While the streets are filled in Salem, Portland, Madras and towns all over the country today to both celebrate the contributions of workers and to demand fair treatment of all workers, we invite you to take action too. You don’t have to be marching in the streets to stand up for workers rights on May [read more]
Kitchen Table Activism
Kitchen Table Activism (KTA) is a monthly project of the Rural Organizing Project. Often building on quarterly themes, short actions are described in each KTA. The theory is that basic steps and tasks can lead to powerful collective results as small groups of people gather to complete the same action throughout the state of Oregon. ROP works to keep the basic tasks easily achievable so that groups with other projects or groups with limited immediate energy can still manage to complete the KTA each month.
Who is up for Election in your County?? WHAT IS THE ACTIVITY? Election fever has started in rural Oregon and I’m not talking about Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, or Barack Obama! This May 15th, rural voters will be weighing in on candidates from Sheriffs, to County Commissioner, to Parks and Recreation District directors.Human Dignity Groups [read more]
Rural Oregon has been experiencing rapid changes. As of the 2010 Census, Latinos make up 12% of Oregon’s population and nearly 20% of Oregon’s youth. From 2000 to 2008 the local Latino population grew over 50% in nine rural Oregon counties and five now have populations of more than 20%. These changes in a time [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]
Over the last few months, rural Oregon and ROP have been on the front lines responding to an assault on rural community infrastructure. In October, 41 rural Oregon communities were told their post offices would be closing as early as January 15 as a cost-saving measure for the Postal Service. In addition, four processing facilities [read more]