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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1995)
just out ▼ July 21. 1909 ▼ 11 TABOR FLORIST Love Makes A Family is a COLAGE affiliate Bonnie Tinker, executive director of the Port land-based Love Makes A Family Inc. says her group is a local affiliate of COLAGE, also known as Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere, an international club for children of lesbians and gay men. COLAGE is an organization dedicated to giv ing teenagers and younger children of gay and lesbian parents an opportunity to connect through various publications, including a new Kids Page for younger children. COLAGE also hosts gather ings across the country. Love Makes A Family members Alex Tinker, 12, and Chantel Petry, 10, will attend the national COLAGE Youth Conference and Children’s Confer ence in Los Angeles this month. According to Tinker, youth mem bers of Love Makes A Family receive a quarterly COLAGE newsletter; children receive the Kids Page. Lesbian and gay parents who are members of Love Makes A Family receive the Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International quarterly newsletter. Love Makes A Family groups for youth, par ents and children meet on the second Monday of each month at the organization’s downtown Port land office. Annual membership is on a sliding scale, $10 to $100. For more information about Love Makes A Family Inc. call 228-3892; or write to PO Box 11694, Portland, OR 97211. Oregon students fight for environment Youth activists participated in the National Day of Outrage on June 27 as part of the Free the Planet campaign. Students from Washington, D.C., to Portland joined the environmental community to protest the sale of public lands and what they view as anti-environmental laws. “This action demonstrates student outrage at congressional attempts to devalue and degrade our natural heritage. Young people all over the country are enraged that the people’s national forests, parks and water are being sold for bargain- basement prices,” says RickTaketa, 23, coordina tor of the Free the Planet campaign. In Portland, students took the message directly to President Bill Clinton when he was in the Rose City last month for an economic summit. At the rally site where the president spoke, Oregon stu dent activists circulated petitions and gave their own speeches. “Because of these giveaways we are losing thousands of acres of forest,” says 23-year-old Jeana Frazzini. “Of course the timber industry will lobby Congress to sell our national heritage. They can buy a 1,000-year-old Douglas fir for three bucks. The president should be outraged at this reckless abuse of public lands.” The Free the Plant campaign is a student- driven effort to reinvigorate the environmental movement and demonstrate massive public sup port for a healthy environment through youth action. Announcing the opening of a second location and legal workers dedicated to the protection and expansion of the rights of workers, women, the poor and minorities. Central to the group’s phi losophy is the acknowledgment that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. The convention will be held at the Governor Hotel in downtown Portland. Delores Huerta, co founder of United Farm Workers, will be the keynote speaker. Several workshops will be held addressing issues such as economic justice, vio lence against women, immigration, hate crimes and electoral politics. 4848 SE Division St. Portland, OR 97206 253-6876 256-2920 OSPIRG seeks to expand bottle bill coverage Staff from the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group will spend the upcoming months canvassing neighborhoods in an effort to collect signatures for a statewide ballot initiative designed to protect and expand Oregon’s bottle bill cover age. The group wants to place an initiative on the November 1996 general election ballot. “The bottle bill [law] is the most effective recycling program in the country,” says OSPIRG staffer Jen Gerrad. “Expanding its ¡f coverage is just common sense, [and] letting it fall to the wayside be cause of pressure from outside inter ests would be a se rious blow to 25 years of environ mental progress.” According to OSPIRG, Orego nians landfilled or incinerated more than 100 million beverage con tainers in 1994. Those containers held noncarbon- ated drinks, which OSPIRG says are not covered by the existing bottle bill law. OSPIRG estimates sales of products such as Gatorade and Snapple are growing at a rate of 30 percent a year, and says these containers represent a major waste of both resources and landfill space. OSPIRG is a statewide citizens advocacy group with more than 35,000 members. For more infor mation or to get involved in the Bottle Bill cam paign, call 231-4181. Portland police get $30,000 grant The federal Department of Justice has awarded the Portland Police Bureau a $30,000 grant through its COPS MORE program, which assists law en forcement agencies across the nation in increasing their personpower and purchasing technological tools tocombat crime. This award is de signed specifically to provide agencies with money to purchase equipment and sup port resources. ''VUfeUgSB “The impact of \l .. additional of Katz and Moose , face-to-face . c hours .. problem solving between police officers and residents in Portland neighborhoods,” says Portland Police National Lawyers Guild Chief Charles Moose, who recently celebrated his second anniversary as chief. convention slated in Moose and Portland Mayor Vera Katz had been invited to a White House ceremony announcing Portland the grant, but neither could attend due to prior The National Lawyers Guild will hold its commitments. annual convention Aug. 11-13 in Portland. 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