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Portland Observer
Thursday, August 5th, 1978
Page 8
Seminar aids vets
New civil righto lavastigators were
Leber staff by Laber Ceoualaaieaei
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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.
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Richard Stroud, a research associate in
Oregon State University's School of Vet
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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
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like the Rogue River and the Columbia
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HU necropsies - the animal world's
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