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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 2001)
• august 3. 2001 i ; m;t i ¡ivi** m ew s Continued from P age 7 Scappoose & St. Helens Premier Real Estate Resource T he registration fee o f $7.50 includes a light breakfast and buffet lunch. Nonmembers can join on site for $15. Country living only 20 minutes from downtown Portland. For more information call Tia Plympton of Clackamas N O W at 503-452-0272. 3ohn t.Scott ca Y oung A ctivists V isit O regon he Third Wave Foundation, a New York- based national organization for women between 15 and 30, is sending 13 young activists on a summer networking trip throughout the Pacif ic Northwest. Their journey, which began July 27 and will continue through Aug. 12, will take them to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The participants, ranging in age from 16 to 26, will learn about justice organizing and con nect with activists in the region to build a nation al network of strategies for social change. Among the 40 nonprofits on their itinerary are Basic T Phone 5 0 3 274-9936 KAREN M. SWEIGERT, MD O bstétrica and Gynecology Fâx 503 274-2660 Q m o a Ä l PC nizers said in a press release. “T his speakout has been organized to provide a safe place for youth to come forward and share their experiences as well a s...to break down the walls o f isolation victimized youth often feel.” Organizers include Southeast Works Youth Advisory Board, Police Accountability C a m paign 2002, Sisters in A ction for Power, Latin Am erica/Asia Pacific Youth Program o f the Am erican Friends Service Com m ittee and Love Makes a Family. Spanish and Russian inter preters will he present at the event. N ew S hepherd S cholar N amed rJp he Bill and A nn Shepherd Legal Scholarship 1 Fund o f Equity Foundation has announced its recipient for the 2001-2002 academic year. Erin E. Kirkwood, who attends University o f O regon Sch ool o f Law, was chosen from a field o f scholar-activists representing all three o f the state’s law schools. 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T he next event, featuring critically acclaimed singer Susannah Mars, is scheduled for April 19, 2002, at Port land’s historic O ld Church. everal groups are coming together for a “speakout" to raise public awareness of police misconduct toward Portland youth, par ticularly those who are queer, poor, from immi grant families, nonwhite or homeless. T he event will he held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Aug. 15 in Room 118 at Portland Com munity C ollege’s Southeast Center, 2850 S.E. 82nd Ave. between Division Street and Powell Boulevard. "In many ways, youth are the invisible vic tims o f police harassment and violence, as they tend to be the least aware of their rights,” orga C en su s data indicate same-sex couples are ✓ located throughout Oregon and W ashing ton, the Oregonian reports July 22. In fact, o f the 2,073 census tracts in the two states, only 21 reported no gay or lesbian partners. Three o f those were in Oregon: the unpopu lated desert o f Malheur County, remote W al lowa County and Klam ath Falls. In Washington state, no same-sex couples were reported in the sparsely populated Olympic Peninsula, the area containing the state penitentiary in Walla Walla and even a few heavily populated tracts in C
