20 Dec Ramon and Larry Arrested
This past year PCUN's President Ramon Ramirez and former Secretary-Treasurer Larry Kleinman were arrested at Capitol Hill...
20 Dec Better Days Ahead
About a month ago, I had the opportunity to work at one of the farms PCUN contracts with side by side with the folks pictured here....
18 Nov Our Movement’s First Home
Tells the story of the small, dilapidated wooden structure that served as our headquarters from 1980 to 1988 and then as a residence for volunteers. The story was written about six weeks before the building’s de-construction was launched in June 2008, the first step in...
18 Nov March 17, 2005
March 17th, 2005 Describes four events that occurred in Woodburn on that date, each—and together—serving as indicators of the progress our movement had made—or failed to make—in changing the politics of Woodburn over a quarter century. (Dec., 2005; 19 p. in Word) [scribd id=194094646 key=key-12i1a5ntcxgecm6ge3b9 mode=scroll]...
18 Nov You Can Hear Us Now!: The Story of PCUN’s Radio Movimiento, “La Voz del Pueblo”
You Can Hear Us Now!: The Story of PCUN’s Radio Movimiento, “La Voz del Pueblo” Narrates PCUN’s path to establishing and operating a non-commercial low-power FM radio station. Subtitled “Taking mass communications with PCUN’s community base from someday to every day,” this work lays out a...
18 Nov Willamette Valley Law Project: Born on César’s 50th
A reflection on the 35th anniversary in 2012 of WVLP, one of our movement’s very first non-profit (but still least visible) entities. WVLP was incorporated on March 31, 1977, coincidentally César Chávez’s 50th birthday. (March 31, 2012; 4 p.) [scribd id=185179445 key=key-ym1gnr4nzx5pqkcu7ma mode=scroll]...
18 Nov Immigrant Spring, Five Years On: What the 2006 Marches of Millions Can Tell Us About Today’s “Madison Moment”
Do mega-marches change the state of politics…even the course of history? This essay articulates and applies the political “physics” that propel and paralyze the phenomenal forces behind the immigrants’ rights marches, the fight-back in Wisconsin against collective bargaining rights rollback, and the regime-change protests in...
18 Nov The Minimum No One Talks about in Oregon
An Op-Ed, published in the Salem Statesman-Journal newspaper on August 1, 2009 under the headline “Minimum Wage Workers are Better Off in Oregon.” The essay, written as increase in the federal minimum wage took effect, sets forth the forces behind and key outcomes of Oregon’s minimum...
18 Nov Alabama and the Nation’s Conscience
An Op-ed on the 2012 re-enactment of the five-day Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 and how the 2012 march broke new ground in unifying the modern day civil rights and immigrants’ rights struggles to repeal Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law, HB...
18 Nov A Call From Tom Ruhl
How a pivotal educational leader set in motion a scholarship which opens a path to higher education for leaders of our movement who are undocumented immigrants. (Dec. 2011; 9 p., Word) [scribd id=185142413 key=key-2es5d22kswn6slbqo5po mode=scroll]...