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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1972)
J REV. JESSE JACKSON Push replaces Breadbasket by Rev. Jesse L . Jackson Like V icto r Hugo’ selofjuent i peom, "operation Lush" is an i Idea "whose time has a r riv e d ," ] he word ’ push’ re presents an act of moving forward for ne. It also de notes tl« purpose of t l« new organization, namely to be i "People United to Save Hu m a n ity". Our new organization w ill extend teyund tla bound a i tea of Chicago and even the na tion. You w ill notice that we’ ve put no racial designa tion on oui organizational t i tle, loi while we are black, we know that humanity not only comes in all colors but in al! Ulysses S. C a rr is an o r dained m inister who helps people “ weekdays as well as on Sundays’ * through a separate hut related career as an equal employment op portunity specialist in the Northwest regional office ot tlie U.S. Labor Department’ s Manpower A dm inistration. In his federal job, C a rr is responsible foi determining that manpower training pro jects in Alaska, Idaho, Ore gon and Washington meet Fedeial requirements of tne C iv il Rights Act of 1964. His vigilance provides assurance that m inorities get their fu ll entitlement under Federally-funded programs in tlie four-state region. I lepaitrnent aie often made up of project sponsors anti re presentatives to whom ne emphasizes requirements of He C ivil Rights Act. ' n a tive of i »klahoma, born and raised on a farm , the soft spoken 57 year old black man had a long career in "helping people" p rior to joining the Labor Department at Seattle in 1969. He points out that lie has common heritage with those whose interests he serves. While lie came to know the p| ight of 11« poor in Ins own 0«d, if * m re-empi, .siz ed through personal exper ience and hardship during the depression of the 1930's Un Sundays, many of those who l«ear helm in church pulpits are the same poor people who benefit through the manpower training pro grams which clear his desk in planning stages. During the week, however, his audiences in the Labor National Urban Coalition New executive appointments and promotions within The National L rban Coalition were announced today by Chairman Sol M. Linowltz. A llie d S. M ills , Chairman and Chief Executive O fficer of The New York Bank for Savings in New York C ity, has accepted the post of T reasurer. C liffo rd Alexander, an at torney with the Washington law firm of Arnold and P orter and form er chairman of the L\S. Equal Employment Op portunities Commission, w ill assume the duties of Secre tary. Both are members of tne C oalition’ s Steer ing Com m lt- Cbinrf) of pour bo iff B rn n n m he secure! employment as a psychiatric aide in San Francisco’ s Langley C lin ic. In the interim , 1« also was ordained an Elder in the A fr i can Methodist Church in 1947 and enteral tie Pacific School of Religion Seminary in 1948 to start w orkfoi a BJJ. degree majoring in religious edu cation. His firs t close contact with "troubled people" came about in 1950 when he accept ed a position as a group sui>- erviso r with tie C alifornia Youth Authority, assigned to the Preston School of industry in charge of a 50-ward dor m itory occupied by delinquent and young adult crim inal o l- fenders in the reform atory. " I needed all of that psy chological training as well as a strong religious found ation,” fe recalls of his in itia l role in counseling. Promotion to senior super visor fo r another 50-ward dorm itory followed w h e n the C alifornia Reception Cen te r-C lin ic was established in 1954. CXwcK -ar-j > noo * kw CoewxxvN $T A N O tiW S CATMOllC CHUeCH lai «i« ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH . m A-M. C° ™ r Ot 8th Ave snd Skidmore Sunday Worship 11:00 AJVf. Christian Youth Fellowship 6:00 PJ\ (2nd and Fourth Sundays} Thomas Strayhand. Minister f HI SH loi a comprehensive plan foi tlie development of black and poor iwople; Pl si I for the revival of the labor movement to protect the oiganlzed w o ik c is and to organize the unorganized woi kera; 3. PUSH lot human alternatives to tlie welfare system; ». PUSH foi a Survival H ill of Rights for all childien up to tlie age of 18, guaranteeing ih e lr food, clothing, shelter, mrxiical cate and education. 5. I I s|l foi a Survival p ill of Rights for tlie aging, guaran teeing adequate focxl, clothing, shelter, medical care and meaningful programs; 6. PISH fo r full political paiticipatlon Including automatic Votei registration as a i Ight of citizenship. 7. PI SH to elect to local, state and federal offices per sons commltsd to humane eco- Minister does two ,* s» ms . I lie 12-polnt p la tfo rm is: I lie small community of Malouia, Syria, which is iso lated from the le st of tl« world except for a small mountain tr a il, is thought to be tlie only place on eaith wheie the language Jesus S|)oke Is s till used. Aramaic is a collection of Semitic languages and dialects spoken in tlie time of Jesus. Syrian authorities and linguistic ex perts at tlie American Uni versity in Beirut say Aramaic was the language Jesus spoke and it survived t« re because the liny mountain town was inaccessible until mixlem tim es. situated 38 m iles from Damascus, Malouia was built into a cleft In the mountain, hidden from view on all sides and with only one t ia il lead ing to it. Along with me ancient language, the villagers have also letawed their bib lical life style. Mud - brick and stone houses, many painted pale blue, are piled one on top of tlie other along the sheer face of a c liff. Ladders or nai row mud alleys connect the Ixiildings, some of which aie gi ottos hollowed into tlie stone hillside. Many grottos are engraved with Greek w ri tings from tlie firs t century. Women scrub their wash ing at the community pump. I he childien herd goats and the men tend the inhospitable land. The Convent of St. Iakla, said to be the oldest in tne w orld, sits at one side. Nuns believe die water that oozes from the rocky ceiling above st. la k la ’ s tomb has holy qualities. Portland/Observer Thursday, Ian. 6, 19T2 ’ I ne oveiall thrust of the new group Is to "challenge the e s s iv e , e. o n o m ic, po H lic .il, and M C ltl forOM m l I . obtain oui goals through research, education, development aixl execution of direct actual pi ogi ams that pi ovule for an economic, political ami cultural democracy." W Language of Jesus survives ' • Jackson annoi new program V ■ I A 1 Oh'irt Baptist Church J /iW /Z John H. Jackson Minister nrst and Schuyler srtlond Ore phone 284 1954 Morn,ng Worth,p Vesper || 9 5 northtp and depart to »true fo r an enlarged role for black workers in this nation. We w ill oppose all impei lal- maim those whose coloi and Linowltz also announced two istic wars genet ated by this ideology constitute a threat. new Vice Presidents: H ervert or other nations, but we w ill CXir work and out program M. Franklin, w fo had teen suppvit w ais ol liberation, are cut out fo r. But fu st D ire cto r of the Housing and such as those which Centia] our birth and that w ill take Urban Growth Division, and Africans in Mozambique and place Christmas morning in A lfred F .F is b e i, who had been Angola are waging against the A dm inistrator of the Health an old theatet in the center Portuguese ami anyfutuiewai Manpower Division. ot Chicago’ s black ghetto (on which would occur in South Other staff changes an 47th street). It w ill take A fric a . We w ill 1« applying nounced were: place on D r. M artin Luther for non-government organiza Robert R. Hobson, from King D rive and at the close tion status In die United Na Acting D irector of Program of the meeting, we are com tions. We are also reques and Policy Development to mitted to sharing Christmas ting an audience with officers Special Assistant toPresident afternoon with prisoners in of (lie World Bank. 5828 N.E. 8th M. C arl Holman, with liaison ja il. Obviously we are laying C liffo rd Alexander, attorney from Washington, D £ . responsibilities for economic A. Lee Henderson, Minister I am s till mindful of tne plans to escalate our work and fo rm e r chairman of the L . S. Equal Employment words of a P h illip Randolph development and manpower. i i. lit lo n s . People in Red in the political arena, and portunities Commisshn, is the new Secretary of the Nation Charles Jackson, D irector when we were in M iam i at China and the Hangla Desh while the contest is going on al Urban C t lit ion. (Below) Aifrevd S. M ills chairman and Ellis Casson, Associate Minister of Finance, to Assistant Trea the labor convention, that tne area of Pakistan are human to secure convention dele chief Executive Officer of the New York Bank of Savings, was surer. Church School .................... » - essentials for anym ajorcam - appointed Treasurer. ity . . . And so are those in gates, we w ill be actively Leonard stern. Assistant t M orning W orship „ ’.rxi paign are Planning, Strategy, tlie Appalachian white com cognizant of the fact that our A*, . ., „ 11:00 am the President for Planning anc and lim in g . W ithout them, W ed Noon - The Hour o f Power ,2;00 noon munity of Chicago. votes to both parties, but es Program E v a lu a t i o n , tv a movement fa ils. W ed Proyer & Class Meeting 7:30 pro the key to meaning to ru s pecially to the Democratic Assistant Secretary of me I want to acknowledge my and the bridge of brotherhood P arty, constitute a distinct tax Nursery Core Provided Coalition. to them is found in (he act which has not beer matched appreciation toMayoi Richard of People I nlting to Save Hu We are mekmg our Neighborhood A Brotherhood Hatcher, fo im e r Cleveland in term s of repiesentatlon on Mayor C arl Stokes and Man manity. o u r central premise the floor of the convention, hattan Borough President tn its committees or among is that power re s ile s In the Percy Sutton; to Aretha its chairmanships. People, not in Presklents or Franklin, Cannonball Adderly, This year we are stating that P roprietors hut People’ ijuincy J ones, and others fo r taxation without lepresen- Operation PUSH w ill con the e fforts engineeied to keep tatlon is tyranny and we w ill tinue to teed hungry people "Dom estic L a w " and "Law t t * baby alive during its very not support tyranny in any arxl to fight foi a program Office Management", two new d iffic u lt postpartum. Weknow form . provkling jobs or an income courses in the legal services Some columnists in p a rti fo r all people in this country. now that we re a winner . . . program at Portland Com cular have made much of our It w ill lie involved m the fight and we’ ll never be turned munity College, w ill be offered statement concerning the birth for decent, quality education around. w inter term . Thecourses are of tl« new organization at and for ie fo rm of Has legal M e rry Christmas must p rim a rily designed fo r per Christm as tin « . | he jues- system, especially as it is mean more than being mei ry sons working in the legal field, tlons have centered unwhethei evklenced in the courts, tie- on Christmas . . . It must fxit they w ill be open to the pu b- 1 considered the new organiza cause vast numbers of our lic . indicate that C hristm as has tion, the church amt myself, people are s till being econom meaning and that in a mangled "Dom estic Law” w ill te : • W it I tie is | „ ically disenfranchise,! by loss world, no Christmas can come taught by Richard H. Muller, ever, is whether out new o r of their land In the South. without marching orders tn the attorney with the firm of T a n - ganization can become the new We w ill 1» working to de fight on injustice, neglect and blyn, Bouneff, McLennan, salvation for black people ami sign a land teform program bigotry. If our organization Muller^M arshall and Hawkes. all people whose lives aie ami also working to fight the is to be tl« new salvation fo r The class w ill begin Tuesdav, burdened by the shackles of land grabs in this nation. This black and poor people of the January 11, 7 to 10p .m , room deprivation. includes tlie land grabs ami world, then it must begin on ST A - l , at PCC’ s Sylvania rip offs undertaken by the De 1 am an ordinary man. I do sound premises. Center. ancouver First Baptist Church not consider myself a god, partments of (rb a n Renewal Thus our firs t task w ill be 3138 "L a w Office Management*’ m the citie s. W ill be con ami as such, I w ill make m is ancouver Ave. one of gathering massive In w ill be taught by Ruben G. cerned with ch lld ie n ’ s B ill of takes. When the cameras and Phone 282-9496 formation on the basis of re Baylor, o ffice Manager for mikes are thrust in my d ire c Klghts. We w ill lie working Sunday School , , 00 A , search. educate those who D a v ie s , B ig g s , S tr a y e r, Steel tion, they are directed, in a choose to join us. A fte r we Morning W orship , b0Q A * larger sense to the constitu have educated our people, we ency I represent - a reality, w ill ACT. Or. 0.B, Williams, Pastor not a myth o r a fable, mani fested each Saturday morn- 1 he Church With A H eart-Felt Welcome" We are not running head ling. strong into any project. We Today, we can report that intend to provide the kind of 'at least partly as (1« result analysis of situations which of oui agitation, the schools w ill perm it us to fu lly under which were scheduled toclose stand the consequences of our In early December have actions, to assess the a lte r remained open. Teachei nur natives and to project results. Reverend James O’ Brien, he appeared with a be ses w ill be on the Job until We believe that It is time to pastor of the F irs t Parish te r his summer vacat June. I he welfare c i Isis has understand that any other Congregational Church in year. " | ’ m just finis gained new dimensions of so course means only reaction B r o o k to n , Massachusetts, eight years so peoplek cial ami political action amt and that is a logical prelude produced apalrofcllppersand well enough to know t with the Intervention of ft« to sickness. an e lectric razor and shaved not a kooky guy, butwhi courts, medical aid grants This Christm as, give your a five-month growth of lean! peared with the beard I have been sustained. State’ s fam ilw s tl« tenet It of your in the pulpit of hischurchdur- sorts of weird respons piesence and your attention. ing Sunday morning servica. said. Encourage them to join you I he 37-year-old minister The lesson to be I In a commitment to evidence said his act served a purpose. from the uicklentwas I some renewal In your own life FUNERAL SERVICE ’ I dal it as an object lesson, "D o n ’ t judge people by Sunday School 9:15 a .m . „ _ „ . » Youth Office 288-1 by determining to build and but it was a lot of gout fun, nals. Allow me to be i Sunday Evening Worship 7:00 p.m . . , 20 N.E. 14th Avenue sustain the community of your too. I asked them If 1 were I’ ll allow you to be you, .. < n- ., . , „„ Sunday Morning W Hour of Power-Wed. 7:00 p.m . roots. Portland, Oregon 97232 any different going bearded lesson also had fringe b Keep on PUSHing like your Youth Meeting-Fri. 7:30 p .m . 11:00 a.m . into the pulpit than coming out he said, " |n all the yea CALL 232 4111 leaders te ll you to . . . for cleanshaven." The minister been here, never have DAY OR NIGHT we’ re a winner! Rev.A Mrs. Joseph I . Brazil-Interim Pastors said he received a lot of flack women kissed me on t from his congregation w!x»k out of the church." Unusual Services With An Unusual People Because Of An Unusual Christ yAethodisf g M inister shaves in Pulpit Mrs. Jessie Hensor CALDWELL’S »
