Active Community in Portland Oregon!  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/activecommunity
  Take Action!  We are the change we seek!

Please take a few minutes to take part in these three actions now:

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Anne LaFleur

Thanks to all who participated in this action and drew attention to ESCO's business practices. If you haven't already, could you please sign this petition? http://www.change.org/ petitions/ esco-corporation-discrimination -cancer-victim-job-loss-after- 39-years-with-company-compensa te-your-employee

ESCO Corporation Discrimination - Cancer Victim & Job Loss after 39 years with company. Compensate y

www.change.org

Cancer Victim's Plea: "Calvin Collins, please approve Paul's unemployment benefits so we can pay for my cancer treatments." 39 year company veteran...

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US unions' continued decline masks new forms of worker activism

www.guardian.co.uk

Michael Paarlberg: Most Americans wish for union protections, though membership has slipped to 1916 levels.

Video: Senator Wyden -
No Cuts, No Grand Bargain - Candlelight Vigil 12.10.12

author: Joe Anybody       e-mail: iam@joeanybody.com

Filmed outside of Senator Wyden's office on Dec 10th in NE Portland around 5:30PM I arrived when the vigil was in process. Organized by  http://www.jwjpdx.org The Light Brigade was there and can be seen in the end of this video  http://youtu.be/zzs0qkchNpw [26 minute video]

Arab Spring Conference in Portland, by Rod Such



"Another misconception promoted by the corporate media has also distorted the uprising in Egypt, Beinin pointed out in his session titled 'Workers’ Struggles in the Arab Spring.' The corporate media tended to ignore, if not completely omit, the role of workers in the uprising that ousted the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Beinin noted that between 1998 and 2011, nearly 2 million Egyptian workers participated in almost 4,000 strikes as they fought the neoliberal economic policies imposed on Egypt by U.S. ruling circles. The same class warfare policies that face U.S. workers, especially the assault on the collective bargaining rights and benefits of public workers such as school teachers and government employees, also robbed Egyptian workers of job security and the ability to keep up with an inflation rate that rose as high as 18.3 percent in 2008."   See the rest of this article at http://www.theportlandalliance.org/middleeast