2024 Annual Report
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Fostering Rural Leadership
150 rural community leaders from 27 counties came together in Woodburn for our 33rd annual Rural Caucus and Strategy Session, where we celebrated our movement history with longtime partners Capaces Leadership Institute and PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker union.
After training nearly 200 people in Strategic Messaging 101, we launched the Rural Roots Rising Communications Cohort to help leaders deepen their skills and support one another in media creation.
ROP partnered with Hood River Latino Network to open the Immigrant Help Center in Hood River!
Advancing Democracy
In Deschutes County, local organizers and ROP jumped into action to prevent election interference by People’s Rights, a far-right paramilitary organization, during the May primary. Across the state, groups
talked to their neighbors about the issues, opposed threats and intimidation, and spread information about the Our Vote election protection hotline.
ROP hosted 14 Defend Democracy Living Room Conversations with participants representing 20 counties. One Josephine County participant reflected:
“One of the biggest things that happened is that ROP named some pillars of democracy and asked what we are already doing to protect democracy, and then we did some visualizations into the future, and I found I had so many more ideas and thoughts and there was a different quality to the conversation than me at home listening to the news […]”
In the 2024 legislative session, groups in every region of the state organized with their neighbors to pass powerful bills, including investments in Employment Related Day Care (ERDC), homelessness prevention, and restorative justice.
Joy & Dignity for All
We’re reaching more people than ever with Know Your Rights information and resources in their native languages using our Facebook pages, “Hood River Latino Network” and “Proyecto de Organización Rural”, which shares videos in Mam.
The Mam community is one of the most targeted for detention and deportation in the state.
Dozens of groups across rural Oregon rallied, lobbied, fundraised, and organized to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, reproductive rights, and more!
Rural leaders centered joy and community building in their organizing to connect with their neighbors and help keep temperatures low during election season. Human Dignity Groups hosted Prides and Juneteenths, fair booth games, and summer festivals
ROP supported 52 Oregonians in accessing the Oregon Worker Relief Fund.
ROP won our lawsuit against the city of Cottage Grove for breaking state sanctuary laws by illegally collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Who is Rural Organizing Project?
More than 90 Human Dignity Groups and thousands of community leaders working together to advance democracy in small-town and rural Oregon.
Human Dignity Group
Community Center/Staff Office
Member Radio Station
- 2024 Human Dignity Award Winner
BAKER
- Baker Community Justice Project
- Baker Radio: KBZR
- Panhandle 4 Pioneer Rail
BENTON
- Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center and Street Outreach Response Team (SORT)
- Corvallis Latin America Solidarity Committee
- First United Methodist Church Ministry Teams for Himan Rights and Environmental Care
- Linn-Benton Greens
- Linn-Benton NAACP
- Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates
- Mid-Valley Solidarity Coalition
- Our Revolution Corvallis Allies
- Race Matters, First Congregational UCC
- Stop the Sweeps
- Sunrise Corvallis
- Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132
CLACKAMAS
- Bridging Cultures
- Clackamas DSA
- Indivisible Clackamas
CLATSOP
- Columbia Pacific Alliance for Social Justice
- Indivisible North Coast Oregon
COLUMBIA
- Columbia County Coalition for Human Dignity
- Vernonia Equality & Racial Justice
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF WARM SPRINGS
- Central Oregon for a Free Palestine
COOS
- Bandon Inclusivity Group
- Human Rights Advocates of Coos County
- South Coast Equity Coalition
- Southern Oregon Coast Pride
CROOK
- Human Dignity Advocates of Crook County
- Latino Community Association
- PFLAG Prineville
- Stop the Abuse
CURRY
- Indivisible North Curry County
- South Coast Equity Coalition
- Southern Oregon Coast Pride
DESCHUTES
- Bend Equity Project
- Central Oregon for a Free Palestine
- Indivisible Sisters
- Latino Community Association
- PFLAG Central Oregon
- Redmond Collective Action
DOUGLAS
- Umpqua Valley Rainbow Collective
GILLIAM
- Rural Voices
GRANT
- Grant County Positive Action
- Oregon Together
HARNEY
- Rural Alliance for Diversity
HOOD RIVER
- Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network
- Gorge Ecumenical Ministries/Somos Uno
- Gorge ICE Resistance and Rapid Response
- Hood River Latino Network
- NORCOR Community Resource Coalition
JACKSON
- Ashland Together
- Peace House
- Rogue Action Center
- Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
- Southern Oregon Peace Vets
- Truth to Power
JEFFERSON
- Jefferson Positive Action Group
- Latino Community Association
JOSEPHINE
- Rainbow Club Rogue Community College (RCC)
- Takilma March for Palestine
- Unitarian Universalists of Grants Pass Social Action Team
KLAMATH
- Friends of the Klamath County Library
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Students for Justice in Palestine
KLICKITAT, WA
- Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network
LAKE
- Indivisible Lake County
- Outback Voices
LANE
- Church Women United
- Community Alliance of Lane County
- Deadwood Resists
- Florence Indivisible
- Florence ORganizes (FOR)
- Health Care for all Oregon (HCAO) Lane County Chapter
- Springfield-Eugene Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
- The Cottage Grove Blackberry Pie Society
LINCOLN
- Acompañar
LINN
- Albany Peace Seekers
- Linn-Benton Greens
- Linn-Benton NAACP
- Mid-Valley Solidarity Coalition
MALHEUR
- Four Rivers Community Radio
- Four Rivers Welcome Center
- One Community, All Spirits
MARION
- Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health
- Silverton Progressives
MORROW
- Oregon Rural Action
- Rural Voices
POLK
- Polk Folks for Human Dignity
SHERMAN
- Rural Voices
TILLAMOOK
- Advocates for Reproductive Choice
- North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection
- Tillamook Democracy Project and Campaign School
UMATILLA
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Youth Leadership Council
- Oregon Rural Action
- Pendleton Community Action Coalition
UNION
- Oregon Rural Action
- Oregon Together
- Union County Progressives
WALLOWA
- Oregon Together
- People Like Us
- Postcardia/Higher Ground
WASCO
- Gorge ICE Resistance and Rapid Response
- NORCOR Community Resource Coalition
- Protect Oregon’s Progress/The Dalles Indivisible
WASHINGTON
- Adelante Mujeres
- Western WashCo for Racial Justice
WHEELER
- Rural Voices
YAMHILL
- Progressive Yamhill
- Unidos Bridging Community
- Yamhill Peace and Justice
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