http://ourmedia.org/user/126713 Recently published media items from Ourmedia.org en http://ourmedia.org/node/412653 This S29 anti-war Rally took place in Portland Oregon on September 29, 2007.The program includes two speakers from before the March, two during, and those after the March reached its destination.Courage To Resisthttp://www.couragetoresist.orgIraq Veterans Against the Warhttp://www.ivaw.orgVeterans for Peacehttp://www.veteransforpeace.orgMilitary Families Speak Outhttp://www.mfso.orgGold Star Families for Peacehttp://www.gsfp.org Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:06:21 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/400723 Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism First Unitarian Church of Portland Portland, Oregon December 7th, 2007 "Klein may well have revealed the master narrative of our time." -San Francisco Chronicle "In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries." Engaging, but casual, smart and eloquent, but easily understood, Naomi's presentation charmed the crowd as much by its style as by its content. Though speaking from a podium, she seemed very much a part of, rather than apart from the gathering. http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-book http://www.naomiklein.org Sun, 18 May 2008 23:59:35 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412600 Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, spoke in Portland, Oregon, March 3rd, 2008 at the gathering, "We the People: Building a Movement for the Future We Want". http://www.hiphopcaucus.org The next day he spoke at Portland's "Festival for the Future" rally. Antonia Juhasz also spoke at both events. http://www.thebushagenda.net Both events were organized by the Backbone Campaign. http://www.backbonecampaign.org Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:42:52 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/412529 "It is a time of hope. The hope is there because we've help put it there and we can continue to make it happen." http://www.thebushagenda.net Antonia Juhasz spoke in Portland, Oregon, March 3rd, 2008 at the gathering, "We the People: Building a Movement for the Future We Want". The next day she spoke at Portland's "Festival for the Future" rally. Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, also spoke at both events. http://www.hiphopcaucus.org Both events were organized by the Backbone Campaign. http://www.backbonecampaign.org Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:20:11 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412467 Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, spoke in Portland, Oregon, March 3rd, 2008 at the gathering, "We the People: Building a Movement for the Future We Want". http://www.hiphopcaucus.org The next day he spoke at Portland's "Festival for the Future" rally. Antonia Juhasz also spoke at both events. http://www.thebushagenda.net Both events were organized by the Backbone Campaign. http://www.backbonecampaign.org Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:31:56 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/412432 Nazis Not Welcome Rally / Unite Against Racism!Portland, OregonOctober 6th, 2007In response to a three day gathering of white supremacists in the Portland area, community members and anti-racists gathered at Lents Park in S.E. Portland, Oregon to voice their opposition to racism and fascism.This event, attended by about 150 people, was moderated by Peter Little of the Ad Hoc, Committee Against Racism and Fascism, which called the Rally in opposition to the “Hammerfest,” a three day event to be taking place at a hotel in Sherwood, Oregon.Founded this September, the Ad-Hoc Committee is dedicated to monitoring and opposing white supremacist groupings in Portland and beyond. As large neo-Nazi rallies have often been preceded by attacks on Jewish people and people of color, sexual minorities, as well as activists, the Ad-Hoc Committee wishes to work with community groups and people of good conscience who want to respond to fascist mobilization. “If we come together, the bigots don’t stand a chance,” says one committee member, “This rally is only a beginning.”Peter spoke about Portland's racist past and the people’s struggle to protect themselves from racism. He states that racism takes many faces, is not only the obvious skinheads and neo nazi types, but also, among others, anti-immigration organizations.This is an ongoing theme throughout the Demonstration- that racism is insidious and is hidden all around us.Peter introduced speakers with experience from many different fronts of the ongoing threats from and struggle against racism.First to speak was Walidah Imarisha, a spoken word war-rior woman who fights the power with protest poetry. She speaks eloquently about how these groups have co-opted the language of the left, often sounding like environmentalists and other progressive groups. Walidah finishes by reciting one of her poems.www.poetryoffthepage.comNext to speak was Claire Oliveros, of the Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, followed by Pablo, who spoke in Spanish with a translator about the Latin American economic conditions leading to immigration to the U.S.Pablo was followed by Amy Dudley, of the Rural Organizing Project, who spoke at length about the various racist and anti-immigrant organizations. She gives much information about these groups, how they are organized and how they easily slip beneath the radar. www.rop.orgMic Crenshaw, from the rap group Hungry Mobwww.myspace.com/miccrenshawLast to speak was Chris Francisco, an Indigenous speaker from the Native Youth Movement. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:10:40 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/412461 Slinky Timber Sale "Victory Hike" July 8th, 2007 BARK Hike Leader: Erin Madden http://www.bark-out.org JUDGE STOPS LAST PROPOSAL TO CLEARCUT MT. HOOD OLD GROWTH By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press Published: Thursday, March 8, 2007: GRANTS PASS - A federal judge has stopped the Mount Hood National Forest, the most popular in Oregon, from offering an old growth timber sale until it shows it has followed its own rules to consider whether the logging would harm sensitive wildlife. "Our hope is that old growth logging on the Mount Hood National Forest is over for good and the Forest Service will now prioritize the repairing of damage done from 50 years of industrial logging,'' said Alex Brown of Bark, a Portland conservation group. "This ruling sends a really clear signal to the Forest Service. The continued logging of old growth is unacceptable, period. The public has demonstrated they don't want it. The science doesn't even justify it." Located in the Cascade Range outside Portland, Mount Hood is popular with skiers, mountain climbers and hikers, and gets more than 4 million recreational visitors a year, more than any other national forest in Oregon. It was once one of the most heavily logged of the national forests in Oregon, but former timber towns that now rely on tourism and recreation for their economies have thrown their support behind legislation pending in Congress to create nearly 130,000 acres of new wilderness areas where logging would be off-limits. In a ruling dated Saturday, U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman in Portland found the U.S. Forest Service was arbitrary and capricious when it failed to monitor the impact logging would have on pine marten, pileated woodpeckers, deer and elk, as required under the National Forest Management Act. Those species were designated by the Forest Service as indicators of the health of old growth forest ecosystems.The Forest Service had argued that under formal forest management plans and 2005 Bush administration revisions to forest management rules, it was not required to monitor wildlife. But the judge found that rules imposed in 2000, which called for using the best available science, applied to the project. Originally proposed in 1998, the Slinky timber sale called for effectively clearcutting 184 acres of scattered patches of old growth in the headwaters of the Clackamas River, which has been heavily logged. Join us! http://www.bark-out.org Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:30:15 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412615 Eight Mile Timber Sale "Zombi" Hike August 12th, 2007 BARK Hike Leader: Tarp Tamac http://bark-out.org Dear Barkers, This Monday a company called Southside Enterprises Inc. began logging the Eight Mile Meadow Timber Sale. Despite hundreds of letters asking the Forest Service to stop the logging plan, over a thousand hours in the field by the Groundtruthing team, and a lawsuit challenging the legality of the sale, 222 acres of forest will be clearcut in the coming weeks. But the fact that the Forest Service ignored public concern should be no surprise. Eightmile Meadow Timber Sale is a categorical exclusion, or CE, meaning that the Forest Service was not required to analyze the environmental impacts of logging nor take the public's opinion into account. That is why no one knew about it when the Forest Service chose to double the volume of logging. That is why no one knew about it when the Forest Service chose to not only cut dead lodgepole pine but live western larch trees. Please join us! http://bark-out.org Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:49:02 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412437 USFS Travel Plan / Ramona Falls August 12th, 2007 BARK Hike Leader: Amy Harwood BARK Volunteer: Katie Chipko http://bark-out.org http://bark-out.org/activities/travelplan.php In the Pacific Northwest OHVs are a big problem, but pale in comparison to the damage being done by a crumbling road network. The Mt. Hood Travel Plan Must Address Roads: The current Travel Plan proposal introduced by the Forest Service in May is to create six new Off-Highway Vehicle play areas around the mountain, totaling over 50,000 acres. This would render OHV use in all other areas of the forest illegal, an improvement over the current situation, in which OHV use is legal in all areas unless specifically prohibited. However, the current proposal falls short for three reasons: 1) The Forest Service is sacrificing far too much of the forest to an activity that is incompatible with other uses. Other recreationists, not to mention wildlife, don’t want to use areas surrounded by noisy OHVs. And since only about 1% of the demand on Mt. Hood is from OHV users, why are they getting 5% of the forest? 2) Without law enforcement, the system won’t work. Mt. Hood has only five law enforcement officers for its 1.1 million acres. 3) The Forest Service proposal ignores the fastest growing problem in the forest: thousands of miles of old logging roads are fragmenting wildlife habitat, eroding into streams, and need to be obliterated. At the same time, roads that lead to recreation destinations are being neglected. Please join us! http://bark-out.org Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:12:21 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412532 This S29 anti-war Rally took place in Portland Oregon on September 29, 2007. The program includes two speakers from before the March, two during, and those after the March reached its destination. Courage To Resist http://www.couragetoresist.org Iraq Veterans Against the War http://www.ivaw.org Veterans for Peace http://www.veteransforpeace.org Military Families Speak Out http://www.mfso.org Gold Star Families for Peace http://www.gsfp.org Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:20:40 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412483 First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon September 27, 2007 The program for the evening was moderated by Alejandro Queral, Executive Director of Northwest Constitutional Rights Center http://www.nwcrc.org First to speak was Attorney Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (http://www.rfc.org) and son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who were wrongfully executed in 1953 for conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb. The second speaker was Attorney Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center (http://www.cldc.org), a non-profit whose goal is to make the progressive social change movement stronger, more informed, and more effective by educating people about their rights, defending activists from corporate and government attacks, and exposing and confronting the persistent erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:57:56 -0700 Jim Lockhart http://ourmedia.org/node/412534 Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential candidate, spoke in Portland, Oregon, November 12, 2007, for a fund raising event at the Portland First Unitarian Church. Cynthia spoke for about 10 minutes and then answering questions for about another 40 minutes. From the website, "All Things Cynthia McKinney" http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com "McKinney, a former Democrat from Georgia, was one of only three members of Congress to vote "yes" on a House Resolution in 2005 calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. One of her last acts in office was introducing Articles of Impeachment naming George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice." "According to McKinney: "It is time to break the vicious cycle where the poor go to war and veterans come home wounded and ignored."" Her answers were to the point; no dodging, hedging or dancing around the issues. Refreshing. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:20:54 -0700 Jim Lockhart