2025 Annual Report

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2025 in Review

Rural Organizing Project

There has never been a more urgent time to organize and build our strength than under growing authoritarianism. The ROP network of 95 Human Dignity Groups has been mobilizing around

4 pathways of resistance*:

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Protect People

Rural Oregonians doubled down on our work to keep each other safe, especially those most targeted in this moment. More than 20 rapid response groups were built or strengthened to defend against state and community violence.

From the South Lane Community Building Center, we supported the Mam community to access healthcare and legal support, offered Know Your Rights Information, provided translation and interpretation, and facilitated accompaniment to immigration appointments, supporting more than 500 people!

A group of nine people hold signs that say "Signs of Fascism" where each sign states an aspect of a fascist regime
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Defend Civic Institutions

The Cottage Grove Mam community gathered to celebrate a huge win: our legal victory enforcing Oregon’s Sanctuary Promise Act, ensuring local law enforcement is not collaborating with ICE.

Human dignity leaders from across the state deepened relationships with local elected officials, collaborating to address devastating federal funding cuts to our communities and to defend free and fair elections in 2026.

Leaders in Baker City built a community radio station, featuring high school DJs, local news reports, and education for the region. 89.9 FM Baker City and other local groups are filling the void left by defunded public media and governmental attacks on free speech.

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Disrupt and Disobey

We refused to accept attacks on basic rights as normal. Rural Oregon mobilized for #HandsOff, #NoKings, and 700 protests, rallies, and events, bringing hundreds of new leaders into the movement!

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1,000 people registered for our Meeting the Moment virtual gatherings to build a shared analysis of how authoritarian regimes can be dismantled through mass nonviolent civil resistance.

ROP leaders reached beyond our rural counties to build mass movement with statewide and national partners. We participated in national strategy spaces around disaster response organizing and noncooperation, and helped form strategic alignment amongst organizations responding to national guard deployment and other threats to democracy in Oregon.

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Build Alternatives

The 34th Annual Rural Caucus and Strategy Session was the largest ever (160 people!) with many first-time attendees and leaders from 31 counties converging in Eastern Oregon. 76 groups convened for regional conversations to build a collective vision for just futures. New connections led to cross-county collaborations throughout the year.

The Immigrant Help Center in the Gorge hosted nearly a dozen events, leaning into joy as resistance! At Hood River Latino Fest, we celebrated cultural roots with performances and food, building connections with neighbors and spreading the word about legal support, healthcare, and food access.

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*the 4 Pathways to Resistance framework comes from our partners at choosedemocracy.us

Despite all there was to defend this year, we never stopped building the world we want.

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Rural Organizing Project is meeting the moment

In 2025, ROP grew to include 95 groups, multiple community centers, and thousands of local leaders working together to advance democracy in small-town and rural Oregon.

Human Dignity Group

Community Center/Staff Office

Member Radio Station

  • 2025 Human Dignity Award Winner

BAKER

  • 89.9 FM Baker City
  • Pine Eagle Community Alliance

BENTON

  • Collective Youth Alliance for Change (CYAC)
  • Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center and Street Outreach Response Team (SORT)
  • Linn-Benton Greens
  • Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates
  • Mid-Valley Solidarity Coalition
  • Our Revolution Corvallis Allies
  • Peace, Bio-diversity, and Justice, First Congregational UCC
  • Race Matters, First Congregational UCC
  • Sunrise Corvallis
  • Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132

CLACKAMAS

CLATSOP

COLUMBIA

  • Columbia County Coalition for Human Dignity

CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION

  • CTUIR Youth Leadership Council

CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF WARM SPRINGS

  • Central Oregon for a Free Palestine

COOS

CROOK

CURRY

DESCHUTES

DOUGLAS

  • Umpqua Valley Rainbow Collective

GILLIAM

  • Rural Voices

GRANT

  • Grant County Positive Action
  • Oregon Together

HARNEY

  • Rural Alliance for Diversity

HOOD RIVER

JACKSON

JEFFERSON

JOSEPHINE

  • Beacons of Hope
  • Rainbow Club Rogue Community College (RCC)
  • Rogue Indivisible
  • Oregon Remembrance Project
  • Takilma March for Palestine
  • Unitarian Universalists of Grants Pass Social Action Team

KLAMATH

  • Community Action Coalition

KLICKITAT, WA

LAKE

  • Indivisible Lake County
  • Outback Voices

LANE

LINCOLN

  • Acompañar
  • Invisible Waves
  • Out in L.C. Together

LINN

  • Albany Peace Seekers
  • Linn-Benton Greens
  • Mid-Valley Solidarity Coalition

MALHEUR

MARION

MORROW

  • Oregon Rural Action
  • Rural Voices

POLK

SHERMAN

  • Rural Voices

TILLAMOOK

UMATILLA

  • Oregon Rural Action
  • Raices

UNION

  • Oregon Rural Action
  • Oregon Together
  • Union County Progressives
  • Union County Unites

WALLOWA

  • Oregon Together
  • People Like Us
  • Postcardia/Higher Ground

WARM SPRINGS

  • Central Oregon for a Free Palestine

WASCO

  • Hood River Latino Network
  • NORCOR Community Resource Coalition
  • Protect Oregon’s Progress/The Dalles Indivisible

WASHINGTON

WHEELER

  • Rural Voices

YAMHILL

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