2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
May 2012
Feeling sad and depressed? You might be suffering from Capitalism
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
Are you anxious? Worried about the
future? Feeling isolated and alone?
According to Occupy Portland, the
symptoms of Capitalism may include
homelessness, unemployment, poverty,
hunger, feelings of powerlessness, fear,
apathy, boredom, cultural decay, loss
of identity, extreme self-consciousness,
loss of free speech, incarceration, sui-
cidal or revolutionary thoughts, et al.
So what’s the cure for this dreaded
disease? Take the afternoon off from
work or school and find out at the PDX
May Day General Strike, Tuesday, May
1 st at 2:00 p.m. in the South Park Blocks
(SW Park Avenue and Salmon Street).
Here some of the other things hap-
pening this month in Southwest:
Pageturners Book Groups read The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain. Engage in stimulating conver-
sation about books, exchange perspec-
tives about characters and plot, and get
to know your neighbors.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Li-
brary. Thursday, May 3, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
and Tuesday, May 8, 6:45-7:45 p.m.
Space at programs is limited. Seating
is available on a first-come, first-served
basis. For adults. Capitol Hill Library,
10723 SW Capitol Hwy, 503-988-5385.
No Women, No Cry: A Maternal
Healthcare Event. For too many women
around the world, including the United
States, pregnancy is a death sentence.
Learn about these tragedies and how
they can be prevented. Thursday, May
10, 2012, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Location is
7850 SW Capitol Hwy in Multnomah
Village.
Here is the schedule of events: 6:00-
7:00 p.m. live music by local NW artist
Melanie Joy Hall; 7:00-8:00 p.m. movie,
“No Woman No Cry,” directed by
Christy Turlington Burns; 8:00-9:00 p.m.
panel discussion with an OB/GYN,
nurse mid-wife & the Oregon CARE
advocate.
Also, free drawings for prizes from
local women-owned businesses. Take
action through Amnesty International
card writing to world leaders. FREE.
Contact: Nadine Lefkowitz, gifts@to-
panien.com, (503)244-9683.
Broadway Dreamers: Northwest
Senior Theatre has won a chance to be
on Broadway. They will stop along the
way to perform songs about the cities
and states we go through. Broadway
shows will include “Hello Dolly,”
“Man of La Mancha,” “Show Boat”
and others.
Showtime is 2:00 p.m. Wednesday,
May 16, through Saturday, May 19,
at Alpenrose Opera House, 6149 SW
Shattuck Rd. Lots of free parking.
Wheelchair/walker friendly. For more
information call Betty at 503-227-2003
or email bettymer@comcast.net or visit
www.nwtheatre.org.
Karen Cries On The Bus: Tuesday,
May 22, is film night at the Garden
Home Community Library. Show starts
at 6:30 p.m. This Colombian film is
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Editor & Publisher: Don Snedecor
Reporters/Writers: Jillian Daley, Stephanie
Lodromanean, Lee Perlman
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directed by Rojas Vera in Spanish with
English subtitles.
Here’s the synopsis: Karen has left her
slimy but successful husband Mario af-
ter ten years of marriage. She walks out
into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and
hardly any money, but catches a break
when she meets a hairdresser named
Patricia at a cheap flophouse.
The Library is located at 7475 SW
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Sellwood Bridge Faces
Access Issues
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originally planned to provide access
through Freeman Motors, Pullen said,
but both parties objected to this.
A second plan would go through
Southwest Miles Place. Ken Love, South
Portland Neighborhood Association
chair and Miles Place resident, said
neither he nor his neighbors had been
notified of these plans, and that he was
worried about the traffic impact.
Pullen later said that Macadam Bay’s
30 moorages would probably not gener-
ate more than 100 new auto trips a day,
which would not have a significant
impact on Miles Place.
At a public open house on the is-
sue last month, more than 50 people
showed up and expressed concerns.
“There’s no consensus on any plan,”
Pullen said. “This is turning out to be
the most difficult part of the project.”