| resources | contact | about | volunteer | tv news | video | radio | questions |
| |||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||
      regionstopic pagesgenresactionsall action pages >> resourcesglobal imc
|
newswire archive
The Homeless Front has been given an unconstitutional demand to clear the protest site at Field of Dreams. Observers are urgently requested to document police violence.
The September 2001 issue of the Oregon Cycling Magazine features a laudatory article by its editor, praising the creative intervention by our very own Community Cycling Center on behalf of migrant Farm Workers.
People's Food Co-op Cultivates New Ground: Expansion Benefit This Weekend
One less democrat for fasttrack !!
A document liberated from a law firm specializing in protecting employers from unionization, in which employers are warned of the success of the Industrial Workers of the World in organizing new workers in the Portland area.
Update information from the NWLPSN.
Visit the website of the quickly growing Nationwide Student Walkout in solidarity with locked out GWU students...
Chemical Warfare and Plan Colombia
On Tuesday - September 11, 2001, the U.S. Senate will hold confirmation hearings for President Bush's nominee for Drug Czar, John Walters.
Please visit this web site and fax this email to your Senators!  http://www.ccldp.org/fax.html
Report from Field of Dreams action Sunday evening the 9th
if my rights are violated so are yours
come down to below SW Niato Blvd and Grant and support the protest A call from a citizen (not the organizers) Official post about this action http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3420&group=webcast
check it out.
Join the Free Speech Lawsuit!!!
The International Action Center is making a unique request to people to fill out an affidavit in support of the legal challenge to the "wall."
Portland police confronted roughly thirty homeless activists today. The homeless activists, including members of the Homeless Liberation Front and former members of Dignity Village have been camping on public land in protest of Portland's camping ban for the past two nights.
Let's Walk Out!
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with David Moberg, a senior editor at In These Times, who assesses John Sweeney's leadership and the institutional barriers hindering union organizing in the U.S.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Robert Naiman, senior analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, currently working with the Mobilization for Global Justice, who lays out the demands of labor, environmental, and human rights groups coming to Washington, D.C. the last week in September.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Ron Daniels, executive director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who examines the U.S. walkout of the World Conference Against Racism and the opportunities that may have been lost to promote tolerance and advance human rights.
Corvallis area activists plan solidarity activities weekend of 28th through 30th
parts of speech at nader conference
While me girlfriend and I were out of town our cat got turned into the Oregon Humane Society. A letter that they sent to me regarding the situation got hung up along the way and they let new adopters have my cat. They new adopters say they understand the situation but they refuse to return Sydney. Can you help?
Comments from Native People regarding the desecration of a Sundance site at Big Mountain, Arizona
Solidarity with DC action in Eugene OR S29
Sept 6 Navaho Nation Press Release
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, Envirolink Network, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Internet Service Provider, was forced to take two websites maintained by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), a group whose sole purpose is to close the controversial animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
The Communications Workers of America is engaged in a strike against the cap maker who supplies all of Major League baseball, and Lids at Lloyd Center. 30% pay cuts imposed.
OPEU members across the state voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize a strike, with 95.5% of statewide
membership voting for a strike and 4.4% voting against it.
Friday, September 7th Eagle Creek Benefit--9pm downstairs at It's a Beautiful Pizza (3341 SE Belmont St) Music by Short Way to the Truth--an 'all live, all instrumental tribal jungle drum and bass experience'
Saturday, September 8th Hike to Eagle Creek! Visit the new tree sit in Unit 28, and see Sunset Grove. Carpools meet at 9:30 am at the Daily Grind on SE Hawthorne and 41st. Bring water, lunch, and rain gear.
Join Bark, ONRC, and American Lands Alliance on a hike to the Turnridge timber sale in the North Santiam watershed. See massive old growth trees, active red tree vole nests, and incredible diversity threatened by commercial logging. Meet at the Daily Grind, 4026 SE Hawthorne Blvd., for carpooling at 9:30. Bring sturdy footwear, water, and lunch. If you have binoculars, bring them to take a better look at red tree vole nests.
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 versions- broadcast (13.5MB) and streaming(3.4MB). Free to rebroadcast upon notification. With times and freqs for listening at home. Voice of Russia, Spain, Germany, Cuba,
On Friday, September 28, 2001- a call for a student strike.
On my way home from work, at about 4:30, there were at least thirty taxis stopped dead in the street near third and Madison.
Activists are asked to demonstrate against the use and misuse of animals in circuses. Saturday, September 8 at 1:30 and 6:00 at the Rose Garden in Portland, OR. We will have signs and leaflets available. Call API at 503-246-2588 for more information.
PIIAC hearings and Special Events Permiot on the city agenda
This kingdom has been paid for with the blood of innocents. If these words are suppressed, the earth itself will cry out.
The end of "normal working conditions" is a consequence of capital strategies. The "worker-entrepeneur" may be old wine in new wineskins, primitive capitalism traded as a new business philosophy.
Garment workers in Los Angeles sweatshops are owed thousands in back wages, after working in deplorable conditions.
The Oregon Department of Forestry wants to hear from YOU by Sept 11th about their plans to prioritize timber "value" over wildlife and recreation "values". There's a sample letter below you can use when writing one of your own. Inadequate buffer zones, no old growth protection, and no road mitigation or promise of road obliteration are a few of the problems with the 10 year Plan, not to mention complete disregard for federal guidelines on habitat protection for the listed species in the Oregon State Forests...
Trauma is born By US all: Terrorism.
[(Posted on many IndyMedia sites around the world and in the US; (plus other web sites and forums); and sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: September 5th, 2001.).)]. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6504&group=webcast
Official statement from Dignity Village regarding move.
The Dungeness River is suffering from the worst drought in over two decades. Depressed runs of salmon, including the endangered Puget Sound chinook and Hood Canal summer chum, struggle to find suitable habitat in continually lower water levels. Local irrigators need to find water to wet their crops.
In another place, these elements - drought, endangered fish and farmers - would be cause for heightened tensions. But, because of the foresight of local residents over the past decade, water is not a source of bitter animosity between these neighbors.
ashland becomes the first southern oregon city to pass a living wage ordinance!!!
Biking for Bigfoot Bike Tour ends in Vancouver/Portland on Thursday, September 6 with a rally at the Staples store in Portland.
A rally to resist the gentrification of N and NE Portland Neighborhoods
This is a letter to the Editor sent to the Oregonian, posted to the tent city listserve. Since I wasn't sure whether the Oregonian will publish it, I am putting it here...
~starfire
The Bush administration is attempting to undo the rule that protects the last wild 30 percent of America's national forests.You have until September 10th to comment on this.
Immedidate attention needed...
The police came and posted eviction notices at Dignity Village today making clear the city is more interested to get rid of Dignity Village than to work with them.
On the religious right TV channel, TBN, on September 4th, a U.S. congressman promised to introduce 'free speech' laws for churches (read 'gay bashing' as the U.S. already has 'free speech' in the consitution - and this is the church that always complains about gays getting 'extra rights')
call for action on tuesday october 16th - worldwide anti-mcdonald's day
Saturday, September 29th International Day of Action Against the FTAA and Plan Colombia.....Washington DC, around the world, and in Eugene 12 o'clock Noon, Monroe Park (10th and Monroe) Speakers, Music, Info ...please join us and bring your friends...
Oregon is REP America's newest official state chapter. More than a dozen
REP members gathered on Saturday, August 11, for a kickoff picnic at historic Champoeg State Park, the first seat of government in the Pacific Northwest.
Police arrived at Dignity Village's current location at 17th and Savier to post a 24 hour notice demanding villagers vacate that location. Police informed villagers that they would be returning at 11:00 am tomorrow, Wednesday Septemebr 5th, to sweep the village.
http://www.ci.portland.or.us/mayor/
For those of us unable to go to the site DROP VERA A LINE TO SUPPORT DIGNITY VILLAGE!
The following appeal is from the Village. Tonight is the deadline. It is critical that supporters are present to apply community pressure against a police sweep of the village.
It is a critical time for Dignity Village and all support is welcome
Dignity Village held a press conference this evening to announce their decision to remain where they are while they seek a permanent location.
pages: 1457, 1456, 1455, 1454, 1453, 1452, 1451, 1450, 1449, 1448, 1447, 1446, 1445, 1444, 1443, 1442, 1441, 1440, 1439, 1438, 1437, 1436, 1435, 1434, 1433, 1432, 1431, 1430, 1429, 1428, 1427, 1426, 1425, 1424, 1423, 1422, 1421, 1420, 1419, 1418, 1417, 1416, 1415, 1414, 1413, 1412, 1411, 1410, 1409, 1408, 1407, 1406, 1405, 1404, 1403, 1402, 1401, 1400, 1399, 1398, 1397, 1396, 1395, 1394, 1393, 1392, 1391, 1390, 1389, 1388, 1387, 1386, 1385, 1384, 1383, 1382, 1381, 1380, 1379, 1378, 1377, 1376, 1375, 1374, 1373, 1372, 1371, 1370, 1369, 1368, 1367, 1366, 1365, 1364, 1363, 1362, 1361, 1360, 1359, 1358, 1357, 1356, 1355, 1354, 1353, 1352, 1351, 1350, 1349, 1348, 1347, 1346, 1345, 1344, 1343, 1342, 1341, 1340, 1339, 1338, 1337, 1336, 1335, 1334, 1333, 1332, 1331, 1330, 1329, 1328, 1327, 1326, 1325, 1324, 1323, 1322, 1321, 1320, 1319, 1318, 1317, 1316, 1315, 1314, 1313, 1312, 1311, 1310, 1309, 1308, 1307, 1306, 1305, 1304, 1303, 1302, 1301, 1300, 1299, 1298, 1297, 1296, 1295, 1294, 1293, 1292, 1291, 1290, 1289, 1288, 1287, 1286, 1285, 1284, 1283, 1282, 1281, 1280, 1279, 1278, 1277, 1276, 1275, 1274, 1273, 1272, 1271, 1270, 1269, 1268, 1267, 1266, 1265, 1264, 1263, 1262, 1261, 1260, 1259, 1258, 1257, 1256, 1255, 1254, 1253, 1252, 1251, 1250, 1249, 1248, 1247, 1246, 1245, 1244, 1243, 1242, 1241, 1240, 1239, 1238, 1237, 1236, 1235, 1234, 1233, 1232, 1231, 1230, 1229, 1228, 1227, 1226, 1225, 1224, 1223, 1222, 1221, 1220, 1219, 1218, 1217, 1216, 1215, 1214, 1213, 1212, 1211, 1210, 1209, 1208, 1207, 1206, 1205, 1204, 1203, 1202, 1201, 1200, 1199, 1198, 1197, 1196, 1195, 1194, 1193, 1192, 1191, 1190, 1189, 1188, 1187, 1186, 1185, 1184, 1183, 1182, 1181, 1180, 1179, 1178, 1177, 1176, 1175, 1174, 1173, 1172, 1171, 1170, 1169, 1168, 1167, 1166, 1165, 1164, 1163, 1162, 1161, 1160, 1159, 1158, 1157, 1156, 1155, 1154, 1153, 1152, 1151, 1150, 1149, 1148, 1147, 1146, 1145, 1144, 1143, 1142, 1141, 1140, 1139, 1138, 1137, 1136, 1135, 1134, 1133, 1132, 1131, 1130, 1129, 1128, 1127, 1126, 1125, 1124, 1123, 1122, 1121, 1120, 1119, 1118, 1117, 1116, 1115, 1114, 1113, 1112, 1111, 1110, 1109, 1108, 1107, 1106, 1105, 1104, 1103, 1102, 1101, 1100, 1099, 1098, 1097, 1096, 1095, 1094, 1093, 1092, 1091, 1090, 1089, 1088, 1087, 1086, 1085, 1084, 1083, 1082, 1081, 1080, 1079, 1078, 1077, 1076, 1075, 1074, 1073, 1072, 1071, 1070, 1069, 1068, 1067, 1066, 1065, 1064, 1063, 1062, 1061, 1060, 1059, 1058, 1057, 1056, 1055, 1054, 1053, 1052, 1051, 1050, 1049, 1048, 1047, 1046, 1045, 1044, 1043, 1042, 1041, 1040, 1039, 1038, 1037, 1036, 1035, 1034, 1033, 1032, 1031, 1030, 1029, 1028, 1027, 1026, 1025, 1024, 1023, 1022, 1021, 1020, 1019, 1018, 1017, 1016, 1015, 1014, 1013, 1012, 1011, 1010, 1009, 1008, 1007, 1006, 1005, 1004, 1003, 1002, 1001, 1000, 999, 998, 997, 996, 995, 994, 993, 992, 991, 990, 989, 988, 987, 986, 985, 984, 983, 982, 981, 980, 979, 978, 977, 976, 975, 974, 973, 972, 971, 970, 969, 968, 967, 966, 965, 964, 963, 962, 961, 960, 959, 958, 957, 956, 955, 954, 953, 952, 951, 950, 949, 948, 947, 946, 945, 944, 943, 942, 941, 940, 939, 938, 937, 936, 935, 934, 933, 932, 931, 930, 929, 928, 927, 926, 925, 924, 923, 922, 921, 920, 919, 918, 917, 916, 915, 914, 913, 912, 911, 910, 909, 908, 907, 906, 905, 904, 903, 902, 901, 900, 899, 898, 897, 896, 895, 894, 893, 892, 891, 890, 889, 888, 887, 886, 885, 884, 883, 882, 881, 880, 879, 878, 877, 876, 875, 874, 873, 872, 871, 870, 869, 868, 867, 866, 865, 864, 863, 862, 861, 860, 859, 858, 857, 856, 855, 854, 853, 852, 851, 850, 849, 848, 847, 846, 845, 844, 843, 842, 841, 840, 839, 838, 837, 836, 835, 834, 833, 832, 831, 830, 829, 828, 827, 826, 825, 824, 823, 822, 821, 820, 819, 818, 817, 816, 815, 814, 813, 812, 811, 810, 809, 808, 807, 806, 805, 804, 803, 802, 801, 800, 799, 798, 797, 796, 795, 794, 793, 792, 791, 790, 789, 788, 787, 786, 785, 784, 783, 782, 781, 780, 779, 778, 777, 776, 775, 774, 773, 772, 771, 770, 769, 768, 767, 766, 765, 764, 763, 762, 761, 760, 759, 758, 757, 756, 755, 754, 753, 752, 751, 750, 749, 748, 747, 746, 745, 744, 743, 742, 741, 740, 739, 738, 737, 736, 735, 734, 733, 732, 731, 730, 729, 728, 727, 726, 725, 724, 723, 722, 721, 720, 719, 718, 717, 716, 715, 714, 713, 712, 711, 710, 709, 708, 707, 706, 705, 704, 703, 702, 701, 700, 699, 698, 697, 696, 695, 694, 693, 692, 691, 690, 689, 688, 687, 686, 685, 684, 683, 682, 681, 680, 679, 678, 677, 676, 675, 674, 673, 672, 671, 670, 669, 668, 667, 666, 665, 664, 663, 662, 661, 660, 659, 658, 657, 656, 655, 654, 653, 652, 651, 650, 649, 648, 647, 646, 645, 644, 643, 642, 641, 640, 639, 638, 637, 636, 635, 634, 633, 632, 631, 630, 629, 628, 627, 626, 625, 624, 623, 622, 621, 620, 619, 618, 617, 616, 615, 614, 613, 612, 611, 610, 609, 608, 607, 606, 605, 604, 603, 602, 601, 600, 599, 598, 597, 596, 595, 594, 593, 592, 591, 590, 589, 588, 587, 586, 585, 584, 583, 582, 581, 580, 579, 578, 577, 576, 575, 574, 573, 572, 571, 570, 569, 568, 567, 566, 565, 564, 563, 562, 561, 560, 559, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 544, 543, 542, 541, 540, 539, 538, 537, 536, 535, 534, 533, 532, 531, 530, 529, 528, 527, 526, 525, 524, 523, 522, 521, 520, 519, 518, 517, 516, 515, 514, 513, 512, 511, 510, 509, 508, 507, 506, 505, 504, 503, 502, 501, 500, 499, 498, 497, 496, 495, 494, 493, 492, 491, 490, 489, 488, 487, 486, 485, 484, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 476, 475, 474, 473, 472, 471, 470, 469, 468, 467, 466, 465, 464, 463, 462, 461, 460, 459, 458, 457, 456, 455, 454, 453, 452, 451, 450, 449, 448, 447, 446, 445, 444, 443, 442, 441, 440, 439, 438, 437, 436, 435, 434, 433, 432, 431, 430, 429, 428, 427, 426, 425, 424, 423, 422, 421, 420, 419, 418, 417, 416, 415, 414, 413, 412, 411, 410, 409, 408, 407, 406, 405, 404, 403, 402, 401, 400, 399, 398, 397, 396, 395, 394, 393, 392, 391, 390, 389, 388, 387, 386, 385, 384, 383, 382, 381, 380, 379, 378, 377, 376, 375, 374, 373, 372, 371, 370, 369, 368, 367, 366, 365, 364, 363, 362, 361, 360, 359, 358, 357, 356, 355, 354, 353, 352, 351, 350, 349, 348, 347, 346, 345, 344, 343, 342, 341, 340, 339, 338, 337, 336, 335, 334, 333, 332, 331, 330, 329, 328, 327, 326, 325, 324, 323, 322, 321, 320, 319, 318, 317, 316, 315, 314, 313, 312, 311, 310, 309, 308, 307, 306, 305, 304, 303, 302, 301, 300, 299, 298, 297, 296, 295, 294, 293, 292, 291, 290, 289, 288, 287, 286, 285, 284, 283, 282, 281, 280, 279, 278, 277, 276, 275, 274, 273, 272, 271, 270, 269, 268, 267, 266, 265, 264, 263, 262, 261, 260, 259, 258, 257, 256, 255, 254, 253, 252, 251, 250, 249, 248, 247, 246, 245, 244, 243, 242, 241, 240, 239, 238, 237, 236, 235, 234, 233, 232, 231, 230, 229, 228, 227, 226, 225, 224, 223, 222, 221, 220, 219, 218, 217, 216, 215, 214, 213, 212, 211, 210, 209, 208, 207, 206, 205, 204, 203, 202, 201, 200, 199, 198, 197, 196, 195, 194, 193, 192, 191, 190, 189, 188, 187, 186, 185, 184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172, 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, 164, 163, 162, 161, 160, 159, 158, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152, 151, 150, 149, 148, 147, 146, 145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140, 139, 138, 137, 136, 135, 134, 133, 132, 131, 130, 129, 128, 127, 126, 125, 124, 123, 122, 121, 120, 119, 118, 117, 116, 115, 114, 113, 112, 111, 110, 109, 108, 107, 106, 105, 104, 103, 102, 101, 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 |
VIDEO of Dignity Village press conference 9/3/01