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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.
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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.
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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. The
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