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Learn about Black Lives Matter movement Lower Columbia Diversity Project presents conversation ASTORIA — Historian, author and activist Walidah Imarisha will lead a conversation on the meaning and importance of Black Lives Matter from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 13. Joinging Imarisha will be Adrienne Cabouet, from Black Lives Matter Portland, and Leila Hofstein, co-director of the Portland PFLAG Black Chapter. This community discussion will take place in the Judge Guy Boyington Building lo- cated at 857 Commercial St. The event is sponsored by the Lower Columbia Diversity Project and is free to the pub- lic. Imarisha is a writer, educa- tor, organizer and performance poet. She has taught in Port- land State University’s black studies department where she has created classes about top- ics as diverse as the history of the Black Panther Party, race and the history of prisons, Hurricane Katrina and hip-hop as literature. She has facilitat- ed writing workshops for stu- dents in third to 12th grades, in community centers, youth detention facilities and wom- en’s prisons. She is the author of “Scars/Stars,” “Angels with Dirty Faces” and the co-editor of the acclaimed anthology “Octavia’s Brood.” Black Lives Matter PDX is a femme-centering, queer-af- ¿UPLQJXQDSRORJHWLFDOO\UDG- ical black-led group inspired by a legacy of revolutionary She also serves on the board of In Other Words, a feminist bookstore and radical commu- nity-organizing space in north Portland. Hofstein is the co-director for PFLAG Portland Black Chapter and a radical social justice activist. As a gen- GHUÀXLG TXHHU EODFN IHPPH she is dedicated to educating communities on the nuances of intersectionality, the nature of systemic oppression and the practice of empathy. For more information on this Lower Columbia Diversi- ty Project presentation, email lcdiversityproject@gmail. com, or call 503-325-1895. dinin g out D IR EC TO R Y 503.325.7414 b a ked a k.co m #1 12th S treet, Asto ria , O R Submitted photo by Peter Shaw Walidah Imarisha will lead a conversation March 13 in Astoria about the meaning and importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. 3 8TH & L, ON THE S EAV IEW BEAC H APPROAC H 3 60-642-7880 THANK Y OU FOR Y OUR READER’S C HOIC E V OTES ! 503.738.7763 2490 Hwy 101 N., Seaside Open at 11:00am Closed Mondays NO RTH COAST & PE NINSU L A ILIES FAM OME! C WEL GRAND REOPENING COMING SOON! 3 13 Pa c ific Hw y, Do w n to w n Lo n g Be a c h, W A 3 60-642-5555 • w w w.hu n gryha rb o r.c o m 503.738.6403 maggiesontheprom.com 581 S Prom, Seaside OR 503.436.1539 www.cafesweetbasils.com Cannon Beach Patty’s Wicker Cafe Watch for our Hungry Harbor GrillE 503.755.1818 www.camp18restaurant.com Favorite stop to & from the Coast pan-African organizing. Em- EUDFLQJFROOHFWLYHÀDWOHDGHU- ship and a movement devel- oped and led by the masses of people, BLM PDX organizes and supports community sur- vival and defense programs such as direct actions, polit- ical education programs, and community healing spaces to build capacity for a mass movement for liberation among black folks in the city of Portland. Cabouet is a pan-African revolutionary socialist and womanist. She is an organiz- er with Black Lives Matter Portland and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. 1157 N. Marion Avenue Gearhart 503-717-8150 www.mcmenamins.com On the Beautiful Necanicum River Breakfast & Lunch 600 Broadway Ste 7 & 8 -Seaside 503.717.1272 S he lb u rn e In n , Re s ta u ra n t & Pu b 4415 Pa c ific W a y, S e a vie w, W a 3 60-642-4150 w w w.s he lb u rn e re s ta u ra n t.c o m March 10, 2016 | coastweekend.com | 15
