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To review old General Assembly minutes simply hover your mouse over Occupy Medford in the menu above, then mouse over General Assembly Guidelines. You will notice we are missing 2 dates: November 12th and December 3rd. If you are in possession of these minutes please send them to OccupyMedford@gmail.com [...]

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First Rogue Valley General Assembly

January, 20th, 2012

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Occupy Congressional District 2 Arrests

Today Oregonians across the state united in Medford, Bend, Hood River, Klamath Falls, and La Grande demanding more transparency and openness from Representative Greg Walden. Organizations including: Citizens for Peace and Justice, Oregon Action, Peace House, Jobs with Justice, Veterans for Peace, Occupy Medford, Occupy Ashland and [...]

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CALL TO ACTION : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oregonians across the state “Occupy” Congressional District 2 to demand People’s Town Halls with Rep. Walden

In the largest, unified public demonstration to address a specific member of Congress in recent history, the Occupy movement will convene throughout Congressional District 2 in eastern Oregon Monday, December 5, to demand [...]

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Welcome to Fascist America…

The Senate last night codified into law the power of the U.S. military to indefinitely detain an American citizen with no charge, no trial and no oversight whatsoever with the passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.

One amendment that [...]

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Recently I reported on the highly controversial bill S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year of 2012 which was introduced back in June.

This bill was replaced by the one introduced on the 15th of November,  Read More >>

SUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT'S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN ON DECEMBER 12TH

As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Read More >>

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis [...]

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While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct Read More >>

How in the world can the United States condemn other nations for how they are handling their protest movements when we treat our own protesters so brutally?  No matter what you may think of Occupy Wall Street and the other protest movements that have sprung up across the United [...]

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In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police.

Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.

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Occupy Walls Street: Cops Pepper Spray UC Davis Protesters

YouTube Footage from University of California, Davis Protest Sparks Investigation as Occupy Protests Spread Across the State, The Nation and The World

From ABC World News:

Police [...]

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Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, was evicted by a large police force in full riot gear. [...]

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After an all night standoff between Portland Police and Occupy Portland campers the camp is taken apart and items left are thrown in dumpsters.

Source : Oregon Live – Occupy Portland Police Take Back Two Parks, But the [...]

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The predawn confrontation that Occupy Portland protesters prepared for this weekend unfolded instead in daylight hours Sunday, after throngs of supporters had gone home to sleep and at a time when bleary-eyed campers were caught unaware.

Portland police successfully cleared the two downtown parks where protesters had camped since Oct. 6, but the evictions sparked [...]

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At what point does a protest movement become an excuse for camping? At what point is utopianism discredited by the seedy, dangerous, derelict fun fair it creates? At what point do the excesses of a movement become so prevalent that they can reasonably be called its essence? At what point do Democratic politicians need to [...]

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