AUGUST 17, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 46
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CENTS
News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Marc Lamont Hill .............7
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
BAN THE BUNKER
Mayor Hales speaks about Terminal 1 at the
Portland City Council meeting on August 10, 2016.
Controversial Terminal 1
space expected to cost
$100 million
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
P
ortland City Council members
voted to approve a temporary
lease for a massive homeless shel-
ter in NW Portland. The split 3-2
council vote came ater three hours of
contentious testimony from neighbors,
developers, community organizers and
the houseless.
The vote allows private developer
Homer Williams to begin planning for
a $100 million homeless complex at Ter-
minal 1. Williams has six months to cre-
ate a plan for the Oregon Trail to Hope
project, which is modeled ater San An-
AP PHOTO/PAUL HOLSTON
See TERMINAL 1 on page 3
Ashley D. Bell was one of the 18 black delegates at
the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
and has been hired as RNC senior strategist and
national director of African American engagement.
Republicans
Court Black
Voters page 9
Gospel Singer Kathy
Taylor Ministers to the
World With Her Singing
page 10
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
City Council
Approves
Shelter
Activists interrupted a Seattle City Council meeting Aug. 15 during the public comment period about a proposed new police precinct in North Seattle. The
Seattle City Council chamber was illed to capacity with people who opposed what they call the $149 million dollar Police “Bunker.” At one point the
meeting was suspended when dozens of people tried to enter the already over crowded chamber. Despite overwhelming opposition the City Council
voted to approve a resolution to proceed with a the project following a closer look at costs and a racial equity analysis.
Youth and the Law Project Helps Educate Students
Comic book will educate PPS students interacting with law enforcement
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
W
hen
Portland
Police
oicers
used a Taser on
a
16-year-old
Roosevelt High School stu-
dent two years ago, Skye
Skalbeck — who is about to
embark on her senior year
there — wanted to do some-
thing about it.
“Kids were really upset,
but nobody knew what
they could do about it,”
Skalbeck said.
Then a sophomore, Skal-
beck got involved with the
Youth and the Law project
— a collaborative project
between schools and com-
munity groups intended
to educate young people
about their rights in inter-
actions with police.
The project has pro-
duced two publications so
far, and the third — which
publishes this week — is
a comic book by and for
youth: a small group of stu-
dents in the Immigrant and
Refugee Community Orga-
nization’s SummerWorks
program is completing
production this week ater
eight weeks of research,
discussion with communi-
ty groups and writing and
drawing.
The book will be distrib-
uted to incoming freshman
throughout Portland Pub-
lic Schools this fall.
The comic features ive
diferent scenarios youth
may be likely to encoun-
ter with law enforcement
(including one scenario in-
volving an interaction with
a school resource oicer).
The project is also devel-
oping training manuals to
train youth and their par-
ents on their rights, and
organizer JoAnn Hardesty
said if funding becomes
available organizers would
like to hold training ses-
sions throughout the year
for youth and their parents
to understand their rights
when interacting with law
enforcement.
Students
have
re-
searched laws, spoken with
lawyers, talked to commu-
nity groups representing
diferent communities of
color and participated in
ride-alongs with Portland
Police oicers. Hardes-
ty also said the Portland
Police Bureau has made
a donation to help with
printing expenses, though
The Skanner was not able
to conirm the amount of
the contribution with the
bureau.
“One of the things that’s
most wonderful about this
See COMIC on page 3
PFLAG Black Chapter Splits
Group will reform as an independent
organization, separate from PFLAG Portland
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
T
he irst PFLAG Black Chapter in
the country has shut its doors
and is in the process of reform-
ing as an independent organiza-
tion. The group has focused on serv-
ing the Black LGBTQ community in
the Portland area.
Khalil Edwards, co-director of the
former organization, said the new
group will continue this work un-
der a new name with full agency and
autonomy — a move that required
leaving the PFLAG Portland organi-
zation.
“We still have at the center of it,
liting up Black LGBTQ families and
individuals and working towards
liberation of all Black peoples in this
country, in this state, in this city,” Ed-
See PFLAG on page 3
According to Khalil Edwards, co-director of
Portland Black PFLAG, the organization has shut
its doors and is in the process of reforming as
an independent organization.
