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Latest Update from the Gaza Freedom March
Supporters and Friends,
Even though 50-80 marchers have been let into Gaza, including two students from the Oregon contingent, the Gaza Freedom March has decided to reject Egypt's offer and continue protesting until they get everyone into Gaza to participate in this march and break the siege! 450 French Delegates continue to sit in in front of the French Embassy and Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein continues her hunger strike and protests have been called for Thursday inside the West Bank with a demand to ending the siege!
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Noam Chomsky: When Elites Fail
Keynote presentation for the Northwest Econvergence held in Portland Oregon in October 2009.
Entitled "When Elites Fail," Chomsky talked for about one hour and 13
minutes. Due to the length of the talk, I broke it up into two parts.
He begins by asking the question, what should we do when elites fail?
His simple answer, "get rid of them", was greeted by thunderous
applause. Chomsky spends the rest of his talk describing various
historical aspects of our circumstances, connecting the dots and
providing avenues of possible redress.
As usual, Chomsky delivers a
wealth of information and connects it up to current events. He speaks
about the economic crisis, health care reform and many other topics
which affect the citizens of this country and the world. Most
interesting to me was his take on the politics surrounding the Vietnam
war, somewhere in the second half of this talk.
Chomsky One
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Commemorate the Anniversary of the Del Monte workplace raid
Commemorate the Second Anniversary of the
Devastating Del Monte workplace raid
“It was early one morning
Happily, off to work I went
Together with las compañeras we worked happily
When all of a sudden we heard MIGRA!
So we all ran, ran one way and then the next
Without knowing that we were being detained
And taken to Tacoma.”(Poem by Zaida Villatoro, member of CSAM and detained in the Tacoma detention center, Washington)
The Committee for Solidarity and Mutual Support (CSAM), together with the Immigrant Pro-Rights Coalition and the Oregon New Sanctuary Movement in Portland, cordially invite you to join us in our effort to NOT forget the tragedy that took place on June 12th, 2007, in which we were among the 160 people that were detained during an immigration raid in the Del Monte Produce Plant.
Thursday, June 11
Interfaith Service and Dinner
6:00pm Service, 7:00pm Dinner
St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave, Portland, OR
Suggested Donation: $10.00 will support CSAM
Saturday, June 13
Film Screening: “Frozen Dreams"
2:00pm & 4:00pm
Portland Community College's Cascade Campus
Terry Hall, Room 122
705 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR
Suggested donation of $10.00
Organized by CSAM.
Sunday, June 14
Picnic potluck, open to all
3:00pm
Columbia Park, Picnic site "C" in North Portland
Come with a dish of your choice to share.
Organized by the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)
and the Cross Border Labor Organizing Council (CBLOC)
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Voices from the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis
On May 12, 2009, the Institute for Policy Studies brought voices from the frontlines of the economic crisis to Capitol Hill for a briefing with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Testifiers included workers and leaders from Jobs with Justice, Right to the City, Grassroots Global Justice, National Day Laborers Organizing Network and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. These groups have formed a new network called the Inter-Alliance Dialogue. It was their first joint event.
Share this video and raise up the voices that really matter!
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Take anti-deployment poll
Here is our chance to click on the link below and check the "NO" box - this will let State Representative Richardson (R-Central Point) know that Oregonians do not want to keep sending our young people to Afghanistan/Iraq. You do not have to be one of his constituents to take this poll.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fgwnmLwk_2bGkoKTKfuGhzLA_3d_3d
Thanks,
Suna
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Student Anti-war Movement Heating up!
Students are occupying buildings in support of Palestine....an inspiration to all of us!
After a two year campaign, Hampshire College became the first to divest from corporations that contribute to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This comes just days after students at the University of Rochester won important concessions from their administration by occupying a building.
The Campus Anti-War Network is calling for a national student conference call to discuss what's next for the student occupation movement (details on their website).
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2009-2010 Global Citizen Corps Leadership Program Now Open
Mercy Corps and our Global Citizen Corps initiative are excited to announce that the 2009-2010 Global Citizen Corps Leadership program is now open and accepting applicants!
The Global Citizen Corps Leadership program is a national network of high school student leaders who educate and mobilize their schools and communities to fight global poverty. Every year, Mercy Corps selects 200 Leaders to gain the knowledge and skills to become effective anti-poverty experts through in-person and online trainings. Throughout the year, Global Citizen Corps Leaders organize Global Action Days to inform and inspire their classmates to take action on poverty and related issues like hunger, HIV/AIDS, climate change and access to education.
If you know high school students who are ready to stand at the forefront of the fight for a better world, you can help spread the word and build the movement. read more »
Valentine's Day Tamale Sale!

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Working with Architectural CAD Drafting and 3D Modeling
It is quite easy and useful to work with the cad drafting as it is not just a set of simple techniques used for designing high quality designs, it offers the complete solutions to the modern architectural needs of a customer. It is used to serve various needs of the customers with satisfaction. These services are sufficient to offer fully developed and tested digital designs for various architectural projects. They can be used to produce high quality digital designs that can be modified easily as and when required. This makes their usage a priority in today’s world as they offer a great flexibility in producing flawless and better designs.
The best thing about these designs is that they can be changed or modified as and when needed. For this purpose, they are created with multiple layers. Each layer represents a separate part of the design. For example, one layer may have the design for the electricity connections while another layer may be used to show the air ventilation map. This way the design is separated into many parts so that when there is a need to change anything, only the relevant design is changed. It helps in saving time and effort.
It is a good idea to get your designs fully tested before putting them into action. This is why many of the architectural designing services are aimed at providing this facility. They will let you test your designs in a computer simulation. Most of the time they are quite useful in making small changes in the designs that leave a big impact overall. Customers can also get a look at how their designs would look in the real life. One such technique is called the architectural 3D modeling.
Some of the services are quite useful in many other ways. They let the customers decide about their designs and how they should look like. They can be very useful as they allow the customers to have a look at their designs in both the virtual world and real world.
In many ways, these services have made our life easier and more engaging. They have provided us with outstanding buildings. Many of the architectural wonders of today are produced with the use of these services. We now have beautiful parks, malls, markets, plazas, flats and many others. All this was possible with the use of architectural CAD. The real life example of such a service is the use of architectural detailing.
We are now surrounded by modern yet fully functional buildings all around us. They are the result of innovative use of architectural CAD services.
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Best SEO Techniques to Achieve Top Ranking
The best seo techniques used to get the top ranking in the search engine results pages involve the use of high quality specific techniques that have been perfected by countless users and approved by the search engines to avoid spamming and undue advantage. These services have been produced keeping in mind many things. They are created to meet the dynamic needs of the customers and meet the requirements of the market in a positive manner. As they help in getting the top rankings by optimizing various aspects of the website, they require the use of experts in this field.
These experts provide their services to the customers in a transparent manner. They help them get more revenue by bringing their website on the top. This involves the use of certain techniques. Broadly speaking, these techniques have been divided into two parts. The approved techniques are known as the white hat SEO while the techniques that have been banned are called the black hat SEO. If any website is found using the unapproved methods, it is banned by the search engine. This is also useful in promoting the approved methods only.
Common technique to promote a commercial website is to optimize its website layout, design and content. This is not an easy task. The design of a website is very important as it helps in attracting the customers. A user friendly design can retain higher number of customers. It is a tough task to produce such a design as it may have many technical problems but to strike the balance between a good design and its user friendliness is the real task of any expert in this field. This is where the input from an seo company is crucial.
The credibility and reliability of the website are also very important. The information provided on a website is collected by the search engines and the website is categorized according to the information. When a net user searches for a certain keyword, the search engine provides him with the relevant results. At the top would be the website that it considers to have the most relevant and reliable information.
The role of the experts has toughened as the competition has also increased with the time. There are many online companies offering their services in this regard. They can prove very beneficial. It is a good idea to utilize an online company for seo services.
The best way to bring a website at the top of a search engine results page is to use the SEO services. They are designed to this by optimizing the website in many ways.
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