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Video: Stop Sending Jobs Overseas

At a Press Event at the Blue Heron Paper Mill in Oregon City, details of a new study were released which finds trade-related job loss a significant factor in Oregon's high unemployment rate.

[12 minute video] Press Event at Blue Heron Paper Mill
Spontaneously, following the Press Event, citizens walked a few blocks through downtown Oregon City to the office of Rep. Kurt Schrader, the Representative from Oregon's 5th District, who has not been forthcoming about his views on a recent piece of legislation called the H.R. 3012, Trade Act

About a month ago Schrader promised to get back to trade activists concerning his views on this Congressional bill, and had not as of that afternoon.

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