This week is End Racial Profiling Advocacy week – thousands of activists and groups around the country are uniting to raise the visibility of racial profiling, and add their voice in support of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA). Racial profiling is a problem in rural Oregon. We’ve heard countless stories: in the Willamette Valley, [read more]
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ROPNET is the Rural Organizing Project’s mailing list that goes out to all ROP members and member groups.
This Tuesday Senator Merkley took the Senate floor with large posters of the Tiller and Juntura post offices and spoke to the crucial service these and other rural post offices provide, directly quoting testimony from organizers of Occupy Our Post Offices. Watch the video here! On February 22, over 1,600 petition collected by Occupy Our [read more]
Welcome to the ROP Board of Directors Slate for 2012-2013! It takes heart, passion and spirit to run the Rural Organizing Project and this year’s slate for our Board of Directors has all of that and more! Read on to find out more about our 3 Cathy/ Kathys, who’s traveled to DC to meet with [read more]
ROP’s 19th annual Rural Caucus and Strategy Session is on Saturday, May 12th with early bird registration ending Friday, April 13th! As you may have already heard, this year’s Caucus is being held at PCUN in Woodburn, the heart of the farm worker movement in Oregon. It will be a fantastic opportunity to reflect on [read more]