Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1976)
I Portland Observer Thursday, August 5th, 1978 Page 8 Seminar aids vets New civil righto lavastigators were Leber staff by Laber Ceoualaaieaei They ewwytotod aa iatredactory JyM to the Bureau of right: M u Chamberlin. EUse Anfleld. Barbara S trough tor, Max Berg. Ready Harris, Charles Leech, BUI Stoveasea. Net pictured are Myra Cebieae. Carol Friedman. Marge Perry, Emelins Taveaaer and Jeb Valverde. A seminar to teach Vietnam veterans how to get the jobs they want will be held in PortUnd, Tuesday, August 10th, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Pacific Power ft Light Auditorium, 920 S.W. 6th Ave. Harry Godges, director of the PortUnd office of the National Alliance of Busi nessmen, said the seminar will offer Vietnam veterans an opportunity to learn from businessmen and employment ex perts how to get the jobs and information they want. "Young veterans returning to the job market need to know more about self- marketing skills, job options and oppor tunities," Godges said. “A t the seminar we will show them how and where to go for jobs and employment counseling, how to prepare a resume, how to go into business for yourself, and veterans bene fits and programs that can help them in their pursuit of a career. Godges added that the seminar is free of charge but requires registration as participation will be limited to 50 veter ans. Interested veterans should call Chuck Long, Manager, Jobs for Veterans for the National Alliance of Businessmen, at 226-4063. Citizen of the Cleaver willing to bury hatchet by Rob Carel (PN8) O A K LA N D . C A LIF O R N IA Eld ridge Cleaver, fighting for release from the California prison system, says he is as politically committed as ever and open to mending the rifts between himself and his former associates. In an interview conducted prior to last week's court hearing on his petition for release. Cleaver responded positively to former Panther associate Huey Newton's recent statement that he might return to the U.8. from Cuban exile. “Welcome, welcome." said Cleaver. "At one time I had great admiration and respect for Huey and I ’d rather remem her him like th a t I wish him the best of luck in his present predicament." Newton, who with Cleaver was at the center of revolutionary ferment in the 1980s, indicated to a visiting American in Havana last month that his rift with Cleaver was an important factor in hia decision on whether to return. Newton fled to Cuba in 1974 to avoid a murder charge in Oakland. The two Panther leaders had split in an internecine political battle in 1971, before the Party had begun to recover from the devastating impact of the FBI's aggres sive CO INTELPRO operations against it from 1908-70. The split, which left Clea ver - then in exile in Algeria - calling for armed struggle, and Newton in Oakland advocating a new. quieter program of community organising, culminated in ac cusations of murder and other crimes between the two factions. Hundreds of Panthers abandoned the Party for the underground Black Libera lion Army. Others, including many in jail who needed legal assistance, were expel led by the Party for their pnxCleaver With its ranks badly depleted and its leadership divided, the Party remained a political force within its home base of Oakland, but never regained its earlier national atature. leaving the militant Black leadership Field virtually vacant. PRAGM ATIC A N D IN D E P E N D E N T Cleaver's open attitude toward New ton is indicative of what appears to be a pragmatic and aggressive spproaeh to bis political future - independent of the Black movement. His comments also belie his recent media image as a flag waving sartorial dilettante. “1984." he says, “That's the symbol in my head. After this election we can build victory in 1984.” While bitter about the negative reac tion and lack of support shown by his former friends and supporters. Cleaver confidently sees himself taking part in the renter of a new progressive move ment. "Tom Hayden and I are talking about the same things," he says, "a national movement - our generation - functioning within the practical political arena, mak ing its bid to become the loyal opposition. “We rise up, push the Democrats to the right and the Democrats push the Repub licans into the garbage can of history. "If the Republicans are seriously de feated in November," he adds, “I would say that the Democratic party is preg nant and ready to give birth to a new formation on the left." Choosing his words with the precision of a practiced politician. Cleaver main tains his non-violent, normal-political- channels program is not a radical depar ture from the hell Fire rhetoric he bran dished like a weapon in the sixties. “I think in the sixties we - the Pan thers - wrote an historic chapter in American history." he says. “It's to our supervisors, in handling Cleaver's pre credit and I ’m proud. Someday people trial motions. Confident of acquittal. Cleaver plans to will appreciate the sacrifices we made. I made sacrifices then and I'm making use as evidence recently released FBI documents revealing a massive govern them now. ment pUn to subvert and destroy the "Today," he adds, "the tactics have Black Panther Party. He will argue that changed, although the goal has always he jumped bail after the Oakland shoot been the same - to bring the American out because he feared being killed by reality closer to the dream." prison authorities if he was thrown back Cleaver bridles at any suggestion that he has abandoned the causes that he and in jail. Cleaver’s defense supporters - some of thousands of other Blacks have fought whom are political enemies - protest that and been jailed for. Asked about his it's difficult to raise funds and prepare a commitment to the prison movement he defense with Cleaver in jail. I t is even responded with surprise. “You have to harder to see old friends and new enem realize that I grew up in prisons and jails. ies to clear up the misunderstandings. There's no question that I will continue to "Jail is no place for a debate," says work in and for the prison movement Warren Hinckle, ex-Ramparts editor and when I am out of jail." a supporter and fund-raiser, when leftists NO T R IA L D A TE openly question whether they should help Meanwhile, the start of Cleaver's a man they disagree with. trial for a 1968 Oakland police-Panther The divisions remain bitter and wide shootout is nowhere in sight, though spread, sparked most recently by Clea chances of his release on bail brightened ver's attacks on Fidel Castro and com last week when Judge Spurgeon Avakian indicated he would probably order a munism. his support of Israel, and his uninhibited support for U.S. military parole hearing within 30 days. Cleaver is currently held on charges of superiority. Critics have derisively label violating parole from a nine-year impri ed him as "the Black community's Patty Heart" and. in w riter Paul Jacobs’ words, sonment that ended two years before the Oakland shootout. I f freed from the "a bicentennial coon - living proof that C parole hold, Cleaver will be eligible for the system works." Says Cleaver, "I’ve got sterling ere bail on the shootout charge. dentials. Fve never sold anybody out, and But Cleaver recently lost his biggest there is no plea bargaining a la Agnew asset when Boston author/attorney going on. People have thrown a lot of mud George V. Higgins begged off the case, my way but the only mud that ever claiming travel difficulties and differ bothered me was the mud slung by the ences in trial strategy. Cleaver is currently making bids to left." While Cleaver's hopes and political as prominent left-leaning Bay Area attor neys Pat Hallinan, Howard Moore, Shel pirations have not dimmed, the attacks don Otis and Frank Martin McGinnis. In a from former friends and his continued surprise move, Quentin Kopp, conserva imprisonment have made him more bit tive head of San Francisco’s board of ter. James 0 . Brooks, executive director of the Urban League of Portland, to a native of Greenville, Mississippi, but came to Portland aa a ehild. Re attended Holiday Elementary and Washington High School in Portland. Brooks earned three degrees at the University of Portland: BS in Zoology in 1163; BA in Socialogy in 1966; and M A in Education in 1971. He became executive director of the Urban League oa January let. 1974, bat previously held several other positions including: Deputy Director and Director of the Field Office; Director of Project Outreach, Director of Community Services; Field Representative for OJT Project, and Employ ment Specialist. Previously he had been employed by the Portland Public Portland Development Commission (AKOP) and the Multnoi Juvenile Court He taught socialogy at Marylhurst College. Brooks is active in community service, among his committee I being Portland Manpower Planning Council, Housing Authority of Portland Board of Commissioners, and Advisory Committee for PP8 Tfth VH. and Board of Trustees for OMSL He and hia wife Beria have two children, Geoffrey and Cynthia. Use all you need but save all you can . . . The People at Pacific Power. Marin« mammals People - not the sea - are responsible for killing nearly one-third of the marine mammals which wash up onto Oregon beaches each year. Richard Stroud, a research associate in Oregon State University's School of Vet erinary Medicine, said fishermen, angry with sea mammals stealing fish from their nets and off their lines, probably are responsible for shooting the animals, even though harming marine mammals is illegal. "Both seal and sea lion populations are by man increasing and becoming more of a pro blem to fishermen, especially in places like the Rogue River and the Columbia River," Stroud said. “More animals mean more conflict with man because seals and sea lions are predators of fish which man may want to harvest." Stroud determines the cause of death of any whales, dolphins, seals or sea lions found dead on Oregon shores each year. HU necropsies - the animal world's equivalent of an autopsy - are performed either on the beach if the animal U too Urge or too deteriorated to be moved, or DR. JEFFREY BRADY S o p : Do Not Pot O ff Noodod Dootol Coro” Enjoy Dental Health Now and Improve Your Appearance Come In At Your Convenience Open Saturday Morning • No Appointment Needed Complete Cooperation On All Dental Insurance Plans • Complete Dental Services Union or Company Dental Insurance Coverage Accepted On Your Needed Dentistry Park Free Any Park n Shop Lot HOURS: Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to S p.m. Sat., 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. . JEFFREY BRADY, DENTIST SEMLER BUILDING 8.W . 3rd ft Morrison St. Portland, Oregon Take Elevator to 2nd Floor 3rd St. Entrance Phene: 228-7543 at Oregon State University's Veterinary Medicine Animal Isolation Laboratory near Corvallis. Some rare animals - including a Risso's dolphin and a rare beaked whale - have washed ashore during the three years Stroud has been performing necropsies, but the majority of the 20-25 dead sea mammals investigated each year are har bor seals and Stellar's sea lions, both common in the state's coastal waters. Although gunshot wounds cause 30-40 per cent of the marine mammals deaths each year, they are not the only reason why the animals die. Parasites are the second most preva lent cause of marine mammal deaths. Stomach nematodes and lung worms are common in seals and sea lions and are especially dangerous in younger animals. Then come bacterial diseases which sometimes are transmittable to humans or domesticated animals. “Leptospirosis can be transmitted to humans or domesticated animals and San Miquel sea lion virus is similar to a very economically important swine disease," said Stroud, an Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. Last on the list of death causes are accidents. “Last year, one adult harbor seal and one Stellar sea lion died from internal injuries after they fell from rocks. We also had a case of a whale being run over by a boat," the Oregon State University researcher said. State police usually are the first to toll Stroud of a deal animal on the beach. Then, often accompanied by Bruce Mato, a marine mammologist from Oregon State University's Marine Science Center in Newport, Stroud visits the site and determines whether the animal can be moved or whether the necropsy must be performed on the spot. During the necropsy, Stroud deter mines the probable cause of death and takes measurements of the animal. Stomach contents, reproductive tracts, skulls, skeletal materials from the ani mals are taken if possible for examination by other scientists. Super Shoppiig Centers Help Lower yoer Cost of Living . . . Your nearby Fred Meyer Super Shopping Center is filled with "People-Pleasing" services to make your shopping more pleasant. Wide, spacious aisles, friendly helpful clerks and undercover parcel loading are just some of the "People-Pleasing" services for you. PI us... everyday low prices on thousands of items you use and need everyday help lower your coal of living. Because we're open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, including Sunday, you can shop when you WANT to, not when you HAVE to. Come in anytime and "funshop in a pleasant, relaxed atmosphere. . W alnut Park . Interstate . Peninsula N.E. Killingsworth at Union n . Lombard at lnt«rstat« 6850 N. Lombard Plenty of Free and Easy Parking Open 9 am to 10 pm daily, including Sunday.
