ROP Member Groups

Is this what YOU see when you look at our movement in rural Oregon? 

·    Scores of people mapped the change that they wanted to see onto Obama’s call for change.  Those people have not gone away.  They are still there, along with their longing for change, but our movement has not yet been able to become the container that can engage them.  What can we do to build this container?  Is the human dignity group still a viable way to structure and hold local movement centers in rural Oregon? 

This is about the future, in two parts: 

Part 1 - you are invited to join our ROP Tech Team & Part 2 - we want to help all Human Dignity Groups out there join the new media revolution!

If you're feeling confused about all the different provisions of the economic stimulus and how you might benefit from them, you're not the only one.  ROP member group Blackberry Pie Society out of Cottage Grove in Lane County decided to sort through the details and figure out which parts of the stimulus regular community members might be interested in knowing about.

They write, "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which President Obama signed on February 17th, contains provisions designed to help you and your community."

Often it feels like the wheels of justice turn oh-so-slowly.  Sometimes they even seem to roll backwards.  But now, at least one wheel is turning relatively quickly.  With another push or two from all of us in rural Oregon, we can help ensure just a little more justice for victims of hate crimes.

We are planning a garden at the ROP house, 33421 SW Maple in Scappoose,  across from the Middle School. We hope that a community-tended garden  of ornamentals, fruit bearing plants, and raised vegetable beds will be a great way to inspire adults, children, and creatures, and demonstrate the values of cooperation.  Please consider donating materials to this project.

Progressive rural Oregon has stepped up with bold responses to recent challenges to community peace and unity, but now more than ever we count on the ROP network throughout the state of Oregon to maintain vigilance and open lines of communication.  Let’s send a message to hate groups and perpetrators of hate crimes that says, “Not in our Town, not in our STATE!”

ROP board member and member of Concerned Citizens of Coquille Mary Geddry has been working for years to get to this point. Her visionary wind power project that would create jobs, energy independence, and revenue for coastal Coos County and local town school districts, is being considered for funding in Washington D.C. this week.

Seaside, Oregon -- Two gay men survived a serious beating after their 4 attackers shouted homophobic slurs at them and left them unconscious on the beach.  The attackers have not been found yet, but police have confirmed that they will prosecute this as a hate crime. 

Already the human dignity community in Clatsop County is organizing to send a strong, united, and timely response to condemn the attack and affirm that Seaside, Clatsop County, and the Oregon Coast affirm the human dignity of all people.