Labor Council Supports Local Activist

pogo, 24.01.2008 - 10:10
STANDING UP & SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

The Southern Oregon Central Labor Council defends activist Wes Brain after he was denied a position on the Rogue Valley Workforce Development Council following a false rumor raised by Jackson County Commissioner Jack Walker claiming Brain had burned an American Flag.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Health Care Forum

O R E G O N * A C T I O N, 09.01.2008 - 13:20
Oregon Action would like to invite you to attend our Martin Luther King Jr. Health Care Forum scheduled for Saturday January 19 at 1:00 PM at the Medford Library

Building On The Dream: Equality in Health Care
Honoring Dr. King, Jr. with Action

On Saturday, January 19, 2008, Oregon Action will host a celebration saluting Dr. Martin Luther King’s tireless effort to promote equality for and harmony between, all people.

King once said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care, is the most inhumane.” He worked to raise awareness about public health concerns, particularly in the area of issues that disproportionately affect minorities, people of color, and low-income communities.
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Colateral Repair Project Event in Ashland

Liisa, 07.01.2008 - 21:23
Collateral Repair Project: A Report Back on the Iraqi Refugee Crisis in Jordan with Mary Madsen

Monday, January 14th at the Peace House in Ashland

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Neighbors Unite Against the BLM’s “WOPR”

January 8th WOPR Rally - rain or shine!, 07.01.2008 - 20:24
Cave Junction, Oregon - Friends and neighbors with homes and businesses near Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property will rally at BLM headquarters, 3040 Biddle Road in Medford, on Tuesday January 8th at 11:00AM, come rain, snow or shine! The peaceful rally will address numerous issues and concerns that directly affect the economy, environmental health and quality of residents’ lives through-out the region. A bus load of residents from the Illinois Valley will arrive just before 11:00 am.

Opposition to the BLM’s Western Oregon Planning Revision (WOPR) process for 2.5 million acres of public forestland statewide has galvanized a huge and diverse alliance. Rally organizer and Illinois Valley resident Dorothea Hover-Kramer said, “At countless meetings, when we ask how many people live adjacent to or near BLM lands, all the hands in the room go up!” Hover-Kramer adds, “There are many new faces: vineyard owners, farmers, river and back-country outfitters, horse enthusiasts, restaurant owners, teachers, scientists and retirees, to name a few.”

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"The Story of Stuff"

Annie Leonard, 25.12.2007 - 06:33
 http://www.storyofstuff.com/

This is not a "bah-humbug" message this holiday season, but one of reflection that I wish to share... We can enjoy the holidays while at the same time considering "The Story of Stuff" I say this with self-reflection because to be perfectly honest I ran over to the Rogue Valley Mall just two days ago looking for "last minute stuff"--wes

What is the Story of Stuff?

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Watch This Video
 http://www.storyofstuff.com/

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BREAKING NEWS: LSSI has to recognize union!

SEIU’s Buck Eichler / Successorship Doctrine, 20.12.2007 - 09:22
When Library Systems & Services (LSSI) took over operations of the Jackson County Library System (all 15 libraries), employees lost their right to union representation. The Successorship Doctrine provides an avenue for library employees to keep their union and to bargain for wages, benefits and working conditions.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE NEWS THAT BROKE THIS MORNING ON THE BRAIN LABOR REPORT
Buck Eichler was the guest on the December 20, 2007 edition of this morning radio program that highlights the struggles of ordinary working people

Listen to this radio show, audio file here
 http://www.kskq.org/audio-archive/blr/blr20071220.mp3
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Public Blasts FCC on Media Consolidation

PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON ACCESS TELEVISION , 18.12.2007 - 09:12
FCC "Media Ownership" Public Hearing on Rogue Valley Community Television (RVTV)

Rogue Valley Community Television will cablecast the public testimony given in Seattle, WA. 11/9/07 at the FCC regional hearing on "Media Ownership"

RVTV Schedule
Channel 15 at 6:00 PM
Next three Wednesdays
12/19/07, 12/26/07, 01/02/08

Watch and listen to citizen after citizen offer public testimony that opposes FCC's desire to accommodate corporate media and relax restrictions on how many media outlets a single company can own in a market.

Watch this video for the most compelling public testimony you will ever see!!!
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VICTORY: Daily Tidings Dumps Hate Speech!

* N O * H A T E * S P E E C H * S E L L S *, 17.12.2007 - 18:32
In a demonstration of community well being the Ashland Daily Tidings did the unFOXy thing and 86'd the hateful speech that it harbored on it's website. The worst of the hate comments have been taken down, background story here  http://rogueimc.org/en/2007/12/9550.shtml This is a Good Thing at the Right Time. The newspaper is for sale. Its not like you drive by the Tidings' offices on Siskiyou Blvd. in Ashland and see another real estate sign planted in the front yard, but be no mistake about it: our local newspaper since 1876 has been put up on the auction block right along with the Mail Tribune ( they dumped the name "Medford" recently) and the Nickel (the rag you look in to buy a used car or washing machine). All three are up for sale now. Rupert Murdoch has declared it.

The Ashland Daily Tidings very likely just improved its standings in the business world, a world that cares first and foremost for the bottom line, that world we live in where news is for sale and is driven so deeply by the payers and players, the advertisers. We know this world where increasingly everything is for sale, we live in it. Victory for the Tidings is for a newspaper that might have a life down the road and continue the long tradition of a community paper that has been here reporting our news since 1876... The other road for the Tidings' future has it being found on a rack at the grocery store, right next to the woman who just gave birth to a 17 pound baby with hair on its lip.

Never mind for just a minute, the economics of selling a local newspaper in the United States. We all have heard that newspapers across America are taking a dive. Lets instead focus on our community and what it means when our Ashland Daily Tidings does the unFOXy thing and dumps hate speech. This is community news that is truly worth reporting.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS, RUPERT MURDOCH BE DAMNED!
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Ashland Daily Tidings Supports Racism & Hate!

MEDIA WATCH DAWG, 04.12.2007 - 15:46
Rupert Murdoch owned rag goes over the line- Ashland, Oregon's local newspaper supports racism and hate speech. Editor Scot Bolsinger is shameless yet has personal responsibility for the horrible hate which is harbored by this poor example of so-called journalism. The Tidings has stooped to a new low. The paper has been spiraling downward ever since combining with the only other daily paper in the Rogue Valley, the Medford Mail Tribune. How do you say monopoly? Lack of real news has been replaced with this disgusting cesspool of hate.

Look Hate in the face and see what you think. Examples follow...
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STOP Gordon Smith Rally in Medford, OR, 12/5/07

Citizens for Peace & Justice joins with the Dems, 04.12.2007 - 01:08
Dear Friends of Citizens for Peace & Justice --

Please join us between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm this Wednesday, Dec. 5th, at the Security Plaza building at 1175 E. Main St. in Medford to hold Gordon Smith accountable. This protest, organized by the Democratic Party of Oregon statewide and by Citizens for Peace & Justice locally, is one of several being held at all of Smith's Oregon field offices.

Citizens for Peace and Justice
 http://www.medfordcpj.org
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