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New Gallery Page

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:49:32 +0000

Here is our new Gallery Page with images from some of our latest actions.

http://gallery.sojwj.org/

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:23:12 +0000

Tax Day Protests: Tax Wall Street to Pay for Jobs

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:10:16 +0000

Across the country, community and worker advocates will rally at banks and post offices to highlight the need for jobs, and a way to pay for them. Jobs with Justice (www.jwj.org) has led the call for these actions taking place in more than two dozen cities nationwide. Activists will demonstrate support for the Local Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812), which will create 1 million jobs, and for the Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act (H.R. 4191).
In Ashland Oregon, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice will march with members and member organizations in downtown Ashland to protest and demand Wall Street pay their fair share.

For 30 years, corporate CEOs and Wall Street speculators have put the squeeze on workers with globalization, privatization and union-busting. They used their rising profits to buy Congress, convincing them to hand out tax breaks to the rich and gut banking regulations and consumer protections. Then they invented unscrupulous mortgage and investing practices, turning our financial system into a casino. When their speculation didn’t pay off, they got Congress to bail them out to the tune of $15,000 for every household in America.

A tax on the speculators of the Wall Street casino could put 3 million people to work fixing our infrastructure, teaching our children, making our factories more sustainable and improving our public services.

TAKE ACTION TO MAKE THEM PAY.
WE NEED JOBS NOW!

Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice is Planning a series of actions in Downtown Ashland

TAX DAY: APRIL 15, 2010
1 PM to 3 PM

We will meet at the Ashland Post Office, 120 North 1st St. There we will talk to people mailing returns and encouraging folks to sign a petition and make a cell phone call to their Congressional Representatives asking them to rein in Wall Street and make the speculators pay for good jobs for all.

Then we will then march to local branches of national banks. We will deliver a letter asking the banks Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and Wells Fargo to play a constructive role in rebuilding an economy that works for everyone.

To learn more and to see a list of other cities where actions are taking place, please visit
www.taxwallstreet.org.

George Mann & Mark Ross at The Caldera Taphouse

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:39:40 +0000

Thursday, April 15 at 8 PM in Ashland, OR — The Caldera Taphouse, 31 Water Street (541-482-HOPS); George in Concert with Mark Ross. Sponsored by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and Southern Oregon Labor Council.
Suggested donation $5 – $10, all welcome, no one turned away for lack of funds.

George Mann is a New York City-based labor activist and organizer who has toured for many years and produced the “Hail To The Thief!” anti-Bush CD compilation series. His newest release is the veterans compilation “Until You Come Home” songs for veterans and their kin.

George will be joined by Mark Ross, America’s most famous unknown folksinger, storyteller, caronteur and multi-instrumentalist.

Learning to play about a dozen instruments; guitar, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, Hawaiian guitar, autoharp, jews’ harp, bass, dulcimer, tenor guitar, & 12-string guitar(it really is a different instrument), all with varying degrees of proficiency, Mark has sung all across the continental U.S. in bar rooms, ball rooms, coffeehouses, union halls, hobo jungles, kitchens & living rooms, bedrooms, grade schools, colleges & universities (guest lecturing on American folk music, railroad songs, labor songs and the History of American Labor and radical politics), folk festivals, concert halls, street corners, railroad stations, and bus depots.

Oregon Sweatfree Campaign

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:59:53 +0000

Victory!

Ashland Adopts a Landmark Sweatshop-Free Procurement Policy

By adopting a sweatfree resolution in December, 2008 the city council set the stage for Ashland, Oregon to join a cutting-edge movement that is picking up steam and building sweat-free communities all across the country. On Tuesday June 16, Ashland City Council voted in support of a strong policy with the following statement: The City will use its purchasing procedures and spending authority to promote the improvement of working conditions in the world by avoiding the acquisition of uniform and clothing items that cannot be certified as being the product of a “sweat free” environment (not the product of sweashop labor as defined in Resolution 2008-45, attached). More