Scroll down for details on local actions on Saturday, Jan 30th & Sunday, Jan. 31st Friday, January 29, 2016 As I write this, four people continue to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, one of the leaders of the occupation is dead, and a call to action has been issued by the Pacific Patriots Network [read more]
Click here for details on local actions around the state. STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION: END THE OCCUPATION OF HARNEY COUNTY Contacts: Jessica Campbell, Organizing Director, Rural Organizing Project: 541-999-8144 Cara Shufelt, Director, Rural Organizing Project: 503-349-3918 January 29th, 2016 The Rural Organizing Project is coordinating a statewide Day of Action in Solidarity with the people of Harney County [read more]
January 27th, 2016 Last night, eight leaders of the armed takeover at Malheur Wildlife Refuge were arrested outside of Burns en route to a meeting in Grant County dedicated to setting up a shadow county government the way they had attempted in Harney County. One of the occupiers was killed during the confrontation with police. [read more]
15/Hr Minimum Wage? What About Small Business? by Mike Edera The media keeps jabbering on about something called ‘The Economy’. ‘The Economy’ WAS doing ‘badly’, but NOW it’s ‘recovering’. The stock market is booming. Housing prices are up. Corporate profits are up, and companies are hiring. This is a description of ‘The Economy’ from a [read more]
Patriot Movement Paramilitaries in Oregon Spencer Sunshine, PhD, Associate Fellow at Political Research Associates This is an expanded version of a talk given at the Rural Organizing Project’s Rural Caucus and Strategy Session in Woodburn, Oregon on June 13, 2015. The Patriot Movement: From Posse Comitatus to the Oath Keepers In April 2015, armed right-wing [read more]
July – August 2015 Kitchen Table Activity: What is the Right up to in Oregon? WHY THIS ACTIVITY? At the Caucus a month ago, we dug into our moment in rural and small town Oregon. Fresh on the heels of a national mobilization of militia and “patriot” groups to southern Oregon eager for a standoff with the [read more]
One evening a couple weeks ago, I received a call from a human dignity group leader in Josephine County: “ROP! Help!” The Oath Keepers of Josephine County, a local chapter of a national right-wing organization that recruits police, military, and others to “uphold their oath to the Constitution” and to refuse any orders that violate [read more]
December 2014/January 2015 Kitchen Table Activity A longtime human dignity group leader recently shared, “We are in a moment where it is revolutionary to take care of each other.” As we enter the bitter cold of winter, these words become all the more relevant. It is the most marginalized and vulnerable among us who suffer [read more]
It’s not every day that we make national news. But Monday we did when 70 folks packed the sidewalk in front of the Gateway Post Office on the busiest day of the year for the USPS — part of the Gateway Mail Processing Center slated to close in February — talking with customers, sharing homebaked [read more]
What is the Activity? As we all know, the holidays are the busiest time of the year for the United States Postal Service. With the USPS increasingly under pressure to deal with its internal financial crises imposed by Congress (keep reading if this is news to you!), our access to postal service hangs in the [read more]