areas this summer. For three days in April we will be traveling via our 40-foot biodiesel bus through western Oregon for four scheduled appearances and a few unannounced surprises. Come join us (for free) on the 21st, Medford Public Library, 413 West Main Street @ 7:30 pm for stories, song, cinema and saucy talk!
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA WEEK 2006

April 16 - 22, as Proclaimed by the City of Ashland, Oregon, 14.04.2006 - 19:01


RUPERT MURDOCH STEP ASIDE - Coalition partners KSKQ, Rogue Independent Media Center, S.O.U. Media Collective, The Ashland Free Press, and The Committee for Democracy Now! host Independent Media Week events including a documentary film festival, presentations, an open mic event and informational tabling.
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RR Teachers Have Tentative Contract Agreement

1.5 DAY LONG STRIKE ENDS!!!, 13.04.2006 - 11:28
Thursday, April 13, late morning update-
Rogue River Teachers will vote on contract agreement. Possibly might be back to work this afternoon.

WATCH SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, Teachers sing and chant for a contract at the Wednesday morning 6:30 a.m. rally, just prior to hitting the picket lines at all four Rogue River Schools.

And an interview with Mary Ruth Wooding, SEIU#503-retired janitor from Southern Oregon University, member of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and long time delegate to the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council.
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KELTS IN KILTS FOR KSKQ Benefit. Music, Stories & Art

DJ VJ Ter'Rence, 09.04.2006 - 21:50
Irish & Scottish music songs and stories by the world renowned bagpipe artist & storyterller Kevin Carr on fiddle & Irish and Galacian bagpipe. He will be accompanied by local friends & musicians including Donna Breedlove & Patrick Claflin on Bohdram drum, Philip Colvard on guitar, & Jim Finnegan with vocals.
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Red Ride. Bicycle Ride For Hurricane Relief.

Benjamin Harlow, 05.04.2006 - 15:24
Traditional Prayer Stick carried by bicycle from Southern Oregon to Louisiana.

Prayers offered to Louisianas hurricane and socio-economic impacted Biloxi-Chitimach Confederation of Muskogee tribes, and the Point-au-Chien Indian tribe.

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Councilor Hartzell on police issues

Cate Hartzell (reposted from ACA), 04.04.2006 - 13:50
*ON RECENT POLICE DEPARTMENT ISSUES*

In this note, I present my experiences, thoughts, and frustrations around the current situation in the Police Department. I acknowledge that there are many different perspectives on these issues; that is the nature of our human reality. Mine is not the "right" story because there is no "right" story.
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Chief Bianca Ousted

pogo, 03.04.2006 - 17:09
Ashland Police Chief Mike Bianca has resigned after rumors of his pending termination surfaced on the council email listserv.
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SKIPPING SCHOOL TO PROTEST

Students walked on March 5 '03 Books Not Bombs, 02.04.2006 - 20:38
The power and vibrancy of youth

On March 5, 2003 the huge BOOKS NOT BOMBS rally in Ashland, Oregon saw students walk out from college, high school and the middle school. This preemptive rally BEFORE THE BOMBS DROPPED ON BAGHDAD had the bright vibrant faces of youth standing up for democracy in a very important way.

Three (3) years later we need to examine current news, this repost from the Portland Independent Media Center Newswire:

"SKIPPING SCHOOL TO PROTEST" (portland indymedia repost)
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/336996.shtml

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