LaborTech 2006, Rogue IMC Volunteers Go to SF

Rogue Independent Media Center Volunteers, 17.11.2006 - 10:30
The Digital Revolution And A Labor Media Strategy
LaborTech 2006
November 17, 18 & 19th, 2006
University Of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. (at Cole)
San Francisco, California
 http://www.labortech.net

Rogue Indy Volunteers Wes Brain and Brenda Gould are headed to San Francisco to participate in LaborTech 2006 an international conference about labor media. This is very exciting stuff. Wes will be on a workshop panel Saturday morning. The workshop will view a dvd training video that was prepared by Wes's union SEIU #503. The video shows how to make a labor tv show on community access television. Go here to view it - hosted by the Indybay IMC: ( http://indybay.org/uploads/2006/10/27/seiu503-howtostart.mov)

The new KSKQ radio show "The Brain Labor Report" will be highlighted at the conference. Here are the two rogue indy newswires about this new daily morning radio show which is sreamed on the internet Mon thru Fri @ 7AM pacific time.

"THE BRAIN LABOR REPORT streamin' on KSKQ"
 http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2006/11/7522.shtml

The Brain Labor Report N20 thru N24
 http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2006/11/7540.shtml

Prior to the trip Wes Brain made the following comments about LaborTech 2006:

"In 2004 Steve Ryan and I went to SF for LaborTech 2004 and we were on a panel promoting our independent media centers. Ali was on our panel. He is a member of our media collective that made the documentary: The Miami Model. "The Miami Model" on google video:  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6070018713445115976&hl;=en >

Our ftaa miami video collective has taken proceeds from dvd sales of the Miami Model and last week sent to Oaxaca 2-300GB Harddrives, a Video Camera and a stack of 100 dvds.

The conference kicks off with film screenings Friday evening and this one really caught my eye...

'The Taking Of The Media In Oaxaca (segment)- Women with the support of the Teachers Union Section 22 of Oaxaca occupied and ran the TV station and radio stations in this town. This documentary shows why they did this and how it was done'"

Go to  http://www.labortech.net to view the entire conference website for an expanded view of Labor Tech 2006
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ESA exemption proposed for Klamath irrigators

Felice Pace, 05.11.2006 - 14:21
California Fish & Game (CDFG) proposes giving agricultural operations in the Shasta and Scott Sub-basin of the Klamath River a virtual exemption from the California Endangered Species Act (C-ESA). The irrigators dewater the Scott and Shasta and, in drought years, Coho salmon, listed as “threatened” under the C-ESA, are among the fish killed. The proposed permit will not lead to Coho Recovery; it will allow dewatering to continue and put irrigators in charge of monitoring their own C-ESA compliance and reporting violations.
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Election Fraud shows on KSKQ.org

Dr. Lora Chamberlain, 01.11.2006 - 20:43
Hello to all,
 
    I think the issue of election fraud around the country this election is so important that I will be having 4 shows on this issue on KSKQ radio in SW Oregon. 
 
     Nov 8th, 12noon-2pm on The American Activist
     Nov 10th, 10am-11am on Parallel University
     Nov 15th, 12noon-2pm on the American Activist
     Nov 22nd, 12noon-2pm on the American Activist
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Brad Will, IMC journalist murdered in Oaxaca

Wes, another imc volunteer, 30.10.2006 - 09:32
Here is Brad Will's last dispatch where he reports on the darkness that is all but ignored by the commercial news. His news report is testimony in and of itself as to the importance of independent media. Go light a candle for Brad Will. Long Live Independent Media!

Brad was an independent video journalist, a volunteer with the Independent Media Center in NYC. We have lost a journalist who helped shine light on news that is under-reported or not even told at all. Shame on the United States mainstream media for their corporate censorship when it comes to this 5 month long teacher and community struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico. So, so many don't even know. Were it not for imc reporters like Brad Will: No One Would Know.

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Grants Pass Postal Service Picket Report Back

Dennis Hotchkiss, Oregon state-wide President APWU, 28.10.2006 - 15:27
the message is clear - DON'T MESS WITH OUR MAIL SERVICE!

In the last six years the Postal Service has cut out nearly 100,000 APWU positions mostly clerks. That is nearly 1/3 of the workers from six years ago. The Medford Post Office, the mail processing plant for Southern Oregon, now works employees 7 days, 12 hour shifts and the mail still is not getting out in a timely manner- they just won't hire career employees to handle the workload.
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Ashland City Council Candidate is "Tough Cop"

Instigator, 21.10.2006 - 08:23

Ashland City Council candidate Greg Lemhouse was part of the notorious "Reservoir Dawgs" Medford Police group. He is in favor of police use of tasers and thinks community policing requires a "quasi-military" police force.

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Vote for Affordable Housing in Ashland

Join the affordable housing campaign, 20.10.2006 - 22:25
Hi Friends,
I received the following message from Rich Rohde and Oregon Action.  The local measure he references seems polarizing, unnecessary and won't receive much attention so I am sending along my recommendation to vote NO on Measure 15-65--Steve
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Ashland voters and friends,

Since there is no material in the voters guide about Ballot Measure 15-65 in Ashland please consider this letter and vote no.  Oregon Action has been supporting affordable housing for our community, and we recommend a no vote.

Ashland voters have the opportunity to do the right thing for affordable housing this election by voting a resounding No to Measure 15-65. Designed by anti-affordable housing ideologues, this measure changes the City charter to require that any proposal for a real estate transfer fee in Ashland must be put up for public vote. Read on for two great reasons to vote against 15-65
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Greg Walden Flips-Off Democracy

"WHERE'S WALDEN?" on Television Wednesday @ 6PM, 15.10.2006 - 21:01
TRUE BUSH CLONE

Carol Voisin (dem candidate for district 2) gets flipped-off by Greg Walden when she finally meets the slithering Congressman at the Crook County Fair last July.

Walden's symbolic gesture is really flipping off Democracy!

(watch this show about greg flipping off his constituency)
"Where's Walden?" on TV Nov. 1 @ 6 PM.
Ch#15 Jackson & Josephine Counties
Ch#95 Ashland Fiber Network

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Watershed Week - October 11-18

wild mt ashland, 13.10.2006 - 22:48
Ashlanders will gather at a series of community and educational events dubbed "Watershed Week - October 11-18" to learn about the importance of our watershed. The week's activities will galvanize citizens to protect our watershed as a source of clean drinking water, lush forests, and critical habitat for numerous plants and animals.

Our fragile watershed has been under threat since the Mt Ashland Association refused to compromise and planned to expand the Mt Ashland Ski Area into the pristine Middle Branch. The controversy around the proposed expansion of the Mt Ashland Ski Area has reached a crucial moment. The situation is dynamic and changing daily. Citizen involvement to protect our watershed and urge City Council to make sound decisions is critical at this time.
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Local Songwriter's Music banned

mc kean, 13.10.2006 - 10:33
Songwriter Patrick Dodd's new video WAR EAGLE has been banned by Metacafe.
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