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Oregon Chapter
NWU: All Writers. All Genres. All Media.
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NWU Oregon Chapter Leadership
Chair: Marty Hart-Landsberg
Treasurer: Lura Frazey
Secretary : Bob Rossi
Webmaster: Lura Frazey
Steering Committee member: Stefan Ostrach
Steering Committee member: Elissa Edge
Steering Committee member: Pat Riggs-Henson
Steering Committee member: Fernando Gapasin
National Writers Union (NWU)
NWU works to promote and protect the rights, interests, and economic advancement of members; to organize writers to improve professional working conditions through collective bargaining action; and to provide professional services to members. Learn more about the NWU at NWU.org.
MUMIA IS ONE OF US
By Larry Goldbetter, NWU President
On March 9, 2023, a delegation visited NWU member Mumia Abu-Jamal at a prison in Pennsylvania. The group included Jacky Hortaut of the French Collective for the Liberation of Mumia; Patrick Kamenka, representative of the French CGT National Union of Journalists: and NWU President Larry Goldbetter, who represented the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The delegation let Abu-Jamal know that 600,000 union-member journalists in 150 countries are standing with him, and are demanding Pennsylvania’s governor review his controversial trial and release him immediately on health grounds. Read more.
