Earlier this month, I visited with Diana, a 71 year old great-grandmother of 13 and retired Postmaster for the Tiller Post Office. I first talked with Diana in December when ROP was coordinating Occupy Our Post Offices – a statewide day of action for rural post offices. Diana was organizing a rally in Tiller before [read more]
Economic Justice
Feb 222012
Every year the Rural Organizing Project brings together rural and small town leaders, activists, organizers and concerned community members for a day of strategizing. We look back on our last year – what we have accomplished, what has changed in our political climate – and we strategize for the year to come. This year’s Rural [read more]
“Strategy is the road resistance walks to freedom.” – David Swanson, How the People Got Their Groove Back: What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going Over the last few months human dignity groups and newly developed Occupations in over 40 Oregon small towns have held [read more]
Jan 092012
“Homelessness is not a side issue unconnected to plutocracy and greed. It’s where we’re all eventually headed — the 99%, or at least the 70% of us, every debt-loaded college grad, out-of-work school teacher, and impoverished senior — unless this revolution succeeds.” -Barbara Ehrenreich The Occupy movement has gained and maintained so much traction because [read more]