Spring Break in NOLA - SOU Student Journal

Sunny Lindley, 10.05.2006 - 19:05
Students from Southern Oregon University and Rogue Valley community members went to New Orleans during spring break with a big dose of solidarity. Sunny Lindley was one of them. She shares her journal with us.--rogueimcvolunteer

"My last day at St. Mary's I overheard some folks who had attended the church service that day talking about the most recent body that was found, a five year-old girl. She had her backpack on, fully packed for an overnight stay. She was found several miles from her own neighborhood, seven months after the levees failed and washed her away."--sunnylindley

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Celebrate the Real Meaning of Mother's Day

Ashland Branch of WILPF, 07.05.2006 - 18:08
Join us in the first fundraiser for Haditha Hospital Restoration Project and reclaim the intended meaning of Julia Ward Howe's Mothers Day, a day for all mothers around the world to unite for peace and justice.
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More Work Needed 4 Workforce Housing 2 Work

Pogo, 05.05.2006 - 23:28
Ashland is becoming "Aspen-ized" warned Housing Commissioner Alice Hardesty at Thursday night's forum on Workforce Housing. To the gathered crowd this was no surprise. It was a decade ago that teachers, firemen and police officers were being priced out of the community. Now it is hard to find city administrators willing to move here.
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We STILL need your SOU vote

Steve, 05.05.2006 - 17:09
NEW! Please open your student email or come to the SU Mon.-Weds. and vote for Steve and Alicia for SOU student body executives. You: SOU student voter. Me: student body chief financial officer, would be president. Her: current VP, VP to be. Thank you SOU!!!
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Cougars in Jackson County

Animal Rights Activist, 04.05.2006 - 21:11
Jackson county is poised to hire federal wildlife agent to kill cougars and other animals with your tax dollars.

Funding to hire a federal trapper was quietly added to the Jackson County budget. Wildlife Services (WS), a dept of the US Dept of Agriculture, provides 'services' killing wildlife.In Oregon in 2004 Wildlife Services killed 23,475 animals, including 70 cougars and 172 bears, 3,811 coyotes.


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Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote

Pogo, 02.05.2006 - 17:14
May Day - 2006, Medford, Oregon

Immigration Rights supporters took to the streets on Monday, May 1st. Several reports say the numbers were over 500 for this the third large immigration rights rally to be held recently in Medford.
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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 400 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)

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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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