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P
ortland Police Chief Mark Kroeker will
serve as government chair for the second
annual “Walk as One” fund-raiser April 7. The
event, sponsored by the National Conference
for Community and Justice, will give people an
opportunity to come together and celebrate
diversity, organizers say.
All walk-a-thon proceeds will fund the
conference’s programs for area youths. The
programs are designed to enhance their abili
ty to understand and deal with issues of stereo
typing and prejudice while encouraging
respect, civility and appreciation of differ
ences in their social interactions and peer
relationships.
Event coordinator Erin Bennett-Howard
said her organization hopes to raise $100,000
and attract 1,000 walkers. Last year, the inau
gural walk raised about $40,000.
The walk will start and end at the Rose
Garden Commons, where a multicultural fes
tival will feature food, music and prizes. All
walkers are welcome; there is no registration
fee.
Walkers will gather to celebrate the Pacific
Northwests different cultures, races, ages, abili
ties, faiths, ethnicities, sexual orientations and
genders, Bennett-Howard says. “This is inclu
sive of everybody.”
For more information call Bennett-Howard at
503-231-2436.
M an ’ s H ome V andalized
A
Gresham man woke up Jan. 23 to find
anti-gay graffiti scrawled across the front
of his home and signs that someone tried to
set his house on fire. Mark Williams, who
resides in the Rockwood district near the
Portland city limits, is a father of two.
His children now are living temporarily
with a family friend because they are afraid to
be at home. His roommates and their child
also have left the home because of safety con
cerns, he says.
Williams moved to Portland from Ashland
in the mid-1990s. Since then, he says he’s been
faced with challenge after challenge, most
recently losing his job working with develop-
mentally disabled adults and now being the vic
tim of a hate crime. He says he is being evicted
from his home later this month for reasons unre
lated to the incident.
Portland’s mainstream press covered the
hate crime, hut Williams is upset because some
members of the media used his name and pho
tograph after he requested anonymity. Since
the media attention, he says he’s been targeted
with verbal harassment on Gresham’s streets
because he is gay.
Williams is finding little support from the
community, he says. But Love Makes a Fami
ly, a gay family advocacy group, is helping him
out and will he meeting with school officials
soon. Executive director Bonnie Tinker says
he likely needs to get out of the area and into
a more supportive atmosphere to raise his
children.
A Gresham Police Department spokesman
says the incident has been assigned to a detec
tive who will conduct an investigation that
will include speaking with Williams’ neigh
bors. Williams says he hasn’t heard from the
police since they initially responded to his
complaint.
To offer your support call Love Makes a
Family at 503-228-3892 or send e-mail to
lmfamily@teleport. com.
J udge R ules for
F reedom of C hoice
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ultnomah County Circuit Court Judge
Robert W. Redding issued a strong find
ing affirming the right of the Freedom Social
ist Party to appear on election ballots. In a
sweeping summary judgment decision, he
ruled that prohibiting the party from running
candidates under its own name would he an
unconstitutional restriction on the organiza
tion’s rights to free speech and association
under the First Amendment.
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Mark Williams says his children are afraid to be at home since the hate crime occurred