Photos from the fast moving fire that has torched 30-50 acres on the southern edge of Ashland

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom plans two events to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

A ceremony is planned at 8 a.m. Thursday on the Plaza in downtown Ashland, with the lighting of a memorial candle in remembrance of the victims of the bombings.

There will be a moment of silence at 8:15, marking the exact time the bomb was detonated by the U.S. above the city of Hiroshima. A reading of the 1981 proclamation designating Ashland as a nuclear-free zone will follow.

After the ceremony, the public will be invited to wander “Nuclear Alley” until 7 p.m. Built by WILPF members, the alley is a large canvas and wood structure created to teach about the history of nuclear weapons and their impact on local and international communities.

On Sunday, the date of the bombing of Nagasaki, there will be a ceremony at 3 p.m. at the Japanese Garden in Lithia Park, Ashland. Local activists will float sunflowers, the symbol of the nuclear-free movement, down Ashland Creek.

For more information, contact Keri Seidel at keri.seidel@hotmail.com or 488-9148.

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Here are some of the images from the Mystic Garden Party on July 26, 2009.

Join people from across the country to tell Congress to open up the airwaves for more community media!!!

TAKE ACTION – Tell your Congressional Representative to support HR 1147

1. Look up your Congressional Representative at Congress.org

2. Find out if they have already supported the Local Community Radio Act.
See a list of cosponsors at govtrack.us and search for Bill number HR 1147.

3. Call the Congressional Switchboard at: (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative’s office.

If your representative is not a cosponsor tell he/she to support expanding Low Power FM all across the country and cosponsor the bill.

If your representative is a cosponsor ask him/her to reach out to Congressional Leadership to let them know that this is an important priority around the country.

Background:

In 2000, the FCC established Low Power FM radio service and the same year Congress acted to limit LPFM, pending the results of an interference study. This study was released in 2003, after an expenditure of $2.2 million in taxpayer dollars, and proved that LPFM would not provide interference to existing stations. There are currently over 800 LPFM stations operated by schools, churches, civic groups, and other nonprofit organizations across the country. However, it’s time, as the authors of this study and the FCC recommended, to expand LPFM to its intended service parameters. The Local Community Radio Act (HR 1147/S592) would expand Low Power FM radio stations and open the airwaves

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Here are images from the Sing Out for Single Payer Road Show Press Conference held on July 6 in front of Senator Wyden’s Medford Office.

SING OUT FOR SINGLE PAYER ROAD SHOW TRAVELS FROM BORDER TO BORDER JULY 2-27, 2009

Frustrated that patients, nurses and doctors have been largely excluded from the debate, Anne Feeney and almost four dozen professional musicians decided to launch the Sing Out for Single Payer Road Show. How can our health care system be improved when the only players at the table are huge hospital chains, big pharma and insurance companies? Why should we be surprised when their best ideas to save money involve eliminating patients’ right to sue incompetent and negligent doctors? So Feeney and her colleagues are taking the debate to college campuses, church halls, small theaters, union halls and public parks throughout California, Oregon and Washington.

6:00 PM, JULY 7 in Ashland
Sing out for Single Payer Road Show with Jack Williams, Anne Feeney, Jason Luckett, Raina Rose, Trevor Smith, Andrew Pressman, Pat Dodd, Citizens’ Band and a special guest!
Unitarian Center
87 Fourth Street
Ashland, OR 97520
Price: $10-20 donations suggested, no one turned away
Wes Brain is the contact – brain@mind.net

– Sponsored by Southern Oregon Central Labor Council and Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice –

SING OUT FOR SINGLE PAYER ROAD SHOW
http://www.annefeeney.com/specialevents.html

Anne Feeney’s webpage: http://www.annefeeney.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SING OUT FOR SINGLE PAYER ROAD SHOW TRAVELS FROM BORDER TO BORDER JULY 2-27, 2009

CONTACT: Anne Feeney – 412-877-6480 – anne@annefeeney.com
http://annefeeney.com/specialevents.html

As the debate on how to resolve the nation’s health care crisis continues, one singular answer has been widely ignored in the public debate, despite its popular appeal: a progressively financed, comprehensive, universal health care system – otherwise known as single-payer. That doesn’t sit well with Pittsburgh activist and labor singer Anne Feeney. She says she’s been ‘comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable’ with her music since 1968.

Frustrated that patients, nurses and doctors have been largely excluded from the debate, Feeney and almost four dozen professional musicians decided to launch the Sing Out for Single Payer Road Show. How can our health care system be improved when the only players at the table are huge hospital chains, big pharma and insurance companies? Why should we be surprised when their best ideas to save money involve eliminating patients’ right to sue incompetent and negligent doctors? So Feeney and her colleagues are taking the debate to college campuses, church halls, small theaters, union halls and public parks throughout California, Oregon and Washington.

Modeled after the traveling chautauquas of the 1930s, these barnstorming concerts will take place nightly and run from San Diego, CA to Bellingham, WA. “This is a pivotal moment in our nation’s history. It’s a great opportunity for Americans to improve the health of the nation and bring quality health care to everyone in the United States. We’re on the road – entertaining, mobilizing, educating, inspiring and energizing folks on this chance of our lifetime,” says Feeney.

Some musicians will sing at one location – others, like David Rovics, Brian QTN, Green Mountain Grass and Citizens’ Band will do several shows. Jason Luckett, a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter who has been described as “Billy Bragg meets Stevie Wonder” will do the entire tour with Feeney. Several of the shows are being presented by physicians.

The two-hour concerts feature lots of community singing, humor, harmonizing and jamming. The shows are sponsored by the California Nurses’ Association-National Nurses’ Organizing Committee, Universal Health Care for Oregon, Jobs with Justice, The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, the Solidarity Education Fund, Physicians for a National Health Plan and Unions for Single Payer HR 676. The musicians are traveling with lots of information to distribute on national health care. Their slogan is “Everyone In! Nobody Out!”