THE SPIRIT OF WATER

Native American Forum of Reverence, 26.11.2006 - 09:42
THE SPIRIT OF WATER
December 6, 2006, 5:30 PM
Art Building, Meese Auditorium (Siskiyou Blvd/Indiana St), Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

“Water is life and we are the water.  We must protect her,” said an American Indian Elder.

We will be gathering to honor the Native American relationship to the water and Mother Earth. With the ongoing controversies in the West over sacred Native American sites being desecrated by development and commercialism, the issue needs to be addressed more than ever.  Water is sacred and needs to be held in reverence.

Invited Presenters
Allan Foreman, Tribal Council Chairman, Klamath Tribes
Helen Crume-Smith, Tribal Council member, Klamath Tribes
Richard Wilson, Tribal Dance Captain, Winnemem-Wintu
Sarah Haase, singer, Winnemem-Wintu
Nancy Price, Save the Water Campaign of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
 http://wilpf.org/campaigns/water

Scheduled Events
Welcoming - Drumming - Community finger food potluck
Speaker presentations
Film showing: “In the Light of Reverence,” an award winning documentary by Christopher McLeod
 http://www.sacredland.orgreverence.html
Open discussion

Sponsored by
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), SOU Native American Programs, SOU Native American Student Union (NASU), Ecology Center of the Siskiyous (ECOS), SOU Women’s Resource Center (WRC), SOU Environmental Studies Club (ESC), and Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG)

This event is FREE and open to the public
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Questions? 541-482-6988,  brain@mind.net
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Military Commission Act '06 info rally 11/28

you, me, and everyone we know! that's who!, 25.11.2006 - 23:23
On November 28, 2006 SOU students & professors will be holding an informational rally regarding the Military Commission Act of 2006, a recent piece of legislation passed by the Republican controlled congress and presidential administration. Everyone is invited. This looks worse than the USA Patriot Act  http://www.slate.com/id/2087984/
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No Thanksgiving this year in Ashland

pogo, 20.11.2006 - 21:08
There will be no Caring Friends dinner in Ashland this year. The organization which serves a free thanksgiving dinner to the hungry and homeless is disbanding.
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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 streamed 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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