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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 2001)
L’lu ni m ay IB , mews U n io n A C o n ven e c t iv is t s in S ea W il l ttle rganizers say the fourth biennial Conven tion of Pride at Work, slated for next month near Seattle, will be the most important international gathering of sexual minority union activists ever in the United States. Pride at Work, the newest constituency group of the 13 million-member A FL-CIO , has chapters from Boston to Los Angeles. T h e or ganization’s mission is to strengthen the voice of sexual minority workers in the labor movement and to strengthen the voice of labor in the sex ual minority movement. The “Out and Organizing Globally!” con vention will bring together gay union activists from South Africa, Brazil, Costa Rica, Canada and Holland as well as leaders of the U .S. union movement and gay community. It will be held June 21 to 24 in Everett. “A ll o f us in Pride at W ork are excited about the conven tion,” co-presidents N ancy W ohlforth and T Santora said. “W e’re look ing forward to being in the Seattle area, where working people from all over fought back against the big corporations’ version o f globalization.” Among the workshop topics: how to or ganize sexual minority workers into the union movement; organizing a Pride at W ork chap ter; organizing from and for a global perspec tive; and organizing to bargain for equal ben efits and pay. O For m ore information call 202-637-5014 or 206-903-9488 or visit the Internet site www.prideatiuork.org. Ju st ay men through- out the state re joiced at the news of a 4-inch bulge discov ered near Three Sis ters but were disap pointed to learn it just was a volcanic phenome ♦non in central Oregon. NNNNNNMNNMMMNMNNMNNNNMNNMNNMNNNN p gay community has suffered a high-profile hate crime, a recent announcement by the bureau confirms sexual minorities are always in danger. Detectives are in the midst of a vast investiga tion into a group whose recent activities in Port land included “a conspiracy to gay-bash.” Usually, Paresi says, people don’t want to get involved until after an incident happens. “This is an opportunity to break some ground and be there before an incident.” The patrollers will provide the community with a visible presence to deter criminal activity in neighborhoods frequented by sexual minori ties. The volunteers will be the eyes and ears of the Central Precinct officers who work in the area, organizers say. Patrollers will not intervene in any disputes, crimes in progress, accidents or other illegal activ ities. Their role is to listen, watch and report any illegal or suspicious activities to police. The patrol not only needs volunteers, it needs money. It is accepting donations of $200 or less. In addition, the group needs a place for equipment storage, a small meeting room to begin and end the patrols and restroom facili ties in the neighborhoods affected. Some pieces of equipment, including flashlights and reflective vests, also are needed. To donate or for more information call 503-774-9085 or send e-m ail to rainbow footpatrol@ aol. com . P PH O TO BY MARTY DAVIS W o rtlan d in s V W id e o om an A w ard I Portland photojournalist Janice 1 Pierce recently was honored during a televised program sponsored by the A lliance for Community Media, Northwest Region. End the Waiting won the best public service award in the category of "empowerment.” The seven-minute video, Pierce’s first, steps inside the lives of four fami lies affected by developmental disabili ties and examines the extraordinary challenges they face every day. She started the project after learning 3,000 Janice Pierce’s End the W aiting is making a difference people were being wait-listed for serv for families affected by developmental disabilities ices in Oregon. Pierce says one of the most moving inter- F o o t P a t r o l S t r u g g l in g views she conducted was with an elderly woman who had spent most of her life caring espite low turnout at recent training ses for her middle-age son. T h e mother spoke sions for the newly formed Rainbow Com about deciding what to do with her loved one munity Foot Patrol, organizers say they still hope now that she no longer could serve as his to begin patrolling Southwest Stark Street and caretaker. Old Town/Chinatown on Friday and Saturday Pierce has been shooting photographs for evenings this summer. The group was estab more than 20 years; USA Today and The Asso lished under the guidelines of the Office of ciated Press, among many others, have pur Neighborhood Involvement and the Portland chased her work. She photographed the last per Police Bureau. son who moved out of Salem’s Fairview Hospi Only six volunteers have stepped forward, but tal when it shut down last year as part of a her at least 10 are needed. Assistant Chief Mark Pare- continuing work chronicling the history of the si says the patrol ideally requires 30 participants. 90-year-old facility for the mentally ill and the Volunteers usually walk in groups of four. “It’s developmentally disabled. an opportunity to be proactive rather than being reactive,” Paresi says. 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