This year, ROP is honing our focus to an ambitious project: building welcoming communities. This means that we’re devoting extra of our most precious resource, organizer time, to working with small groups of people to run proactive campaigns to make their communities more welcoming to immigrants. Seem like a tall order? Well do you remember [read more]
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Jan 192012
The Rural Organizing Project and the Lane County-based Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) traveled rural Oregon last fall bringing “Know your Rights” presentations to 7 communities across the state, reaching over 190 people including immigrants & allies alike. The tour was on the road from October 1st – December 11th, 2011, stopping in towns in [read more]
Jan 172012
Are you detail oriented? Looking for a way to contribute to a good cause? Interested in keeping your mind sharp in retirement or your resume fresh while you look for a job? If you answered yes, you may be just who we’re looking for! ROP has a very important volunteer position open in our Scappoose [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]
Jan 052012
When was the last time you checked out the ROP website? If you take another look at www.rop.org we know you’ll be happy with what you see. We’ve switched to a new layout designed to get you maximum access to the bounty we have to share. Here are a couple of the goodies you can [read more]