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]
Stories From The Field
ROP member groups are making great strides toward justice in the far corners of the state. Check back here frequently for their stories, campaigns and successes. If you’re interested in a specific topic, you can also find updates under Issues.
Dec 272011
We share these stories of our successes of 2011 with huge gratitude – find below some highlights from the year, pulled from our annual report. We are proud of our accomplishments this year, and hope you are too – it is all of you that make all of this possible. If you have not renewed [read more]
Posted by Intern on December 27, 2011
Dec 222011
As we head into our holidays, here is an inspiring update from rural Oregon! Monday, December 19 was a remarkable day. Over 23 communities across Oregon came together to fight back against Congress’ move to privatize the Postal Service for corporate profit. Monday proved just how much rural Oregon cares about core community infrastructure that [read more]
Posted by Intern on December 22, 2011
Oct 182011
What will it take to rebuild the American Dream for our communities? A standing room only crowd of 150 people. “This is the best forum I have been to” repeated again and again. Real dialogue between community members and 4 of the candidates running for Congress in District 1. Testimony from community members alongside speeches [read more]
Posted by Intern on October 18, 2011
Oct 132011
Our Rural Latino Retreat earlier this year really drove home Oregon’s truth: we’re ready. Ready for a human dignity movement led by people who know all about assaults on dignity daily: immigrants & immigrant families. As part of our support to rural Latino groups, ROP has teamed up with the Civil Liberties Defense Center based [read more]
Posted by Amanda on October 13, 2011