Schedule of Events

The week’s events begin on Sunday, April 19th with a concert with labor singer George Mann who will be flying in from New York City. Mann will be joined by local musician Nancy Spencer. The event will be  at the Siskiyou Pub at 7 pm. This event is sponsored by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. George Mann has been a union organizer and activist for many years as well as a musician. He grew up playing in rock and roll bands on Long Island and in New York City. He has previously recorded several albums of his songs and performs for many unions and organizations. He is a producer of labor music and has a new solo CD, “Into the Fire.” Here is George’s website: http://georgemann.home.att.net/

7:00 PM - Siskiyou Pub, 31 B Water Street  - Ashland,  Oregon
Just across 99 and East Main. One Block North of the Plaza Down Town in the Old Rogue Brewery Building

On Monday April 20, the Southern Oregon Media Collective and Southern Oregon NORML will screen Hemp, Hemp Horray! and Barry Cooper’s anti-drugwar film Never Get Busted Again. Hemp Hemp Hooray! is a fast paced, fun educational glimpse into the potential of the world’s most useful and versatile plant, cannabis hemp, and its burgeoning renewed industrial marketplace.

In Never Get Busted Again, Former top narcotics officer Barry Cooper gives the low-down on illegal law enforcement tactics and how to protect yourself.

7:00 PM - Southern Oregon University, Meese Auditorium, Center for the Visual Arts - Indiana Street and Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520

Meese Auditorium is located in the Art Building of the Center for Visual Arts (CVA) on the Southern Oregon University campus. The Art Building is off Indiana Street, just south of its intersection with Siskiyou Boulevard.

On Tuesday, April 21 there will be a a film screening of the documentary, Terrorizing Dissent: A Multi Media Experience, which details the brutal police misconduct at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. An account from and discussion with Noah Balloon, local agitator and RNC survivor. With musical guests: New Mexican folk singer/songwriter Tyler Cain Lacy and student for truth Danny Moffat.

Tuesday, April 21st  8pm.

At Southern Oregon University’s Stevenson Union in Diversions - 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, in Ashland.

In celebration of Ashland’s annual Independent Media Week. This is also a fund- and awareness-raiser for the RNC8, a group of eight nonviolent organizers who are being charged with four felony counts of terrorism under the Minnesota Patriot Act. For more on their case, please visit www.rnc8.org.

On Wednesday, April 22 join Ashland’s Nancy Spencer and Portland’s Brendan Phillips (Utah Phillips son) for their duet performance playing saws and then watch “Utah Phillips and Friends” in which the late Utah Phillips performs with a number of friends including Nancy Spencer. Utah Phillips, who died in 2008, was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest”.

The free event will be held on Wednesday, April 22 at 7 pm at the Siskiyou Pub in Ashland. This event is sponsored by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice and is part of Independent Media Week 2009.

On Thursday, April 23rd Citizens for Peace and Justice will host a screening of “War Made Easy” and a discussion on The Peace Movement and Independent Media.  At the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ - Lidgate Hall 1801 East Jackson St. starting at 7 PM.

On Friday, April 24 we will hold a workshop and discussion on the socio-economics of media culture with local media activists and humanities scholar Peter Phillips. Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University in California. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide, including Z Magazine and Social Policy. He frequently speaks on censorship and various sociopolitical issues on radio and TV talk shows, including Talk of the Nation, Public Interest, World Radio Network, and Democracy Now!. Project Censored, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. Check out “Project Censored” www.projectcensored.org

Peter Phillips will be on a panel with local media activists Carol Voisin and Jason Houk.   Carol Voisin is an Ashland City Council member and on the faculty at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches ethics, critical thinking, and writing  Jason Houk is the Station Manager of KSKQ LP 94.9 FM Community Radio in Ashland Oregon.  He is also an editor of the Rogue Independent Media Center. www.rogueimc.org

Leading the discussion will be Jeff Golden. Jeff Golden has spent the last 25 years in politics, broadcasting and editorial journalism.

The panel discussion will begin at 7:30 PM at Southern Oregon University, Meese Auditorium, Center for the Visual Arts

On Saturday, April 25th, KSKQ lp 94.9 FM Community Studio will host live interviews at Ashland’s Earth Day celebration.

Check out our Independent Media Week table at Earth Day in Ashland Oregon.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 11 AM - 4 PM

At the grounds of ScienceWorks Museum
1500 East Main Street, Ashland

Saturday, April 25 - 4:00 PM
Location: KSKQ community studio
330 East Hersey St. #2
Ashland Oregon 97520