Story of the March for ONE Oregon
Over the course of five days, rural and small-town Eastern Oregon communities were transformed into living, breathing examples of the world of justice, shared struggle, and community power that we are...
View ArticleNo Exclusion Zone for Roseburg
As more and more people fall prey to overwhelming debt, foreclosures, layoffs, and an inaccessible health care system, people in our community are falling through the gigantic holes in our safety nets....
View ArticleAqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos
Last March, over 50 bus riders and thousands of others took part in a historic bus tour and related events that covered central Oregon, eastern Oregon, Idaho, and southeastern Washington featuring...
View ArticleWatch the March for ONE Oregon Documentary!
Friday, July 12, 2013 Dear ROPnet, Last March, over 50 bus riders and thousands of others took part in a historic bus tour that covered central Oregon, eastern Oregon, Idaho, and southeastern...
View ArticleDo It Then Defend It
July 26th, 2013 Dear ROPnetters: Earlier this week we shared a blog post with you about the Reverend Barber and North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays,” a direct action every Monday in the North Carolina...
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Walk for Citizenship – The Home Stretch!
Dear Immigrant Fairness Network, Today marks the last day of the the Walk for Citizenship, also known as the Peregrina para la Ciudadania. Dozens of Oregonians are walking 42 miles from Madras to Bend...
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A Historic Walk through Central Oregon
Last Week- Over 100 walkers marched through Oregon’s 2nd Congressional district and walked from Madras to Bend in a historic 42.2 mile walk. The three day walk was from September 15th-Spetember 17th to...
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Crook County’s summer “vacation”
Every summer we see several human dignity groups take the opportunity slow down, recharge, and do what they need to keep their families happy and healthy, from camping to gardening to canning. During...
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Help Occupy Roseburg keep the heat on!
Last May we sent out a ROPnet describing Occupy Roseburg’s incredible success fighting a proposed “exclusion zone” that would unfairly target folks who appear to be low-income in downtown Roseburg, all...
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Human Dignity Advocates Host “Common Sense on Measure 88″
Human Dignity Advocates of Crook County set a high bar for action with their community event, “Common Sense on Measure 88.” Over forty people gathered in Prineville on a Fall night to take a look at...
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Giving thanks for resistance
Over a year ago, I wrote you all to express my grief, dismay, and feeling of paralysis with the news that George Zimmerman was acquitted for Trayvon Martin’s murder. Last night, I watched a livestream...
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Wow! Standing room only across the state!
It has been a breathtakingly exciting week at ROP! As I write this, our tour of Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History has traveled to four of its six stops to standing...
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Turning education into action: tour success & next steps!
Between September 4th and 9th, over 600 small town and rural Oregonians attended Walidah Imarisha’s conversation project tour “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: a Hidden History”. Every...
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They are the Oath Keepers, we are the Peace Makers
One evening a couple weeks ago, I received a call from a human dignity group leader in Josephine County: “ROP! Help!” The Oath Keepers of Josephine County, a local chapter of a national right-wing...
View ArticleOath Keepers stand down and choose next target
We wrote you on May 7th to tell you about right wing and militia groups from across the country converging in Josephine County for an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over what...
View ArticleOrganizing lessons from Linn County
Today we would like to share with you the incredible story of how Linn County leaders went from hosting an event to helping form a multigenerational and multiracial group who, in the face of hate...
View ArticleHow many more divisions can we bear?
Like you, we are grieving, shocked, and heartbroken by the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg last week. The senseless killing of students and an instructor on their campus, attending...
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Update on Harney County and Taking Action
January 27th, 2016 Dear ROPnet, Last night, eight leaders of the armed takeover at Malheur Wildlife Refuge were arrested outside of Burns en route to a meeting in Grant County dedicated to setting up a...
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Rural Oregon speaks out!
Last week was a whirlwind of resistance from across the state! Across Oregon, thousands of people have taken the streets to tell paramilitaries and militia groups to leave Harney County, including 350...
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From Orlando to Cottage Grove: Building Beloved Community
Like you, we are grieving, shocked, and heartbroken by the shooting at an Orlando LGBT nightclub on Latinx night. The grief is compounded by the news of a hate crime late Saturday night in rural...
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