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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.
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For m ore information call 202-637-5014 or
206-903-9488 or visit the Internet site
www.prideatiuork.org.
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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 .
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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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