Ashland 4th of July parade: Alternatives to war

This Month:

SATURDAY, JULY 6, 7pm

TV Guerillas: 'Jerusalem, Set in Stone?', and Testamonies: Israeli Soldiers on the Intifada.

Fresh Video, Hot off the Satellite from Free Speech TV, intn'l alternative underground resistance media, with latest Indymedia news and documentaries.
Available from Media Collective: Watch Free Speech TV Every Mon, Wed, Fri, Midnight to 2am on Public Access RVTV cable channel 31.


SATURDAY, JULY 20, 7pm

Local Slideshow Tour of Ashland Watershed, Screening of 'Watch", from PickAxe, about how a whole community succeeded in organizing to resist corporate plunder.



VEGAN SNACK POTLUCK


EVOS Java House

176 E. MAIN

(541) 482-2261

We hope the information people recieve will ignite a spark of participation for radical change, here at home and in the world at large.

The time for change is now. There is no more time to be ignorant and complacent. Inform yourselves. Become part of the solution. Knowledge is power.

"Not My Blood" will be playing Live at EVOS July 4th, after the parade.


EVOS Java House

176 E. Main

(541) 482-2261

Drove thru towne today during my lunchtime hour and you wouldn't believe it. From Triangle Park to the Fire Station you will find blankets, tarps, and lawn chairs as folks have already claimed their spots for tomorrow's parade. Many of us don't need to do that because we will be walking in the parade.

Some groups I know that will be showing colors are SEIU 503, The Oregon Public Employees Union, The Labor Party, Health Care For All-Oregon, PeaceHouse, UNITE (our local farmworkers' support group), The Green Party, and MORE!!! Also know that candidates for political office will be in the parade and this includes John Hallett and Dr. David Gilmour who will be replacing the draconian Jack Walker and Ric Holt as Jackson County Commissioners (power to the people!). I saw Peter Buckley today and he said he'll be in the parade. Mr. Buckley is a wonderful choice when it comes to replacing U.S. Congressman (and corporate bought 'n paid for) Greg Walden. I expect to see Senator Ron Walden, too. He usually comes to our parade. I will confront him again, just like last year, and tell him that with his Fast Track Vote he has sold out the interests of working people and the environment to corporate cronies--we need to keep talking to this loser like-- as was done the other day up in Portland towne...

Also, I will ask Senator Ron Wyden to Support the Chemical Safety Act. A critical vote on this new legislation is now scheduled for July 18th. The Chemical Safety Act wil not only beef up security, it will require chemical plants to consider safert technologies and chemicals.

WE WILL REPORT MORE AFTER J4. EXPECT TO SEE SOME "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE" BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME REAL PEOPLE IN THIS ONE!!!
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Greenpeace Action Alert
Support the Chemical Safety Act
July 2nd, 2002

Contact your Senators today and urge them to support the Chemical Safety Act.

Take online action now  http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/actionframe.pl?action_id=124

The realities of chemical safety:

-- Major U.S. chemical facilities are inherently dangerous and vulnerable to attack or accidents and no amount of "security" will truly protect them.

-- The most problematic chemicals used are chlorine and chlorine compounds for which there are many safer substitutes available.

-- The only way to make these plants truly safe is to convert them to safer technologies or chemicals. The Chemical Safety Act will make plant owners examine safer alternatives (such as chlorine-free chemicals and processes) and explain why they are choosing not to convert to these safer alternatives.

-- Taking away the public's right-to-know won't protect us from terrorists. It will only protect the chemical companies from the embarrassing fact that their most obsolete plants
threaten the lives of millions of residents and workers.

Find out more:  http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/toxics/chemicalsafetyaction.htm

For any of y'all who can, please meet us for the parade. We will try to bring as many giant puppets as we can carry, a large beautiful river banner, some salmon and a banner that says Protect Siskiyou Wild Rivers.

Bring a friend and kids are welcome. feel free to also bring signs of your ecological choice. We are an equal ecological opportunity to save it parade space.

Please meet at 8:00am on Liberty St between Iowa and Alaska St. Look for the Save Rough & Ready Creek sign. Alison will have it.

This is right above Triangle Park on Siskiyou.

We are in the section for not-for-profit/arts org. #401-499. We are number 425.

The parade starts at 9:15 but it always takes a while to get set up.

Enjoy.

Barry

Barry Snitkin
Local Outreach Coordinator
Siskiyou Project
9335 Takilma Rd.
Cave Junction, Or. 97523
541-592-4459
www.siskiyou.org

Jacob Young, Live: At the top of Calle Guanjuato, up against the brick wall.

THIRD ANNIVERSARY STREET THEATER. 1-6 PM FREE!!!

All Ages!!


Photo: Jaycub Young, local high school graduate gets rousted in Seattle for militantly playing his flute in the street.

JOIN US

RALLY AT RON WYDEN'S OFFICE!

Monday July 8th

310 W. 6th St, Medford


Senator Ron Wyden has publicly extended the invitation to the constituents of Oregon to let him know how we feel about the Replacement Volume Timber Program.

The Replacement Volume Timber Sale Program replaced second-growth timber sales in the Siuslaw National Forest with old growth forests in the Rogue-Siskiyou, Umpqua, Willamette, and Gifford Pinchot National Forests. Sales were cancelled due to nesting habitat of the threatened seabird, the Marbled Murrelet, and then placed in the habitat of another federally listed bird, the Northern Spotted Owl.

The Replacement Volume program required the Forest Service to replace cancelled sales with like kind and volume from other national forests. It was intended to be an equal exchange.

Instead of offering second growth, coastal forests, however, the Forest Service is offering classic, inland old growth as replacement.

Senator Wyden needs to hear about the Peak Timber Sale, threatened this month, maybe this week!

Peak is on the Rogue River National Forest just a few miles from Crater Lake National Park. The Forest Servic awarded the sale to Scott Timber Company (part of Roseburg Forest Products) to cut 3.9 million board feet. Peak would clearcut 55 acres and thin 210 acres of mature and old growth forests.

Silver-Sturgis Timber Sale is a replacement volume timber sale in the Rogue River National Forest. This sale would log 725 acres in the Elliott Creek and Carberry Creek watersheds for 9 million board feet of wood volume. This includes mature and old growth forest. This area has already been severely degraded by clearcutting and road building.

This is some of the last remaining intact forest in the area. Much of the area also overlaps with the 99,000 Kangaroo Roadless Area.

Our Message: Cancel the Replacement Volume Timber Program and the continued
logging of our mature and old-growth forests. Peak needs us to speak up now.
Meet at Evo's Coffee House, Ashland at 8 am or Ron Wyden's at 9 - 9:30 am.
call KS Wild for more information 488-5789

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Liz Crosson
Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center
POB 102 Ashland, OR 97520
541-488-5789
www.kswild.org

Report from Ashland. We had a Patriotic Parade Today. Thousands lined the streets and our progressive contingents showed what democracy looks like.

Good photos and more news from Southern Oregon to follow...

BECOME THE MEDIA. POST YOUR STORY TO THE WIRE

Resistance and dissent marched in front of thousdands in Ashland today. Shrub's war is a joke and we said so, loud and clear!

More Pix...

 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13979&group=webcast


Erin's Pix...

 http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13798&group=webcast


Pre-Parade...

 http://www.portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13589&group=webcast